Give captions to these three images

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Give captions to these three images
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Painting 1
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Painting 2
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Painting 3
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Painting 1

• What are some of your captions?
• Who do you think this is? What is your evidence?
• What is the painter trying to achieve with this
  portrait?
• This is Louis XVI, last king of France before the
  French Revolution

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Painting 2

• What are some of your captions?
• Louis XVI is in the picture. Who do you think he
  is?
• What is the focus of this painting? Why?

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Painting 3

• What are some of your captions?
• Who is the person in the middle?
• How does the artist show that Washington is the
  most important person in the painting?

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Media Literacy

• What do you think the term means?
• Artists/Writers/Photographers/Textbooks always
  have a point of view
• In the 18th century, there were certain
  techniques that artists used to show the
  importance of their figures
• Lighting
• Centering
• Eyes
• Height
• And many more! What others did we see?

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Media Literacy

• It is important that we think about what we
  seeespecially today!
• We have access to more images, pictures, and
  videos than at any other time in history, and it
  will continue to increase
• Advertisers are constantly creating images in an
  attempt to influence us

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Is George Bush

• A. About to fly a plane
• B. About to go trick-or-treating
• C. About to star in a movie about the Air Force
• D. About to give a speech
• Why is he dressed like this?

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Is John Kerry

• A. Hunting for animals
• B. Wearing orange so he wont get shot
• C. Purposefully posing for the cameras
• D. All of the above
• Why is he dressed like this?

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Remember...

• Media Literacy, being able to think about images,
  photographs, and paintings, is an important part
  of Social Studies
• Always be thinking about the advertisements, the
  news, the websites that you are seeing, and on
  and on
• Images can be very powerful, and understanding
  how they affect you is important