Artists:
Henry Sargent ⁽¹⁾
Unidentified artist ⁽²⁾
Unidentified American artist ⁽³⁾
Frederic Church ⁽⁴⁾
Howard Pyle ⁽⁵⁾

Routines:
    Creative Questions
    Perceive, Know, Care About
    Beginning, Middle, End


Possible Activities:

	Try using Creative Questions with any of the images as a starting point. You can use Creative Questions as a lead in for one of the other routines. Make students’ thinking visible on chart paper. Keep the list of the questions visible throughout your investigation of this topic and while you look at more artwork. Try to return to the list of questions, and add to it as you go.
	Try looking at any of the images with the Perceive / Know / Care About routine. You can use this routine to open up the discussion about a topic, or to look at a topic in a different way. Remind students that they can take on the perspective of inanimate objects (trees, rocks, buildings) as well as people and animals. When beginning the routine, you might wish to invite students to look at the image and generate a list of the various perspectives or points of view embodied in that picture. Students can then choose one point of view to speak from, saying what they perceive, know about, and care about. Students can improvise a brief spoken or written monologue, or work in pairs with each student asking questions that help their partner stay in character and draw out his or her point of view. You can make students thinking visible by having the various perspectives written down for further examination. Once they are compiled, the different perspectives can be compared and contrasted. The teacher might ask: whose position seems the most similar to each? Different? Most like your own?
	Try using the Beginning/Middle/End routine with any of the images. Beginning/Middle/End asks students to make observations and use their imaginations in creating a story. The narration they create encourages students to find connections, patterns, and meanings. You might ask students to think about how what they see in the image connects to what they know about life in Colonial America. If the students look at more than one image with this same routine, they can compare the stories they crafted for the different images. Were there any similarities or differences between the stories? What new insights do they have about the topic now?