This document provides a series of questions to guide critical analysis of an image. Students are prompted to make inferences about the people, setting, time period, and story depicted in the picture based on visual clues. They are asked to consider details like clothing, activities, and background scenery to speculate on captions, relationships, events surrounding the image, and potential themes. The goal is to teach image analysis skills by having students closely examine pictorial elements and think contextually about the implied details.
This document provides a series of questions to guide critical analysis of an image. Students are prompted to make inferences about the people, setting, time period, and story depicted in the picture based on visual clues. They are asked to consider details like clothing, activities, and background scenery to speculate on captions, relationships, events surrounding the image, and potential themes. The goal is to teach image analysis skills by having students closely examine pictorial elements and think contextually about the implied details.
This document provides a series of questions to guide critical analysis of an image. Students are prompted to make inferences about the people, setting, time period, and story depicted in the picture based on visual clues. They are asked to consider details like clothing, activities, and background scenery to speculate on captions, relationships, events surrounding the image, and potential themes. The goal is to teach image analysis skills by having students closely examine pictorial elements and think contextually about the implied details.
Think Critically With Images Name_________________________
Discuss as a whole class then have students complete some images on their own.
1. What 3 captions could you write for this image?
2. Who are the people in this picture? What makes you think so? 3. What similarities are there to your family in this picture? 4. What differences are there to your family in this picture? 5. Approximately when do you think this picture was taken? What clues tell you that? 6. What time of year might it be? What makes you think so? 7. What do you think took place just before this picture was taken? Why? 8. What is this family doing? Why? 9. What do you think happened after this picture was taken? 10. Where might this picture have been taken? What clues tell you this? 11. What does their clothing tell you about this picture? 12. If this picture was on the front of a book, what might the book be called?