Colonial North Carolina • North Carolina 1800 - 1899 • North Carolina 1900 - Present

 

 

"We all look at the same things, yet we see different things."

                                                                                                                - Claude Monet

 

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North Carolina 4th grade Standard Course of Study Competency Goals addressed:

3 and 4.

 

  EXAMINING AN ILLUSTRATION

 

The following questions may be used to guide your students in analyzing an illustration.

 

1.  Who or what do you see in the illustration?

2.   What was the creator's purpose in creating this illustration?

3.  Why do you think he placed the person in this pose?

4.  Whose point of view is this illustration representing?

5.  What other perspectives are represented about this subject through

     other documents from this time?

6.  What differences are there between the time period this illustration was

     created and today?

 

 

 

 

 The Pirate, Blackbeard

1726

 

 

This illustration of Blackbeard is from Charles Johnson’s book A General History of the Pyrates. 

Fourth Edition, volume one. London: T. Woodward, 1726. pp. 87-88. 

 

 

For more information on this illustration of Blackbeard, click below.

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-colonial/1669

 

http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/nchistory/nov2003/nov2003.html

 

 

 

 

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North Carolina 4th grade Standard Course of Study Goals addressed:

3 & 4. 

 

 

EXAMINING A DOCUMENT

 

The following questions may be used to guide your students in analyzing a document.

 

1.  What kind of document is being examined?

2.  Who is the author of the document?

3.  When was the document writtten?

4.  What audience was the document written for?

5.  What did the author say in the document that is important?

6.  Why was this document written (purpose)?

7.  What was happening in North Carolina at the time the document was written?

 

 

 

 

 NORTH CAROLINA CONVENTION RESOLUTION

Tobias Lear, private secretary to George Washington

 November 21, 1789

 

 

 

 

 

Library of Congress, American Memory 

 

 

Click on the following link for more information on this document. 

 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov21.html