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North Carolina 1900 - Present

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

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

Goals 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

EXAMINING A PHOTOGRAPH

The following questions may be used to guide your students in analyzing the following photographs.

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

2. When was the photograph taken? What time of day, year? How do you know?

3. Where does this scene take place? What do you see to support your answer?

4. Who are the people in the photograph? Can you tell how old they are?

5. What activity or event is shown in the photograph? What are they doing? What

relationship, if any, do they seem to have with one another?

6. What other details do you see in the photograph?

Let's take a look at the photographer who took the photograph:

1. Why did the photographer take the picture at this moment? What might have

happened before and after this picture was taken?

2. What don't you see in the picture?

3. Why did the photograher take the picture from this angle?

4. What's in focus?

The Wright Brothers First Flight

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

December 17, 1903

Image, Source: digital file from original

Daniels, John T., photographer. "First Flight," December 17, 1903. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

For additional information on this photograph, click helow:

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/nc/kttyhwk_1

As an additional resource, use the following secondary source to support the teaching of this photograph.

Literature Connection: Share the book, "Wright Numbers: A North Carolina Number Book" by Carol Crane and Gary Palmer.

Synopsis: Discover more about the Wright Brothers and North Carolina's past from the mountains to the coast.

Click below to read more about North Carolina author, Carol Crane.

http://www.carolcrane.org/about.html

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Tobacco bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression

North Carolina

1939

Three women sitting on a bed stringing bags.

By: Carleton Stutz and Peter A. Maxfield, 1939

Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina

UNC Libraries

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/3446

What is tobacco bag stringing? Click on the link below:

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ncc-tbs/945

Click on the following link to learn more about the photograph.

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ncc-tbs/

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EXAMINING A LETTER

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

1. What is the letter about?

2. Who sent the letter and who received it? How can you identify them?

3. How can you identify when the letter was written?

4. Where was the sender when he/she wrote the letter?

5. What assumptions can you make about the relationship between the sender and the recipient?

6. List three things the author said that you think are important.

7. Why do you think this letter was written? Can you find evidence in the letter?

8. What does this letter tell you about life in North Carolina at the time it was written?

9. Do you have a question that is left unanswered by the author?

The following is a letter from Mrs. Kate Pulliam to Mr. Sherlock Bronson, President of Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation in support of the continuation and importance of tobacco bag stringing in her community.

For more information about the letters, click the link below:

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ncc-tbs/1.0

Letter of April 1, 1939

from Mrs. Kate Pulliam, Leaksville, North Carolina

Box 132, R. #1,

Leaksville, N.C.,

April 1, 1939.

Mr. Sherlock Bronson,

Box 644,

Richmond, Va.

Dear Sir:

I am kindly writing asking you please not to take the stringing of bags away from Mrs. Jones, our Agent for our community.

For two years I have stringing bags. If the bags were taken away from us I would not be able to pay my insurance. I have two children and myself to clothe. I am too old to get a job in the mill. The bags help my children and me in every way.

Stringing of bags is a big help to our community. It helps the older people who are too old to work on public job. There are young girls stringing bags, they keep them at home off the street. There are several blind people stringing bags that can’t get anything else to do.

The stringing of bags is a great help to our community and we will appreciate all you will do for us to keep the stringing of bags in our community.

Sincerely yours,

(Signed) Mrs. Kate Pulliam.

"Tobacco Bag Stringing Operations in North Carolina and Virginia." Richmond, Va. 1939. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chaprl Hill, UNC Libraries.

Teachers: You may also use the DIALECTIC RESPONSE JOURNAL to help your students analyze a letter.

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Sit-in Strike

F.W. Woolworth Luncheon Counter

Greensboro, North Carolina

1960

United Press International Photo - #RAP020204.

New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, 1960.

Exhibited: Voices of Civil Rights, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2005.

Click on the image for more information on this photograph.

As an additional resource, use the following secondary source to support the teaching of this photograph.

Literature connection and activity: Share the following historical fiction book, "Freedon on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins" by Carol Boston Weatherford, a North Carolina author, and Jerome LaGarrigue.

Synopsis: The 1960 sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greesnboro, North Carolina during the American Civil Rights Movement is seen through the eyes of eight-year old Connie.

Activity: Read the book to the students. Share the book in "Reader's Theater" format for another class in the school.

For additional information on Carol Boston Weatherford, and a lesson plan using this book, click below:

http://www.caroleweatherford.com/