Analyzing Objects
Porcelain
Musket Ball
Smallpox
Nail
Reaper
Shirtwaist
Transistor
Coffee
Record
Tire
Dishwasher
Dress
Stereograph
Stone
Shoe
Question 1:
Historical thinking is using physical objects to think critically about our history.
Question 2:
One may compare historical objects to their current "version" and see how things have changed over history.
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 13:18
Question 1: This is an album by an old record company.
Question 2:
It seems like the record is called "Young America" and might have to do with the broader "Americana" theme in the early 1900's?
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 13:35
Question 1: I see what might be an early version, if not the first version of a dishwasher.
Question 2: This shows innovation in technology for homes.
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 13:51
Question 1: It looks like it might be coffee for the military?
Question 2:
I think it might be connected to food processing and how that developed over time.
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Submitted: Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 15:27
Question 1:
I notice that it's probably made out of some very high quality materials. Maybe reserved for the higher class citizens.
Question 2:
I think that this connects to the idea of the different class systems and the quality of life that they lived and how it differed.
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 13:22
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This object seems like a very old grave. Possibly of someone importance because of the fence around it?
Question 2: This grave might connect back to some very important people who are buried.
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Submitted: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 - 16:33
Question 1:
This seems like some sort of cell or something scientific seen through a microscope.
Question 2: I think this has to do with the scientific progress made in the United States.
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Submitted: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 13:55
Question 1: To me, this looks like some sort of mock up for space travel?
Question 2: I think this connects to the space race that happened!
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Submitted: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 10:23
Question 1: This looks to me like some sort of technology. The earliest form of something.
Question 2: I think this connects to the development of technology over time!
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Submitted: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 10:24
Question 1:
Historical thinking is about more than just knowing dates, names, etc. It's about analyzing perspectives, asking questions, comparing stories, etc.
Question 2:
You can use objects as a story teller. Why did this object exist? Who used this object? What was it's purpose? etc.
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 13:27
Question 1:
The song talks about how the large groups of Europeans would come to American to form a type of "melting pot" community. This concerned the people of the United States and thought that the Hebrews and Italians would have a big impact on the culture, and not necessarily a positive one.
Question 2:
Photos of immigrants coming into Ellis Island. Photos can show the true scale of the amount of people that immigrated during the early 20th century.
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 13:38
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It really connects to the broader understanding of the industrial economy and how the United States used its workers during the war and after it.
Question 2:
What really enhanced my prior understanding, is the knowledge and information about the workers and how their labor was utilized during the war.
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 14:20
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It connects us to times when "instant meals" and "canned goods" were the norm and were pushed to the general public. When women on the home front were even pushed to can their own foods in order to preserve the farmers foods for the soldiers on the front lines.
Question 2:
Advertisements were made the way they were to portray how the government and food companies wanted women to treat their food in their hoseholds. They were more like propaganda, and didn't reflect how women initially felt about these instant meals.
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Submitted: Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 15:44
Question 1:
The high quality porcelain connects to the idea of more luxury goods that were usually imported by the British. While the colonials were starting to get tired of the taxed goods that came in through British ships, they started to boycott the luxury British goods. Starting to favor more "American made" goods, that sometimes were of lower quality.
Question 2:
I would want to know what a lot of the general public thought about the taxation on goods. Obviously the leaders and delegates of the colonies were highly opposed to the British taxation and import of goods, but what did the "common man" think of the situation?
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 13:38
Question 1:
The boundary stone really became a symbolic boundary for slavery and where it was allowed. OUtside of the boundary, slavery was widely allowed, especially in Virginia and Maryland. Inside the boundary stones, slavery was eventually abolished.
Question 2:
Students can explore state boundaries, national boundaries, city boundaries, etc. All of these are physical boundaries, but have lots of symbolic meaning as well when it comes to laws, rights, etc.
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Submitted: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 - 17:21
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The smallpox disease really brought about the concept of vaccination which has helped save numerous lives.
Question 2:
Diseases really influenced history in the sense that world leaders made decisions based on these diseases.
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Submitted: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 14:23
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The transistor is really the base of so much technology that we use every day, and almost take for granted! Items like the radio, tv, etc.
Question 2:
How did the technology associated with the patents get started? What were the original ideas? How did those ideas morph and change through the years? What was the final product? Where can that specific technology go from here?
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Submitted: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 10:33
Title: High School Music
Grade Level: High
Short Answer:
There are so many historical objects in the world of music that can mean so much more when we "think historically" about them. For example, an instrument. What was it's purpose? Why was it created? Who played it, and who was it played for? Did it symbolize any specific situation? There are so many questions we can ask about the instrument that gives us a deeper meaning rather than just "this is an instrument that was used between these dates".
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 13:30
Title: High School Music
Grade Level: High
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Immigration brought over so many new ideas from foreign countries. One of those "ideas" is a new style of music. Europeans brought over music from the world's most renowned composers like Beethoven, Bach, and Mahler. Because of that, younger generations of American composers were exposed to what eventually became an inspiration for their own musical works.
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 13:50
Title: High School Music
Grade Level: High
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In the music world, one of the biggest things to come out of the war was the music written during those years. Specifically by Russian composers. Many Russian composers wrote some very dark music depicting the times that they had to live through. Many American composers were forced to move to manufacturing jobs to help keep up with with the labor needs for the war, then were able to return to their composing jobs after the war.
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 14:22
Title: High School Music
Grade Level: High
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It's interesting to investigate the advertisements and how they shaped how household cooking and eating was to be done. In the music world, it's easy to see how advertising for the latest music software, instrument technology, or method book could reflect how the field should move and develop. When in some cases (if not most), the old ways of teaching, and instrument fabrication is sometimes the best way.
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Submitted: Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 15:47
Title: High School Music
Grade Level: High
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Obviously this resistance of British made luxury goods spanned what was probably many different categories of goods. I'm really curious to talk with students about how it could have affected the music industry as it relates to the materials used to create instruments. Many European countries had dominated the instrument making industry and with these boycotts, how did musicians deal with this? Did they have access to the correct materials, human skills, etc. in the colonies to create quality instruments? Or did they go through a lull in which no instruments were produced or imported into the colonies? This would be a great conversation.
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Submitted: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 13:43
Title: High School Music
Grade Level: High
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It's important for students to know that Jazz, at its earliest and most basic form, was initially work songs that were sung by slaves. These work songs then transferred and morphed into different areas, styles, etc. and eventually became the music that we know today as Jazz.
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Submitted: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 - 17:25
Title: High School Music
Grade Level: High
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I think it would be a great debate and conversation for students to discuss all of the events that could have been influenced by not only smallpox, but many other diseases. How many musicians that could have been the next Miles Davis or Leonard Bernstein could have died from from any disease or virus that the world saw over the years. The influence of these illnesses definitely impacted so many parts of our history and I think the idea of discussing how things could have been different with/without these illnesses could be really interesting.
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Submitted: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 14:32
Title: High School Music
Grade Level: High
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We as musicians, owe so much to the transistor technology and what it has done for our field. By utilizing the transistor technology in radios, televisions, the internet, etc, we were and still are able to communicate and spread so much music to audiences that might not normally get the chance to be exposed to it. For example, if you lived on the West Coast, there was no way you would be able to hear the sounds of the New York Philharmonic. But with the transistor technology that created radios and tv, audiences were able to enjoy the concerts that were broadcasted right into their homes! As the current generation, we use computers to access a huge database of music from all around the world. Trying to imagine a world where this possibility doesn't exist is a great discussion that we as music educators can have with students.
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Submitted: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 10:37