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Unit 1 ~ Till 1607Making Arguments From Images
Every group has been assigned a category for analysis: Political, Economic, Social, Environmental, or Cultural (P; Ec; S; En; C; aka ‘PESEC’).
Student Instructions: Search through the following pages. Locate the best images that allow you to make arguments that comment on history till 1607 through your individual PESEC category. Select a range of images you will present to the class (3-7). You will create a presentation for the class focused on using images to analyze aspects of history in the Americas up to 1607. Use those images to explain history with a focus on your PESEC category.
Essential Questions
P Group: What does this image reveal about Politics?
Ec Group: What does this image reveal about Economics?
S Group: What does this image reveal about Social organizations?
En Group: What does this image reveal about human-Environment interactions?
C Group: What does this image reveal about Cultures?
Your presentation will be a PowerPoint during which you show classmates the images you selected while explaining what conclusions can be made about each image regarding your PESEC category of analysis.
Source: Theodor de Bry “The New Queen”, an engraving by made from a 16th c drawing by Jacque le Moyne, a French colonist in Florida.
In terms of politics: This tribe shows a matriarchy or matriarchal tendencies allowing females power. This Indian queen is revered and rules over this tribe. Warfare.In terms of society: This image shows hierarchy. Socially this women has higher status than other women. It also shows matriarchy in that she is a powerful woman.
Example of an Image and PESEC analysis
Source: Map of the Aztec capital Tenotchtitlan published with a collection of letters
from Hernan Cortes in 1524.
Source: A modern aerial photograph of the ruins of Pueblo Bonita in Chaco Canyon in
present-day New Mexico.
Source: English artist John White portraying ten male and seven female Native
Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.
Source: Engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a 16th century painting of Florida
Indians by French colonist Jacques Le Moyne .
Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction
of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.
Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction
of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.
Source: English artist John White
portraying Native Americans from an
Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.
Source: Paintings by Mexican
artist Andrés de Islas, 18th century.
↑ ‘mestizo’ child ↑ ‘castizo’ child
‘coyote’ child → ← ‘chino’ child