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Using Historical Pictures for Writing

Using Historical Pictures for Writing. Prof. Myrna Monllor Jim énez Prof. Helen Avilés Abreu. Ram ón Frade El Pan Nuestro de cada d í a. Carlos Irizarry La transculturaci ón del puertorriqueño. Pre-Writing Activities. Provide a historical reading for the students

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Using Historical Pictures for Writing

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  1. Using Historical Pictures for Writing Prof. Myrna Monllor Jiménez Prof. Helen AvilésAbreu

  2. Ramón Frade El Pan Nuestrode cadadía Carlos Irizarry La transculturación del puertorriqueño

  3. Pre-Writing Activities • Provide a historical reading for the students • Provide pictures related to the reading • Look at the pictures together. Discuss what is seen in the picture and what you suppose is outside the borders of the picture.

  4. Writing Activity • Have the students then place themselves within the picture. • Who were the people in the picture? • What were they doing? • How was their life? • How did they live? • What was happening at this historical period and how did it affect them?

  5. Possible Writing Ideas For these activities, students might have to do research. English teachers could work with history teachers to prepare students for these writing activities. • Write a story about the people in the picture • Imagine you are a journalist, write an article about what is happening in the picture • Imagine you are one of the persons in the picture write a letter to a friend or relative about why the picture was taken or why you are in the picture. • Imagine you have taken these pictures. Write captions that would explain what is happening in the pictures. • Write an article comparing Puerto Rico of the past to Puerto Rico of the present.

  6. Reading Pictures from Our Islands and our People (1898)

  7. Picture 1

  8. Picture 2

  9. Picture 3

  10. Picture 4

  11. Picture 6

  12. Picture 7

  13. Picture 8

  14. Picture 10

  15. Picture 12

  16. Picture 14

  17. Picture 15

  18. Picture 16

  19. Picture 18

  20. Picture 20

  21. Your writing Prompts

  22. You are a missionary in the Puerto Rico of the 1940’s, write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper denouncing the medical situations at the time. Malnutrition Patient in a hammock

  23. Judas Driven Out You’re a tourist . You have just been to Las Fiestas de Hatillo. Write a travelog description for other tourists.

  24. Typical Kitchen You are the woman working in this kitchen. Write the recipe for the food you are preparing.

  25. Castañer It is 1940. Your family is well-to-do and has just bought the first car in the neighborhood. Write a letter to a friend describing the neighbors’ reactions.

  26. Puerto Rican migration • After WWII, from 1945 to 1960, a million Puerto Ricans migrated to the USA. You are one of these Puerto Ricans. Write a diary entry about your move to the States.

  27. Jesús T. Piñero It is 1948 and a Puerto Rican has just been appointed governor, you are a journalist at the inauguration assigned to write an article. Jesús T.Piñero, first Puerto Rican governor

  28. It is 1961, the Kennedys visit Puerto Rico, you are either one of the guests at La Fortaleza, a police guard, a chef, or a maid. Write the dialogue of a conversation you overheard. Kennedy, MuñozMarín, and Pablo Casals It is 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt, visits PR. You are one of the Senators he addresses. Write the conversation you had with the president. President Theodore Roosevelt Arriving to Puerto Rico

  29. You live in the 1940’s. You are a woman earning two cents a day in Puerto Rico’s needle industry. You have six children and an unemployed husband. Write a short autobiography.

  30. References • http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/delano_jack.php • http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlehman • Puerto Rico en fotos: la colecciónmenonita 1940-1950 http://www.flmm.org/noticias_88.htm

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