How to Analyze Visuals
Visuals are actually anything you look at and are asked to analyze including:
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Pictures
Paintings
Placards
Advertisements
Banners
Posters
The process you use to interpret and analyze visuals is similar to the processes you
would use for political cartoons, maps, charts, timelines...
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Read the title of the visual. If there is not a title, decide what the visual is about.
What is the subject/topic of the picture?
Identify the people and objects shown in the visual. Who and what are shown in
the picture?
Identify the relationships among people and objects in the visual. What
connections can you find among the people and objects in the picture to the past
or present?
Write or state a summary of the picture in one sentence.
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poster below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Title of Visual / What It Should Be Titled
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What I Recognize (Symbols / People / Objects / Words)
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Source: Library of Congress (adapted)
15 How was this land offer different from the land
offer in the Homestead Act (1862)?
(1) Purchasers had to be citizens.
(2) People had to pay for this land.
(3) Buyers needed farming experience.
(4) This land was on the Atlantic Coast.
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C
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B
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DIRECTIONS
Read each question carefully. Determine the best answer to the question from
answer choices provided. Then fill in the answer on your answer document.
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How to Analyze Visuals
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in 1948. The flight pattern illustrated in the diagram was designed to allow an airplane to land
every three minutes. Why was this operation undertaken?
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A
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B
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This 1972 poster depicts an organization originally formed to advocate —
A publicly funded health care for children
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this Constitution,
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1933?
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the U.S.
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How to Analyze Visuals
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the land
offer in the Homestead Act (1862)?
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Land is being advertised for sale
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sponsor/sell
tracks of land
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the land offer
made in this advertisement by
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My Analysis of What I Am Looking At
South.
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poster
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the
land sales
would leadsystem
to the after
land rush
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in the
South
by
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a that
sharecropping
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the plains. The poster is also associated with the Homestead Act.
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