ACTIVITY WORKSHEET 3 - Activity 10. Our Untold Stories: The Asian Community in Gloucestershire

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AN ACTIVITY FOR ALL GROUPS

10. A photographic analysis exercise.

Go back to the photographs mentioned at the start of this work.

a) Record your results on Recording grid 1. Sort your photographs into themes. When you are happy with your themes, record them in column b, and record the relevant numbers in column a.
b) Draw a curly bracket around two themes and say how they link together.
c) Briefly discuss how you decided on your themes. Explain your method in Recording grid 1, column D.
d) Extension task for 'free thinkers' - Can you think of any other linked themes? Record any that you come up with in Recording grid 2. Did you use a different method to create these themes? If so record them in column D.

Task 1: Recording grid 2

Task 2

a) Discuss the problems historians face when using photographic sources.
b) Choose one other picture, which could easily be misleading. As a group, write your own caption for the photograph. Be prepared to explain and justify your choice in a class discussion.

Task 3

a) Choose 2 photographs and discuss the witting and unwitting evidence which they contain. Record your findings.
b) How would your knowledge of the period and the photographer change your findings? What does this tell you about using photographs

Task 4

Choose one photograph each, which you think the government would be eager to publish. Write down your reasons. Be prepared to present your ideas to the rest of the class later. Also note down how you decided, and what questions you asked yourself in order to make your choice.

Now wait until all the class display has been pinned up / mounted - walk around the room and study. Discuss with a friend how your answers to question 1 right at the start of the project would change, now you have more knowledge.