ANALYZING A VISUAL SOURCE Unit Focus Question: How do the events at and around the Port Chicago explosion reveal the African American experience during World War II? Focus Question: How did the experiences of the weapons loaders and officers differ at Port Chicago? Title of Source: Port Chicago work Artist: Unknown Media: Photographs MAIN IDEA: QUESTIONS (What Looking at your observations of the primary source, what is the questions doe these photo raise for you? What would you main idea of the source? like to ask the photographers or the people in the images) Photo 1 AA weapons loaders all doing various manual tasks with various munitions. No officer there- no one in charge Student answers will vary. Photo 2 AA weapons loaders are doing the work and white officer is in charge of them- making sure work is done and correct EVIDENCE/MESSAGE OF IMAGES (How do these images provide evidence for answering the focus question?) These images show very different experiences of the Port Chicago weapons loaders from the Port Chicago officers. The weapons loaders- all of whom in the pictures were black- are shown doing the work. Also there seem to be many of them at Port Chicago. In the picture there is only 1 white officer (pic 2 only) and he does not seem to be doing any work but rather watching the AA weapons loaders doing the work; as if he is overseeing them.
ANALYZING A VISUAL SOURCE Unit Focus Question: How do the events at and around the Port Chicago explosion reveal the African American experience during World War II? Focus Question: How did the experiences of the weapons loaders and officers differ at Port Chicago? Title of Source: Port Chicago work Artist: Unknown Media: Photographs MAIN IDEA: Looking at your observations of the primary source, what is the main idea of the source? QUESTIONS (What questions doe these photo raise for you? What would you like to ask the photographers or the people in the images) Photo 1 AA weapons loaders all doing various manual tasks with various munitions. No officer there- no one in charge Student answers will vary. Photo 2 AA weapons loaders are doing the work and white officer is in charge of them- making sure work is done and correct EVIDENCE/MESSAGE OF IMAGES (How do these images provide evidence for answering the focus question?) These images show very different experiences of the Port Chicago weapons loaders from the Port Chicago officers. The weapons loaders- all of whom in the pictures were black- are shown doing the work. Also there seem to be many of them at Port Chicago. In the picture there is only 1 white officer (pic 2 only) and he does not seem to be doing any work but rather watching the AA weapons loaders doing the work; as if he is overseeing them.
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