Resources
Helpful Teacher Resources
“Conversations from the Classroom: An Introduction to Visual Literacy: Four Quadrants.” n.d. Conversations from the Classroom. Accessed July 13, 2024. https://www.conversationsfromtheclassroom.org/2021/01/an-introduction-to-visual-literacy-four.html. (This is a helpful explanation of how to build visual literacy by using four quadrant analysis.)
“Norman Rockwell in the Age of the Civil Rights Movement.” n.d. Google Arts & Culture. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ZgWxOs7llcWMIg. (This is a helpful resource that explains how Norman Rockwell moved in a new direction in his career during the 1960’s tackling subjects related to racism.)
“George Washington and Slavery – Encyclopedia Virginia.” n.d. George Washington and Slavery. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/washington-george-and-slavery/. (This is a helpful resource for understanding how President Washington treated slaves at Mt. Vernon.)
“George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook.” n.d. Figuring History. https://figuringhistory.site.seattleartmuseum.org/robert- colescott/george-washington-carver-crossing-delaware-page-american-history-textbook/. (This website is useful because it includes an interactive version of Colescott’s painting in which you can hover over the painting and various aspects of the painting are explained in detail.)
Gurney, Tom. “American Gothic by Grant Wood.” Www.thehistoryofart.org. Accessed July 16, 2024. https://thehistoryofart.org/grant-wood/american-gothic/. (This article contains a very useful overview and Youtube video explaining the art.
“Latinx Artist Criselda Vasquez Paints a Dedication to La Lucha.” 2018. BoldLatina. July 9, 2018. https://boldlatina.com/latinx-artist-criselda-vasquez/. (This website has an explanation of Criselda’s Vazquez’s work and as well as a couple of other pieces that she has created.)
“LitCharts.” LitCharts. https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/parody. (This is just a brief definition of parody as a genre for someone who is unfamiliar with it.)
Raúl, Alberto, and Mora. 2014. “Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue,” no. 36. https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/key-concept-counter-narrative.pdf. (This resource is helpful because it provides a concise explanation of counter-narrative with a short bibliography of suggested resources for individuals who would like to dig deeper into counter-narrative.)
Bibliography
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Parody." Encyclopedia Britannica, June 12, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/art/parody-literature.
Dominello, Nickolas. 2021. “The Importance of Critical Thinking, for Students and Ourselves.” Www.snhu.edu. October 1, 2021. https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/education/ importance-of-critical-thinking-skills.
"English Language Arts Standards » Reading: Informational Text » Grade 6." English Language Arts Standards » Reading: Informational Text » Grade 6 | Common Core State Standards Initiative. (accessed June 23, 2024). http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RI/6/.
“George Washington and Slavery – Encyclopedia Virginia.” n.d. George Washington and Slavery. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/washington-george-and-slavery/.
Gurney, Tom. “American Gothic by Grant Wood.” Www.thehistoryofart.org. Accessed July 16, 2024. https://thehistoryofart.org/grant-wood/american-gothic/.
Harris JC. Washington Crossing the Delaware. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2012; 69(2):116-117. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.1854
Haskell, Barbara. 2018. Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. Google Books. Yale University Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=L9lLDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false.
History.com Staff. "Washington Crosses the Delaware." History.com. 2009. Accessed July 15, 2017. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/washington-crosses-the-delaware.
Kaphar, Titus. n.d. “Titus Kaphar Bio.” Titus Kaphar. https://www.kapharstudio.com/about/ Leutze, Emanuel. 2019. “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Metmuseum.org. 2019. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11417.
LiveNOW from FOX. 2023. “Trump Says Immigrants Are ‘Destroying the Blood of Our Country’ at Campaign Event | LiveNOW from FOX.” YouTube. December 19, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzcYzEbygF8&t=2s.
“Norman Rockwell in the Age of the Civil Rights Movement.” n.d. Google Arts & Culture. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ZgWxOs7llcWMIg.
Raúl, Alberto, and Mora. 2014. “Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue,” no. 36. https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/key-concept-counter-narrative.pdf.
Richman-Abdou, Kelly. 2019. “Norman Rockwell’s ‘the Problem We All Live With,’ a Groundbreaking Civil Rights Painting.” My Modern Met. March 27, 2019. https://mymodernmet.com/norman-rockwell-the-problem-we-all-live-with/.
“Robert Colescott’s ‘George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook’ from 1975 Comes to Auction.” 2021. Sothebys.com. April 16, 2021. https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/robert-colescotts-george-washington-carver-crossing-the-delaware-page-from-an-american-history-textbook.
“Shadows of Liberty.” n.d. E Pluribus: Out of Many. https://outofmany.nationalacademy.org/artworks/38-shadows-of-liberty.
Stewart, Linda. "Washington Crosses the Delaware." The Washington Post. December 08, 1985. Accessed July 15, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/1985/12/08/washington-crosses-the-delaware/25dc7b5d-4917-4f35-9ee1-d65b76922ea0/?utm_term=.c9df65e670f7.
“‘The New American Gothic’ by Criselda Vasquez (Oil on Canvas 72″ X 48″).” 2021. Artofit. April 3, 2021. https://www.artofit.org/2021/04/03/the-new-american-gothic-by-criselda-vasquez-oil-on-canvas-72-x-48/.
Todd, Ellen Wiley. "Two Georges and Us: Multiple Perspectives on the Image." American Art 17, no. 2 (2003): 13-17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3109433.
"Twain," Chicago Public Schools, accessed June 24, 2024, http://schoolinfo.cps.edu/schoolprofile/schooldetails.aspx?SchoolId=610206.
"Washington Crossing the Delaware." In The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin, by E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, and James S. Trefil. 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2002. http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/hmndcl/washington_crossing_the_delaware/0?institutionId=1032
Wood, Grant. 2009. “American Gothic.” The Art Institute of Chicago. 2009. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6565/american-gothic.
Woodward, John. 2005. Popular Culture: Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit: Thomson/Gale.
Younge, Gary. 2018. Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives. New York: Nation Books.
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