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This assignment requires students to analyze history in the Americas up to 1607 using images that focus on the categories of Politics, Economics, Social organizations, Environmental interactions, and Cultures (PESEC). Students will create a PowerPoint presentation to present their selected images and discuss their PESEC analysis.
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Unit 1 ~ Till 1607Making Arguments From Images Every group has been assigned a category for analysis: Political, Economic, Social, Environmental, or Cultural (P; Ec;S; En; C; aka ‘PESEC’). Student Instructions: Search through the following pages. Locate the best images that allow you to make arguments that comment on history till 1607 through your individual PESEC category. Select a range of images you will present to the class (3-7). You will create a presentation for the class focused on using images to analyze aspects of history in the Americas up to 1607. Use those images to explain history with a focus on your PESEC category. Essential Questions P Group: What does this image reveal about Politics? Ec Group: What does this image reveal about Economics? S Group: What does this image reveal about Social organizations? En Group: What does this image reveal about human-Environment interactions? C Group: What does this image reveal about Cultures? Your presentation will be a PowerPoint during which you show classmates the images you selected while explaining what conclusions can be made about each image regarding your PESEC category of analysis.
Example of an Image and PESEC analysis Source: Theodor de Bry “The New Queen”, an engraving by made from a 16th c drawing by Jacque le Moyne, a French colonist in Florida. In terms of politics: This tribe shows a matriarchy or matriarchal tendencies allowing females power. This Indian queen is revered and rules over this tribe. Warfare. In terms of society: This image shows hierarchy. Socially this women has higher status than other women. It also shows matriarchy in that she is a powerful woman.
Source: “The Village of Secoton” by English artist John White, 1585-1586.
Source: Map of the Aztec capital Tenotchtitlan published with a collection of letters from Hernan Cortes in 1524.
Source: A modern aerial photograph of the ruins of Pueblo Bonita in Chaco Canyon in present-day New Mexico.
Source: English artist John White portraying ten male and seven female Native Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.
Source: Engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a 16th century painting of Florida Indians by French colonist Jacques Le Moyne .
Source: An engraving of an Iroquois longhouse by a French Jesuit, seventeenth-century.
Source: Columbus’s Landfall, a Spanish engraving from a pamphlet, 1493.
Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.
Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.
Source: English artist John White portraying Native Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.
Source: Paintings by Mexican artist Andrés de Islas, 18th century. ↑ ‘mestizo’ child ↑ ‘castizo’ child ‘coyote’ child → ← ‘chino’ child
Source: A banner carried by Spanish troops led by Cortes, 16th century.
Source: Engraving by Dutch Protestant Theodor de Bry depicting the Spanish and Indians in Cuzco (present-day Peru) in 1532.