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What Do You See?
Questions

Left Section

  1. What are the rail tracks used for?

  2. What are the other items in the photograph?

  3. What are these items used for?

  4. What evidence, from this part of the picture, did you use to draw your conclusions?


Center Left Section

  1. Is this person in the Union or Confederate Army?

  2. What season of the year do you think this is?

  3. What time of day is it?

  4. What evidence, from this part of the picture, did you use to draw your conclusions?


Center Section

  1. What is unusual about the gun?

  2. Why is the barrel so short and thick?

  3. Why are there steps in the front of the gun?

  4. What is the function of the small metal loop on the top of the gun?

  5. What is the function of the metal rod and wheel on this side of the gun?

  6. What is the function of the metal rod in the back of the gun (look between the two men)?

  7. Why are the men wearing different hats?

  8. Why is there a line moving from upper right to lower left in the picture?

  9. What evidence, from this part of the picture, did you use to draw your conclusions?


Right Section

  1. What are the round objects?

  2. Why are they stacked in that manner?

  3. What is the man in suspenders holding in his left hand?

  4. What is the function of that object?

  5. Look at the hat worn by the man in the right side of the picture. Are any other men in the whole picture wearing a hat like his?

  6. What evidence, from this part of the picture, did you use to draw your conclusions?


Top Section

  1. What can be deduced from looking at the background?

    • about the season

    • from the shape of the trees

    • from the lone tree in the left side of the picture

    • from the light strips on the ground

  2. What evidence, from this part of the picture, did you use to draw your conclusions?


Lower Section

  1. What is the structure made of?

  2. Why use this material?

  3. What is function of the boards at an odd angle in the front of the picture?

  4. What evidence, from this part of the picture, did you use to draw your conclusions?

 

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