Teacher Resource
Rolling on the River by NGA
Subject
English Language Arts (2005), Social Studies, The Arts, English Language Arts (NYS P-12 Common Core), Social Studies (NYS K-12 Framework Common Core), Literacy in History/Social Studies (NYS 5-12 Common Core)
Grade Levels
Intermediate, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Description
Students will explore how westward expansion increased the number of jobs available in the nineteenth-century, including being a flatboatman through a painting by George Caleb Bingham. Working in pairs, students will write a letter to their partner from the standpoint of a person moving westward. Then they will construct a poem in the guise of Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” about a modern-day job.
Resource
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Content Provider
National Gallery of Art
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