Name:_____________________________ Class:______________ Date: ______________

Perspective is a way of thinking about and understanding something. To better understand ourselves, we must learn about seeing our community from multiple perspectives.

Describe what is happening in this picture: ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________

What do you think it means?

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Do you ever feel like this cat?

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Instructions: Read the passage below individually.

Perspective

There are always at least two sides to every story. This is why teachers ask each student involved in a fight to tell his or her side of a story and a court listens to both sides of a law case. As students of social studies, we need to look at everything we learn from different points of view or perspectives to develop a meaningful historical context. When we read, we see the story from the perspective of the narrator, photographer, musician, and director. Whoever is telling the story at a particular point is sharing their perspective or point of view. In Social Studies, point of view is a little different from English class, but similar. Depending on who is telling the history of an event we may get a different story. In this Unit we are looking at the different perspectives of our neighborhood’s identity. If we ask someone from outside of our neighborhood to identify the characteristics of it, they will not understand it the way we do. How can there be two or more versions of the same spaces?

Understanding Perspective

Instructions: Answer the questions below about perspective. Discuss the answers with your group

1. Describe what you see: I see _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Based on this picture, how does

each person’s location affect their point of view? _____________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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[Homework]

3. Based on this picture how will you represent your community in your final project?

What will you write or draw to share your point of in a way that disproves or explains different opinions about your neighborhood?

_________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Example:  Some  people  may  think  that  Harlem  is  an  unsafe  place  to  live  but  if  you  were  from  here  you  would  know…