Every history has a story. Every story has a history. And, a picture is worth a thousand words. This simple truth and well known statement is why tableaux function so well for constructing meaning. As I said in the blog post from yesterday, nothing in history happens in isolation. There are always bigger things at work. There always seem to be multiple things that need to be taken into account. Keep this in mind as you work in your groups today to practice and finish your tableaux.
Another item from the blog post yesterday was the introduction of a trick. Separate. Isolate. Recombine. Click on the link Google Image Search: The Great Depression. What you will find is a slew of images connected to the Great Depression. If we conducted an analysis, we could probably find certain images that would fit into categories. This would be the first step in the trick: Separate. Once separated, we can isolate a certain few that would tell the story we want for our tableaux. When we have separated and isolated the images we want to use in constructing meaning, we can then recombine them in a way that makes sense to us and others. This last part of the trick would illustrate, recombining. Synthesis, coalescing, and recombining are all part of constructing meaning. It is the hope of this teacher that you find making sense of history similar to making sense of text or media. Separate. Isolate. Recombine. 
In closing, look at the learning targets below. Be ready to share an answer to this question: How are we showing that we are meeting these learning targets by creating our tableaux?
2 Media in Social Studies: Identify main ideas, analyze supporting details, and evaluate inferences within discipline specific readings
3 Content in Social Studies: Apply content in order to evaluate relationships of people and ideas and draw conclusions
From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
School District of Waukesha
Waukesha STEM Academy
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