Module Five - - Thinking about images
How do images tell a story?
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As with numbers, the Internet offers our students remarkably rich collections of images, whether they be photographs, paintings, drawings or posters from the past. Issues of copyright preclude reproduction of such rich collections on this CD, but we can simulate the kinds of thinking required by offering a small collection and assigning a task that provokes thought.
Rodin did a sculpture on commission to commemorate a group of town leaders from Calais who volunteered to serve as hostages.
What moods, ideas and feelings is he able to communicate about these men and their experience?
Make a cluster diagram listing your observations and inferences.
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| Note from the Cantor Foundation at http://www.cantorfoundation.org/Rodin/Gallery/rvg31.html
"This hero was part of a dramatic event that occured in Calais in 1347, during the Hundred Years War. Six leading citizens of Calais volunteered themselves as hostages to the English king Edward III in exchange for his lifting an eleven-month siege on their city. Eustache de Saint-Pierre was the first of six brave citizens to surrender."
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© Jamie McKenzie, 2005, all rights reserved. No copies can be made or distributed in any format without the express written permission of the author. This CD is intended for use by participants during a workshop in Perth on May 27 only.
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