Chrysler Building, New York City, 1930

Picturing America Guides for Youth Programming

Staff at the District of Columbia Public Library used The Whole Book Approach and Visual Thinking Strategies to shape their Picturing America programming efforts. For background information about the DCPL program development process, please see the related blog entry in ProgrammingLibrarian.org.

The image-specific programming guides below include information about the image and artist, historical background, programming ideas for children and teens, and a bibliography of relevant materials.

A Program Guide Template (Word) is also available for libraries to create their own image-specific programs for young audiences, based on local collections and interests.

1-A Pottery and Baskets, c. 1100 to c. 1960, Various artists
Elementary (ages 6–12)

3-A Grant Wood, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931
Elementary (ages 6–12)

8-B Black Hawk, “Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger Book, 1880–1881
Elementary (ages 6–12)

9-B Alexander Gardner, Abraham Lincoln, Pres., U.S., 1809–1865, 1865
Elementary (ages 6–12)

17-A Jacob Lawrence, The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57, 1940–1941
Elementary (ages 6–12)

17-B Romare Bearden, The Dove, 1964
Elementary (ages 6–12) and Teen (ages 13–18)

18-B Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936, 1936
Teen (ages 13–18)

19-B James Karales, Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965, 1965
Elementary (ages 6–12)
Teen (ages 13–18)