1. When and where was this image captured?

2.  What is happening in this image?

3. What specific people/objects do you see? 

4. What do you notice about the object's condition or the people's expressions or appearance?

5. Why would the person choose this particular scene to capture?

6. What information do the words accompanying the image provide?

7. What is missing from the image?

8. What problems for people are suggested by the images?

9.  What is interesting or surprising about this image?

10. What additional information about the event did you learn from  this image?

Personal Account Analysis:

1. When and where did this interview take place?

2. What encounter with nature is described in this personal account?

3. How long after the event occurred was this inteview made?

4. What words or phrases best create a visual image of the event?

5. What attitude towards this event does the person seem to have?

6. Who or what at does this person seem to believe is responsible for this event occurring?

7. What problems or effects does the event seem to have had on people's lives?

8.  What lesson does this person seem to have learned from this event?

9. Is there anything interesting or surprising to you about this person's reaction to the situation?

10. What new insights into the natural event does this interview provide you?
 

1. If there is a cover to this piece of sheet music, examine it carefully.  What message does the cover give you about the event?

2. What natural event is this song about?

3. Read through the lyrics. Write a  summary describing the main idea of the song.

4. List any words in the song with which you are not familiar. Find their meanings in a dictionary.

5. Choose one or two phrases of the song that are interesting to you. Explain why they caught your attention.

6. Who or what does the song writer feel is responsible for the event?

7. What problems or effects of the event are mentioned in the song?

8. What new insights does this song give you about the event described?

9. What surprises you about the song?

10. What questions do you have?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  1. What additional information
  about the event did the other sources
 provide? 
 

Source: Library of Congress,
Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

Personal Account:

  One of the thirty-three accounts is a letter written by John D. Blagden to his
  family in Duluth, Minnesota, while serving a temporary assignment at the
  Galveston Weather Bureau office away from his permanent station in
  Memphis, Tennessee. 

Read this account by clicking here.
 
 

Source document.

Mighty Day
(Traditional Folk Song)

I remember one September, 
When storm winds hit the town,
Women and children were crying, Lord,
And death was all around.

Wasn't that a mighty day? 
Wasn't that a mighty day?
Wasn't that a mighty day, 
Great God that morning
When the storm winds hit the town?

The winds began to blowin',
The rains began to fall
The lightning shafts were cracklin', Lord,
And the thunder started to roll.
 

Wasn't that a mighty day? 
Wasn't that a mighty day?
Wasn't that a mighty day, 
Great God that morning
When the storm winds hit the town?

Thr trumpets gave them warnin'
They better leave this place
But never meant to leave their homes
Till death was in their face.

The seas began to rollin',
The ships they could not land,
I heard a captain crying, "God,
Please save this drownin' man."
 

Wasn't that a mighty day? 
Wasn't that a mighty day?
Wasn't that a mighty day, 
Great God that morning
When the storm winds hit the town?

The trains they all were loaded,
With people leavin' town,
The tracks gave way to the ocean, Lord,
And the trains they went on down.

The waters like some river
Went rushin' to and fro
I seen my father drownin' Lord,
And I watched my mother go.

Wasn't that a mighty day? 
Wasn't that a mighty day?
Wasn't that a mighty day, 
Great God that morning
When the storm winds hit the town?

Now death your hands are icy,
You've got them on my knee,
You took away my mother now,
You're comin' after me.

Wasn't that a mighty day? 
Wasn't that a mighty day?
Wasn't that a mighty day, 
Great God that morning
When the storm winds hit the town?

Wasn't that a mighty day? 
Wasn't that a mighty day?
Wasn't that a mighty day, 
Great God that morning
When the storm winds hit the town?
 
 

Source
 

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