The Theme of Movement
Answer the following questions on the worksheet provided.
1. What are the men doing in the illustration?
2. Where do you think they are?
3. Why are they carrying flags?
4. Who is the man in the foreground?
5. At whom is everyone looking?
6. Why do some of these people have weapons?
7. What/who do you think they are expecting to
find here?
8. What do you think is their goal/objective?
see credits at end
Questions to think about while analyzing the picture:
 What do you see happening in this illustration?
 Who do you think the people in the boat are?
 Where are they going?
 Who are the people of the land?
 How does this etching make you feel?
 Why are they leaving on a seemingly stormy day?
 What is the artist trying to convey?
History Alive!
 Analyze the following picture. Look carefully at what is
going on in the picture.
 Think about the Theme of Movement and what we
discussed yesterday.
 In your journal, describe the scene like a geographer.
Use the five themes of geography.
 Relate the image to the Movement.
 Don’t be afraid to be creative!
 Analyze the following picture. Look carefully at what is
going on in the picture.
 Think about the Theme of Movement and what we
discussed yesterday.
 In your journal, describe the scene like a geographer.
Use the five themes of geography.
 Relate the image to the Movement.
 Don’t be afraid to be creative!
 Analyze the following picture. Look carefully at what is
going on in the picture.
 Think about the Theme of Movement and what we
discussed yesterday.
 In your journal, describe the scene like a geographer.
Use the five themes of geography.
 Relate the image to the Movement.
 Don’t be afraid to be creative!
Ellis Island Museum
 How Does Movement Occur?
 People interact with other people,
places, and things almost every day of
their lives.
 They communicate with each other.
 They rely upon
________________________________
Products, information, and ideas
that come from beyond their
environment.
 So, they ____________________.
PUSH Factors
PULL Factors
Movement:
Immigration
 In your Theme of Movement” packet, …
 Complete the table:
Observations
Inferences
 Look at each picture several times, as you fill in your
chart.
 There will be time to discuss shortly.
 Photographs taken by Lewis W. Hine at Ellis Island
 First landing of Columbus on the shores of the New World, at San
Salvador, W.I., Oct. 12th 1492.
 Date 1862 (published circa 1892).
 Source Library of Congress.
 Author Painting : Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla Tolín. Publisher :
Currier and Ives..
 From Wikimedia Commons
 Slides 8, 9, 23 photos by Patrick Condon, August 2011.
 Slides 20-22, 24, 29 of exhibits at the Ellis Island Museum,
photos by Patrick Condon, August 2011.
 All Lewis Hine photographs can be found at the website, The
History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 Photographs
from Lewis Hine
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/about.htm