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  1. This photograph was taken after the first day of the battle. How does knowing that two more gruesome days would follow affect your viewing of the photo?

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    Exploring the Text: - This photograph was taken after the first day of the battle. How does knowing that two more gruesome days would follow affect your viewing of the photo?
  2. Look carefully at the photograph. What do you see? Consider all the visual features, including the soldiers and the setting.

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    Exploring the Text: - Look carefully at the photograph. What do you see? Consider all the visual features, including the soldiers and the setting.
  3. How do the contrasts between light and dark and the living and the dead contribute to the photograph’s effect? What is the mood created by the photograph? What details contribute to that mood?

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    Exploring the Text: - How do the contrasts between light and dark and the living and the dead contribute to the photograph’s effect? What is the mood created by the photograph? What details contribute to that mood?
  4. How would you compare this photograph with the one taken at Antietam? Which one leaves a stronger impression? Why?

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    Exploring the Text: - How would you compare this photograph with the one taken at Antietam? Which one leaves a stronger impression? Why?