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ACTIvITy 2
Collaborative Practice
Work collaboratively to respond to the following prompts. To do a close reading of a visual image, you should view and review the artwork each time you respond to the questions.
“Sea Of Humanity” is a mural on the Berlin Wall depicting a sea of humanity flowing out of East Berlin once the wall was destroyed.
First Reading: What do you see?
As you look at the mural, what catches your eye? What details do you notice?
To answer this question, keep your responses only on what you can see in the mural. Next, examine the text accompanying the image. What more does it add to what you see?
Second Reading: What does it mean?
Now that you have examined the mural carefully, what inferences can you make? How do you interpret what you see? In other words, what might you say about the argument presented in the mural?
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