The McHale Museum: Lenape Collection

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The McHale MuseumLenape Collection

• Writing Captions

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Captions are

• Written descriptions for your pictures,
  illustrations, drawings, or maps

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Grade level expectation on the rubric

• Exhibit presentation should include captions that
  are detailed and accurate.

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Look at your rubric for Exhibit Board
Presentation
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Lets read these captions and score them

• Lenape women carried their children on their
  backs using cradleboards. Cradleboards are pieces
  of wood that the children actually hung from so
  the women could work with their hands free. They
  could also hang these board from a tree.

• Lenape women carried their children on their
  backs using cradleboards.

• Lenape women carried their children on their
  backs using cradleboards. Cradleboards are pieces
  of wood that the children actually hung from so
  the women could work with their hands free. They
  could also hang these board from a tree.
• This is like when moms today might use a baby
  carrier or a stroller to carry or transport small
  children.

Lenape woman and a cradleboard
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How about these?

• The Lenape made the things they needed by
  utilizing the natural materials around them.

• The Lenape made the things they needed by
  utilizing the natural materials around them.
  Until the Europeans came, they had only tools
  fashioned from shell, stone, bone and wood.

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Helpful hints

• Each caption should synthesize the information
  you learned about your topic.
• Give factual information about the Lenape.
• Each caption should focus on ONE topic!!
• STRETCH your sentences/paragraphs.
• Try to answer questions that a reader might ask
  who? what? when? where? how? why?
• Dont start a sentence with This is a picture
  of

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Dont forget to format while typing

• Choose an appropriate FONT and SIZE!!
• Use smaller margins.
• JUSTIFY the entire paragraph for cutting into a
  tile.

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Time to write your own captionsGood luck!!