Study this photograph carefully. Note what you observe. Choose one question to respond to and post it in the comment section below.
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper
- Tell me something about the lives of the people in this photograph.
- If you were a person in this photograph, what would you be thinking and how would you be feeling?
- What questions do you have about life during this time?
1. I think that life is kind of harsh living in that time
2. if I was in that picture I would be thinking why is life so harsh because it is so harsh living in this time and some times in the future life is not so harsh and it is so not fair for the people living in the past
3. why is it so harsh living in that time and how did life become so harsh
I think life was sad because they look poor like some had no shirts on. Also it looks scary because they were so high above. Also they are having lunch and talking so maybe there having fun. I wonder what it will be like if I was up there?
They are having a hard time because they are eating lunch atop a skyscraper. My question is why do they have on tank tops? and one person does not even have a shirt on is it because they are building something in the hot summer sun. Was this picture taken in the summer? If I were a person in this picture I would be feeling both sacred and proud.
I will be answering question #3.I will be asking 5 questions.My first question is “What did it feel like up there with no harness on?”My 2nd question is”What was your most fanciest shoe at that time?”I have a connection with this question.We use these shoes when we work and go to fancy places.Some people wear it just normally.Also my 3rd question is “Do you always have to wear hats or is it just because you want to?”I am asking this question because now people don’t always wear hats when they go to work.We are almost to the end.My 4th question is “Why are many people wearing overalls at that time?”I am asking this question because now people don’t often wear overalls and in this picture there are a few people wearing overalls.Finally my last question is “For lunch do you always used boxes to wrap up the food or container?”I am asking this question because now we wrap the container or food and bring it somewhere with a lunch box or paper bag.Although sometimes we wrap food with boxes.For example at a bakery when you pick bread by yourself,at the register sometimes, they wrap into a box.This is all the questions I have.
If I was in that foto I would be scard to be that high
How do people survive at this time? It looks like there is a storm or tornado coming right at them!
Which question I am doing: What questions do you have about life from this time?
Are the people sitting on there because they can’t find somewhere to live? Or maybe they had a problem. And is it hard to live back then with bad medical care? If not. Why wouldn’t people just live on the street if they can’t get a house. At least that’s a little better because the people can hold something like a bucket and tell other people to put money in them. It must be hard to live back then.
I think that life at this time would be different because they have no equipment to keep them safe from falling. If I was in this photo I would be thinking ahh! that is so high! I would be thinking I’m scared. My question is how can they be so relaxed when they are so high.
If I was a man sitting on the plank eating lunch , I would be feeling NERVOUS! Because it seems very high up in the air, and if I fell off the plank I would die.
But the men in the picture do not look nervous. They look like they are enjoying their lunch with each other. They do not seem to notice that they are up that high.
I agree with you tessa
I am going to write about,question 1. I think life in this time was hard for poor people because in this photograph,people atop the skyscraper are wearing ragged clothes and some People didn’t have clothes on. I also think that life was hard because poor people didn’t have any room to live or eat lunch. This reminds me of a Japanese story named “Chii’s cageocuri”. This is about a girl named Chii and her family. This takes place in the war.
In this photograph,I wondered,”why did poor people eat lunch atop a skyscraper?
My question for this time is, ” how could they eat on a skyscraper? If I was on top of that skyscraper, I would be so scared! Even though I am not scared of heights………………………..”
I like how you wrote questions on your blog post. I wouldn’t want to be on that skyscraper if I was the men on the picture……. I know that Walt Disney was born in Chicago, on December 5th 1901. So far I like that Biography about Walt Disney where did you get that picture from?
I am answering question 2. I would never want to do that because I could easily just fall and die. I think the people are used to doing that though because they are probably construction workers and wouldn’t go all the way down the building just to get their lunch. I would be thinking if I were at that time “how are we gonna get down?”.
If I was a man sitting on the plank eating lunch , I would be feeling NERVOUS! Because it seems very high up in the air, and if I fell off the plank I would die.
But the men in the picture do not look nervous. They look like they are enjoying their lunch with each other. They do not seem to notice that they are up that high.
this photo looks from the 1900 because the photos are in black and white. I do not understand why evreybody is on a plank of wood. They do not look happy it kid’v looks like they are trying to prove a point.
1.It would be hard I saw two men on the plank with no shirt on I suppose that they were working really hard .
2.I would be thinking that I will fall off I would be feeling very NERVOUS because if I fell off I would probably be dead.
3.were people very crazy at this time because 11 people are sitting on a plank about 500 meter’s high
At this time you would where overalls to work or school. If I was in this picture, I would be thinking, ”Ah i’m afraid of heights. This is so far off the ground”. My question is what are they making or building?
I think the people in this picture are checking how to finish the skyscraper. I would be thinking how I could finish the building. Did the people of this time have phones or I pads? In my opinion I think there were no phones or I pads. or any tech except a car.
There was now ipads. I would be feeling scard. I think it would be hard to do things.