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Learning to look at art: Strategies for helping students develop visual literacy in looking at paintings and other forms of visual art.; By Melissa Thibault.

Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy: Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.; By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.

Presidents pathfinder: In Rethinking Reports, page 1.5; Presidents and the Presidency The American Presidency Grolier's family of encyclopedias provides three levels of biographical material on presidents...; By Melissa Thibault.

The kingdom of Ayudhya: In The Ramayana, page 1.1; Rama's hometown city of Ayudhya is depicted surrounded with solid white walls on a Ramayana mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The vantage point of this painting is from outside an inviting entrance gate door served by a well-worn footpath. Over...; By Lorraine Aragon.

An heir to the throne: In The Ramayana, page 1.2; In this painting, the green-skinned king at left and the white-skinned queen at the right sit together on a blue painted platform under a gold-leaf painted arch representing their tiered roof palace at Ayudhya.; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama, Sita, and Laksman leave the palace: In The Ramayana, page 2.1; On this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Sita, Rama, and Laksman depart the palace in Ayudhya for fourteen years of forest exile. Here they are shown with Sita's skin painted white on the left, Rama's painted green in the middle, and Laksman's painted...; By Lorraine Aragon.

The birth of Sita: In The Ramayana, page 1.3; A painted mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows the infant Sita sitting in a gold urn as she is discovered by a king ploughing his fields. Beside Sita's urn, which protrudes from the ground, we see the king holding a wooden plough harnessed to an ox. The...

Sita's hand in marriage: In The Ramayana, page 1.5; Rama and Sita ask for her parents' consent to marry in this detail image on a Ramayana mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Rama and Sita sit together on a low cushioned platform with their hands in the respectful wai or Thai prayer position....; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama's brothers go to his wedding: In The Ramayana, page 1.6; Rama's brothers are seen going to his wedding on this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Rama's brothers, dressed in golden clothes and crowns ride on gold chariots just outside the white palace walls of Ayudhya. A long line of their male attendants...; By Lorraine Aragon.

A royal bath: In The Ramayana, page 1.7; Sita is shown taking a royal bath before her wedding to Rama in a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Sita bathes sitting on the edge of an elegant platform shelter extending into a large tiled pool. Two women servants pour water from a gold basin over Sita...; By Lorraine Aragon.

The marriage of Rama and Sita: In The Ramayana, page 1.8; A royal pavilion scene on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows the wedding of Sita and Rama. On the central platform, Sita sits at the left and Rama at the right of a tall footed dish, designed to represent ceremonial foods on a mound of rice. Rama,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

The future king: In The Ramayana, page 1.9; Rama is shown to the people of Ayudhya and announced as their future king, as depicted on a mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Dressed in gold clothes and painted with his characteristic green skin, Rama is carried on a golden sedan chair just outside...; By Lorraine Aragon.

A deathbed plot: In The Ramayana, page 1.10; This Indian painting shows Rama's father on his royal bed as he nears death. A wife and son are at his side.; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama is exiled: In The Ramayana, page 1.11; This mural painting from the Emerald Buddha Temple shows Rama bidding farewell to people at his father's palace in the kingdom of Ayudhya. Rama, whose skin is painted green, stands in golden royal clothes on a pavillion platform at the center. Subjects kneel...; By Lorraine Aragon.

A procession: In The Ramayana, page 2.2; A mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows Rama, his wife Sita, and his brother Laksman as they are leaving with a procession to go to the forest. Laksman appears on the left, Sita in the sedan chair in the middle, and Rama with his characteristic...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Bharata tries to give back the throne: In The Ramayana, page 2.3; On this mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Rama's brother Bharata and his comrades boat into the forest to try to find the exiled Rama after their father dies. The detail shows several long paddled canoes and a large poled platform barge. On each watercraft,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

A forest hermit: In The Ramayana, page 2.4; The forest hermit's respected position as a wise sage is shown by his elevated position sitting on a stone platform at left. Rama, Laksman, and Sita kneel on the ground at right. The hermit holds a palm leaf fan on a long handle. The hermit's stone platform...; By Lorraine Aragon.

The demon king: In The Ramayana, page 2.5; Ravana sits on a palace platform with two of his wives, as seen on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Ravana has one arm around each wife's neck. The wives both have their right hands held to their faces, as if in grief. Another demon, perhaps a relative...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana plots Sita's abduction: In The Ramayana, page 2.6; This detail on a painted mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple depicts the demon king Ravana siting on a royal pavillion platform and gesturing with twenty arms (ten emerging from each shoulder). Ravana is speaking to another blue-faced demon partially seen at...; By Lorraine Aragon.

A golden deer: In The Ramayana, page 2.7; A two image sequence on a mural painted at the Emerald Buddha Temple depicts a demon's intentional transformation into a deer. In the top image, his legs have turned into those of a golden deer. In the lower image, the demon is fully changed into the deer....; By Lorraine Aragon.

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