In class this week, I tried to get across to the students how you can tell a lot about a person by looking a a picture of them. To do this, we looked at the two pictures above. On the left, Robert E. Lee, and on the right, George McClellan. I asked the students what they noticed about the character of the people from the pictures.
They said McClellan seemed very proper, somewhat arrogant, young, from a wealthy background (or at least wants to appear that way), cares about his appearance, very rigid, might be hard to work with. All of these were pretty much on point so I was impressed.
They said Lee looked relaxed, humble, old with experience, "a guy you can joke around with," not as rigid, and so on. One kid then made the comment that he didn't like Lee because you can't trust anyone with a beard. Then he looked up at me and stopped talking.
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