1. Zoom In…Zoom Out Understanding Goal: Investigative Question:
Primary source provide clues to help us understand past events.
Investigative Question:
How do jobs of the past compare to jobs of today?

2. What do you see in this picture?

3. Is the person a man or a woman? What is this person holding? Why?

4. What is the name of his job?

5. Coopers were very important men. What did they do?

6. Many people needed barrels in Alexandria.
Coopers made barrels of all sizes. They used pieces of wood called staves to make barrels.Barrels moved and stored almost everything in the seaport town.
Many people needed barrels in Alexandria.

7. What Do You Think?..... Why were the coopers in Alexandria?
Name 3 occupations that depended on the barrels being made.
What do we use barrels for today?
What other kinds of containers do we have today?