I took you up on the idea of finding a piece of art that illustrates one of the vocabulary words from the Apples to Apples: Green Cards list - eccentric. Carol Highsmith has a number of photos of "eccentric" art, including the one below:

Title: Many U.S. cities use eccentric themes, from cows to frogs to various depictions of musical instruments for their public art. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016630512/ 

It seemed appropriate for tonight's Iowa Republican presidential primary caucuses (minus the snow)! 

An loc.gov photo search for eccentric yields enough examples for students to come up with their own definition of the term, I think.  

Love this simple strategy! Please post in the Elementary group. It will be a big hit!

I did as   Mary Johnson did and chose a word from the Applies to Apples list - cranky. 

While an initial search with this key term didn't produce too many photograph/print options from the Library of Congress search engine (as is the case many times), I turned my search to Chronicling America (which you can point students to in the case that they are also stumped by their word). I found a comic strip from the Evening star. [volume], September 20, 1914. 

Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 20 Sept. 1914. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1914-09-20/ed-1/seq-67/>

This activity seems like a great way to build students' digital literacy skills, vocabulary skills, and teach them early steps in the research process. Great post,   Alison Noyes 

Great activity idea Alison Noyes   that was fun to see put in action by  Mary Johnson  and  Celia Roskin .

Here are some other adjective-based ideas for analyzing primary source images, although some could be adapted for use with other primary source types. 

• Use as many adjectives as you can to describe someone/something in this picture. Bloom’s Taxonomy Image Writing Prompts
• List as many adjectives as you can to describe someone/something in this picture. Then use your list to create a written biographical sketch or poem. Grade 4 Writing Prompts & Activities
• Divide students into groups and have them work together to create a shared, collaborative document (i.e., Google Docs).  Direct them to look closely at an image as a whole and then in detail. Ask students to write down 3-5 nouns, 3-5 verbs, and 3-5 adjectives that they think describe this scene or situation. Then tell them to focus on one person or object in the picture, looking closely at the details. After, they will imagine themselves as the person or object and write down 3-5 nouns, 3-5 verbs, and 3-5 adjectives that they think describe how the person or object is thinking or feeling. Finally, have students use their word lists to write a poem or short song about the picture. Grade 5 Writing Prompts & Activities

  Alison Noyes  I can see so many ways to use these connections.  I really enjoyed your post and everyone's comments.

  Alison Noyes   I chose the word delicate.  And found this recording in the National Jukebox. "The Lass with the Delicate Air"  https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-261993/ 

Magical. That was my adjective. How did I not know about the Library's special collection of Harry Houdini's self-curated scrapbooks? First I found this fascinating video called "Magical Momentos," and then I found   Cheryl Lederle's blog post titled Harry Houdini, Ghostbuster: Exploring an Illusionist’s Exposés through Primary Sources. This post discusses Houdini's analysis of how, "“how a photographer could produce fraudulent ‘spirit photographs’ that purportedly documented the apparition and social interaction of figures from beyond” and his effort "investigating and debunking" such things.  Aside from being interesting, this is relevant with AI generated photos today.

Houdini and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln

Thanks for the original post and idea,   Alison Noyes! And thanks   Mary Johnson and   Celia Roskin for modeling and encouraging us to try it out. I learned something new today.