Next, ask the children whether slaves have freedom, then, whether slaves have liberty. Help them to understand that if people have liberty, or freedom, they are not slaves. If you have been able to read the Penner book to the children ask some questions about the relative size of the parts of the statue. Try to have the children estimate the size of the statue by comparing it with the height of the room, the height of their school, etc. All the parts of the statue are made out of a kind of metal that is called copper.
Sculpture is another name for statue.
Show the children the slide of the Cassatt In the Garden . At this point, show the children a few paintings they have done that are hanging on the walls or have been in a folder. Show them both the front and back, so they can clearly see that a painting has only two dimentions and none of it is visible from the back. If you were able to bring a model or souvenir of the Statue of Liberty to class, this would be a good time to pass it around the class so that the children can actually feel its roundness and know what a three-dimensional object feels like as opposed to the paintings they have just observed. If anyone in the class has actually seen the Statue of Liberty, ask them to describe their experience to the rest of the class.