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In this lesson, students will develop their observation and analysis skills by closely examining photographs and inferring meaning from them. They will explore the power of visual elements in conveying messages and learn how to make claims supported by evidence.
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Monday 12 August 2019 Bell Work • Pick up the handout at the door. Pass back the book lists on the front desks. • Take out materials you will need today: your Syllabus, Syllabus signature page, signed Code of Conduct, your Composition book, your Home Folder, and a pencil. • In your Composition Book, write today’s date, copy this quotation, and then answer the prompt question: “If you don't try at anything, you can't fail... it takes backbone to lead the life you want." - Richard Yates American Fiction Writer Explain why you think Richard Yates said it takes backbone to lead the life you want. Do you agree with this statement? Explain why or why not.
Agenda • Share what you wrote for the Bell Work with your shoulder partner. • Pass up the signed Syllabus. • Pass up the signed Code of Conduct. • Put your name and period on the front of your Home Folder. Put the following in the center brads of your Home Folder in order: • The four-page Syllabus • The Book Choice List • The Log in and Password page • Outside Reading Instructions • We will look at Book Report Instructions. You need to choose & get your book this week. • Keep your Composition Book out to write in for today’slesson.
Homework: • Quill.org Subject-Verb agreement • Go to Quill.org • Log in with Google • Use your school ID address and Google Password • Type in the Class Code 1st hour = trainer-pick 2nd hour = join-spot 4th hour = cloth - service 5th hour = scent- visit 6th hour = soup-clue • Bring 20 flashcards to class tomorrow. • Choose and get your book for outside reading.
Unit 1 Lesson 1.1Whose Room Is This?Objective: I can closely observe and analyze the telling details within a series of photographs.
Introduction: Telling Details “You see, but do not observe. The distinction is clear.” -Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is a master detective, able to see beyond the superficial and observe those clues and patterns that help solve mysteries. In this unit, as readers of visual texts and short fiction, students go beyond the superficial identification of visual and literary elements, such as camera angles and plot moves, and attempt to solve the mystery of how the artist and author employ their craft to reach their audience.
If you can analyze a picture, you can analyze an essay. • First, look at the picture and notice all the details you can. Do not make inferences (guesses about what is going on). • Notice Everything! • We will share these together.
If you can analyze a picture, you can analyze an essay. • Now look at the picture again. This time make some inferences (guesses) about what is going on. Be ready to give details as evidence for your inference.
What details do you notice? • What do the people seem to be thinking or feeling? • What draws your eye in the photograph? • What does the photo make you think about? • What do you think the photographer’s message is with this photograph? • How is this a photograph about JUSTICE?
Now you get to do one on your own. • Make one of our inferences into a claim about the photo like this: • “I think that this is a photograph of ________________.” Then explain three things that make you think this is true.
Now for one more photo • The following photo is from the same photo shoot. How does this new information challenge your inference?
This is the same two people, on the same day, by the same photographer. How is the message of this one different? • What details do you notice? • What do the people seem to be thinking or feeling? • What draws your eye in the photograph? • What does the photo make you think about? • What do you think the photographer’s message is with this photograph? • How is this a photograph about JUSTICE?
Next, you are going to view 4 different photos of rooms. • What details about this room and its contents reveal about how this person works? • What else might the objects in the room and on the walls additionally reveal about the person who works here? • What clues are there to his/her identity/occupation?
These four images are taken from photographer Mitch Epstein’s photo essay dedicated to “Monumental figures” who died in 2016: “Quiet Places.” • Photo #1: Joseph Medicine Crow, Native American historian and anthropologist • Photo #2: Thornton Dial, artist • Photo #3: Prince, musician • Photo #4: Elie Wiesel, writer and political activist, Holocaust survivor • Epstein’s “goal was to arrive not long after each person’s death, in those days when a person’s spirit can still seem palpable somewhere among their rooms and their thing…” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/21/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-photo-essay-spaces.html • Write down what occupation the four photos were about and who.
Write down this sentence kernel in your Composition Book. The ______________ is a detail that reveals ___________. Take out a sheet of loose-leaf lined paper to be turned in with an MLA heading.
Evidence-Based Writing • Directions: Choose one of the photographs to re-examine. Look for telling details that you may have overlooked. Learn a bit more about the room’s owner, and use that information to help you decide which of the room’s details are particularly revealing about his identity. • Write four sentences that connect those details to traits you learned about the room’s owner. Write your sentences on a piece of loose-leaf lined paper to be turned in with an MLA heading. • Use the following sentence frame to help you compose each of your sentences: The ______________ is a detail that reveals ___________.
