Photography · Week 25 · Documentary and Community
Documenting Our Community
Students plan a documentary series about a valley place or person and practice a listening interview before shooting.
- Students will
- Students plan a documentary photo series about a valley place or person by drafting listening interview questions, practicing the interview, and sketching a shot list.
- SEL skill
- Paraphrase a partner's story before planning a shot
- What it looks like
- Students practice listening to understand another person's story instead of filling in their own assumptions.
- Content focus
- Documenting Our Community
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how other people see things and caring about their experience, especially people whose backgrounds differ from yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- MA:Cr1.1.HSI: Media Arts, Creating, Anchor Standard 1 (Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Creating
- Level: High School Proficient
More social awareness activities for Photography
- Whose Point of View Social awarenessStudents compare photos of the same event by different photographers and discuss how personal and cultural context shapes meaning.
- Shooting in Pairs Social awarenessPartners alternate as photographer and assistant and practice reading each other's needs during a shoot.
- Día de los Muertos Photo Essay Social awarenessStudents learn how to photograph ofrendas and community celebrations respectfully by asking permission and centering the families' meanings.
- Photographs That Built Empathy Social awarenessStudents study photographers who documented farmworker life in California and consider how their images built empathy for social change.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.