Photography · Week 29 · Documentary and Community
Representing People Fairly
Students analyze how stereotypes appear in stock and news photos and plan images that represent people with dignity.
- Students will
- Students analyze how stereotypes appear in stock and news photos and plan an image that represents people with dignity.
- SEL skill
- Disagree respectfully by giving a reason and listening to the reply
- What it looks like
- Students practice communicating respectfully about a sensitive topic and working through disagreement with a partner.
- Content focus
- Representing People Fairly
- Format
- Structured discussion
Relationship skills
Relationship skills are the ways we communicate, listen, cooperate, and solve conflict so people can work well together. More relationship skills 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:Re8.1.HSI: Media Arts, Responding, Anchor Standard 8 (Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Responding
- Level: High School Proficient
More relationship skills activities for Photography
- Camera Care and Trust Relationship skillsStudents learn safe handling of shared cameras and darkroom chemicals and set agreements for borrowing and returning equipment.
- First Critique Relationship skillsStudents use a warm and cool feedback protocol on each other's first prints and plan one revision.
- Portraits and Trust Relationship skillsStudents practice asking permission before taking a portrait and notice how trust between photographer and subject shows in the image.
- Feedback on Edits Relationship skillsPartners give feedback on edited images using shared criteria and practice receiving suggestions without defending.
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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.