Photography · Week 18 · Portraits, People, and Ethics
Semester Reflection
Students review their semester images and write about how their eye, their skills, and their confidence have changed.
- Students will
- Students review a set of their semester images, choose one that shows growth, and write an artist statement about how their eye and skills have changed.
- SEL skill
- Identify a strength and growth with evidence from your own work
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by identifying growth, strengths, and next goals in their own work.
- Content focus
- Semester reflection
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own strengths, values, and growth and how they guide your choices. More self-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:Re9.1.HSI: Media Arts, Responding, Anchor Standard 9 (Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Connecting
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-awareness activities for Photography
- My Life Through a Lens Self-awarenessStudents take five photos that show who they are and name the feelings behind each choice.
- Framing and Attention Self-awarenessUsing a paper viewfinder, students frame the same scene several ways and notice what they choose to include and leave out.
- Light and Mood Self-awarenessStudents photograph one subject in direct sun, shade, and backlight and describe how light changes the feeling of the image.
- Self Portrait Without a Face Self-awarenessStudents create a self-portrait using objects, hands, or shadows and describe the emotions they chose to reveal.
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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.