My Life in Pieces!
Lesson Overview
Explore photography through reflecting on the multiple elements that make up your identity (home, family relationships, expectations vs reality, sense of belonging, and the everyday objects that are connected to your lived experience and family stories). Students will learn how to tell their personal story through design, images and objects/materials/textures that come alive through a diorama.
Photograph by Daveed Baptiste
Learning Objectives
- Reflect on their family relationships, contrast between home/friends/school, expectations vs. reality, their sense of belonging and the possibility of “being more than one thing” through connecting to everyday objects that tell a story.
- Students will learn the basics of photo composition in relationship to the concepts of foreground and background, arranging and scale of objects in a photo set, and framing.
- Share a non-linear story through a photo collage, juxtaposing items and reflecting on where they come from, who they are now and into the future.
The 2020 Photoville Festival Education Month is proudly presented in partnership with PhotoWings with additional support by the Philip and Edith Leonian Foundation
Authors
Aliza Greenberg, Bob Madey, Daveed Baptiste
Facilitator/Editor
Natalia Guerrero
Featuring photography by
Daveed Baptiste
Grade Level
6th – 12th Grade
Subjects
Visual Arts, English Language Arts
Time Required
1 – 4 class sessions
Key Images/Photographs
Additional Resources
Produced and Facilitated by
Photoville