August 28, 2009

By: Delease N. from New Orleans, LA
Comments: 17

I think this is a great ideal just for an icebreaker when school first starts. I am going to use this ideal and expand on it. This is great. As I sit here at my desk planning for the upcoming school year that sounds like a wonderful lesson.

Posted By: Delease Nevels
On: 8/23/2007 8:48:23 PM

My students have been excited to participate with the lesson I selected a lesson with picturing the past. They remember their past like it was yesterday since the hurricane. Some of them still had some photos but many were destroyed. An overview of the lesson, were students consider family photos brought in by their peers. They then individually considered a significant personal photograph and wrote a memory story about it. They were all easger to get involved.

Posted By: Kelly McCartney
On: 8/28/2007 12:00:22 PM

Delease, that sounds like a great lesson! I think now more that ever memories are so important in our lives. The students are aware of the little things now, that were not looked at before. I can't wait to hear more about your lesson and how it turns out! Great idea! Kelly

Posted By: Franc Leo
On: 9/11/2007 12:31:21 PM

I just got so many ideas based on your lesson that pictures the past. I believe that looking back makes us go forward in a firm manner. I will implement this lesson with a twist towards the future!! Thanks for inspiring! Franc

Posted By: Natashia James
On: 9/24/2007 2:24:34 PM

This is a great idea! This lesson will allow the kids to re-live the past and bring back the memories we all know so well. (Family, friends, gatherings, etc.) These things are such a rarity now post-Katrina. Good Luck with your lesson. Natashia

Posted By: Elizabeth Fletcher
On: 10/1/2007 12:15:00 AM

I had a chance to see some of those assignments. I was just happy to see that so many students are recreating the photographic histories of their lives. I know my family is much more concerned about preserving photos these days.

Posted By: Michelle Dalton
On: 10/2/2007 2:26:54 PM

I have been trying to use photographs more in my current year of teaching as a way to validate my students...they can see themselves as scientists when they view a photo where they are wearing goggles and working on trials. I hadn't thought of using the photos as the basis for a writing lesson. Thanks for the idea! I can also use it as a way to revisit past lessons without calling it "review work".

Posted By: Natashia James
On: 10/4/2007 3:01:48 PM

I was finally able to see this some of these projects. It was awesome!! Many of my students were talking about how they enjoyed this activity. Good Job! Delease. Pictures say 1,000 words.

Posted By: Jacalyn Moss
On: 10/15/2007 11:27:02 PM

What a wonderful plan! The preservation of history through photographic images is such an appropriate lesson for students in New Orleans. I can't wait to see the results.

Posted By: kathleen aacosta
On: 3/17/2008 12:02:09 PM

What a great Idea. History is so much a part of our students life. I am sure they treasure the few pictures left after the hurricane. kathie

Posted By: Carmen Espinal
On: 4/9/2008 11:21:00 AM

That's a great idea. The use of oral history with art is a great way to collect individual stories, while at the same time build a collage of experiences that all relate through the space/environment the kids have lived in. I love it. I tried something similar, but found it hard to connect it to present history. I'll see if I come up with something for kids in NYC. Thanks for sharing what you did!

Posted By: Kelly Moser
On: 8/6/2008 12:25:34 PM

I would really love to do something like this in my school. We have a lot of students that have moved (many of our students come from Puerto Rico) and giving them a chance to talk about their own lives and experiences always turns out well. They really love to talk about what things are like back then. I always wonder how I could manage to fit these kids of projects into my curriculum. I think it could be really valuable to introduce the concept of designing a complete oral history that reflects their own lives.

Posted By: Nancy Eason
On: 4/30/2009 11:24:08 AM

We too had a timeline in our first grade hall one year. The students added pictures from special activities, someone's birthday, some writing samples(they laughed at these at the end of the year when they weren't writing in random letters anymore), samples of artwork, and newsletters.

Posted By: cheri Bedard
On: 4/30/2009 4:03:58 PM

What a great idea! i love the idea of the students bringing in pictures. A great way to make learning a personal experience.

Posted By: Emily Gula
On: 4/30/2009 10:52:44 PM

I've done a lesson using photographs to help teach 1st and 3rd person point of view. Students chose whether they would be a part of the scene and wrote about it from a first person perspective or they could chose to narrate the scene in 3rd person. I used pictures from old National Geographic magazines.

Posted By: Suzanne Claeys
On: 5/19/2009 6:37:33 AM

Emily, I liked the idea of the photographs for teaching 1st and 3rd person point of view. I will have to incorporate that. A couple of years ago, I had the students write about a scene from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, and I had some creative results. I will have to try using modern day settings.

SC, Atlanta

Posted By: Vicki Dalton
On: 7/25/2009 9:22:23 PM

I like the idea of using the pictures as a point of view lesson idea! Thanks for sharing!

Posted By: Kimberly Washington
On: 8/28/2009 6:46:52 AM

I think this is a great ideal just for an icebreaker when school first starts. I am going to use this ideal and expand on it. This is great. As I sit here at my desk planning for the upcoming school year that sounds like a wonderful lesson.