Digital Camera-Teacher Usage

The digital camera (as Maisie said) has been a pickle to plan. I have almost completed one photo story to demonstrate the process my students used to complete an artistic activity on two speeches. Students read "I Have a Dream" (MLK) and "Glory and Hope" (Mandela). We compared the two for rhetorical devices and found they had similarities. In addition, students found overlapping themes. Before getting students to write about the common themes, I designed an activity where students used puzzle pieces in pairs. Students were asked to artistically represent one or more of the themes, but some how their needed to be continuity in the matching puzzle pieces. The continuity could be in the colors used or the themes used. I took pictures of them as they worked from the inception of their ideas to the outcomes of the puzzle pieces. We now had a wonderful body of work produced to replace the character sketches in the classroom.