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Photographic Memories

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Explore how photographs can represent a whole story to a viewer. Middle schoolers work on narrative writing techniques in this lesson, focusing on photographs from the New York Times to write first-person descriptive narratives. Additionally, you could bring in your own photographs, or have class members bring in photographs that they could use to write an autobiographical narrative.

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photojournalism, narratives

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Photography, photojournalism, description, dialogue, narrative, pacing, english language arts
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
1 hr
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