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Picturing a Story: Photo Essay About a Community, Event, or Issue Lesson PlanPicturing a Story: Photo Essay About a Community, Event, or Issue Lesson Plan
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Picturing a Story: Photo Essay About a Community, Event, or Issue

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Students research Dorothea Lange's documentary projects and create their own photo essay about a subject. For this photo essay lesson, students analyze examples of social-documentary photographs of Lange. Students define a social documentary and research a subject of importance to them. Students create a photo essay about the subject to create a social documentary.

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photo stories, photograph analysis, dorothea lange

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Grade
7th - Higher Ed
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
14 days
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