Teaching On Photography | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Photography and its usefulness seem to be the main themes of this manuscript. And whether Sontag is a photographer or not, the ideas are compelling. Today's objective is to discuss the role of photography in the lives of the students today.

1) 1. Have students make a list of the ways in which they use photography in their daily lives.

2. In smaller...
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