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One World, One Heart , Many Perspectives


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Keywords: visual communication, writing, social awareness. layout
Subject(s): Social Skills, Autism, Early Learning, Dyslexia, Special Needs, Writing, Reading, Photography, Social Studies, English/Language Arts, Spelling, Service Learning, Grammar, Journalism
Grades P-K through 12
School: Eduardo Mata Elementary School, Dallas, TX
Planned By: Elizabeth Dry
Original Author: Elizabeth Dry, Dallas
30 minutes:
Pass out life skill or character words that include, integrity, responsibility, and caring. Ask participants to circle three that describe their self on the inside. Conduct oral reflections to express those character traits and how they show them to the world.

30 minutes:
Then give participant a paper frame and and a partner so that they can explore framing images and compositions that will express what has been said in a photograph.

30 minutes:
Participants will discuss what they discovered and then shoot their compositions that will express their true colors.

30 minutes:
Produce final product by printing photographs and mounting them on black paper. Conclude by giving participants a gold or silver pen to write an affirmation or expressing around their self portrait as in a concrete poem that takes on the shape of the subject. For example - "I am a cool, caring girl who listens."
Follow-Up
Publish so that these true color portraits can serve as inspiration and and anchors of integrity
Materials: Digital Cameras, Printers, Speech and Language