Welcome to the picture project! This project started as a writing unit taught in my fourth grade student teaching class in Albion, Michigan. The children chose from a selection of old photographs and wrote short narratives about them.
That's the long story made short, if you will.
What are the photos of? Everything. They range from black-and-white prints of 1940's Marines to candid modern day images of families - pets, young musicians, embarrassed housewives, exuberant children, smiling aunts and uncles and grandparents. The photos are of everything, but at the same time they are of nothing. They are perplexing. We have no way of knowing exactly where they came from, who took them and the reasoning behind their existence. They are mysterious finds.
What are these photos about? What are the experiences, emotions, themes and little "importances" that make them real?
Stay tuned for what the kids had to say.
Cheers and come back soon,
Miss L
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