2.+Staging+Portraits

=STAGING PORTRAITS UNIT:= Objective: Students will be able to identify and evaluate the intentional and unintentional construction of identity: both self and others.

what is the still image? Sharpen powers of observation. In word and image how we view ourselves and others. Yearbook photo offer insight into image and relationships? Facebook. “I Gotta Feeling” profile pic video. How do you convey yourself? You are authoring yourself. Using words or pictures to put self out there. Pictures of self and others. Time magazine covers – how individuals are portrayed – Time Obama/McCain, OJ Simpson. Study of front page covers of Newsweek v. Time. Why are these cover photos chosen? Message that’s being conveyed. Cropping pictures. Ethics of manipulating images. “America Now” chapter on visual expression of opinion. Staged.

Opening Lesson: [] Pictures of Self - School Photo (Formal), Candid Shot, and Posed Shot

Susan's week-long introductory wiki lesson for Staging Portraits Good intro article here: [] (involves poetry analysis and poetry writing as a means of self reflection and community sharing). Below are the wiki link and the lesson document. Please copy and paste the wiki into your own wiki so that you can create forms that will go directly to your Google doc and so that you will have a fresh table for the students' poems. []

Genres to include in unit: **Facebook** Facebook Template **Documentary Biography portion -- Man on Wire (documentary about the tightrope walker who crossed between the Twin Towers)** **?** **Short story that paints a portrait.**

**Poem that paints a portrait** "Self-Portrait" by Robert Kreeley (Poets.org) Poem "Self in 1968" ("Convergences" 85) **Resume** Anne Sexton's Resume ("Convergences" 80) Write a non-standard resume **Personal Essay?** Personal Essay - "Dinner with Uncle Boris" Read Friar Essay ("Convergences" 56) + Activity 8 ("Convergences" 129)) create video montage of possessions and present and/or guessing game **Photography** Photography/Portraiture - Riis, Lange, Liebowitz Essay - Dorothy Allison "What Did You Expect?" ("Convergences" 71) **Advertising** WINDOWS 7 Commercials - That was my idea

Readings: manipulating photographs: [] Anne Sexton's Resume ("Convergences" 80) "Self-Portrait" by Robert Kreeley (Poets.org) Poem "Self in 1968" ("Convergences" 85) Personal Essay - "Dinner with Uncle Boris" Read Friar Essay ("Convergences" 56) Photography/Portraiture - Riis, Lange, Liebowitz Essay - Dorothy Allison "What Did You Expect?" ("Convergences" 71) Image-Conscious Youth reign in Social Networking []

__Key Terms and Concepts:__ Portrait

Lessons -- Tianenman Square Photo Simulation
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Field Trip to National Archives in Philadelphia

__Culminating Assessment:__ Create a portrait (visual or written text) of another person -- see [] Limited choice in what type of/aspect of person to represent (i.e athlete, academic, family, school club member) Limited choice in text (i.e photo, resume, film montage, poem, personal essay) Assignment should define audience Student must write a rationale addressing authorship. format, audience, content, purpose

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