What an amazing book! It helps to remind me that the art of language can be taught with many forms of "text" including photographs and images. Why limit ourselves to the written word, when we can spark critical thinking and communication skills with many forms- including oral histories, music, tangible artifacts, etc. Some of the photographs in the book speak volumes in a single snapshot in time.
What particular images sparked your interests and why? Think of a creative way of using a media form that you have never previously used and give an example of a task for your students engaging them with that image.
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The picture on page 31 under comparison and contrast instantly created an emotional response within me. The photo titled "At the Time of the Louisville Flood" is of a line of African American unemployed workers standing just below a billboard that reads, "World's highest Standard of Living- There's no way like the American Way" which pictures caucasian family of four in a new car (all wearing shiny smiles). The contrast of the text and the reality of the picture immediately invokes thoughts of injustice and irony. It would take pages, even chapters for just text to create the same response. I think this picture would be an amazing writing prompt.
ReplyDeleteI had the same feelings towards that pisture (At The Time of the Louisville Flood). It says so much about American society, or Western society in general. It seems to say much more than a article or book ever could.
ReplyDeleteYou could use the picture for many different promts within many unit-contexts (a unit on civil rights for example, or when you talk about the impact of environmental catastrophes on the economy, or the corruption of the American Dream, and so on)
It is amazing to go back to some of the black and white photos of folks like Margaret Bourke White and Dorothea Lange. Images from Hurrican Katrina evoke much of the same. It speaks plenty.
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