SECTIONS

Warm up: Students explore printed images from the Everyday Africa feed and use visual thinking strategies to identify themes

Introducing the Lesson: Students explore a video from photojournalist Allison Shelley that introduces four types of photos that photojournalists take to tell compelling stories: portraits, action, details, and landscape shots

Extension Activities: Students practice planning the themes and types of photographs that they would use to compose photo stories that communicate their everyday lives. Students also practice evaluating how images can be curated to communicate different stories.

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