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Analyze a sample photo story.
Combine images and text to tell a story.
Work collaboratively to create, curate, and develop pages for a photo novel.
Discuss the group photo novel in a whole-group setting.

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For each pair:

Computer with internet access and slide-presentation software
Smartphone or other device with a digital camera
Alternatively, various craft materials:

Drawing paper
Pens or pencils
Colored pencils or markers

For the whole group:

Smartboard or projector

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Read through and familiarize yourself with the entire activity. Make sure you plan enough time for students to plan their project, take pictures, and generate the pages of their story.

If feasible, tell students to bring mobile phones or other devices with digital cameras to the session. You may also be able to borrow equipment from the school media center or other sources.

Review the basic use of slide-presentation software, such as Google Slides. (See link below.) Be prepared to share this information with students.

Prepare an example of a photo novel or photo essay to share with students. (See link below.)

Desert Songs: A Photo Story of the Kings and Queens of the Buttermilks

Google Slides: About

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Introduce the activity. Tell students that today they will be creating a group photo novel or story. Explain that students will take photos and create digital pages.
Display the sample photo story, “Desert Songs.” Point out how all the photos are different but that together they tell a story.
Point to a few photos of the photo story and discuss what they contribute. For each photo, ask:
- What does this photograph show? What does it not show?
- Look at the color palette. Is the photo in color or black and white? Is it daytime or nighttime? What do these details tell you?
- What do you think is the main story being told? Can there be more than 1 story?
Review the materials and technology needed for the activity. Ensure that each student or student pair has a device with a digital camera or that students are able to share the equipment available. Alternatively, have students plan to create hand-drawn “photo stories” using the craft materials available.
As a group, discuss the type of story or stories that they would like to tell with photos. You may wish to consider these ideas:
- A day in the life of typical middle-school students
- An extraordinary, surprise-filled day in the life of middle school students
- How to succeed in a variety of middle school classes or social situations
- A retelling of a familiar story, such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but with some twists or changes, such as a setting in middle school
- A set of random, unstructured scenes, based on the best photos that students provide
Have the group select 1 of the story types, and if necessary, assign themselves different sections of the story. Then have students work individually or in pairs to take the photos needed for their part of the story.
Circulate and monitor students while they take photographs. Encourage students to stage the photographs with themselves as actors or models and with whatever props are available. Perhaps the photo shows a student taking a quiz in science class, hiding under a desk during an earthquake, or spilling pencil shavings from the pencil sharpener.
Tell students to take many photographs; later, they can discard any unwanted picture files.
Have students upload their photos to the computers, select the best images, and then create pages using the slide-presentation software. Remind students to include captions or text for each photo and to save their work.
Reconvene the whole group. If the group plans to tell a linear story, confirm the correct order of the students’ pages. Then have students take turns presenting the pages they created.
Wrap up the activity with a whole-group discussion. Ask:
- How well did the photos work together to tell a story?
- What individual photos were interesting to you? Why? Were they similar to or different from your own photos?
- How did using photos affect the story you wanted to tell? How might the story have been different if you had each written a paragraph instead of taking pictures?

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If computers and digital cameras are not available, students may cut out photos from magazines and create their own photo-collage story.

Another option is to have students work in small groups to act out “tableaux,” or silent freeze-frame scenes. To present, 1 group member reads aloud the caption while the other members create the scene.

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Write Scenes for a Photo Novel

Write Scenes for a Photo Novel

Write Scenes for a Photo Novel

Overview