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5th grade Cultural Studies Photo Essay October 29th, 2010
As part of the Cultural Studies unit you are exploring in class, several excellent sites are available to you that demonstrate the differences between cultures throughout the world. One of my favorites would have to be What the world eats along with Where children sleep. Let’s explore these two websites along with another from time titled The world’s harvest.
One of the most powerful Photo Essays is this one Notice how the powerful writing supports the images…….the thing I find fascinating is the photos celebrate and positives are found of Meri-Andani’s life.
This Photo Essay focuses heavily on the powerful images, but also not the language used…. “The air was 
clear at 9,000 feet and Mt. Adams faced us like an old friend at the door.”
Let’s look at you creating your own photo essay….we will create our final product in keynote, but there is a lot of planning that will have to be done before we get to that stage.
Let’s read this page together about tips on creating a great photostory
Your task is to explore some part of your culture. Perhaps it is how you spend Halloween as a family, or what you eat in a week, or your favorite toys and what they mean to you, clothes you wear and where they came from? The topics are endless, however ……have the over arching theme of Cultural Studies in mind and understand that you will be sharing this with the world for people to understand your culture.
We will begin by rereading point number 4……
Use this two-column-story-table …….. to write your story and plan the photos you will use to create it.
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