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What’s going on in this pic? [vts] 2 June 2020 (middle school)

Objective: Use visual thinking strategies to describe the meaning of a visual text.  Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the conversation about what you and other students see.

1. look closely at the photo; think about these three questions, and answer them completely:

— What is going on in this picture?

— What do you see that makes you say that?

— What more can you find?

2. After you have written your responses, copy them from the Google Doc attached to assignment #A-06022020-7. DO NOT copy the MLA-8 class header. Then, join the conversation by pasting your response in the comments box (WITHOUT the header).

3. Be sure to add your pkcsd email, and to give yourself an identity that includes your name or your initials.

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the P[E]ACE conversation.

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What’s going on in this pic? [vts] 16 March 2020

Objective: Use visual thinking strategies to describe the meaning of a visual text.  Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the conversation about what you and other students see. [Click on image to see larger version.]

In your journal, on a numbered page, or on looseleaf, date the page 16 March 2020. Using your best descriptive writing, answer these questions:

 1. What is going on in this picture?
2. Why do you say that?
3.  What else do you see?
4. Count your words, fill in your table of contents.

5. Access Google docs or other text editor
6. Transcribe your journal comments to Google doc or editor.
7. Review your comments and check for mistakes
8. Return to English is My Thinglish
 9. Click LEAVE A COMMENT below the image
10. Paste your comment into the comments section
11.  Submit your comments.
12. Review 3 other PACE students’ comments about this image.
13. Review 3 comments on the New York Times Web site.
14. If you can, paste your comment on the New York Times Web site.
15.  Review at least five student comments and respond to three students’ comments.

 

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Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the P[E]ACE conversation about what you and other students see. [Click on image to see larger version.]