Photovoice+project

The basic idea of a Photovoice project is to have students connect photography and writing in a way to teach people about themselves or something they feel strongly about. By using photography to enhance the meanings of their words they are able to get their message across.

For this unit, I want to use a Photovoice project to allow students to investigate their cultural identity. I want them to use creativity in this project to discover who they are, speak out about wrong assumptions, and to teach others about themselves and their culture.

The basic guidelines of this assignment:
 * Take pictures of what your truly culture is and what people assume your culture is. Then write descriptions following each photograph to describe what your picture symbolizes and why you chose to include it.
 * What do people assume your culture is? Where do people think you came from?
 * Combat these assumptions with photographs of what your culture truly is and what it means to you.
 * Must have a minimum of 6 pictures. How you choose to describe them is up to you- you could write a poem following it, write a memoir, write a dialogue, simply free write a paragraph.
 * Get creative and challenge yourself. Try to stray away from simply taking pictures of your house growing up or the street you were raised. Reach deeper, make people wonder and learn from your stories.
 * How you choose to present this assignment is your choice.
 * You could simply make a chart showing a photograph, then the description.
 * You could make a slideshow on the computer of the pictures, and a voice over or words describing them.
 * You could write a paper, with pictures connecting each paragraph.
 * You could make a chart similar to [|this]- capturing how you see your culture, how society sees your culture, what your culture really is, etc.
 * The options are endless.