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A twenty-lesson curriculum spanning photographic techniques and visual literacy.

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This curriculum is intended to guide educators and students through the creation of a body of photographic work shaped by looking at photographs. Profound, incisive conversations about art happen in all settings, across all ages and experience levels of photography. While the curriculum was written with the high school-aged student photography classroom in mind, it is intended to be flexible and adaptable to various ages and settings.

Curriculum

Part I (Lessons 1-10)

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Students will consider photographic form and use related vocabulary to support their analyses of photographs, as well as articulate the process of creating meaning through form, content, and context. Students will expand their visual literacy through careful observation, and by decoding and encoding images.

Part II (Lessons 11-20)

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Students will consider photographic form and use related vocabulary to support their analyses of photographs, as well as articulate the process of creating meaning through form, content, and context. Students will expand their visual literacy through careful observation, and by decoding and encoding images.

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