Introduction and Video: The Power of Portraiture
This handout explores Susan Sontag’s relationship to portraiture in Regarding Susan Sontag and considers the power of portraiture in students’ own lives.
PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON 4: HANDOUT 1
1 class period (45-60 min)
VIDEOS:
The Power of Portraiture Video and Transcript
HANDOUTS:
Unit Background (as needed)
Handout 1(as needed)
Notes on Sontag (as needed)
About the Film (as needed)
TEACHING PLAN:
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
World > The Modern World
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Biography
Genre > Essay
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Interpretation
- Media analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Visual analysis
- ELA Reading: 1, 7
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2
- HSS Reading: 1, 7
OR complete the lesson now with one of our Student Activity Options
- Screen Regarding Susan Sontag and discuss with our Educational Screening Guide before the lesson.
- Reflection questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers.