Let the Atrocious Images Haunt Us?
In this activity, students will debate our ethical obligation to look at images of war, violence, social injustice, and suffering
PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON 5: CLASS DEBATE
1—2 class periods (60-90 min)
VIDEOS:
Regarding the Pain of Others Video and Transcript
HANDOUTS:
Handout 2A(as needed)
WORKSHEET:
ACTIVITY:
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History
Subject Matter > Philosophy
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
Themes > Globalization
Themes > Politics and Citizenship
Themes > War and Foreign Policy
World > The Modern World
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Essay
Place > American
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Debate skills
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Historical analysis
- Interpretation
- Media analysis
- Logical reasoning
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Oral analysis
- Oral communication
- Oral presentation skills
- Persuasive writing and speaking
- Representing ideas and information orally
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Textual analysis
- Using archival documents
- Visual analysis
- ELA Reading: 1, 4, 7
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2, 4, 6
- HSS Reading: 1, 4, 7-9
LESSON 5 HANDOUTS
- Allow additional time for preparation of arguments (in-class or as an assignment), asking students to research historical and contemporary images of suffering and reference these in their response (see Handout 2B and Photography Unit Research handout for related texts and resources), or to incorporate digital media into their presentation.
- Arguments may also be turned in as written summaries, response papers, or media presentations.