Do We Need an Ecology of Images?
In this activity, students will debate Sontag’s argument for “an ecology of images.”
PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON 1: CLASS DEBATE
1 class period (45-60 min)
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
World > The Modern World
Themes > Globalization
- Literature and Language Arts
Place > Modern World
Place > American
- Analysis
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Debate skills
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Interpretation
- Media analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Oral presentation skills
- Persuasive writing and speaking
- Representing ideas and information orally
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Textual analysis
- Visual analysis
- ELA Reading: 1, 4, 7
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2, 4, 6
- HSS Reading: 1, 4, 7-9
LESSON 1 HANDOUTS
- Allow additional time for Preparation of Arguments (in-class or as an assignment), asking students to incorporate current research on the contemporary use/overuse of images into their response (see Handout 4 and Photography Unit Research handout for related texts and resources), or to incorporate digital media into their presentations.
- Arguments may also be turned in as written summaries, response papers, or media presentations.