I began a part-time high school teaching job in Chicago. It’s been quite a learning curve to plan a lesson, develop a curriculum for the year, and introduce class expectations. It’s been a slow start with Getting to Know You forms and Find My game, which helped me to see what kind of images they were already taking in their camera roll.

The first lesson began with asking students to look at an old New York Times photo of the week. They wrote their initial thoughts on the image, then they broke out into small groups to discuss what they noticed. Then I asked them to choose a figure in the image to tell us a story (news-related or fictional). The stories were creative. I have one student who left a story behind, which I shared here.