ELA+-+Photo-essay

Welcome to the Photo-essay page!

Important dates and what should I be working on? Monday, April 14th – parent response form should be signed and returned to school

Wednesday, April 23rd  – all pictures must have been taken, placed on a memory stick and at school today. This week we will be learning how to use picmonkey, but you will be responsible for doing the majority of your photo-editing at home this week.

Monday, May 5th – all pictures edited, printed and at school today

Friday, May 23rd – all completed photo-essays due

We will be starting captions the week of May 5th, and introduction the week of May 12th!

Photo-essay criteria:

Photography A good video that goes over the basics of digital photography.

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Read through this VERY informative article on how to take good digital pictures - including a section on what the different settings on the camera do.

[|How to take digital photos]

This is a great video on picture composition - a must see!

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Here is a great PowerPoint on how to take better pictures:

Here is a cloze activity that follows the PowerPoint:



Want to learn more about how to take great photos?

Here are a few photography sites for kids:

[|BetterPhoto for young adults]

[|Focus on Photography]

[|National Geographic Camera Bag]

Photo-editing

We will be using the photo-editing website [] Students can edit (crop, rotate, red-eye reduction, sharpen, lighten/darken, fix colour, etc.) and add effects, borders, shapes, speech bubbles, text as well as using the cloning feature to delete unwanted objects.

Here is a link to a blog with a how-to post for picmonkey!

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Paragraphing

One of the skills that is taught in the Photo-essay project is how to write a well-developed paragraph. Students will be evaluated on paragraphing skills on both the biography and the introductions.

 This is the best step-by-step instructions on how to write a well-developed paragraph that I have come across.

 Start here: [|How to write a paragraph]

 Here is a short PowerPoint that reviews paragraphing and most specifically topic sentences.  [|Paragraphing Powerpoint]

 Here is a wonderful website to review paragraphing.  [|Paragraph review]

 Here is another fabulous website that offers some suggestions on transition words.  [|Timely transitions]

 Practice writing paragraphs here at Paragraph Punch. Use the free demonstration of this paid site. Click on the link and then list on Start Writing Now on the left menu board. Then just follow the instructions as Paragraph Punch walks you through writing an awesome paragraph!  [|Paragraph Punch]

 Play and learn at the same time - play this paragraphing game.  [|Paragraph game]

Biography



Captions

Click here to learn more about captions.



[|Caption game]

Introduction

Click here to learn how to write an introduction.