3 Camera Stories Overview
3.2 Lesson Plan # 6 & 7

The Multiple Photo Short Story

Lesson Plan # 6 & 7

Lesson Plan Title: Having Fun With HeyMilly - Your Own Beginning Middle and End

Concept / Topic To Teach: 5 Frame Storytelling using HeyMilly Wiki website

http://heymilly.wikispaces.com/5+Frame+Storytelling

this website provides a set of excellent student exemplars of 5 frame storytelling as well as an opportunity to submit their own work in a public forum.

Lesson # 6

General Goal(s): students will focus on creating a coherent 5 frame picture story of their own using the pattern of beginning, middle and end established in lesson #3.

Specific Objectives:

• Students will be introduced to their new vocabulary.

• Students will clarify the parts of a story.

• Students will identify those parts in a series of online student exemplars from the heymilly site.

• Students will storyboard their own 5 frame sequence according to the parts of a story and their own details of time/place and consequence.

• Students will shoot their story using feedback and editing from the storyboard process.

• If teacher desires students can post the finished products to the heymilly site.

• Students will write the companion story to their 5 frame photo essay.

Required Materials:

• Access to computer lab

• Cameras

• Paper and markers/pencils for storyboards

Anticipatory Set (Lead-In):

• Vocabulary review

  • Introduction body conclusion, characters, setting, conflict

  • Sequence, transition words

• New vocabulary

• rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion

Step-By-Step Procedures:

• Discuss new vocabulary by providing a chart that shows the parts of a story on an action pyramid eg.

  • Intro - characters and setting

  • Rising action - main conflict/problem, minor complications

  • Climax - highest point of action, resolution (solving) of problem

  • Falling action – final details tie up loose ends

  • Conclusion – lesson learned/message

• Students add this chart into their Camera Literacy notes (vocab)

• In the computer lab go to the heymilly site (address at top of lesson) and look at student exemplars

• Teacher follows the lesson format established on the home page. Note that this lesson plan was made for 7-8 yr olds but could work as effectively with 10-12 yr olds.

• Note the focus here is on predicting sequence by picture cues and consequence in the same way that they used prediction with their cartoon strips.

• When you are confident your students have studied, enjoyed and discussed the exemplars and are ready, follow the instructions for storyboarding their own stories.

Lesson #7

Is simply the follow-up companion story which students will by now have come to associate as the final part of the process. Heymilly suggests follow up writing using one of the 5 frame stories already provided on the site . This would be an excellent enrichment assignment and provide a valuable validating link between the student’s work and the work of other young photo essayists.

Plan For Independent Practice:

• Plan a storyboard based on some aspect of your home or family using ideas or themes touched upon in class.

• Shoot the 5 frame sequence remembering to consider each of the 5 parts of the story pyramid.

• Bring the story back to class for oral sharing.

Assessment Based On Objectives:

• Have students integrated the vocabulary in oral discussion and in storyboard planning?

• Are students making the appropriate connections between picture frames to illustrate coherence in plot line?

• Do students use transitional devices/words to show consequence and sequence in action?

• Do students use an editing process to strengthen visual and written work?

Extensions:

There are many links and extensions at the heymillywikispaces.com site which you may or may not choose to take advantage of but regardless of your choice, the concept of picture as a powerful link to literacy is an overriding theme and provides a community of like-minded individuals for you and your students.