TRANSPARENCIES OF PICTURES AND PAINTINGS

Collect a variety of transparencies that contain pictures and paintings. Several language arts textbook series now come with art transparencies. Choose items that may be interpreted several different ways. 

Technology has surpassed the directions above.  Now you can create your own transparencies as well.  Find paintings on the Internet and make copies on transparency of them.  

Number each transparency. For the activity, the students will need pencil and paper.

Show one transparency at a time. The students are to write down a title, phrase, or sentence describing what they see. There is no talking during this part of the activity. Give the students a few minutes, then move on to the next transparency. Do this until the students have responded to each transparency.

Now go back to each transparency and have the students share what they wrote down. The point of this activity is to show that different ideas can evolve from the same image. In the same way, students may have a similar topic to write about, but each will have different ideas relating to that topic.

To extend the activity, students can write about the image in one of the transparencies. As a teacher, I enjoy this activity because the students come up with interpretations that I could never imagine.

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