This document provides lesson materials for a photography unit focusing on pattern, aperture, and self-portraits. It includes daily do now questions and exit tickets to check student understanding. On Wednesday, students analyze pattern in a photo by Kyle Thompson and brainstorm pattern ideas for their own selfies. On Thursday, they identify the aperture used in Thompson's photo and describe how aperture affects images. On Friday, students evaluate Thompson's photo using descriptive language and compare it to surrealist paintings. They are tasked with imitating one of the paintings in a self-portrait.

1. Wednesday Do Now
Pattern is the repetition of an element
in a work of art.
Describe how Kyle is using pattern in
this image to make the image
interesting.
Standard 1.1
CLO: Students will explain in writing
how Kyle Thompson is using pattern in
his photograph by using declarative
sentences .

2. Wednesday
Share with your neighbor your
answers. Be ready to share out to
class.
Standard 1.1
CLO: Students will explain in writing
how Kyle Thompson is using pattern in
his photograph by using declarative
sentences .

3. Follow it up: Pattern in selfies

4. Self timer basics
• Set up your shot first,
imagine where you will
be.
• Use an object to take
your place with you
focus.
• Take the image many
times.

5. Wednesday Exit Ticket
Write 3 ideas you have for including
pattern in your Selfie OR what you
may have already tried.
1.
2.
3.

6. Thursday Do Now
What aperture do you think Kyle using
in this image? How do you know or
why do you think that?
Standard 2.1
CLO: Students will identify in writing
the correct aperture in a photograph,
then justify their belief using
comparative adjectives.

7. Follow it up: Aperture
Share out your guess of aperture for each image and WHY you think so.

8. Thursday Exit
Describe how aperture changes an
image:
Describe 2 images you would make for
your Selfie project that would use
different apertures:
1.
2.

9. Friday Do Now
Using casual language, discuss your
opinion of this image. What do you like
specifically? What do you think it
means?
Standard 3.3
CLO: Students will evaluate in writing
the photograph to express their
opinion of the work using complex
sentences.

10. Follow it up: Share out of opinions
Sentence Starters:
I think Kyle made this image to talk
about….
I like this image because I like how
……
I don’t like this image because I
think that…..
I think that Kyle could have made
it better by……
Descriptive language:
Beautiful, delicate, hard, sharp,
intense, loose, magical, realistic,
mysterious, etc

11. Extension: Magritte
• Artist: Rene Magritte
• Completion Date: 1964
• Place of Creation:
Belgium
• Style: Surrealism
• Genre: self-portrait

12. Friday Exit
Describe how you could imitate one of
these paintings for your Selfie:
1.

13. Wednesday Do Now
Describe this image in one sentence.
Then discuss what you think this image
means or is about, what is Gabriel
trying to show us or make us
think/feel?
Standard 2.3
CLO: Students will describe and
evaluate in writing a work by Gabriel
Moreno in order to render judgment
on the work by using abstract nouns .

14. Thursday Do Now
Artists are influenced by historical
works.; consider this information: The
red string of fate, also referred to as
the red thread of destiny, red thread
of fate, and other variants, is an East
Asian belief originating from Chinese
legend and is also used in Japanese
legend. According to this myth, the
gods tie a red cord around the ankles
of those that are to meet one another
in a certain situation or help each
other in a certain way.
Standard 1.2
Does the knowledge of what the red
string might mean change the way you
see the work? Explain what the work
might mean now, including this new
piece of information.
CLO: Students will describe the impact of a historical
icon in contemporary work using declarative
sentences.
a. vocabulary box
b. sentence starters

15. Friday Do Now
Gabriel Moreno is an
illustrator, someone who makes
artwork to sell something or for a
client. How does this image fit with
this product? How does it help sell the
product?
Acqua Colonia is perfume.
Standard 1.3
CLO: Students will evaluate in writing
the use of Gabriel’s art in an
advertisement using complex
sentences and increasing specificity.
a. vocabulary box
b. sentence starters