Although photographs, home movies, and videos of family life are not explicitly traditional folklife, the events recorded on film and the stories the images evoke are part of family folklife. Students learn personal, family, and community history. Students see how time changes people. Using the elements and principles of design to visually express individual ideas. Students learn to look for clues to time period, relationships, status, and community changes in family pictures.
Students recognize how folklore is passed on and functions in people's lives.
Materials Two cameras, paper and art supplies. If your students will be doing fieldwork, you may need digital or 35-mm cameras, video recorders, tape recorders, or notepads as well as appropriate fieldwork forms. Print out and duplicate any worksheets or rubrics that you will be using. Journal Writing 2. Photo Clues Worksheet 4.