Writing assignment based on photos

Type of activity: A writing assignment to help students think about the people they met in the REAL. LIFE. exhibit.

Grade level: Middle school and high school students

Setting: Can be adapted for use in public schools, Christian schools, other private schools and homeschool settings

Download the following thought-provoking photos and questions. (You can have all of the students write about the same photo, or you can distribute all seven photos.) Click on photo titles to open PDFs.

Distribute the photos and related questions. Instruct students to imagine what real life is like for these children, and answer the questions.

Share thoughts: After the students have written their responses, ask them gather in groups to share their thoughts. If you have distributed several of the photos, have students who wrote about the same photo form a group.

	REAL. LIFE. for children of the tsunami		REAL. LIFE. for children in Ugandan camps
	REAL. LIFE. for children of war		REAL. LIFE. for children in refugee camps
	REAL. LIFE. for children in a garbage dump		REAL. LIFE. for children in orphanages
	REAL. LIFE. for children in third-world hospitals		REAL. LIFE. for a person with AIDS