Finding+Your+Voice

Explore these photographs. Choose one to use for this activity: [|http://masters-of-photography.com/L/levitt/levitt_4boys_full.html] [|http://masters-of-photography.com/S/salgado/salgado_covers_full.html] [|http://masters-of-photography.com/L/lange/lange_migrant_mother_full.html]
 * Four boys, //New York//, Helen Levitt, 1940
 * Family in the desert, //Refugees in the Korem Camp//, Sebastio Salgado, 1984
 * Woman with three children, //Migrant Mother//, Dorothea Lange, 1936
 * Choose one person in the photograph to focus on. Consider the questions below as you look at the image. Write your responses down, making a descriptive list.


 * What is this person thinking?
 * If this person were to speak, what might he or she say?
 * How would the person sound? Is it a high-pitched voice? Quiet or loud? Hesitant or excited?
 * How does the person feel? Is he or she afraid? Happy? Hungry? Cold?
 * Now write a paragraph in the voice of this person. Write in first person and capture the person’s personality.