{"id":2154,"date":"2010-10-07T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2013-08-02T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T20:28:57","slug":"photo-writing-prompt-a-voice-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/07\/photo-writing-prompt-a-voice-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Writing Prompt: A Voice From the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graphics\/scans\/seniorpict.jpg\" alt=\"My senior portrait\" width=\"220\" height=\"324\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/> This prompt is inspired by the piece that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/02\/wfmad-2-yearbook-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote  about my high school  yearbook photo<\/a> back in August 2009 for Laurie Halse Anderson&#146;s for Write Fifteen Minutes a Day (WFMAD) and that I submitted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galleryofwriting.org\/writing\/2377704\" target=\"_blank\">Bedford\/St. Martin&#146;s Gallery of Writing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For this project, students choose their own photos, based on the kind of project they are completing. Here are some options students can use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose your own school picture or yearbook photos or school pictures, and write an autobiographical memoir. <\/li>\n<li>Find a  photo of a famous historical figure or contemporary figure, and write your comments after completing some research on the person and the events in his or her life. <\/li>\n<li>Use the photo of a family member, and write a biographical reflection, informed by your interactions with that family member.<\/li>\n<li>Find a random photo on Flickr, and write a fictional piece about the imagined thoughts of the person in the photo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A Voice From the Past.<\/strong> What would the person in the photo you have chosen say to you? What would that voice from the past tell you. Your job is to create a text from the perspective of the person in the photo. She will speak to the future, sharing something about things she has learned and what she has done. <\/p>\n<p>Try freewriting on  one of these questions to get started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What choices would the person in the picture tell you to make? <\/li>\n<li>What would the person regret that was happening when the picture was taken?<\/li>\n<li>What would the person look back on with a smile?<\/li>\n<li>What would the person wish could be different? <\/li>\n<li>What advice or warnings would the person give you?<\/li>\n<li>What would the person see now if she (or he) looked back at the photo?<\/li>\n<li>What secrets would the person confess now about life then?<\/li>\n<li> What does the person in the photo not realize yet?<\/li>\n<li>What would the person tell you about goals and dreams?<\/li>\n<li>What was important to the person in the photo? Has it changed? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This prompt is inspired by the piece that I wrote about my high school yearbook photo back in August 2009 for Laurie Halse Anderson&#146;s for Write Fifteen Minutes a Day (WFMAD) and that I submitted to Bedford\/St. Martin&#146;s Gallery of Writing. For this project, students choose their own photos, based on the kind of project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-activity","category-composition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-yK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17046,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/17046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}