Meghan Stover

10/17/19
ED125

Portrait Lesson Plan

After reviewing the pictures and since I am in elementary education, I thought it would

be a fun idea to have my students create a picture book/ scrap book. I would be able to use these

pictures as examples of what a portrait may look like when they are done crafting it. My idea

behind this, is to teach students about how each and every person is different and unique in their

own way. I would have the students pick about 5-6 people from their lives. A friend, a teacher,

coach, family friend… preferably only one or no people they are related to. Their task is to

interview these people questions about their lives. They can ask questions such as:

1. Who are you?

2. Where are you from?
3. What kind of culture were/ are you raised in?
4. Where is your family from?

Along with any other questions they may want to ask them. After that, they will be putting all

their information and questions into writing. Either in their picture book or their scrapbook. After

that, they are going to draw a portrait of each person they interviewed to the best of their

abilities. By the end of the lesson, the class will have a big picture book of all sorts of people,

and the stories behind them. I think this would be a great way for students to learn that we all

have different background and unique in our own ways!

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4
Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and
relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.