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Steve Mccurry BAMIYAN SCHOOLGIRL Looking Questions: • What Do You See in the Photo? • Describe This Girl’S Facial Expression and Her Pose Unguarded, Untold, Iconic: Afghanistan Through the Lens of Steve McCurry BAMIYAN SCHOOLGIRL Looking Questions: • What do you see in the photo? • Describe this girl’s facial expression and her pose. • What do you think this girl is thinking? How is she feeling? Explain. • Where is this girl standing? • How does McCurry draw our attention to the girl? • Why do you think McCurry chose to crop the girl so we only see her top half and only a small part of the background? Steve McCurry. Bamiyan Schoolgirl, 2006, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 24”x20” About the Photograph: In 2006, Steve McCurry visited a girl’s high school in Bamiyan, Afganistan where he photographed this young girl in front of an old distrested chalkboard. She is clutching a bright red notebook and looking at the camera with a somber expression. She is dressed in a white head scarf commonly worn by Hazaran girls at her school. The Hazara are a religious and ethnic minority in Afghanistan known for their progressive views on the education of women. Their Shi’a principles have caused conflict with their Sunni neighbors and led Bamiyan girl’s schools to be targeted by extremists who oppose women’s education. Download a copy of these activities on: Learn with the Michener: www.Learn.MichenerArtMuseum.org Unguarded, Untold, Iconic: Afghanistan Through the Lens of Steve McCurry BAMIYAN SCHOOLGIRL K-12 ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR SCHOOL VISIT AND CLASSROOM Pre-Visit Activities • Find Bamiyan on a map of Afghanistan. • Research the history of the portrait. Think about why an artist might want to paint or photograph a person. • Read I See the Sun in Afghanistan by Dedie King about a day in the life of a young girl from Afghanistan. • Read the picture book Sky of Afghanistan by Ana A de Eulate about a young Afghan girl’s dreams for peace. Gallery Activities • What Are They Thinking?: Gallery Activity. Fill out a thought bubble with what you think this person might be thinking. • Explore Portraits: Gallery Activity. Look at clothing, pose and expression and then imagine if you were going to have your portrait taken by McCurry. • I See, I Think, I Wonder: Gallery Activity. Make observations and interpretations about this work. What questions do you have? • Explore Elements of Art: Gallery Activity. Look at lines, shapes, color and patterns in this photograph. • Photo Scavenger Hunt: Gallery Activity. Find people to photograph in a way that tells a story. • News Reporter: Gallery Activity. Come up with interview questions for the person in this photo. How do you think they would answer? What observations would you make? • Create a personal narrative written from the girl’s point of view. Download a copy of these activities on: Learn with the Michener: www.Learn.MichenerArtMuseum.org Unguarded, Untold, Iconic: Afghanistan Through the Lens of Steve McCurry BAMIYAN SCHOOLGIRL K-12 ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR SCHOOL VISIT AND CLASSROOM Post-Visit Activities • Shooting in Kabul Lesson Plan. Write a book review or create a podcast using Vocaroo to provide a summary and share your thoughts. Be sure to make comparisons between the child in the book and the child in the photograph. • Look at photos of you and your classmates in your school yearbook. What is similar about the backgrounds, poses, expressions and dress? What is different? • Chose a partner to be your photography subject. Experiment by taking their photographs from far away and zoomed in. Try cropping the image in different ways. What ways of cropping make the image look more interesting and what ways make the image look strange? • Research school life and education in Afghanistan. What are students learning? How is school life for them? What kinds of struggles are they facing? • Create a Blabber of a person in one of McCurry’s photos. Using Blabberize, upload a jpeg of the photograph, select the area you would like to use and then select the corners of that person’s mouth. Think about what that person might want to tell us about themselves and use a microphone or cell phone to record the speech. Press play to see the person speak your words. Save and share with your class. National Common Core Standards for ELA: R.2, R.10, W.1, W.2, W.3, W.4, W.5, W.6, W.7, W.8, W.9, SL.1, SL.4, SL.5, L.1, L.2 PA State Standards: AH.9.1, AH.9.2, AH.9.3, AH.9.4, CC.1.1, CC.1.2, CC.1.3, CC.1.4, CC.1.5, G.7.1, H.8.4 Download a copy of these activities on: Learn with the Michener: www.Learn.MichenerArtMuseum.org Unguarded, Untold, Iconic: Afghanistan Through the Lens of Steve McCurry BAMIYAN SCHOOLGIRL SHOOTING IN KABUL LESSON PLAN Grades: 4-8 Unit: Reading Interdisciplinary: Visual Arts/Language Arts/ Social Studies/Technology Objectives: TSW describe and analyze several photographs by Steve McCurry. TSW read, summarize and review Shooting in Kabul. TSW compare and contrast characters in the story with children in McCurry photographs. TSW use ipads/laptops to record a book review podcast. Materials: Bamiyan Girl, Young Afghan Soldier, Afghan Girl, Girl with Green Shawl, Kuchi Girl, Boys in the Boot of a Taxi, Children Work in Opium Field, Students Attend Class and Young Sikh Boys, Shooting in Kabul by N.H. Senzai, ipads or laptops, paper and pencils, www.vocaroo.com Differentiation: Students may work independently or in a group. Students may present their book report in front of the class instead of recording to a podcast. Students may draw a portrait of what they think Fadi or Marian might look like based on their descriptions in the story and compare to McCurry’s photo portraits. National Common Core Standards for ELA: R.2, R.10, W.1, W.2, W.3, W.4, W.5, W.6, W.7, W.9, SL.1, SL.4, SL.5, L.1, L.2 PA State Standards: AH.9.2, AH.9.3, CC.1.1, CC.1.2, CC.1.3, CC.1.4, CC.1.5, G.7.3 Procedure: As a class, look at several of Steve McCurry’s portraits of Aghan children (Bamiyan Girl, Young Afghan Soldier, Girl with Green Shawl, Kuchi Girl and Afghan Girl). Then look at photographs featuring groups of children (Children Work in Opium Field, Boys in the Boot of a Taxi, Students Attend Class and Young Sikh Boys in Classroom). Discuss the background, expressions, poses, clothing of the children in these photographs. Based on what is shown in the photograph and prior knowledge students will discuss what life might be like for these children in Aghanistan. Ask: What kinds of things would a child their age like to do? Do you think that students in the United States have the same interests as these Afghan children? Then, students will independently read Shooting in Kabul by N.H. Senzai. Ask: what are the similarities and differences between the children in the photographs and the story’s main character Fadi or his sister Marian? Students Download a copy of these activities on: Learn with the Michener: www.Learn.MichenerArtMuseum.org Unguarded, Untold, Iconic: Afghanistan Through the Lens of Steve McCurry BAMIYAN SCHOOLGIRL SHOOTING IN KABUL LESSON PLAN CONTINUED... should first write their ideas in their notebook to use as a script for their podcast. The script should include connections to the photographs, a brief summary of the book, and their opinions about the book. Then, students will create a podcast using Vocaroo or other podcast recording software. Finally, the class will present their finished podcasts. Vocabulary • Portrait Assessment/Evaluation • Student presentation of podcasts • Peer or self-critique • Rubric assessing delivery, script and content Download a copy of these activities on: Learn with the Michener: www.Learn.MichenerArtMuseum.org Unguarded, Untold, Iconic: Afghanistan Through the Lens of Steve McCurry AFGHAN WIDOW’S BAKERY Looking Questions: • What do you see in the photograph? • Describe what the women are doing. • How is this bakery similar or different from a bakery in the United States? • Why do you think Steve McCurry, Afghan Widow’s Bakery, 2002, Kabul, McCurry wanted to Afghanistan, 20”x24” document this scene? Explain. • What is the overall mood of this photo? Why? • Imagine you could jump inside this picture. What would you see, smell, feel, hear and taste? About the Photograph: Years of war and conflict have left Afghanistan with one of the largest widow populations in the world. Under the Taliban rule there were strict rules for widowed women regarding whom they are allowed to remarry, what they are allowed to wear and what is appropriate behavior. Many women were illiterate and had little opportunity to work outside the home. In this photograph, McCurry shows several widowed women working in a bakery to earn money to support their families. Bakeries such as this were funded by the United Nations to subsidize bread to more than 150,000 Afghan citizens. These women are most likely baking naan, a popular flatbread-like dish. Download a copy of these activities on: Learn with the Michener: www.Learn.MichenerArtMuseum.org Unguarded, Untold, Iconic: Afghanistan Through the Lens of Steve McCurry AFGHAN WIDOW’S BAKERY K-12 ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR SCHOOL VISIT AND CLASSROOM Pre-Visit Activities • Find Kabul, Afghanistan on a map of the Middle East. • Read about the strict rules enforced during the Taliban regime. • Create a KWL chart about what you know about this photo, want to know and after your visit you can fill in the part about what you learned. • Read the children’s novel The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis about a young Afghan girl named Parvana who must take extreme measures to help support her family during the Taliban rule.
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