Book Summary
This introduction to picture taking is loaded with information about cameras, film, composition, and fun photography projects. It also gives students a history of photography and an overview of how cameras work, how film is developed, and the fun of digital cameras. Each photography tip is accompanied by photos showing the dos, and humorous don'ts, of picture taking. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Compare and contrast text types
• Recognize subject and verb in complex sentences
• Analyze word origins
• Work with content words

Materials

• Book -- The Art of Photography (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry-erase board
• Compare and Contrast, Word Origins, Complex Sentences worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

    Indicates an opportunity to use the book interactively (all activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are not consumable)

Vocabulary

• Content words: amateur, composition, crude, cumbersome, daguerreotypes, darkroom, exposure, multipurpose, painstaking, panning, shutter