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The Photo Under Discussion
For the record, they're enroute to church to be married. They've eaten nothing. They have no children.A few weeks ago, I had my 9th graders write a dialogue in which they and their partner describe what is happening in a photo. After they write it, I go around the room and they stand and perform the dialogue for me. I chose a photo from my best friend's wedding last summer in which she and her husband were sitting in a horse-drawn carriage enroute to the church. I told my students nothing about who they were or what they were doing, asking them to draw their own conclusions and answer the following questions:
- What are they doing?
- How are they feeling?
- What are they thinking?
- What may have happened before the photo was taken?
The following are some of my favorite answers:
*Fall in Love
*I am Romeo and Juliet. (this was performed by 2 boys)
*The driver is their lover and they will run away, leaving the groom. (I then pointed out that the driver was a woman, and suddenly my best friend was the jilted one.)
*Love forever
*The man is thinking about how he is now responsible for the woman.
*Make lots of babies.
*Now let's sing (Followed by bad humming of "Here Comes the Bride" complete with bouncy dancing.)
*They are going on a picnic. (I got that one a lot.)
*They are riding the horse.
*They are smiling because they learned how to balance. They fell off the horse many times.
*Horse cart (I got this a lot, despite having written "carriage" on the chalkboard.)
*Whore cart (ahhh, those pesky "S"s.)
*Choose the house
*He is thinking the carriage is very expensive.
*Love stories
*The man must work very hard to buy her presents.
*They had two babies and are now getting married.
*They had a baby.
*Make a good family
*Be happy every day
Most of my students wished the happy couple well, offering congratulations or the wish that they be happy forever.
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