Photo-essay of Alchemist

Last week was a productive one in MPX humanities. Students worked on their photo-essays which told the story of various moments from our summer reading book The Alchemist by Paul Coelho. Students printed and mounted their photos, which are now on display in the classroom. Additionally, they wrote essays which explained how their photos utilized the elements of photography such as angle, zoom, and the rule of thirds to evoke moments from the summer reading.

My highlight of this project was working with students to edit their first drafts of their written essays. They got feedback from a partner in the class as well as from me, and so far the final drafts have shown significant improvement from the first. Several students commented that it is important to them to be able to have time to produce a high quality final product and that the revision process enabled them to do that on this project.