1 / 17

Open-Mind Portraits

Open-Mind Portraits offer a creative way for students to delve deeper into characters from stories by visually representing their thoughts and actions. Through drawing and writing, students can connect with characters on a more personal level, enhancing their understanding of the story.

hollandk
Download Presentation

Open-Mind Portraits

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Open-Mind Portraits

  2. Why use Open-Mind Portraits?

  3. Purpose • An open-mind portrait gives you the chance to illustrate aspects of a book's character at important times during the story. • To help students think more in depth about a character and reflect on story events from the character’s viewpoint. 3

  4. What are Open-Mind Portraits? • The portraits have two parts. • Part one: The face of the character is drawn on the first page. • Part two: The mind of the character is explored on a silhouette of the character’s face

  5. Here is an Example Character: Akiak Book: Akiak Author: Robert Blake

  6. Here are the Steps… • Make a Portrait of a Character: Students draw and color a large portrait of the head and neck of a character in a book they are reading.

  7. Here are the Steps… 2. Assemble the Open-Mind Project: Students cut out the character portrait and place it on several other sheets of paper to be traced to form a silhouette. The silhouette is the “mind” page and is used to illustrate character thoughts..

  8. Here are the Steps… 3. Design the Mind Pages: Students use the portrait page and draw and write about the character, from the character’s viewpoint, on the “mind” page. They focus on what the character is thinking and doing at various points in the story.

  9. Here are the Steps… 4. Share Completed Open-Mind Portraits: Students share their portraits with classmates and talk about the words and pictures they chose to include in the “mind” pages.

  10. Below is an example of an open-mind portrait of the character Sarah from the book Sarah Plain and Tall. This portrait illustrates Sarah's face, then it shows what objects, events, or people were important to her at a certain point in the book. Text 10

  11. Character traits • Character traits for Cara: • Intelligent • Observant • Angry • Brave 11

  12. Now think of examples from the story to go along with these traits, and what Cara may have been thinking during these times. For example Cara was angry when her Mother and Father got divorced, write on the mind side of the picture what she may have been thinking or how she may have been feeling during this time. 12

  13. The actual open - mind portrait will be a picture of Cara on one sheet of paper, and a sihlouette of her "mind" on another piece of paper. This is where the thoughts will be written. 13

  14. 14

  15. Conclusion • Open-mind portraits are a fun way for students to be creative, and dig deep within the story by sharing what they got from a character by showing the character’s look, actions, and feelings. This gives students a chance to connect with the character and book.

  16. Evaluation • Both sides completed neatly with signs of effort. Is completed using color (markers, crayons, or paint). Right side contains at least7illustratedelements in thecharacter's"mind" 16

  17. Sources • From Tompkins, G. E. (2003). Samples from “Compendium of Instructional Procedures” In Literacy for the 21st century, 3rd ed. (pp. 486-487). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill. 17

More Related