Slhouette inspired by Kara Walker

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This is one of my favorite projects and whenever I do a project, I've done in the past I like to tweak it a bit. This time I had students not only write things about why they liked themselves, but they asked others what are good things that other people liked about them. 

I also really like this project because 5th graders are always super self-conscious about self -portraits. Well, this way using a silhouette student can do a self-portrait that looks like them but it's a little vague.

One of the hardest things about this project is the concept of a profile. although I explain what a profile is, and I demonstrate and show images there is always some kid that must put 2 eyes or 2 ponytails. Long sigh, it's not the worst thing in the world.


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