My Flickr SlideShow

Here's my slideshow from Flickr.

When I was searching for images, I used the term "family." In class right now, we're reading a novel about a young woman who finds out she's adopted and goes in search of her birth parents. One of the underlying themes in the novel is nature versus nurture: Is Sandy (the main character) who she is because of her genes/birth parents or is she who she is because of her adoptive parents? Sandy struggles with the question of her identity because she discovers there's a piece of it she never knew existed.

I think it might be cool to show students a collection of family pictures from different eras and have them write creatively about how the families might have worked and functioned as a group of individuals and how hey influenced and shaped each other's character and development. Then, the students could move from there to writing about how their own families shape them.