Learning Objective:
1. Understand critical lens theory and become skilled in switching between various lenses

Turn In your Mural

Do Now 79: When you walk in a room, is the first thing you think about a positive or negative thought?

In photography as in many forms of art, there are 3 different agents with various agendas.
1. Photographer/ Artist
2. Subject
3. Audience

A critical lens is a way of looking at a particular work of literature by focusing on style choices, plot devices, and character interactions and how they show a certain theme (the lens in question). It is a common literary analysis technique.

For social studies and history, we utilize critical lenses to understand a subject better from various points of view. This critical thinking allows up to bypass our own baises and gain a deeper understanding of that subject even if we are wrong.

Critical Lenses

• Read Through the Critical lenses
• Pick the top 3 lenses that you naturally rely on the most

Apply the lens to the following photos

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Critical Lens Posters

• Read the Assigned Critical Lenses
• Describe it (IN YOUR OWN WORDS)
• Include questions that someone using your lens would ask