Lesson 2 of a currently 2-part series in creating characters and ideas from a portrait. Following the improvised character discussions, students should be assigned one portrait from the collection "Thank You for Teaching Me English." Students will be told just a bit about the piece, specifically that the person portrayed is speaking the word that they taught the artist. Students will also be told the word for each portrait. Using the strategy of "Peeling Back the Layers," students will create a character and either a monologue or a short scene devised from the portrait they were given. Each monologue or scene should show the sitter teaching the artist the word linked to the portrait. Students will create the story that necessitated the need to learn this word, how the word was received, and the appropriate definition of the word based on the story they create.

<p>Washington and Lincoln images for 1st grade theatre workshop<br>What do the poses in the formal images tell you?  Did the subject pose for them or were they created without them?  What does the body language in the photographs or "eyewitness" accounts tell you?<br>What do you imagine the subjects are saying?  Can you create a conversation based on each image?</p>