Drawn Together developed prompt cards that can be used in any level classroom to inspire drawing, discussion and an opportunity for students to reflect on the community. Below you will find the prompts, suggestions on how to incorporate them into your class. Of course, you can take and adapt this project however fits your class best! DT is happy to visit your classroom to discuss the project and its origins and/or participate in critique reviews when students finish their work. We love highlighting student art work when it is done and can do so in an anonymous way on our social media.
Prompts: 

• Think of a place that brings you joy in your community

• Think of a place that represent your community

• Think of a place that you would reimagine in your community  

Depending on the level of students, you can ask them to learn about the history of the location to share along with their drawings. This is a great opportunity for students to engage with the community’s history. 

Ideas for discussion: 

• Ask students to reflect on why they choose the location?

• How did they see it differently when they started to investigate and draw it? 

• What did they discover that they didn’t know before? 

• Think about what their classmates chose and why. 

• How do their own identities, families, and culture impact how they chose to respond? 

Various ways to approach the DT prompts: 

• Use one prompt to ask students to draw a place or space

• Use all three prompts, weaving together how each are connected 

• Allow students to use various mediums - photography, sketching, painting, collage, to create their places/spaces 

• Ask students to research the history of the place through library resources, interviews and community organizations. 

• Take students out on a “field trip” to draw selected places the class votes on beforehand - this may work best with the “reimagine” prompt.