Remember: A feed is a highlight reel, the best bits picked out of many. Be kind to yourself, do something real, and tell a grown-up if you feel flat a lot.
Odette's lunch photo
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A highlight reelImani was ten and drew comics about a space cat. On a rainy Sunday she scrolled on her tablet and found her cousin's holiday, all sun, sea and ice cream. Then came a spotless bedroom and a lunch fit for a fancy cafe. She looked up at her own room, with laundry on the chair and a lunch of burnt toast, and she felt a bit flat, like a pancake. Her sister Odette said, "Let me show you something." She put her lunch on a clean cloth, added parsley, and slid a laundry basket behind the sofa. Click! She took ten photos, and kept the best one. She cropped the edges, and the crumbs and the messy corner vanished. "It is still there," she said, "just outside the edges." Then she added a filter, and the gray table turned golden. Nana said, "We only stuck the good photos in our albums." Imani said, "So a picture is only one moment." She told Nana she had felt flat, and Nana thanked her for telling.
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Imani scrolls and thinks: Everybody else has a better life than me. What do the shiny pictures really show?
Everything that happenedOnly what someone chose to showNothing real at all
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Odette took 10 photos of the same lunch and kept 1. She threw away photos.
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Join each way of polishing a picture to what it does.
1Ten tries, one kept
2A crop
3A filter
4Tidying first
AMoves the laundry behind the sofa
BChanges the color and the light
CCuts the edges off
DOnly the best one is posted
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After a crop, the messy corner is gone for good.
TrueFalse
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Which one is NOT a way a picture gets polished?
Waiting for the best lightA real laugh with a friendPosting only the good days
Be kind to yourself
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Look at the four ways. How many ways did Odette use on her lunch picture?
TwoFourOne
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Feeling flat when you compare yourself is allowed. Lots of people do.
TrueFalse
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Circle everything that helps when you feel flat.
Remembering a feed is a highlight reelCounting everyone's likes for an hourTelling a grown-up how you feelPutting the tablet down and drawingKeeping it a secret
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A friend feels flat after scrolling. What is a kind thing to say?
Me too sometimes. Want to go play?Just ignore itIt is nothing
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You see a picture and cannot tell if it is edited. What is a good thought?
It is exactly real, so I should look like itMine is always worseIt might be edited, so I will not measure myself by it
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Write what you would say to a friend who feels flat after scrolling.
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Draw a real moment with no filter and no crop, with the messy bits in the picture.
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Answer key · Set A
Pictures that look just right
1Only what someone chose to show A feed is a highlight reel, the best bits picked out of many. A holiday can be real and still not be the whole story.
29 10 − 1 = 9. Nine were not quite right, so she kept the best one.
31-D, 2-C, 3-B, 4-A Each is a way a picture gets polished. The mess is still there, just outside the picture.
4False It is still there, just outside the edges. A crop only cuts what you can see.
5A real laugh with a friend Waiting for the light, cropping and posting only the good days all polish a picture. A real laugh is just a laugh.
6Four Ten tries, a crop, a filter and a tidy-up: four ways.
7True Comparing is something lots of people do. If you feel flat, that is allowed, and you can tell someone.
8Remembering a feed is a highlight reel, Telling a grown-up how you feel, Putting the tablet down and drawing Counting likes and scrolling on make it harder, and keeping it a secret does not help. Telling a grown-up does.
9Me too sometimes. Want to go play? Saying me too and playing together is kind. Nobody is in trouble for feeling flat.
10It might be edited, so I will not measure myself by it You cannot always tell by looking, so remember that it might be edited.
11Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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