"Table Cultures"

Screen Shot 2021-09-26 at 3.04.46 PM.png

A Three Day Lesson

Big Ideas

Culture
Identity / Individual

Project Description:

Day One: Pre-Assessment

Part One of this lesson will be focused on getting to know our students and assessing their understanding of personality traits, abstraction, and color through the creation of Personality Pumpkins based on The Legend of Spookely the Pumpkin.

Essential Understanding

Students will understand their identities within their culture.
Students will understand how collaboration and communication connect them to their culture and identity.
Students will understand how to work together to reflect on their individuality within their cultures.

Objectives

Day One

Using an anchor text, students will be able to observe how identity can be portrayed in art and literature with a variety of lines, colors, and shapes.

(Comprehend, GLE 1: Investigate works of art and design to recognize how to create meaning with purpose and intent, SHoM: Observe, Understand Art World, Art Learning: Art Analysis.)

Using preliminary sketches, students will be able to create an image using color and symbols to represent their identity.

(Create, GLE 1: Plan and create works of visual art and design recognizing various purposes and intentions, SHoM: Develop Craft, Express, Art Learning: Conceptual-Ideation and Expressive features.)

Given 2D materials, students will be able to employ the appropriate use of line, color, and symbols in their identity drawings.

(Create, GLE 1: Plan and create works of visual art and design recognizing various purposes and intentions, SHoM: Develop Craft, Stretch & Explore, Art Learning: Materials and techniques)

Using completed artwork, students will be able to talk about their artwork by describing how and why their artwork was developed as a group.

(Reflect, GLE 1:Synthesize ideas about personal works of art and imagine possible next steps, Transfer, GLE 1: Recognize how works of visual art and design communicate meaning both within a community and between diverse cultures. SHoM: Reflect, Art Learning: Critical reflection)

Art Methods