"My Friends and I..."

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Big Ideas

Community
Identity
Collaboration

Project Description: Students will take on the role of a 2D artist and represent who they are in their friend community using 2D materials that they have already been introduced to as a choice based activity (pencil, sharpie, colored pencil, watercolor).

Essential Understanding

Students will understand how their identities within their friend groups demonstrate what kind of friend they are.
Students will understand how collaboration and communication connect them to their friendship communities.
Students will understand how to work together to reflect on their friendship as a community

Objectives

Using artist examples, students will be able to observe artworks made by other artists to talk about how other artists represent their identities in their artwork.

(Comprehend, GLE 1: Identify how artists make choices using the language of visual art and design to communicate ideas, SHoM: Observe, Understand Arts Community, Art Learning: Conceptual and personal grounding.)

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

(Create, GLE 1: Plan and create works of art by exploring various media and creating meaning through symbolization, 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 collaborative drawings.

(Create, GLE 1: Plan and create works of art by exploring various media and creating meaning through symbolization., 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: Share and explain choices made and possible next steps in personal works of visual art and design, Transfer, GLE 1: Observe and discuss how visual art and design are evident in the everyday life of communities.SHoM: Reflect, Art Learning: Critical reflection / Literacy)

Art Methods