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Essential Questions
1. What can art communicate?
2. What can words communicate?
3. How do you tell a story with words?
4. How do you tell a story with an image?
Unit Objectives
Students will understand that:
1. Words and images have the power to communicate.
Students will know:
2. The elements and principles of art.
3. The elements of narrative structure.
4. How to give and receive writing feedback with peers.
Students will be able to:
5. Critically discuss artworks.
6. Create a short story inspired by an artwork.
7. Revise their writing for clarity and description.
Assessments
Formative:
o 9/4: 3-2-1 exit card: 3 things art is, 2 things art is not, 1 question about
art
o 9/8: Students will place their names under the novice to expert
categories on the board to show how they feel about their mastery of
the elements and principles of art.
o 9/10: writing exercise: creating a story to incorporate a random object
into an artwork
o 9/12-9/18: curator project: Students will work in groups to design an
exhibition centered on a chosen theme or topic. They must select
artworks and write a description of each, analyzing the work and
explaining how it contributes to the theme, as well as a description for
the entire exhibit.
Summative:
o Writers Eye short story
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Unit Schedule
Is This Art? Game: Students will be shown slides of images, and they must
state whether it is or is not art by walking and standing under yes and no
signs. We will have a brief discussion about views of each artwork.
How to look at art: Students will have 15 seconds to look at an artwork, and
then they will answer questions about it to see how much they remembered.
We will then look at the work again and discuss it in detail. We will practice
looking and discussing with several other artworks.
3-2-1 exit card: 3 things art is, 2 things art is not, 1 question about art
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Monday, September 8: What makes good art? What makes a good story?
Formative Assessment: Students will place their names under the novice to
expert categories on the board to show how they feel about their mastery of
the elements and principles of art.
[Tuesday PAW]
Writing exercise: Students will be split into small groups and assigned to an
artwork. One member from each group will go up to select one of seven
numbered brown bags, each with an object inside. Each member of the group
will write a story that incorporates the object into the painting.
o paintings: TBD (posters)
o objects: jar of buttons, Plato finger puppet, paintbrush, sock, Common
Native Trees of Virginia field guide, seashell, bar of soap
[Wednesday PAW]
[Thursday PAW]
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work on project
writing response
[Wednesday PAW]
work on project
writing response
work on project
writing response
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Week 4:
Monday, September 22: How are stories told with words? With an image?
Narratives in writing vs. narratives in art: Students will read the text of a myth
and then look at artworks depicting in the myth and then make comparisons.
[Tuesday PAW]
writing
Wednesday, September 24
[something else]
[Wednesday PAW]
writing
[Thursday PAW]
writing
Question flood: model process, students flood partners story, students flood
own story; (to find partners: class has one minute to line up in birthday order,
count off 1-12, find partner)
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Week 5: Revision
[Tuesday PAW]
Wednesday, October 1
Writing groups
Conferences
[Wednesday PAW]
[Thursday PAW]
Friday, October 3