I Hear What You’re Saying
Students will practice sharing a personal thought or idea by listening and speaking to each other.
Students will practice sharing a personal thought or idea by listening and speaking to each other.
Students will practice the important historical inquiry skill of understanding and respecting differences of opinion. After participating in an activity on how to articulate and respect differences, students will apply what they learn to a discussion of Blue Water, followed by discussion of a topic they are studying in social studies.
Students will carefully observe and learn about either Phillip Guston's Blue Water or Terry Winters's Rhyme. After discussing interview techniques, they will develop questions for an interview with the “artist” of the painting they did not learn about. Using information from their interviews, students will prepare a short article or newscast to share information about the artist they interviewed with their classmates.
Students will learn about Lao Tzu and the artist’s inspiration for creating it. They will then capture words to describe the piece in an exercise that teaches them how to move beyond first impressions.
Students will examine Rabbit Hunt and apply a summarization technique commonly used in reading to analyze and learn about the painting.
Students will view and discuss Yellow Rain Jacket, paying particular attention to the artist’s choice of content and composition. They will learn about composition by creating a frame and choosing areas of an image that they wish to emphasize. Students will create a title for this composition and, if time allows, turn it into a finished work of art.
Students will examine and discuss Rabbit Hunt by E. Martin Hennings and use clues from the painting to identify place, landscape, culture, and any other information describing the region depicted in the work. Students will compare this information to their own culture and region and create a postcard describing their community to someone who has never seen it.
Students will examine Rodeo-Pickup Man and find information that allows them to compare and contrast the roles of people who provide safety across cultures and throughout different time periods.
Students will examine Rodeo-Pickup Man and use clues to determine the elements of story structure apparent in the painting, paying particular attention to setting. Students will then create a setting for a story of their own.
Students will discuss the process and design of the Plate by Maria and Julian Martinez. Then they will create their own design as either a plan on paper or on a clay tile.
Students will examine The Things I Have to Do to Maintain Myself and write a story about the piece.
Students will examine details of facial expression related to O’Keeffe’s Cow Licking. They will then use Cow Licking and other images of eyes to inspire them as they draw multiple pairs of eyes that reflect different emotions.