Mrs. Rickarts

Everyone..is a work of art

1Learning to LookWhether you know it or not, art is all around us. It isnt just something for a few, or only viewable in a museum.

We just need to learn to see it!

This project is designed to help students see themselves and the world around them with different eyes; the eyes of acceptance and appreciation.

Look at a person When you focus on the smaller details, you look without judgment, touch without fear and connect without misunderstanding. That clears the way forSelf-Trust andSelf Expression.

Project Timeline3 Choices

One WeekLearning toLookGallery guideFinishGallery guideShare results

Choose a work of art.Fill out Gallery GuideAnd turn it into a paragraph (Gallery Card).Write a Descriptive PoemPresentArtGallery CardPoem

Project Timeline3 Choices

Three weeksLearning toLookGallery guideFinishGallery guideShare results

Choose another work of art.Fill out Gallery GuideAnd turn it into a paragraph (Gallery Card).Write a Descriptive Poem PresentArtGallery CardPoem

Art Appreciation Terms

I Know What I LikeFinish

I Know What I Like

Teacher ME-sterpiece

Go over project

Students could choose an unconventional work of art.Gallery Card and Descriptive Poem for unconventional work of art.I Am Poem

PresentPresent

Present

Present

Present

Project Timeline3 Choices

Four weeksLearning toLookGallery guideFinishGallery guideShare results

Choose another work of art.Fill out Gallery GuideAnd turn it into a paragraph (Gallery Card).Write a Descriptive Poem

Landscape Poem

PresentArtGallery CardPoem

Art Appreciation Terms

I Know What I LikeFinish

I Know What I Like

Writing Activities

Hunters and GatherersArt Aloud!Art Alive!Art Inscribed!

Writing ActivitiesWriting ActivitiesTeacher ME-sterpiece

Go over project

Students could choose an unconventional work of art.

Gallery Card and Descriptive Poem for unconventional work of art.

I Am Poem

Cushion/AssembleDay

Cushion/AssembleDay

Present

PresentPresentPresentPresent

Learning to LookThe Gallery GuideDescriptive PoemArt Appreciation/ I Know What I LikeI Am PoemWriting ActivitiesTips for presentationThe Lessons

Materials:Gallery Guide packet for each studentPencil or PenA gallery of artField TripTextbooks (all subjects!)Art Prints (check your IMC)

Learning to Look

Descriptive PoemMaterialsArt Prints/Photographs (one for class example, other sources for students)Descriptive Poem worksheets (two1 for class and 1 for presentation choice)

Gathered Words:Descriptiveragged fence, warm climate, flowing clouds, dusty air, strict horizon , nervous horses, brittle/unmovable rocks, gray/green shrubs, brown ground, white horse, brown horses, rusty ground, cool blue sky.Actionsgalloping, talking, towering, teetering, sitting, rumbling, rolling.Emotiveanxiety, frustration, lonelinessConversationWhat are you doing, young clouds? mused the plateau.We are changing the sky with our winds.Something is coming, chomped the white pony.Perhaps our freedom! pawed the brown.Circle 10 images.Assemble images into a poem.

CorralledThe ragged fenceThe strict horizon is gentled.Will not containThe flowing clouds.Young clouds change the skyWith their winds.Rusty-red groundIs pounded to dustFreedom is coming.By anxious hooves.

Rumbling its arrival, Every student writes their own poem basedThe coming stormon the same piece. You can have them share.Rolls across The still plateau.

Landscape Poem (9+)

Materials:

Art Prints/Photographs (one for class example, other sources for students)Landscape Poem worksheets (two1 for class and 1 for presentation choice)

This is the most difficult poetry assignment. You may need to teach/review elements of poetry prior to this lesson.

I Know What I Like!

Materials:Copy of the Art Appreciation Terms and a I Know What I Like Packet for each student

Pen or pencil

5 stations, with a piece of art, the art terms information,and the Looking At Art Group Procedure steps.

A timer

I usually divide the students into groups of 4-6, and send them to each station together. I encourage them to discuss the work and fill out the worksheet together. I then wander and monitor each group, having them change every 10 minutes.

I Am Poem

Materials:l Am Poem worksheet for every studentPaper and pen or computer

This is a fill-in-the-blank poem. It is based on Native Americanchanting. It celebrates individuality, and has no right/wronganswers.Depending on your students skill level you might need to teach/review the parts of speech before giving this assignmentSome classes will need no structure, others may need step-by-step guidance.

Writing Assignments Hunters and GatherersArt Aloud!Art Alive!Art Inscribed!

Hunters and GatherersMaterials:Hunters and Gatherers Worksheet for each studentWords printed and cut up; organized according to categoryWorks of art around the room

The students pull one word from each category. They then find a work of art that has all three words. They complete the worksheet and present to the class. You may need to teach/review the parts of speech prior to this lesson.

Art Aloud!Materials:Art Aloud! worksheet for each studentLined paper, pencil or penTwo works of art

The students write a conversation between the pieces of art. This can be fun, especially when you choose pieces that do not contain human beings! This is a great opportunity to teach/review personification and correct punctuation for dialogue. You can have the students read their conversations aloud with another student.

Art Alive!Materials:Art Alive! worksheets for each studentWorks of artLined Paper Pencil or pen

This is an outside/in approach to writing.

Art Inscribed!Materials:Art Inscribed! worksheet for each studentPencil or penNovel or short story

This is an inside/out approach to writing, and involves thehighest level of abstract thinking.

Presentation TipsHave students sign up ahead.

Students should let you know what technical support they will need ahead of time.

The entire presentation should be rehearsed and no longer than seven minutes.

The music selection should be introduced, then played as background.

The ME-sterpiece Projectis for everyone becauseeveryone is a work of art!!