ESL ART CLASSES 2 AND 5 MAY 17TH 2011 THEME: SYMBOLISM and the Huichol Indian Yarn Art (ending mythical unit)

ESL ART STUDENTS:

Fantastic job creating and designing your own mythical stories.  They are exciting to view (illustrations), hear (listening to the story orally), and analyze the morals.  Thank you for your attention and hard work.

Here are key ideas to know when your assessment of this unit takes place:

*Recall brainstormed ideas on myths
*Recall personal cultural stories you know from your culture, and other stories you learned about by listening to other student's cultural myths
*Recall the four mythical stories read in class, key ideas and vocabulary, and moral lessons that were implied in each story.

*Remember your inquistive question that may have been used in iginiting your ideas for your own myth, and that may be used later on in the semester when a research assignment is reviewed.

Here is a list of key ideas (themes) and vocabulary from the stories we read in class:

-sacrifice
-generosity
-benevolence
-punishment
-camouflage
-metamorphosis
-rejection
-hope

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Let's move on to our unit study of symbolism.

HOTS:  What is a symbol?  Where are there symbols in the classroom?  Where are there symbols in school?
Where are there symbols on the street?  Where are there symbols in your neighborhood?
What is meant by symbolism?

Content Objective: 
-Recall symbolism, and identify in written text "I'm Watching the Sunrise," by Ms. Lozano; in a song, "Here Comes the Sun," by George Harrison, in researching (newspapers and in magazines) and in cultural art:  namely the Huichol Indian of Mexico.

-Analyze the symbolism in cultural art, especially in the Huichol Indian yarn art, and create a symbolic art work with a juxtaposed poem

Language Objective:
-Read descriptive elements of the Huichol Indian
-Discuss the possible reasons for symbolic significance in their art
-Brainstorm ideas for a personal yarn art symbolic piece
-Write a poem and/or song about that piece

Grammar:  Use ideas of present progressive forms when writing and discussing process and procedures

Key Vocabulary: 

Huichol Indian
yarn
symbol
symbolism
icon
iconic
represents
shows
expression
significance
shamans

Materials: 

-Story "I'm watching the sun"
-Song, "Here Comes the Sun"
-Mac of song
-Symbol Worksheet, researching in newspapers, magazines
-Huichol Reading
-Cardboard, Yarn, glue, glue stick
-Paper for poem
-Presentation Sign-Up Sheet

Building Background:--Links to Students:Questions:  What are symbols on the flag of your country?

--Links to Concept:Question:  What symbolic figures do you readily see in the Huichol Yarn Paintings? What is the significance of these repeated symbols?

Comprehensible Input

-Discussions
-Idea sharing
-Visual Images of Huichol Yarn Paintings
-Art Work (student's needed for discussions and analysis)
-Share Outs

Scaffolding

-Individual Brainstorming/Research/Discussing/Understanding Huichol Culture/Creating a Personal Yarn Painting/Analzying Individual Pieces/Evaluating Reasons of Significance

Meaningful Activities

Art Gallery/Art Gallery Walk Through with Tally Sheet/Open Forum for Discussion and Evaluation
Assessment:

*Yarn Painting
*Notes/Class Assignments
*Gallery Walk Tally

*Wrap UP:  Exiting Question

1-Who are the Huichol Indians?
2-What is significant about their culture?
3-Where do the Huichol Indians live?
4-When did they most practice the Shaman work?
5-What is the significance in this practice?
6-Why do you think there are symbolic images that have significance?
7-What is your favorite yarn painting and what is its significance? 
8-Why do you think the artist choose that particular icon and/or symbol?


Links to Huichol Ar
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http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/190-mexico-s-huichol-resource-page-their-culture-symbolism-art


Symbolic Icons often used in Huichol Yarn Art







The paintings reflect the visions of Huichol shamans - Huichol history and mythology and especially the peyote-inspired visions through which they believe they can communicate with the deities to heal themselves and their world.

Thanks to their isolation in the mountains and canyons of the state of Nayarit, the Huichol, alone among the indigenous peoples of Mexico, were able to largely resist conversion to Christianity by the Spanish conquistadors. They have maintained their pre-conquest religion and traditions nearly intact. The Huichol practice a nature-based religion guided by shamans, which the anthropologist Peter Furst calles “a powerful everyday spirituality that seemed to owe nothing to the religion of the conquistadores.” The religion and the sacred arts which serve it are directed toward communication with a pantheon of “numberless male and female ancestor and nature deities” and in so doing finding the causes and cures of illness.



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