Week of October 6th -- Making the art come alive -- Students take the roles of the characters in the art and create scene work, write dialogues, and perform and present ideas to class
Week of October 13th -- Students learn to critique the art using the 4 step method:
(This is a make-up project for those missing class and points. Find a picture of art in a newspaper and/or magazine and write about these four areas:
Description: What do you see? What are the subjects and how do they affect the overall message?
What is the credit line information (artist, title of art, year made, medium and size)
Analysis: What lines, colors, and shapes do you see and how to they help to tell the story within the art?
Interpretation: All art types tell a story. What is the story within the art you are analyzing? If you could ask a question(s), what would it be (directing the question to the artist)?
Judgement: What is your overall impression about the art and why?
Week of October 20th -- Students are presenting findings and the audience members have higher thinking questions to ask presentators about their analysis.
Week of October 27th -- Students are looking at a controversial issue in Queens about an art topic. Articles revealed that there are two sides to an issue. One side is from the artist point of view in which artist want a building to remain open on the outside so that they may paint (some artists have been painting on this building since 11 years ago. The other side of the argument is that the building owner wishes to keep the building, but not the artists, and wants to convert the building into apartment buildings. Students took a position and acted either as an artist, and/or building owner and had a debate.
Week of November 3rd -- Initiating the collage ideas by reviewing Romare Beardern's art, many with controversial themes that students in the room had strong opinions about. Students brainstormed what they saw in the art and shared opinions on what the art is trying to say.
Week of November 10th -- Midterm Week (come and talk with me to make-up points if you were absent)
Week of November 17th -- Getting back to the idea of cause and effect, and what has affect students greatly in their lives -- research today, then process, then application, then presentation.
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