Students will practice their speaking skills while describing a landscape scene for a partner to draw.
Students will write a postcard about their favorite landscape.
Students discover how visual artists represent a story by depicting a single moment from it.
Students will create a story based on an image.
Students will think about a dramatic moment in their lives and imagine how to translate it into a work of art.
Students learn about and discuss the process of taking a photograph.
Students learn about and discuss why photographs are made.
Students will make connections between their personal experiences and a work of art and use visual analysis to describe a portrait.
Students will "read" a visual image very much like they would read words in a story.
Students will spend more time looking at details and write an imagined interview with a sitter.
Students will apply what they have learned about portraits in a formal writing exercise.
Students will examine artworks, research literature, and create study drawings and a 3-D model for a monument to a literary figure.
Students will examine Charles-Antoine Coypel's "Self-Portrait" and understand what he shows in this work.
Students will use Van Gogh's "Portrait of Joseph Roulin" as inspiration for their own portraits of friends in the classroom.
Students will compare the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown photographer with Poe's writings in an effort to discover the character of this mysterious author.
Students explore 19th-century photographer Edward Curtis's documentation of a ritual performed by Native Americans. They then consider how ceremony and ritual practice are depicted and understood by those outside of a religious culture. Students use photography to document their own religious or spiritual rituals, and then examine one another's images and interpret their peers' spiritual beliefs based on the photographs.
Students learn about and discuss the objects commonly found in still-life paintings.
Students learn about and discuss the basic shapes used in artistic compositions.
Referring to a Roman gravestone for inspiration, students use a foam carving medium and carving tools to create a bas-relief (low-relief) gravestone for a beloved pet. Students then write an epitaph for the pet using a standard form of poetry that is appropriate for the setting, such as an elegy, ode, or couplet.
Students put their science and art skills to work learning how to make and experiment with egg tempera paint like artists in Medieval Europe did.