LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE for Arts Integrated Lessons
Grade
8th
Level:
Enduring
Understanding:
Title: Imagery - Literary Devices and Art
Author: Anthony Forte, McKayla Menzel, Allison Stallkamp
-Understand what imagery is
-Analyze examples of imagery
-Communicate and display interpretation
-Become familiar with the artwork of Pablo Picasso
Overview:
-Introduce chalk art and Pablo Picasso in powerpoint
-Brief lecture on textual imagery
-Read aloud imagery passage
-Have students chalk what they saw in their mind
-Have students discuss why they drew what they did
-Repeat imagery and drawing activity up to 2 times
Objectives:
SWBAT: Analyze figurative and connotative meaning of words and phrases
as used in text.
SWBAT: Determine the impact of allusions,analogies, and specific word
choices for meaning and tone.
SWBAT: Experiment, innovate and take risks to pursue ideas forms and
meanings in art-making.
Content Standard(s):
ELA:R.Cs.4
Determine the meaning of words and
phrases as they are used in a text, including
figurative and connotative meanings;
analyze the impact of specific word choices
on meaning and tone, including analogies or
allusions to other texts.
Art Standard(s):
VA: CR2.1.8a
Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and
take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that
emerge in the process of art-making or designing.
Materials:
Other Resources:
- Powerpoint
-Black Paper
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chalk
-Passages
Vocabulary:
FROM THE NATIONAL ARTS STANDARDS-Imagery
Create: ​Create chalk artwork based on interpretations of
Literary Devices
reading material.
Symbolism
Present: ​Discuss products with peers and instructors.
Interpretation
Respond: ​Evaluate literature and art projects.
Individual
Connect: ​Notice how imagery is used in art as well as
Picasso’s artwork
literature and other parts of each student’s life.
Assessment Strategies
FORMATIVE:​ ​Discussions analyzing why students think the way that they do.
SUMMATIVE:​ Drawings created based on imagery passages.
Instructional Activities & Strategies
ENGAGE:​ ​-Reintroduction as pre-student teachers
-Powerpoint based on Picasso and “imagery”
-Reading passages aloud to students.
-Instruction on imagery chalk drawings.
BUILD:​ ​-Introducing Picasso
-Reading aloud to students from passages
-Definition of imagery and instructing how to use it.
-Prepping for activity.
APPLY: ​-​Questions about Pablo Picasso and understanding of art work.
-Questioning students prior knowledge of Imagery and asking students to create
imagery
-Having students work on interpretive imagery.
-Hands-on moderation of students completion of imagery work.
- Creation of group discussion in individual interpretation
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REFLECT: ​-Volunteer sharing of imagery interpretation.
-Q/A to conclude class about what they learnt about goals and how to achieve.
What STUDIO HABITS of MIND will students use
in meeting the content standard in the lesson?
Observe:
Students will observe a PowerPoint.
Engage & Persist:
Students will be asked questions regarding slide
pictures and artist.
Students will follow along with three short
readings.
Students will create chalk art on the imagery
they see after being read three short stories.
Reflect:
Students will reflect upon war and violence.
What STUDIO HABITS of MIND will students
use in meeting the art standard in the
lesson?
Students will list and analyze components
and questions regarding the slides.
Students will describe images.
Students will interpret an artist and his
message.
Students will summarize short readings.
Students will analyze short readings.
Students will define imagery.
Students will apply knowledge via
comprehensive questions.
Students will apply knowledge by creating
their own interpreted imagery with chalk
art.
Stretch & Explore:
Students will analyze an artist.
Students will learn about a specific artist.
Students will create a chalk art on imagery.
Students will explore a new form of art.
Express:
Students will craft chalk art regarding imagery.
Students will use their analyses to craft poetry
and artistic project(s).
Students will analyze ways to develop
personal opinions on selected artistic
images.
Develop Craft:
Students will perform creative creative, abstract
chalk art.
Students will create chalk art actively and
organically in class.
Envision:
Students will develop and analyze imagery to
envision different perspectives and other forms
of critical thinking.
Students will manifest their imagery via
chalk art.
Understand Art (or other) World:
Students will use chalk art to expand their own
thinking and perceptions.
Students will analyze art to develop and
define imagery.
Note: not all Habits of Mind will be used in every lesson.
You can use brief phrases.
Visual Thinking Strategy:
1.
What thought provoking art image did you select (which relates to your lesson topic)?
We selected Pablo Picasso's artwork for the emphasis of showing students what chalk art
is. An image we chose to represent an artist comes from Pablo Picasso, an artist who does a lot of
chalk art.
2.
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What are your questions (for leading the discussion)?
What do you see?
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Why do you think the way you do?
How does this relate to how people interpret the world around them?
Ask also about the viewpoint and the message the artist is trying to convey. Think about
and connect your students’ prior knowledge and experiences to the artwork they are
viewing.
3.
What will you share with the students about the image and artist?
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Pablo Picasso is a Spanish born artist. As an artist and an innovator, he is responsible for
co-founding the entire Cubist movement. ​His technique for realism, so ingrained by his
father and his childhood studies, evolved with his introduction to symbolist influences.
Picasso found a model of how to distill the essential from nature in order to achieve a
cohesive surface that expressed the artist's singular vision. In about the same time, the
aesthetics of traditional African sculpture became a powerful influence among European
artists. His career spanned over a 78 year period, in which he created: 13,500 paintings,
100,000 prints and engravings, and 34,000 illustrations.
"Pablo Picasso." ​Pablo Picasso - Paintings,Biography,Quotes of Pablo Picasso. N.p., n.d.
Web. 23 Jan. 2017.
http://www.pablopicasso.org/
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