1. Art as a springboard for literacy
Laurie Canfield
2011

2. Art Criticism is a Four Step Process
Description – “What do you see?”
Analysis – “How is it arranged?”
Interpretation – “What does it mean?”
Judgment – “Is it significant?”

3. Project or display a piece of artwork
Art as a Bell ringer
Project or display a piece of artwork
Sample Questions:
Use the Feldman Model of Art Criticism to discuss this painting.
What do you think it sounds like in this picture?
Why is the man playing a violin?
Generating questions

4. Compare & Contrast These Two Still Life Paintings
Paul Cezanne
Still Life with Basket of Apples, 1894.
Salvador Dali
Nature Morte Vivante (Still Life--Fast Moving), 1956.

5. Write 3 Haiku Poems about this Painting

6. Discussion Question: What is the difference between beauty and ugliness?

7. Which is Greek & which is Roman? Defend your opinion.

8. The Answers!
Bronze portrait statue of a boy, late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.; Early Imperial, Augustan Roman Bronze; H. 52 1/8 in. (132.4 cm) length of face 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, 3rd–2nd century B.C.; Hellenistic Greek Bronze; H. 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm)

9. Pendant Mask: Iyoba, 16th century Nigeria; Edo, Court of Benin
Questions:
For what purpose do you think this mask was created?
What materials do you think it was made from?
After answering these questions, come up with five of your own.
9/12/07- Inquiry skills, developing their own questions.

10. What kinds of lines do you see?
By Piet Mondrian

11. Organic shape monsters
Have students use their monster as a springboard for writing.
What is the name of your monster?
Where is he/she?
What are his/her superpowers?

12. Reflection and evaluation using artist’s statements

13. Animals of the Nature Coast
Learn and Serve Grant
Students researched animals
Wrote and illustrated book

14. Inside “Animals of the nature coast”
Dale the Dolphin
I am a dolphin and my name is Dale. I am usually gray in color and my stomach is white. I must say I have a very sleek body. Some of my favorite places to live are in lagoons, harbors, bays, gulfs, and estuaries.
When full-grown I can weigh up to 500 pounds and measure 8 feet long.
My favorite items to eat are fish and crustaceans, such as shrimp. We practice catching food by throwing seaweed at each other.
I am a bottlenose dolphin and breathe through my blow hole, not my nose. I do hold my breath underwater. Next time you see a dolphin you will see we can hold our breath a long time.
In the past, dolphins have been endangered because sometimes they get caught in nets meant to catch other fish.
Here is one more interesting fact about us that you may observe when you are on the water: If you see us scratching each other with our teeth or blowing bubbles through our blow hole, we are not happy.

15. Masterpieces of lit-art-iture

16. Bio-poems
A bio-poem is a short biography telling about the life of someone.
Poem Structure and Example:
Line 1: First name Vincent
Line 2: Four traits volatile, impulsive, compulsive, eccentric
Line 3: Related to his dear brother Theo
Line 4: Cares deeply about painting, color, emotion
Line 5: Who feels lost, in pain
Line 6: Who needs friends, money, respect
Line 7: Who gives everything to his art
Line 8: Who would like to see his work acclaimed at last
Line 9: Resident of France and the world
Line 10: Last name van Gogh

17. Other ideas “Field Trip” to look at art
Have students present their artwork to the class
Word Wall
Essential Question Bulletin Board
Art Career Video Response
“Know the Artist” poster

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