2. Description This unit will introduce art as a form of language by considering intent, perspective, and audience. The unit will tie the idea of art as form of storytelling beginning with ancient Mesoamerican legends, the presence of Mesoamerican cultures in Mexican art, and how this form of (visual) storytelling still exists in urban street art.

4. (1) Ancient Legends Told by Codices Alphabet vs. pictorial manuscripts

5. Alphabet vs. pictorial manuscripts e.g. theme of conquest

7. Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial Mexico

8. The Toxcatl Massacre

10. A Greeting Involving La Malinche

11. Cortés sealing his alliance with Tlaxcalan lords, from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala

14. “Las Dos Fridas”

15. “Allá cuelga mi vestido”

17. Mural de Rivera con temas indígenas

18. “Maíz”

19. Remember the codices?

21. Art in the Streets of Oaxaca  2006 Teachers Movement (history and context)  Urban art in Oaxaca today

22. The Missing 43 (young men studying to be teachers at the Ayotzinapa teachers’ school; disappeared in September 2014)

23. Urban Street Art in…  Atlanta, Georgia (murals made by Latin American & Spanish artists): http://zachary- jones.com/zambombazo/gustos-y-colores- arte-urbano-en-atlanta/http://zachary- jones.com/zambombazo/gustos-y-colores- arte-urbano-en-atlanta/  Community of Pilsen in Chicago: http://frugalfrolicker.com/street-art-pilsen/ http://frugalfrolicker.com/street-art-pilsen/  Students share murals from their own neighborhoods

24. Assessments  Reflection journal  Illustrated codex  Written manuscripts using preterit and imperfect

25. Essential Questions Goals for the assignment that students make codices and written manuscripts: What do you want to share about:  Your own history?  Your identity?  Your daily life?  Your community?  A global issue that is important to you?