ALEX Classroom Resource

Artistic Process: Responding

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Process Components: Perceive, Analyze, Interpret

EU: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
EQ: What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?

Artistic Process: Responding

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Process Components: Perceive, Analyze, Interpret

EU: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?

Artistic Process: Responding

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Process Components: Perceive, Analyze, Interpret

EU: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
EQ: How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?

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• Informative text
• Explanatory text
• Sources
• Topic
• Introduction
• Facts
• Relevant details
• Elaboration
• Conclusion

34. Students know:

• Informative or explanatory text is a piece of writing that provides factual information that was gathered from research sources.
• Informative or explanatory text begins by introducing the topic, provides facts and relevant details, and ends with a conclusion.
• Elaboration means to supply additional information about a detail by using academic, content-specific vocabulary or by including text features.

34. Students are able to:

• Gather information from sources.
• Write an informative or explanatory text using information gathered from sources.
• Write an informative or explanatory text that begins with introducing the topic, provides facts and details about the topic, and ends with a conclusion.
• Elaborate on details included in the text.

34. Students understand that:

• Informative or explanatory writing follows a predictable text structure that includes introducing the topic, providing facts or additional details about the topic, and ends with a conclusion.
• They must gather their facts about the topic from a research source.
• Informative or explanatory writing can be used to tell facts about a topic.
• Writers elaborate details included in the text by using academic, content-specific vocabulary and text features.