Content Standard(s):
Arts Education 1) Elaborate on an individual or prompted imaginative idea.
Examples: Create an imaginative mask showing his/her personality.
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Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make
Essential Questions:
EU: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Creativity
Criteria
Critique
Design
Media
Mixed media
Monochromatic
Principles of design
Technology
Visual image Skill Examples:
Use a variety of materials to create a three-dimensional mask showing a student's personality.
Use torn paper scraps to create rhythm in a landscape.
Plan a community/city; then, build a model of it with recyclable materials, such as cardboard, boxes, containers, and tubes.
Collaborate with a group to demonstrate how to care for tools used in class (such as paintbrushes).
After looking at Vincent van Gogh's painting, Bedroom , create a narrative painting depicting a memory of a student's personal bedroom.
Use appropriate visual art vocabulary during the art-making process of two-and-three-dimensional artworks.
Collaborate with others to create a work of art that addresses an interdisciplinary theme.
Read and explore books like Imagine That by Joyce Raimondo or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland and then create a Surrealistic style artwork.
Recognize and identify choices that give meaning to a personal work of art.
Create a drawing using monochromatic colors (paint, oil pastels, etc.).
Explore individual creativity using a variety of media.
Understand what effects different media can have in a work of art.
Arts Education 15) Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made and on life experiences.
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Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Process Components: Synthesize
Essential Questions:
EU: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Creativity
Criteria
Critique
Design
Media
Mixed media
Monochromatic
Principles of design
Technology
Visual image Skill Examples:
Discuss how art can be used to express ideas in poems and short stories.
Observe and compare similar themes, subject matter and images in artworks from historical and contemporary eras.
Discuss the relationships between the elements of art.
Use historical and cultural artworks to answer questions about daily life.
Discuss how we encounter art and artists in everyday life.
English Language Arts 22. Describe literary elements within a story, including setting, plot, characters, and themes.
a. Describe in detail the characters' behavior, emotions, and traits and explain how their actions influence events in the story.
b. Explain how the characters' actions and dialogue contribute to the meaning of the story.
c. Identify the central message, theme, or moral in a story, including myths, fables, and folktales, and explain the meaning conveyed in the passage.
d. Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots from two texts.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
22.
Describe
Literary elements
Story
Setting
Plot
Characters
Themes
22a.
Describe
Character
Behaviors
Emotions
Traits
Actions
Influence
Events
22b.
Explain
Characters
Actions
Dialogue
Contribute
Meaning
22c.
Central message
Theme
Moral
Myths
Fables
Folktales
Conveyed
22d.
Compare
Contrast
Theme
Setting
Plot
Stories Knowledge:
22. Students know:
Literary elements within a story include the setting, plot, characters, and themes.
Setting is when and where a story takes place.
Plot is the main events of a story (often referred to as the beginning, middle, and end of a story).
Characters are any person, animal, or figure that affect the plot.
Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text.
22a.
A story author provides descriptions of the characters' behavior, emotions, and traits.
The actions of characters in a story affect the events, or plot, of the story.
22b.
The actions of characters in a story affect the events, or plot, of the story.
The dialogue, or spoken words, of characters in a story affect the plot of the story.
22c.
Qualities of myths, fables, and folktales.
Many stories have a central message, theme, or moral.
A central message or moral is the lesson that is learned through the story or the one big idea of the story.
The central message, theme, or moral is conveyed through key details.
22d.
Compare means tell how things are alike or similar.
Contrast means tell how things are different.
Literary elements from different texts, like themes, settings, and plots, can be compared and contrasted.
Setting is when and where a story takes place.
Plot is the main events of a story (often referred to as the beginning, middle, and end of a story).
Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text. Skills:
22. Students are able to:
Identify and describe the literary elements, including setting, plot, characters, and theme, within the text.
22a.
Provide a detailed description of story characters' behavior, emotions, and traits.
Explain how story characters' actions affect the events of the story.
22b.
Explain how the actions of characters' contribute to the meaning of the story.
Explain how the dialogue between two or more characters contributes to the meaning of the story.
22c.
Identify the central message, theme, or moral of a story, including myths, fables, and folktales.
Explain the meaning of the central message, theme, or moral conveyed in the passage.
22d.
Compare and contrast literary elements, such as themes, settings, and plots, of two texts. Understanding:
22. Students understand that:
Identifying and describing literary elements within a story will help in comprehending the text.
22a.
Understanding each character's behavior, emotions, and traits will help them better understand a story's plot.
Characters in a story drive the plot by engaging in different actions.
22b.
Characters' actions and dialogue contribute to the meaning of a story.
Understanding the actions and dialogue of story characters improves overall comprehension of the text.
22c.
Understanding the meaning of the central message, theme, or moral of a story will improve overall comprehension of the passage.
Myths, fables, and folktales are types of narrative stories that often include a moral.
22d.
Comparing and contrasting literary elements can improve their comprehension, or understanding, of both texts.
