Visual Arts:
1. Creates art emphasizing one or more principles of design.
2. Understands and applies media, techniques, and processes of two-dimensional art processes (drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed-media) using tools and materials in a safe and appropriate manner to develop skills.
3. Creates drawings with a variety of media. .
4. The student applies information from other disciplines to enhance the understanding and production of artworks.
5. Makes interdisciplinary connections applying art skills, knowledge to improve understanding in other disciplines.
6. Discusses how social events inspire art from a given time period
ELA Common Core:
ELACCRL1: Asks and answers questions about key details in a text.
ELACCRL2: Recounts stories from diverse cultures, and determines their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELACCRL3: Identifies characters, settings, and major events in a story.
ELACCRL7 (K-2): Uses illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
ELACC3RL7: Explains how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
ELACC5RL7: Analyzes how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation).

Printed images from the story and author/artist, variety of paper, pencils, crayons, colored pencils, markers, scissors, glue

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Activation
Week 1: Go over essential question, key questions and vocabulary.
Week 2: Go over EQ and review vocabulary. Pass out student artwork that they began last week.
Weeks 3-4: Review EQ and vocabulary. Pass out student artwork to finish.
Teaching Strategies
Week 1: Show Tar Beach on Safari Montage and discuss characters, setting, and events. Have different images around room of Faith Ringgold and depictions of scenes from the story. Give brief bio of author/artist and discuss her art style in relation to place and time period in which she grew up. Explain process of project to complete. Provide materials to begin (if time allows). * K-1st will make quilt collages. 2nd- 3rd will draw suspension bridges. 4th- 5th will make a mixed media collage using various types of paper*

Give me a Mona Lisa #, Self-Assessment rubric,
Reflection in sketchbook

The book, Tar Beach, by Faith Ringgold.
Safari Montage Reading Rainbow video of Tar Beach.

In the Reading Rainbow of Tar Beach, the history of the George Washington bridge is emphasized. (hence 2nd-3rd graders drawings of suspension bridges)

[K-4] Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories

[K-4] Students use art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner

[K-4] Students know the differences between materials, techniques, and processes

[K-4] Students describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different responses

[K-4] Students use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas

[K-4] Students describe how different expressive features and organizational principles cause different responses

[K-4] Students select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning

[K-4] Students explore and understand prospective content for works of art

[K-4] Students know that the visual arts have both a history and specific relationships to various cultures

[K-4] Students identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places

[K-4] Students demonstrate how history, culture, and the visual arts can influence each other in making and studying works of art

[K-4] Students understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art

[K-4] Students understand there are different responses to specific artworks

[K-4] Students understand and use similarities and differences between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines

[K-4] Students identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum

Faith Ringgold

Folk Art

Variety, Unity/Harmony, Rhythm/Pattern, Movement, Line, Emphasis

Marker, Drawing, Crayon, Colored Pencil, Chalk, Mixed Media, Paper, Pencil

English/Language Arts, History/Social Studies