Lesson+Ideas

Big Ideas
1. [|Rhythm and Color through Music]- Students will explore the ideas of rhythm and mood by listening to music and painting with acrylics. The rhythm and mood in the music will give way to the colors of paint and the motions used to apply the paint. 2. [|Cartoons and social commentary] - Students will create their own cartoon/ illustration depicting a social issue or social ill in today's society. 3. [|Self-portrait Paper Sculpture] - Using cardstock or heavier paper material, students will create a proporational figure (full scale). The end result should be a narrative about who they are including how they view themeselves as well as what they believe other people see. 4. [|Conflict in Nature] - Students will take digital pictures in the location of their choice, to find conflicting views in nature (i.e. vines growing on a rusty abondoned bridge). Students will keep in mind composition, focal point, and lighting. They will crop and manipulate their photos in a photo program such as Photoshop or Aperture. 5. [|Create Your Own Music Video] - (pg. 13 of PDF) From the list of songs the teacher gives the students, the students will create a proposal storyboard of 15 sketches for the concept of their music video. Students will create a specific mood or emotion that will carry through the entire piece. After creating these slides, they will present their idea/ storyboard as if they were pitching their idea to the artist. Other students would be able to ask questions to the presenter regarding the video. 6. [|Landscape Sculpture] - Students will create an abstracted landscape based on research of different landscapes and landforms. 7. [|Printmaking and Politics].- Relief prints of a political issue. The students can choose an issue either past or present. It can be personally relevant or relevant to someone they know. 8.[|Identity and Hair] - Haircuts and hair color are important in today's society. Everyone will create drawings based on either the back of their head or the front without a face. 9. [|Power of Images in Advertising] - Students will explore current advertisements and create their own based on contemporary issues. They will include a black and white image and will also use short text to get the message across. 10. [|Heritage Altered Books] - Students will create altered books focusing on the heritage and history of their families.

Multicultural Lesson Plans
1. [|Ocarinas] - To make this lesson more multi-cultural based, we would look at the history of the whistle-like instruments and which cultures used them, how they used them, and techniques they used for decoration. 2. [|Navajo Sand Paintings] - Students will research sand paintings and important symbols in the Navajo culture. They will choose symbols they researched and incorporate them into their design. They will have to be able to explain the significance and meaning behind the paintings. 3.[|Group Environment] - Students will be placed into groups and will research architecture and styles of living from different cultures and will design a model environment in that particular style. 4. [|Opposition and Conflict]- Students will look at and study artwork from countries and culture that are in conflict. By studying other conflict across the centuries and the contemporary world, students will create a work of art with the medium of their choice that illustrates the conflict of their choice. 5. [|Mexican War Murals] - Students will look at the work of artists creating during the Mexican War of Independence. They will look at the style and subject of the war and create a collaborative mural in the style of the artists, while learning about the history, struggles, and truiumphs of the country. 6. [|Korean Slip Pottery] - Explores techniques that have been used to make ceramic vessels in Korean culture since the 12th century. Students will use these techniques and personalize a vessel. 7. [|Japanese Wood Block Prints]- Students will learn about printmaking as it was and still is done in Japan. Students will create their own print using linoleum cuts. The subjects of their prints will be personal but created in a similar style as the Japanese prints. 8. [|Silhouette Narrative] - Students will look at the work of Kara Walker and the narratives she creates with her contour, silhouette images. Students will research the ideas behind her artwork, and create their own story using an alter-ego which will be executed using cut paper. 9. [|Harlem Renaissance Poetry] - After reading through many different poems, written by Harlem Renaissance writers, students will choose the poem of their choice and will create either a painting or drawing based on the images they recieve from reading the poem. 10.[|Gyotaku Fish Prints]- Students will research the history and form behind this printmaking technique. Fish and fishing are important to the Japanese culture, so the students will bring in that is something important or valued by their culture and will make a print out of it.

Robert Longo (Meredith)
[|**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Longo**] [|**http://www.robertlongo.com/about/**]
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Post-modern principles influence the work of artist Robert Longo. A major concern in his art is the visual culture and the media. His main mode of communication in art is through charcoal and graphite drawings, although The principles he explores are gazing, juxtaposition, and representing. For example, n his collection of drawings entitled "Magellan", Longo uses self-expression by creating a drawing everyday about something that affects the world or somthing that affecst him. In his collection "Men in the Cities", features people in business suits in contorted awkward poses, that would not be appropriate for the business world.**

Lesson Ideas**- 1. http://misterstarfish.typepad.com/misterstarfish//02_15_07_ipod_longo.jpg

media type="youtube" key="VCpj2ZW8h94" height="344" width="425" Using an image of an artist and translating it into a form of advertisement either a product or speaking about a truth to society.

2. .http://www.robertlongo.com/static/dyn-images/21/21374.jpeg Using the technique of lithography, Students will explore rhythm and movement used in Long's drawings from his "Monster Collection" by creating their own print of an object of phenomenon found in nature.**