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VA.O.8.1.1 select and apply a variety of media, techniques, technologies, and processes used to express experiences and/or ideas.
VA.O.8.1.3 use selected media, techniques, technologies, and processes to produce two-dimensional or three-dimensional artworks that communicate experiences and/or ideas, e.g., photography, computer imagery, sculpture and drawing.
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Application
VA.O.8.1.4 demonstrate safe and effective use of materials, tools, and technology
Cooperative Groups:
* Students brainstorm social issues, i.e., the environment, homeless, poverty, drug abuse.
*Discuss the problem and their feelings in response (fear, sadness, optimism, etc.)
*Students research a selected topic and select examples such as photos, paintings, drawings.
* What messages do the examples communicate?
*What styles did the artists choose?
* Were they realistic or abstract works?
*If no words accompany the work would you understand the message? How?
Partner Work:
*Discuss five different works of art from research.

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*Agree on a favorite work and write an analysis using the four-steps of art criticism
Project: School Mural
Students work in groups to plan and paint murals.
*Groups will select a social issue that they want to depict in their mural.
*They will plan, sketch in, and paint all the parts of the mural.
Self-Assessment:
Rubric
Answer questions other students may have about the message their mural depicts.
Teacher Assessment:
Rubric on written analysis
Rubric that includes composition, creativity, effort, craftsmanship/skill, cooperation.
History and Art:
Work in paired groups to research “The Ashcan
School” begun by “The
Eight” artists of New York.
View a US map and identify various regions.
Small groups discover how regions differ, climate, history, agriculture, etc.
Identify why people from different regions have different concerns.
Studio:
Create Abstract Effects:
Choose a word: war, hunger,
History and Art:
Work in paired groups to research the Public Works of Art Project, the Public Sculpture and Pottery
Project, and Teachers of Arts and
Crafts formed by the WPA and
American Artists after World War
I.
Identify two artists and compare/contrast their works and lives during the Great Depression.
Studio:
Speed and Movement
Choose favorite sport, make sketches showing a sense of movement. Peer in motion for
History and Art:
Research art as a form of political communication in
Mexico during early 20 th
Century.
Study the illustrations of Jose
Guadalupe Posada.
Compare/contrast his work to that of Jose Orozco.
Studio:
Choose a political issue in our society today, i.e., natural gas vs. coal.
Choose media and complete an illustration to persuade viewers

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Look through magazines— tear out pages that show objects that capture the idea of the chosen word.
Use pencil to transfer the images to paper— overlapping the drawings to create an abstract effect.
Use media of choice to create contrasts of light and dark shapes.
Self-Assessment:
Present artwork to class.
Display the work.
Describe how you used the
Elements and Principles of
Art.
Evaluate your success by asking peers to tell the theme suggested in your work.
Complete a self-assessment rubric.
Describe each art movement in early 20 th Century U.S.
(Abstract Expressionism,
Muralist, Regionalism) contour drawing practice.
Choose media and complete artwork.
Self-assessment using teacher generated rubric
Teacher assessment: Rubric that includes: creativity, composition, effort, craftsmanship/skill.
Describe each art movement in early 20 th Century Europe.
(Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism) to side with your position.
Self-assessment:
Ask peers to write their feelings about your political illustration.
Complete a teacher generated rubric for self-assessment.
Teacher assessment: Rubric that includes: creativity, composition, effort, craftsmanship/skill.
Describe how early 20 th
Century art of the U.S. and
Europe influenced art in
Mexico.

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Research one artist for each movement.
Create a power point presentation for each movement.
Paired group activity:
Identify five different artists of this period.
Compare/contrast two of their favorites using the four-step process of criticism.
Identify the major art movements in early 20 th
Century in the U. S
.
Name one artist for each movement.
Research one artist for each movement.
Create a power point presentation for each movement.
Paired group activity: Identify five different artists of this period.
Compare/contrast two of their favorites using the four-step process of criticism.
Research artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Create a power point presentation about the above artists.
Individual activity:
Compare/Contrast one Frida
Kahlo artwork and one Diego
Rivera artwork, using the fourstep process of criticism.
Identify the major art movements in early 20 th Century Europe.
Name one artist from each movement.
Identify major art movements in early 20 th Century Mexico.
Name one artist from each movement.

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