Teacher Candidate Name: Alyson Thompson
Subject: Art 2nd Grade
CT Name: Sherry Taylor, Savannah Grove Elementary
Topic: African Textiles Unit Lesson 3
I. Understanding and applying media, techniques, and
processes.
IV. Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and
cultures.
B. Use a variety of media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas,
experiences, and stories through their artworks.
C. Use art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
A. Identify specific artworks and styles as belonging to particular artists,
cultures, periods, and places.
II. Using knowledge of structures and functions; elements and
principles of design.
B. Use various elements and principles of design to communicate ideas
through their artworks.
III. Choosing a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.
A. Create artworks that express their personal experiences.
B. Describe their personal responses to various subjects, symbols, and ideas in
artworks.
Accommodations:
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Students who finish early may draw in their sketchbooks or read quietly from the selection of art books on the table behind the
Smartboard or work on other art projects they have not completed. Students who struggle with the assignment may finish at recess or
one of the more advanced students could help them.
More advanced students will show good craftsmanship and complete the assignment in a timely manner receiving a good score.
Average students will meet most of the requirements and still have a nice finishing product. Struggling students will need more time to
do the work and they may not finish on time. They also may receive lower scores on the rubric.
Visual learners will benefit from the PowerPoint as well as essential questions, vocabulary, and student examples posted on the
blackboard. Auditory learners will benefit from the questions on the pre-assessment being read aloud as well as the teacher’s
presentation and class discussion of the examples shown. Kinesthetic learners will benefit from modeling done by the teacher of the
procedures as well as actually making the art project themselves.
Teacher assistance will be provided for any special needs student who is struggling.
The lesson is about the African culture and it presents it in a respectful way.
Lesson 3
Printing the Cloth
Objectives:
The students will:
 use the technique of printmaking with
found objects and squares of cardboard to
create a pattern with at least 2 directional
lines on their dyed cloth.
Procedures/activities:
Introduction
1. The teacher will go over the objectives
for the lesson and express high
expectations for the class.
2. The teacher will review what the class
learned from previous class periods
already by calling on various students.
3. The teacher will lead a discussion
review and discuss the pattern,
rhythm, movement and symbols
found on the cloth and the process
used to print Adinkra cloth.
4. The teacher will model how to print
first with the squares of cardboard to
create a pattern with directional lines
using the Elmo. The teacher will then
demonstrate how to add to their
pattern using found objects found on
the tray.
Lesson Development
5. The teacher will choose student
helpers who have demonstrated
responsible behavior so far during the
class period to pass out materials.
6. The students will print patterns on
their dyed cloth with black dye and
found objects.
Closure
7. The student helpers that were chosen
to pass out materials will then take up
the materials that they passed out.
8. The teacher will ask the students what
they learned during the lesson.
Assessment: The teacher will informally
assess the children while they print their cloth
by asking questions and through observation.
The students will be evaluated using a
checklist. (see attached)
Vocabulary:
 Adinkra cloth
 Pattern
 movement and rhythm
 Found objects
 Calabash
 symbols
Provisions for Analysis: If students are absent
for this lesson, they will be asked to come in
to complete it during a planning period. If
students do not do well with this lesson, I will
work more closely with them on the next
lesson involving patterns.
9. The teacher will choose the art
student of the day.
Materials/Resources:
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Prints of African Adinkra Cloth
Power Point of Adinkra Cloth
Found objects (examples- milk lids, clothespins, plastic forks, blocks, sponges cut into various shapes, marker lids)
Cardboard squares
Black “tempera” dye
Sponges for the bottom of the dye containers
Instructional poster on how to print with found objects
Poster with directional lines on it
Containers for the dye
Trays for the found objects
The Elmo
Manila Paper
Paper towels
Dyed cloth from last week