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Dominant vs Counter Narrative Assignment Sheet
Conceptual Essential Question: How can we use art as a tool to address
hegemony through critiquing dominant narratives or celebrating counter
narratives?
Technical Essential Question: How can you use realistic drawing strategies,
gradations of value, and the principles of design (contrast, emphasis, variety,
overlap) to present a coherent and clear idea?
PHASE 1
DETERMINE YOUR GOALS
YOUR TASK:
-To create an original work of art that
• Option 1: Presents and critiques a dominant narrative that influences
you, your community or your culture
• Option 2: Presents and celebrates a counter narrative that you support,
identify with or want to make known
STEPS TO COMPLETE THE TASK:
1. Complete Phase 2 “Understanding the Concepts”
2. Complete Phase 2 Part 2 “Developing and Idea”
3. Complete Phase “Generating Thumbnails”
4. Complete final draft
5. Present participate in critique
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:
SYMBOLS– Use of some type of symbol(s) or object(s) that will allow you to
demonstrate your ability to use the realistic drawing strategies
COMPOSITION1. Shows proficient understanding of drawing realistically (negative space,
basic shapes, grid, or sighting)
2. Shows contrast through value (4-7 values in each object)
3. Takes up 80% of paper
4. Shows emphasis, variety, overlap and contrast
PHASE 2: RESEARCH
Understanding the concepts
A. GLOSSARY FOR PROJECT
Hegemony:___________________________________________________________________________________________
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Example: ____________________________________________________________________________________________
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Dominant Narrative: _______________________________________________________________________________
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Dominant____________________________________________________________________________________________
Example From Video 1: ___________________________________________________________________________
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Example From Video 2: ___________________________________________________________________________
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Effects of Dominant Narratives:
1._____________________________2 _________________________________ 3___________________________________
4._____________________________5_________________________________ 6____________________________________
Counter Narrative: _______________________________________________________________________________
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Example From Video 1: ___________________________________________________________________________
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Example From Video 2: ___________________________________________________________________________
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Effects of Counter Narratives:
1._____________________________2 _________________________________ 3___________________________________
4._____________________________5_________________________________ 6____________________________________
PHASE 2 Part 2: RESEARCH
Developing an Idea
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What
dominant narratives affect or impact you? (Think through the following:
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Social Class, Immigrant/Migrant, Religion,
Place of birth, Family Structure, Interest, Health (physical or mental),
Ability/Disability)
1._________________________ 2._____________________________ 3.____________________________
Pick the 2 topics that most interest you and research/explain what the
dominant and counter narratives are for each topic? (you are welcome to use
the computer if you need to do research)
1. The dominant narrative for _____________________________ is ________________________
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The Counter narrative for_____________________________ is _____________________________
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2. The dominant narrative for _____________________________ is ________________________
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The Counter narrative for_____________________________ is _____________________________
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What option would you like to do? Option 1 or Option 2 (look back to first page)
What images are you going to include to present your topic?
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Once you know your images use google images to find images and put them on a google doc
PHASE 3: DEVELOP YOUR CONCEPTS
THUMBNAILS
o Remember to have the images or lines overlap each other
o Remember to have something emphasized in some way (by size,
shape, texture, or value)
o Remember to have a variety in size in shape