Saint Paul Public Schools Visual Arts Elementary Scope and Sequence – Grade 5 Subject: Visual Art – Unit 1: Elements of Art – Line, Shape, and Value Timeframe: (# days/week): First Quarter Unit: Elements of Art – Line, Shape, and Value Skills / Concepts: MN Standard: Strand I: Artistic Foundations Standard 1: Demonstrate knowledge of the foundations of the arts area 1. Describe the characteristics of the elements of visual art, including color, line, shape, value, form, texture, and space. 2. Describe how the principles of visual art, such as repetition, pattern, emphasis, contrast and balance are used in the creation, presentation or response to visual artworks Big Idea: There are many ways and techniques that can be used to create depth in a work of art. Skills: Observing lines in the environment Creating value using line Using a camera Vocabulary Line: vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zigzag, curved Weaving Value: hatching, cross-hatching, contrast, stippling Essential Question: How can line create value? How can you use value to indicate form? What is one way photographers demonstrate contrast in their work? Resources Visual Artists: Unknown Cakchiquel Maya of Guatemala, Jackson Pollock, Elizabeth Catlett, Ansel Adams Websites www.mayatraditions.com/backstrap.html www.mayanindians.com/mayan-weavers.html -Huipil weaving www.artsconnected.org/resource/24857/6/womans-blouse-huipil -Minneapolis Institute of Arts ArtsConnectEd www.nga.gov/feature/pollock -National Gallery of Art www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_AfAm/pages/AfAm_8.s html -The Art Institute of Chicago -Elizabeth Catlett www.zpub.com/sf/history/adams.html Reading Activities SRA Connections: Lessons: 1, 4, 6 Projects: 1. Expression with Lines: Create a mixed-media collage. 4. Value with Hatching: Draw a model using hatching to show value. 6. Value Contrast: Create a scene using value contrast in photography. Writing Concepts: Using hatching and cross-hatching to indicate value and form Taking a photograph that shows a high contrast in value Assessment Pre-Assessment: Compare the similarities and contrast the differences between Huipil Weaving and Jackson Pollock’s Convergence. Formative: Ask students to list the types of lines around them and connect each one to an emotion. Create a value scale using hatching. Create contrast in a drawing using marker. Summative: Student identifies teacher-selected lines, as well as demonstrates knowledge of hatching to create value. Student’s photograph clearly illustrates value contrast. Students describe how they used line, shape or value in their artwork. Cross Curricular Connections 1. July, 2011 J Elliott, The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan The First Woman Doctor, Rachel Baker Ask students to write an A, B, C list of the types of lines around them and names of shapes made with lines, and connect each one to an emotion. Have students write a descriptive paragraph that explains the scene they chose to photograph from lesson 6. Title and Artist Have students choose a reproduction of art and write a descriptive paragraph explaining how the artist used line, shape or value in the artwork. Title and Artist Women’s blouse (Huipil), Artist Unknown (Maya, Kaqchikel), c.1970 Sharecropper, Elizabeth Catlett, 1970 Art Criticism – Blooms Taxonomy Describe the different types of lines you see. (Understanding) Compare and contrast how value is used in a variety of artworks. (Analyzing) Demonstrate depth in a photograph you have taken. (Applying) Math: Connect the idea of form in art and math Movement: Use lines of the body to create a pose and sequence of movements. Social Studies: Investigate Guatemala Mayan culture and describe lines, shapes and values found in Mayan objects Title and Artist Aspens, Northern New Mexico, Ansel Adams, 1958 Visual Thinking Strategies Protocol www.vtshome.org Take a quiet moment to look. What’s going on in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? 2. July, 2011 J Elliott, Saint Paul Public Schools Visual Arts Elementary Scope and Sequence – Grade 5 Subject: Visual Art – Unit 2, Space, Shape and Form Timeframe: (# days/week): First Quarter MN Standard: Strand I: Artistic Foundations Standard 1: Demonstrate knowledge of the foundations of the arts area 1. Analyze the use of the elements of visual art, including color, line, shape, value, form, texture, and space in the creation of, presentation of, or response to visual artworks. Strand II: Artistic Process: Create or Make Standard 1: Create or Make in a variety of contexts in the arts area using the artistic foundations 2. Revise artworks based on feedback of others, self-reflection and artistic intention Vocabulary Space: positive and negative, shape reversal, perspective, depth, converging Perspective techniques: overlapping, size, placement, detail, color, converging lines/ vanishing point Form, freestanding sculpture, relief sculpture Unit: Elements of Art – Space, Shape, and Form Big Idea: Artists use the elements of space, shape, and form to create depth in an artwork. Essential Question: How does the creation of space lead to the illusion of depth? What is the relationship between shape and form? Skills / Concepts: Skills: Perspective drawing techniques Drawing negative space Creating a sculpture using malleable material Concepts: Positive and negative space is used to create mood and interest in artwork. Space in two-dimensional art is created when perspective techniques are used on a flat surface, giving the illusion of depth. Form is used to create three-dimensional works of art. Resources Visual Artists: Jasper Johns, Georges Seurat, Frank Stella, Robert J. Lang, Linda Brooks, Marisol Escobar Activities SRA Connections: Lessons: 1, 2, 5 Websites: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1996/johns/ -Museum of Modern Art www.theartstory.org/artist-johns-jasper.htm www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/seurat/ -Web Museum www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=5640 -Museum of Modern Art -Frank Stella www.nga.gov/kids/stella/stella1.htm -National Gallery of Art www.langorigami.com/ -Origami and paper-folding artist Robert J. Lang www.artsconnected.org/resource/10764/9/fantasy-volumes Projects: 1.Positive and Negative Shapes and Space: Draw a still-life emphasizing negative space 2. Space in TwoDimensional Art: Paint an outdoor scene, including depth 5. Form: Create a threedimensional form using paper Assessment Pre-Assessment: Brainstorm the many uses for the term space. Label the three dimensions of a form. Visual Thinking Strategies to Seurat’s piece. Formative: Divide a paper into six boxes and illustrate all perspective techniques. Revise artwork based on peer feedback on rough draft of outdoor scene. Summative: 3. July, 2011 J Elliott, -Minneapolis Institute of Arts -photographer Linda Brooks http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3A AD%3AE%3A3774&page_number=2&template_id=1&sort_order=1 -Museum of Modern Art -Marisol Escobar Reading Writing Shadow, Marcia Brown Keep an alphabet list as a class, labeling terms related to Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech space learned throughout the unit. Call It Courage, Armstrong Sperry Viewing Frank Stella’s sculpture, students identify facts and opinions related to the piece. Title and Artist Cups 4 Picasso, Jasper Johns, 1972 Title and Artist A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884 Art Criticism – Blooms Taxonomy Demonstrate various methods to create depth in an artwork. (Applying) Compare and contrast positive and negative space. (Analyzing) Identify two- and three-dimensional artworks. (Understanding) Darken the negative spaces in a still-life. Identify three forms and three shapes. Cross Curricular Connections Math: Use tessellations as an example of shape reversal Social Studies: Have students identify the positive and negative spaces on a map of the world. Emphasize continents and major bodies of water. Title and Artist St. Michaels Counterguard, Frank Stella, 1984 Visual Thinking Strategies Protocol www.vtshome.org Take a quiet moment to look. What’s going on in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? 4. July, 2011 J Elliott, Saint Paul Public Schools Visual Arts Elementary Scope and Sequence – Grade 5 Subject: Visual Art – Unit 3, Unit Title: Color and Pattern Timeframe: (# days/week): First Quarter Unit: Elements of Art and Principles of Design – Color and Pattern Big Idea: Artists use the elements of color and pattern to create mood and interest in their artwork. Skills / Concepts: MN Academic Standard in the Arts: Artistic Foundations Skills: Standard 1: Demonstrate knowledge of the following arts Creating tints and shades of one area hue 1.Describe the characteristics of the elements of visual art, Printmaking techniques including color, line, shape, value, form, texture and space. Essential Questions: 2. Describe how the principles of art such as repetition, How does color connect to the mood of an artwork? Concepts: pattern, emphasis, contrast and balance are used in the How do artists create color contrast in their work? Monochromatic color creation, presentation or response to visual artworks. What patterns are found in art and objects from Complementary color Standard 3: Demonstrate understanding of the personal, various cultures? Using observation to paint a still social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the art life areas 2. Describe how visual art communicates meaning. Vocabulary Resources Activities Assessment Color: Visual Artists: Ben Jones, Willis “Bing” Davis, The Wari Empire (Peru), SRA Art Connections: Pre-Assessment: monochromatic, Kuba Group (Congo) Lessons: 1, 3, 5 Brainstorm a list of colors hue, tint, shade, seen in the classroom and complementary, Websites: Projects: create categories for those intensity http://www.africa-news.eu/africans-in-uk/1776-in-conversation-with1. Monochromatic Colors: colors. artist-ben-jones.html Real or Imaginary Animal Formative: Pattern, motif, -Africa News, Ben Jones 3. Complementary Colors: Sketch a pattern you seen in random pattern http://www.artbabble.org/search/bvideo/Willis%20Bing%20Davis Still Life your environment. -Willis “Bing” Davis 5. Pattern: Create Create a value scale using http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2008/08/31/2_YAT Wrapping Paper monochromatic colors. ES31.ART_ART_08-31-08_E6_1EB4P6T.html?sid=101 Summative: -Willis “Bing” Davis exhibition review Student demonstrates the http://www.metmuseum.org/special/andean_tunic/view_1.asp?item= correct use of 11 complementary colors in -The Metropolitan Museum of Art their still life. -Wari tunics Student is able to identify http://art98.stores.yahoo.net/emkubclotstr.html and describe patterns and -Authentic Africa motifs in art and their 5. July, 2011 J Elliott, -Kuba cloth strip Reading My Fellow Americans: A Family Album, Alice Provensen Grass Sandals: The Travel of Basho, Dawnine Spivak A View From Saturday, E. L. Konigsburg Title, Artist, Year King Family, Ben Jones, 1971 Writing Students brainstorm a list of colors they see in their classroom and create categories for those colors. Students reflect about their favorite professional sports team and describe what color category their uniforms fall in. Are they complementary colors? Why do you think those colors were chosen? Create a word web using color as the main concept. Title, Artist, Year Ancestral Spirit Dance #187, Willis “Bing” Davis, environment and what they were conveying using their chosen patterns and motifs. Cross Curricular Connections Math: Create graphs from the list of color categories they brainstormed. Identify geometric shapes in the textile examples. Music: Compose an ostinato. (Ostinato = A short melody or pattern that is constantly repeated, usually in the same part at the same pitch.) Social Studies: Explore Martin Luther King’s impact on the Civil Rights’ Movement. Ask students to locate Peru and the Democratic Republic of Congo on a world map. Title, Artist, Year Ceremonial Panel, Shoowa People (Kuba sub-group), 1925-50 Art Criticism – Blooms Taxonomy Identify monochromatic, as well as complementary, color schemes in the environment. (Understanding) Compare and contrast the patterns in the Wari tunic and Kuba textile. (Analyzing) Describe the process of printmaking. (Understanding) 1. 2. 3. 4. Visual Thinking Strategies Protocol www.vtshome.org Take a quiet moment to look. What’s going on in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? 6. July, 2011 J Elliott, Saint Paul Public Schools Visual Arts Elementary Scope and Sequence – Grade 5 Subject: Visual Art – Unit 1, Unit Title: Proportion and Distortion Timeframe: (# days/week): First Quarter Unit: Elements of Art – Proportion and Distortion Big Idea: Artists use the elements of proportions and distortion to express a feeling, as well as emphasize a particular area of their artwork. MN Academic Standard in the Arts: Artistic Foundations Standard 3: Demonstrate understanding of the personal, social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the art areas. 1. Describe the personal, social, cultural or historical contexts that influence the creation of visual artworks, including the contributions of Essential Questions: Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities. What are the correct proportions of the face 2. Describe how visual art communicates meaning. and body? Artistic Process: Create/Make How does distorted face and body Standard 1: Create or make in a variety of contexts in the art area proportions affect the mood of a work of using the artistic foundations. art? 1. Create original two and three-dimensional artworks to express specific artistic ideas. Vocabulary Resources Activities Face proportions, Visual Artists: Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Henri, Fernando SRA Art Connections: central axis, profile Botero, Amedeo Modigliani, Kongo People of the Democratic Lessons: 3, 4, 5 proportions Republic of Congo, Tsimshian of North America, Oscar Howe Projects: Distortion, Websites: 3. Face Proportions: Draw a exaggeration, body http://monet.unk.edu/mona/pioneer/henri/henri.html portrait. proportions -Museum of Nebraska Art 4. Distortion of Body -Robert Henri Proportions: Create an http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/5438/1/nkisi-nkonde original superhero. -Minneapolis Institute of Arts 5. Distortion of Face -Nkisi Nkonde Proportions: Create a papierhttp://www.artsmia.org/surrounded-bymache’ mask. beauty/northwest/trans_home.html -Minneapolis Institute of Arts -Kwakiutl Transformation Mask http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/51553/93/frontlet -Minneapolis Institute of Arts Skills / Concepts: Skills: Measurement Distortion/Exaggeration Papier Mache’ Concepts: Proportions of the face and body Mask-Making Cartooning Assessment Pre-Assessment: Draw a person (face and body) in your sketchbook. Formative: Draw a rough draft of a portrait using correct measurements for face proportions Students will evaluate their artwork using the four steps of art criticism (Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Decide). Sketch of mask incorporating facial distortion Summative: Student’s comic-strip character and papier mache’ 7. July, 2011 J Elliott, -Frontlet http://www.oscarhowe.org/ -Oscar Howe http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/53150/1/siouxwarrior-chief -Souix Warrior Chief information Reading Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Clearly A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle Tuesday, David Wiesner The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, Virginia Hamilton Title, Artist, Year Tilly, Robert Henri, 1917 Writing Write a character description of the person whose portrait was painted. List the steps followed to measure and draw face proportions. Write lyrics to a theme song for a comic strip character. Write a script in order to prepare an oral presentation explaining meaning behind mask. Title, Artist, Year Nkisi Nkonde, Artist Unknown (Kongo), late 19th c. mask clearly illustrates the use of distortion. Cross Curricular Connections Math: Use portraits when discussing balance and proportion. Movement: Stand in a neutral position, then alter your body to distort into an unnatural pose. Social Studies: Explore the function of a nkisi within the Kongo culture. Art History: Research Oscar Howe and his contribution to contemporary Lakota art. Title, Artist, Year Frontlet, Artist Unknown (Tsimshian), 1820 Sioux (Lakota) Warrior Chief, Oscar Howe, 20th c. 8. July, 2011 J Elliott, QuickTi me™ and a decompressor are needed to see t his pict ure. Art Criticism – Blooms Taxonomy Identify the use of face proportions in artistic portraits and on people’s faces. (Understanding) Explain how artists use distortion of body proportions in works of art. (Understanding) Support the intentional use of distortion in your cartoon and mask. (Evaluating) Visual Thinking Strategies Protocol www.vtshome.org 5. Take a quiet moment to look. 6. What’s going on in this picture? 7. What do you see that makes you say that? 8. What more can we find? 9. July, 2011 J Elliott, Saint Paul Public Schools Visual Arts Elementary Scope and Sequence – Grade 5 Subject: Visual Art – Unit 5, Unit Title: Texture, Rhythm, Movement, and Balance Timeframe: (# days/week): First Quarter Unit: Elements and Principles of Art - Texture, Rhythm, Movement, and Balance MN Academic Standard in the Arts: Big Idea: Artistic Foundations Artists use the elements of texture, rhythm, Standard 1: Demonstrate knowledge of the following arts movement, and balance to organize, enhance, and area control how the viewer’s eyes travel through a work 1.Describe the characteristics of the elements of visual art, of art. including color, line, shape, value, form, texture and space. 2. Describe how the principles of art such as repetition, Essential Questions: pattern, emphasis, contrast and balance are used in the What are two types of texture? creation, presentation or response to visual artworks. What are some ways artists use color, shape, and line Standard 3: Demonstrate understanding of the personal, to create rhythm in an artwork? social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the How is visual movement created by using rhythm in art areas. an artwork? 2. Describe how visual art communicates meaning. Vocabulary Texture: tactile and visual, assemblage Rhythm, visual rhythm, positive and negative space, repetition Visual movement Resources Visual Artists: Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso Websites: http://www.amesgallery.com/FolkArtPages/Memo ry.html -The Ames Gallery -Memory jars http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?obje ct_id=80315 -Museum of Modern Art -Joan Miro http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?obje ct_id=79051 -Museum of Modern Art -Pablo Picasso Skills / Concepts: Skills: Drawing from observation Weaving with paper Concepts: Texture Rhythm Assemblage Weaving Cubism Activities SRA Art Connections: Lessons: 1, 2, 3 Projects: 1. Texture: Memory jar 2. Rhythm: Paper weaving 3. Movement Through Rhythm: Still-life cubist drawing Assessment Pre-Assessment: Students brainstorm different textures and objects that correspond to each texture. (1) Formative: Create rhythm by repeating a shape three times. (2) Create a still-life sketch from multiple points of view. (3) Summative: Students will analyze the use of texture, rhythm, movement, and balance in 10. July, 2011 J Elliott, Reading The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out Who You Are, Lila Perl Yerkow Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis The Jazz Man, Mary Hays Weik Title, Artist, Year Memory Bottle with Toys, Artist Unknown, c. 1890 Writing Have students each write a poem about a favorite memory to go into their memory jar. Write a persuasive advertisement for an event that relates to the action cut-out figure in the paper weaving. Title, Artist, Year Hirondelle/Amour, Joan Miro, 1933-34 Art Criticism – Blooms Taxonomy Compare and contrast visual and tactile texture. (Analyzing) Identify the use of visual rhythm in works of art. (Understanding) Create a drawing in the cubist style, repeating shapes and colors to create movement through rhythm. (Creating) a teacher-selected artwork. (1, 2, 3) Cross Curricular Connections Math: Identify pattern in a work of art. Music: Discuss particular songs that could accompany the rhythm represented in Miro’s painting. Movement: Connect the following movements in dance to Ma Jolie: smooth versus rigid, slow versus quick, fluid versus choppy. Title, Artist, Year Ma Jolie, Pablo Picasso, 1911-12 Visual Thinking Strategies Protocol www.vtshome.org 9. Take a quiet moment to look. 10. What’s going on in this picture? 11. What do you see that makes you say that? 12. What more can we find? 11. July, 2011 J Elliott, Saint Paul Public Schools Visual Arts Elementary Scope and Sequence – Grade 5 Subject: Visual Art – Unit 6, Unit Title: Harmony, Variety, Emphasis, and Unity Timeframe: (# days/week): First Quarter MN Academic Standard in the Arts: Artistic Foundations Standard 1: Demonstrate knowledge of the following arts area 2. Describe how the principles of art such as repetition, pattern, emphasis, contrast and balance are used in the creation, presentation or response to visual artworks. Artistic Process: Perform/Present Standard 2: Perform/Present in a variety of contexts in the art area using artistic foundations 1. Select and assemble artworks for a personal portfolio *To accomplish this standard, students will be assembling their quilt as a class portfolio Vocabulary Harmony, unity Emphasis, focal point, location Unity, media, symbolism Unit: Elements of Art - Harmony, Variety, Emphasis, and Unity Big Idea: Art, as well as the environment, presents us with examples of harmony, emphasis, and unity. Essential Questions: How is visual harmony used in works of art? How does placement influence emphasis in an artwork? What are some examples of harmony, emphasis and unity in our neighborhood? Resources Visual Artists: Berthe Morisot, Thomas Hart Benton, Richard Yarde, Ana Rosa Jimenez, Huichol Websites: http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=42012.0&detail=none -National Gallery of Art -Berthe Morisot http://artbyafricanamericans.net/RichardYarde.html -Richard Yarde http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/178-yarn-painting-images-of-a-vanishingculture -Huichol yarn art http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_huicholart1.html -Indigo Arts Gallery -Huichol, Ana Rosa Jimenez http://www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/ Activities SRA Art Connections: Lessons: 1, 4, 5 Projects: 1.Harmony: Create a unifed class mural 4.Emphasis through Placement: Create an original yarn painting design. 5.Unity through Media: Design a class quilt. Skills / Concepts: Skills: Mural-making Cut-paper techniques Creating a composition by gluing yarn Concepts: Harmony Symbolism Unity Emphasis Assessment Pre-Assessment: Visual Thinking Strategies using Morisot’s The Sisters. Formative: In groups, find harmony in works of art and share your findings to the class. Summative: Students identify emphasis in their yarn paintings and assess their success in employing this principle. Each student’s quilt 12. July, 2011 J Elliott, -America’s quilting history http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/qlthtml/qlthome.html -Library of Congress, quilting, Josie Goad Reading Play Me A Story—Nine Tales About Musical Instruments, Naomi Adler El Guero, Elizabeth Boron de Trevino One Grain of Rice, Demi Title, Artist, Year Savoy: Heel and Toe, Richard Yarde, 1997 block clearly illustrates the use of unity. Writing Write an artist statement, describing the process of creating the yarn painting, including a story that might be communicated. To coincide with the quilt, write a continuing story with each student contributing two sentences. Title, Artist, Year La Abeja Guia al Shaman, Ana Rosa Jimenez, c.2006 Art Criticism – Blooms Taxonomy Identify visual harmony and understand how it is used in works of art. (Understanding) Assemble a class work of art designed to demonstrate unity. (Applying, Creating) Find the focal point in a teacher-selected artwork and support your decision with visual identifiers. (Evaluating) Cross Curricular Connections Math: Measure the dimensions of the completed class quilt. Science: Look for harmony in outdoor landscapes and formulate ways artists imitate this natural harmony in their art. Music: Harmony is created when voices blend together to create one unified sound. Social Studies: Explore Huichol culture. Study the history of quilting in America. Title, Artist, Year Josie Goad, School House (“Log Cabin”), 1978 Visual Thinking Strategies Protocol www.vtshome.org 13. Take a quiet moment to look. 14. What’s going on in this picture? 15. What do you see that makes you say that? 16. What more can we find? 13. July, 2011 J Elliott,