9TH GRADE HUMANITIES
Name: __________________
Unit 3: Polymaths and Politicians
Date: ______________
MFA Protocol
Section: 9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
Directions: As a group, find your painting in the museum. Then, follow the instructions in this
packet, using your pencil and clipboard.
Chaperones: No need to help your students find their painting. Tell them to try on their own!
Group Number/Chaperone
1 – Rieser
2 – Thayer
3 – Cheng
Artist
Walker
Copley
Miro
Title
The Rich Soil Down There
Watson and the Shark
4 – Tucker
5 – Henderson
6 – Moody
7 – DaSilva
8 – Schrader
9 – GH
Rockwell
Homer
Canaletto
Regnault
Homer
Durer
Moving Day
The Fog Warning
Bacino di San Marco, Venice
Automedon with Horses of Achilles
Boys in a Pasture
Triumphal Chariot of Maximilian I
1)
Cloud and Birds (Nuage et Oiseaux (Cloud
and Birds)
(3 min) LOOK!
a) Look closely at the painting. Pretend this is the last time you will ever see it. Ask
yourself what you see. Think about light, composition, vanishing point, linear
perspective, chiascuro, sfumato, color, size, shape, and anything else you think you can
see going on in the painting. DON’T WRITE anything down yet.
2)
(5 min) WRITE!
a) In the space below, write down everything you see and are thinking about, or sketch the
painting. Fill the box however you choose, but fill it up! Don’t stop writing/sketching for
5 minutes.
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9TH GRADE HUMANITIES
Name: __________________
Unit 3: Polymaths and Politicians
Date: ______________
MFA Protocol
Section: 9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
(5 min) SHARE OBSERVATIONS
a) In your small groups, go around in a circle. Everyone should share at least 1 observation
they had about the painting. These should only be the things you SEE (not the things you
INFER). Keep going until the full 5 minutes is done. If it is done early, keep looking
silently at the painting. [EX: “I see a hat on the man’s head”]
4)
(5 min) SHARE INFERENCES
a) In your small group, go around in a circle. Everyone should mention an observation
made by someone else, and share an INFERENCE (assumption) about what that person
observed. [EX: “Tatiana saw a hat on the man’s head, and I infer that this means he is a
rich and important dude”]
5)
(5 min) TAKE NOTES
a) Using what your group discussed, take notes using the two columns below. Make sure to
make your notes clear, and make sure that your observations and inferences are filled in
correctly.
b) Think about our essential questions:
i) How does location affect who I am?
ii) Who thrives in times of chaos?
iii) What motivates us to reach our destinies?
Take notes here!
In the painting, I see…
Because of what I see, I infer…
EX: Man is wearing a hat with a feather
EX: This might mean he is important
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9TH GRADE HUMANITIES
Name: __________________
Unit 3: Polymaths and Politicians
Date: ______________
MFA Protocol
Section: 9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
Based on your notes, what will you argue in your open response
paragraph [try to answer an essential question in your response]?
OPTION A:
___________________ uses the elements of painting to show that
_______________________________________________thrives in
times of chaos.
OPTION B:
___________________ uses the elements of painting to show that
____________________________________________motivates us to
reach our destinies.
OPTION C:
___________________ uses the elements of painting to show that
locations affect who we are because ___________________________
________________________________________________________.
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9TH GRADE HUMANITIES
Name: __________________
Unit 3: Polymaths and Politicians
Date: ______________
MFA Protocol
Section: 9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
Write your complete open response paragraph here. Don’t forget your topic sentence, indention,
3 details, 3 pieces of evidence, and concluding sentence.
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9TH GRADE HUMANITIES
Name: __________________
Unit 3: Polymaths and Politicians
Date: ______________
MFA Protocol
Section: 9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
If you have time, for bonus points, write a second open response about a second painting in the
space below:
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Other paintings you may want to find:
Qur’an (Iran)
Portrait of a woman (Rome)
Winged Protective Diety (Iraq)
Virgin and Child with an Angel (Roselli)
Moonlit landscape (Stinhen)
A Capriote (Sargent)
The arrangement of Things (Clecher)
Number 10 (Pollock)
George Washington (Stuart)
Cabinet (Gabinete)
Women and a white horse (Gwgkin)
Antibe, The Pink Cloud (Signau)
Waterlillies (Monet)