1. Topic-
Representing Culture Through Art
 
2. Content-
Standards:
1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend
Use the visual arts to express, communicate, and make meaning. To perceive art involves studying art; scrutinizing and examining art; recognizing, noticing, and seeing art; distinguishing art forms and subtleties; identifying and detecting art; becoming skilled in and gaining knowledge of art; grasping and realizing art; figuring out art; and sensing and feeling art.
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect
Articulate and implement critical thinking in the visual arts by synthesizing, evaluating, and analyzing visual information. To value art involves visualizing, articulating, and conveying art; thinking about, pondering, and contemplating art; wondering about, assessing, and questioning art concepts and contexts; expressing art; defining the relevance, significance of, and importance of art; and experiencing, interpreting, and justifying the aesthetics of art.
3. Invent and Discover to Create
Generate works of arts that employ unique ideas, feelings, and values using different media, technologies, styles, and forms of expression. To make art involves creating, inventing, conceiving, formulating, and imagining art; communicating, ascertaining, and learning about art; building, crafting, and generating art; assembling and manufacturing art; discovering, fashioning, and producing art; and causing art to exist.
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer:
Recognize, articulate, and validate the value of the visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience. To respond to art involves relating to art; connecting to art; personally linking to art; associating with art; bonding to art; moving toward art sensibilities; shifting to art orientations; thinking about art; attaching meaning to art; replying to art; reacting to art; internalizing art; personalizing art; and relating art to diverse cultures.
 
3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
1. Students will be able to analyze cultural signifiers
2. Students will be able to express what it is about their culture it effects their identity
3. Students will create/synthesize a work that reflects their understanding of their own culture and how it effects their identity
 
4. Objectives-
1. Student will write a piece about their own culture and it's identifiers (pre-discussion)
2. Students will discuss their findings with their peers
3. Students will create a work based on their findings
 
5. Materials and Aids-
Art Materials; Promethean Board/Projector; Notebook/Note Paper
 
6. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
 

B. Development-

1. Presentation
2. Discussion
3. Demonstration
 

C. Practice-

1. Brainstorming
2. Thumbnail Sketches - Minimum of Three
 

D. Independent Practice-

1. Produce Final Piece
 

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

1. Allow students to speak in native language
2. Allow students to maintain dialog with other students
3. Give individual attention when needed
4. Remind students where they should be in the process
 

F. Checking for understanding-

1. Ask questions to individuals and small groups
2. Monitor student progress
3. Check work
 

G. Closure-

1. Cleanup
2. Revisit what culture is and why we are working on this project
 

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