Lesson Plan

Teacher Name:Noah Shaffer

Subject: Art I

Title: Expressionists and their Work

CSO's

VA.O.VAI.3.2 -employ subjects, themes, symbols, and ideas in artworks.

VA.O.VAI.3.3 -apply problem-solving skills in the creative process selecting subjects, symbols, and ideas for use in their own artwork.
 

VA.O.VAI.4.1- examine the historical and cultural backgrounds used of various artwork within the media.

Theme:

            Students will benefit by learning valuable information as to the history and the ideas that were implemented in a broad range of art movements and their artists. Students will also gain technological experience through first hand experience in dealing with Microsoft Powerpoint, MLA formats, and various researching techniques while searching for electronic data online. This lesson will put emphasis on teaching about the history of art rather than individual production of art.

Supported Objectives:

-         Students will use the internet to search for articles relating to specified art movements.

-         Students will use Microsoft Powerpoint to create a presentation based upon the information that they have gathered.

-         Students will also research three separate works that relate to their individual art movements.

-         Based from information gathered on the three works, students will write a formal critique of the work.

Daily Schedule of Activities:

Day 1

-         Students will receive a lecture about expressionism with supporting visual examples of famous expressionist artists.

- With remaining time, students will be given an opportunity to search for images and or names of expressionist artists. If there are not enough computers in the classroom for all of the students, then the class will be taken to a computer lab or the library, wherever the school has their computers set up.

Day 2

-         Students will be asked to find three expressionist artists who interest them and ask the instructor which, if any of the three artists would be acceptable to do further research. The instructor should only refrain students from researching artists that may be difficult to find information on, or if their work were to be predominately inappropriate.

-         Students will spend the rest of the period taking notes or saving information that they find on their particular artist.

Day 3

-         The instructor will demonstrate how to make a powerpoint slide. The instructor should demonstrate how to insert pictorial references, change backgrounds, and input information.

-         Students should continue gathering information on their artist, but also they should complete at least one slide before the end of class.

Day 4

-         Students should continue working on their powerpoint presentations being that they should have all the information that they need to complete their presentation.

-         The instructor should give out a packet of information to his/her students explaining and demonstrating MLA formatting for their sources.

-         Students will also be given an out-of class assignment to write a formal critique of three works that their artist composed. They are permitted to use information they have gathered for their presentation. The critique will be due the same day as their presentation and should simply be a compare and contrast critique of elements of design previously discussed in the semester.

-         Day 5

-         Students should finalize their presentations.

-         Days 6-7

-         Students will present their artists to the class and turn in their critiques. Students will be chosen to present alphabetically based on their own last name.

            In this lesson, students will create a powerpoint presentation based upon an expressionist painter and his/her work. This is strictly a historical lesson that is meant to inform students of a style and different influential artists. Students will identify elements and principals of design that their artist used in several pieces of their work as they gather information and create their presentation. Students will give a presentation to their classmates to give them diverse knowledge of a different time, place, and culture.

Materials:

-A visual presentation (powerpoint) that displays an example of what students will be expected to create.

-Access to several computers.