Unit 4: Celebrations
Artist: Nick Cave
- FINGER PUPPETS: MODELING COMPOUND: I made a Lion to represent my bold personality and my zodiac sign
Artist Norman Rockwell
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- CELEBRATING 21ST CENTURY AMERICA: GRAPHIC DESIGN: I made a magazine cover that Celebrations American Leisure by focusing on children. My focus was on summer and I created faux articles concerning ways to make leisure educational and questions as to whether summer is necessary, which is a contested current argument. I have attached an image and a document download of my publisher piece.
Artist: Miriam Schapiro
- ARTIST'S CHOICE: I chose to do another Cassatt Print-Making Piece to go with my final lesson plan. The theme I used is Nature. I created a haiku poem, used photography, print-making, and the scientific topic of habitat to create this piece.
Unit 4: Celebrations Reflection
All three studios are meaningfully related to the big idea of celebrations. The Nick Cave studio embodied celebration through creation of a character celebrating my identity. My lion celebrated my identity in a broad way. This is related to Pink’s (2006) idea of synthesis as something that “detect[s] broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers” (p. 130). Someone may not look at the specific lion as representative of my identity, but broadly the essence of a lion as strong and driven embodies who I am. My Norman Rockwell piece involved a magazine cover celebrating summertime leisure. Finally, my Miriam Schapiro was piece was celebrating nature by highlighting something important to a wild animal. This celebration is connected to the meaningfulness of elements of nature we take advantage of that other creatures use in various ways.
I plan to use these studio ideas in conjunction with the theme of celebrations in my classroom. Celebrations help students learn about cultures. As Pink (2006) stated: “What’s the most prevalent and perhaps most important, prefix of our times? Multi” (p.134). In a multicultural world, celebrating what makes us unique and similar is important. Also, integration is multidisciplinary! I will use the Nick Cave studio with literacy and science because students could create animal puppets and shoebox habitats and present how the animal interacts in its environment, The student could write a script of the important information, also. Social Studies would be great for the Rockwell piece. Students could create a cover for a magazine cover for Time Magazine that celebrates a culture of the student’s own choosing. Students could use literacy, too by writing about special celebrations within that culture and wonderful influences that culture has had on society! Finally, I will use the ideas of the Schapiro studio to ask students to create pieces that represent famous females through history, like Rosa Parks. Students can use fabric or create different quilt-style pieces out of paper or tissue paper and create meaningful and unique pieces. I think celebrations is my favorite theme for incorporation thus far because culture is so rich with potential!
References
Pink, D.H. (2006). A Whole new mind. New York, NY: Penguin Group Inc.
I plan to use these studio ideas in conjunction with the theme of celebrations in my classroom. Celebrations help students learn about cultures. As Pink (2006) stated: “What’s the most prevalent and perhaps most important, prefix of our times? Multi” (p.134). In a multicultural world, celebrating what makes us unique and similar is important. Also, integration is multidisciplinary! I will use the Nick Cave studio with literacy and science because students could create animal puppets and shoebox habitats and present how the animal interacts in its environment, The student could write a script of the important information, also. Social Studies would be great for the Rockwell piece. Students could create a cover for a magazine cover for Time Magazine that celebrates a culture of the student’s own choosing. Students could use literacy, too by writing about special celebrations within that culture and wonderful influences that culture has had on society! Finally, I will use the ideas of the Schapiro studio to ask students to create pieces that represent famous females through history, like Rosa Parks. Students can use fabric or create different quilt-style pieces out of paper or tissue paper and create meaningful and unique pieces. I think celebrations is my favorite theme for incorporation thus far because culture is so rich with potential!
References
Pink, D.H. (2006). A Whole new mind. New York, NY: Penguin Group Inc.