Anticipated Instructional Time: Two to three 90-minute instructional blocks.

Visit the original lesson plan created by Govind Lingam entitled: "Teach Design: Mood Board" to gain insight into the idea behind and process for using mood boards as an instructional tool.

Teach Design: Mood Board Original Lesson Plan

Copies of a variety of imagery-rich artwork from The National Gallery of Art of similar open-source site:

National Gallery of Art

I suggest the following paintings because of the range of stylistic tecniques employed by each artist. However, a wide variety of art will work for this activity:

• "Four Seasons in One Head" by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
• "Eye and Barbed Wire" by Nathan Lerner
• "Saint Ildefonso" by el Greco
• "Movement in Space" by Alexander Calder

Copies of the novella: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. There is a free electronic version available at Project Gutenberg:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Copies of a TWIST graphic organizer or similar type of close-reading organizer (one per student).