A general template of structure strips to use after reading a text. Students will use these strips to make a connection with a character.
Students demonstrate knowledge of Literary Movements in this project.
Students learn about and discuss decorative arts objects and their functions.
Students will make connections between their personal experiences and landscapes.
Students will practice their speaking skills while describing a landscape scene for a partner to draw.
Students discover how visual artists represent a story by depicting a single moment from it.
Students will create a story based on an image.
Students will make connections between their personal experiences and a work of art and use visual analysis to describe a portrait.
Students will "read" a visual image very much like they would read words in a story.
Students will spend more time looking at details and write an imagined interview with a sitter.
Students learn about and discuss the objects commonly found in still-life paintings.
Students learn about and discuss the basic shapes used in artistic compositions.
Students demonstrate comprehension in the form of a Movie Poster.
A project about identity and the impact of societal stereotypes and perceptions.
All parts of a novel unit for Refugee by Alan Gratz
Use this game to reinforce the concept of odd and even numbers. This game can be played as a teacher led whole group activity. The ppt. slides can be displayed by the teacher on the white board and students can solve the riddles on their dry erase board and then show their answers to the teacher.
Students sort key words for different text structures and organizational patterns.
This lesson focuses on a family depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and families. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using possessive adjectives. Students are challenged to infer what the relationships are between figures depicted and what individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.
This lesson focuses on people at work depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and work. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using job-related vocabulary and adjectives to describe feelings. Students are challenged to infer what job individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.
This lesson focuses on different exterior spaces depicted in works of art. Students practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and how people react to the sea. Activities in this section teach students about some of the elements of art (color and line), adjectives, and two kinds of sentences (declarative and imperative).