Writing About Art Lesson
Writing About Art Lesson
Writing About Art Lesson
Subject: ELA
Grade Level: 5
1. STANDARDS
Writing
1.4 Create simple documents by using electronic media and employing
organizational features (e.g., passwords, entry and pull-down menus,
word searches, a thesaurus, spell checks).
Written and Oral Language Conventions
Capitalization 1.4 Use correct capitalization.
Spelling 1.5 Spell roots, suffixes, prefixes, contractions, and syllable
constructions correctly.
2. OBJECTIVES
Content: The students will summarize what they learned in an art lesson by
writing a grammatically correct, well-structured paragraph.
Key Vocabulary
a. Color Theory: a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual
effects of a specific color combination
b. Primary Color: Colors in their own right; can not be made by mixing (red,
yellow, blue).
c. Secondary Color: Colors produced by mixing two primary colors.
d. Shades: Used to darken or lighten a color (black, white)
e. Color Wheel: A tool artists use to determine which colors and shades to
mix to achieve a desired effect.
f. Blending: Smoothly mixing colors to achieve a desired effect.
g. Shading: Using gradients of light-to-dark color to give the impression of
three dimensions.
h. One-Point Perspective: Using one vanishing point on the horizon line of a
drawing.
3. ASSESSMENT
Informal or Formative:
Formal or Summative:
4. INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND LEARNING TASKS
I. ANTICIPATORY SET
Motivation: Remind students of the art lesson we had; tell them we are going to
include a journal entry in our portfolios so we remember what we did in
the future
when we go to do art.
Activate Prior Knowledge: Ask students to talk in groups for 1 minute about what
we learned that day.