Lesson Plan
iMovie; Spirituality
Grade Level:
8th
Digiital Media: Photoshop
LESSON OVERVIEW
I am going to teach the eighth grade how to illustrate
the big idea of spirituality by using photoshop. Its important for students to
critically think about what spirituality is, what it means to them and to
others. My hope would be that the
students are able to learn the basic technical tools of photoshop to be able to
effectively illustrate what spirituality means to them.
BENCHMARK
(MICHIGAN STATE VISUAL ARTS STANDARDS AND BENCHMARKS (ex.ART.I.VA.EL.1)
1. Apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.
2. Apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.
3. Analyze, describe, and evaluate works of art.
4. Understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their
historical, social, and cultural contexts.
OBJECTIVES
-I want the students to learn some basic technical skills
necessary to complete the assignments
requirements
-To effectively illustrate what spirituality means to
them
-To gain a better understanding of what spirituality
means to others.
-To be able to justify the decisions they made in their
work and to think about what could have been done differently for the work to
be more successful
KEY
CONCEPT:
Spirituality
is a complex idea and can be experienced in many different ways to different
people.
ESSENTIAL
QUESTION:
What is
spirituality and what does it mean to you?
ARTIST: Akiane
Kramarik
-Experienced poverty and affluence as a child
-Began drawing at age four, and painting at age six; self
taught
- Had a life changing spiritual transformation at age
four, bringing her family to God
-Her work comes from her
inspiration of visions, dreams, observations of people, nature and God. She
also uses both poetry and painting as a way of expressing her
thoughts thoroughly
-The
goal for her paintings is to be inspiration for others and to be a gift to God.
- She uses acrylic paint for full
figures and oils for large portraits.
-She
considers her style: Akianism-a universal blend of realism and imaginism
-The
artist is self taught who acquires knowledge of what she is going to paint
through visions she recieves, observation, and her imagination.
-Learns mostly from observation
ARTITST ARTWORK:
Rebirth,
24”30”, Age 15(2010) oil
"Rebirth"
is a story of transformation from life to death, and from death back to life.
The vines full of blossoms have surrounded slowly eroding pillars and fully
participate in extending their last moments of life.
Only a few of
the columns are left to support the unity of decaying and crumbling structure,
but by the time the architectural antique is completely gone, the rose-vine
garden will stand in its place. Rebirth symbolizes a continuous restoration of
matter and spirit where the end is part of further growth.
As eternity
rampages our destiny
yesterday
refuses to remember today.
By
remodeling our destiny
we may
forget what has been replaced.
At a
guillotine struggles take a crown of misery,
and icicle
eyes melt like an unsolved riddle.
But just
like a dream being nursed to life ~
we are
nursed back to eternity.
ART ACTIVITY:
DAY 1
Students will have a group brainstorming session and we
will create a concept map together on the board about what spirituality is and
what it might mean to other people. We will watch a video on an artist, and
look into what spirituality means to them, and how it is illustrated through
their work. The students will then individually write about what spirituality
means to them and create at least three ideas about how they might illustrate
that idea by using digital media.
Akiane Kramarik Video: http://youtu.be/hSkgIQLTDFY
DAY 2
Lab Day: Students will learn how to use the basic skills
in photoshop such as opening images in photoshop, changing the size, opacity,
how to use the lasso tool, ect. They will have some time to explore and play
around with the ideas they have in photoshop.
Day 3
Work Day. Towards the end of class students will get into
groups of three and have in-progress crits together. The students will have to write down their
peers comments and suggestions and turn it in. Whether the students took their
peers comments into consideration or now will be considered when grading the
project, and if they didn’t, the student would have to justify their choices
when they analyze their completed work.
Day 4-5
Work Day. Students will fill out self-analysis worksheet
for homework
Day 6
Group presentations and crit day
CONCEPT MAPPING:
Spirituality- diverse, experiences, ritualistic,
culturally influenced, can unite and divide, transcending
RESOURCES:
Classroom
marker board, Lab, Photoshop, Self’-Analysis worksheet
EXAMPLE:
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