Morgan BohananCritiquing Art Lesson Plan (Part 2)

ART 208Critiquing Historical Art

Grade: 4th, 5th

Subjects: Social Studies-History, Language Arts, and Art

Time Required: 1 hr. 30 min

Featured Art Works: “The Problem We All Live With” by Norman Rockwell

Lesson Overview: Students will look at a historical painting, “The Problem We All Live With” by Norman Rockwell, and they will critique it in 5 steps- react, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate. Students will also be able to look at a key point in history while evaluating the artwork.

Learning Objectives: Students will be able to…

1. Use each of the steps in critiquing art to critique “The Problem We All Live With” by Norman Rockwell.

2. Look at the historical perspective of the painting when evaluating and interpreting the piece.3. Use complete and coherent sentences to get their point across.

Connections:

1. SS-5-HP-S-2: Students will: use information from print and non-print sources to examine factual and fictional accounts of significant historical events and people in US history.

2. SS-5-HP-S-1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the interpretive nature of history using a variety of tools to explain and draw inferences about the importance of major events in US history.

3. W.5.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Materials:

PowerPoint www.american-historama.org/1866-1881-reconstruction-era/segregation-history.htm www.ducksters.com/history/civil_rights/jim_crow_laws.php https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-civil-rights-movement-in-america-1945-to-1968/education-

and-civil-rights/ 5 copies of “The Problem We All Live With” by Norman Rockwell 5 separate areas Writing Journal Pencils

Steps:

1. A lecture will be given- with a PowerPoint- over critiquing art and an introduction into history.2. At the end of the PowerPoint, I will explain the activity to the students telling them the will be split up

into 5 different groups and will be sent to separate tables, all having a different step in critiquing art. 3. Students will be divided up into 5 groups/centers once the lecture/PowerPoint is over.4. Groups will be numbered 1-55. Each group will be sent to a separate table corresponding with the number the group was given.

Morgan BohananCritiquing Art Lesson Plan (Part 2)

ART 2086. Once the students are seated, they will look at the painting at their table and the step in critiquing art that

their group is given. Each step in critiquing art will have questions with it to help the students give the best answer they can…

a. React: How does this painting make you feel?b. Describe: Tell me what you see in the picture, nothing more. c. Analysis: Tell me what elements of art and principles of design you see in the painting and how

the artist used them. d. Interpretation: What is the artist trying to say in this painting?e. Evaluation: Tell me how all this makes the painting’s purpose known. Tell me about the time in

history that this painting shows. 7. Students will have 15 minutes to write the required amount to evaluate the painting with the critique that

they are given. a. React- one to two sentences describing their reaction to the painting b. Describe- a paragraph describing the paintingc. Analysis: a paragraph analyzing the paintingd. Interpretation- a paragraph interpreting the paintinge. Evaluation: a paragraph analyzing the painting

8. Once the 15 minutes are up (students will be given 5 extra minutes if a majority of the class isn’t finished within 15) students will move to the next table-moving to the next number after the one they are at.

9. Once all the groups have been to all the tables students will be sent to their original seats. 10. Once all the students have returned to their seats we will come together as a class and talk about each of

the steps in critiquing art to see what conclusions they have come to. 11. Once the lesson is over, I will collect the writing notebooks and look over each student’s individual

answers too see if the subject needs to be covered more.

Morgan BohananCritiquing Art Lesson Plan (Part 2)

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