uCreating a painting soundtrack is one of my favorite museum activities. It allows students to be loud in the museum. I have always felt that students feel more comfortable after this activity. Maybe because they were able to break the rules for a minute, and it takes the edge off of being in a a cold, rule filled museum. I like anything that adds a little tiny bit of chaos in an art museum. You can do this activity with any painting. Here I'll use John Marin's Pertaining to Fifth Avenue and Forty-Second Street. The objective of this lesson is for students to identify characters in the painting and define what a character and setting is. Prompt Questions: Where are we in this painting? What is the setting of this painting? Is a cold day? Warm day? Happy day? Do we see any characters in this painting? What is a character? How many? Can animals be characters? Are there any animals in this painting? Do you think the characters are making any sounds in this painting? What sounds would they be making? What about the dog? Let's mimic the dog barking together. What about the sounds of the setting (the city)? What does the word setting mean? What would that sound like? The wind? Can we make a wind sound as a group? Activity: Write down the characters/settings that make noises and have them each pick a sound. Great, now that everyone picked your sound we are going to make the sounds of the characters and place! We will create an orchestra. Look at the educator's hands for cues to lower your voice or raise your voice. When the educator makes a stop sign with your hand what do you do? STOP! Great, let's go! The SPE will be the conductor and monitor the sounds of the characters and the setting!
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Alexander Calder's Only, Only Bird This work of art is a sculpture. What is a sculpture? A sculpture is a 3-D object. A sculpture has many sides, and sometimes you can walk around it. Let's look closely at this sculpture. Question Prompts: What colors do you see? What shapes? What do you think this artwork is made out of? Can this sculpture move? How does the sculpture move? What type of animal is this? This sculpture is a hanging sculpture. What is the sculpture's background? White walls. Activity: Now we are going to create a habitat for Only, Only Bird. What is a habitat? A habitat is an animal's natural home or environment. What could this bird's habitat be? A farm, a field, a lagoon, a forest, a desert. Use your imagination and create a habitat for Only, Only Bird. Use this worksheet. Take a gallery walk around Lawrence's Migration Series Discuss: Do most of these panels represent the North or the South? What makes you say that? Use your knowledge of the Northeast region that you have been studying in class! Activity: Students can work in groups or individually. In your booklet you each have a letter written by a person during the Great Migration. I want you to see what panel best represents your letter and why.Then determine based on your map where they may have ended up! Letter 1 Dear Sir: I have been reading the Chicago newspaper and saw so many advertisements about the work in the north... I am working hard in the south and can hardly earn a living. I have a wife and one child and can hardly feed them. I thought to write and ask you...how to get a pass for myself and family. Natchez, Mississippi. Letter 2 Gentlemen: I want to get in touch with you in regard of good location & a job i am for race elevation every way. I want a job in a small town somewhere in north where I can receive very good wages and where I can educate my 3 little girls and demand respect of intelligence. Let me hear from you all at once please. Yours truly. New Orleans, LA Letter 3 Dear sir. I am a young man and want to finish school. I want you to look out for a job for me. I can work the mornings or the evenings. I would like to get a job with a family so I can continue taking my piano lessons. I can do anything around the house. I have finished grammar school. Send me the name of the best High School in Chicago. Selma, AL. What Panel best represents this letter? ______ Why?________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Based on the map below what are the possible city or cities that this person would have migrated to? Take a gallery walk around the room. Take some time looking at the even-numbered panels, since this will be your first time viewing them! What do you think? What do you notice?
Just like you all conducted a lot of research to investigate the Northeast region in your classrooms, Jacob Lawrence had to do a lot of research in order to create this series. He went to the New York Public Library often, looking at newspaper articles, photos, letters, and testimonials of other migrant families who had made the journey from the South to the North. His mother and father also made this journey from the South to the North. The Great Migration was a part of HIS story too! Now, I want you to look in your booklet. You will get to see some of the materials that may have been available to Jacob Lawrence while he was doing his research on the Great Migration. Look at them carefully. Find the panel that closely matches the photograph. Do you think your picture represents the South or the North? Why or Why not? |
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