Life Lessons in all Shapes
4th and 5th grade
Big Idea
Personal narratives with comics
Key Concepts
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Art can tell stories. It can be read, like reading a book
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Sharing our experiences can help us process how we feel and understand ourselves better
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Listening to our classmates stories can help us understand them better and see the world from a different perspective.
Students experiment with new ways of observational drawing.
Essential Questions
Students compare and contrast paintings in a discussion focused on interpreting artwork.
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In what ways do artists tell stories?
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Is it important to tell our stories/experiences? Why?
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How does listening to other peoples stories build community, empathy, connections?
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How does art help us understand the lives of people who are different from us?
National Art Standards
Creating
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4th-VA:Cr2.3.4a Document, describe, and represent regional constructed environments.
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5th- VA:Cr2.3.5a Identify, describe, and visually document places and/or objects of personal significance.
Responding
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4th- VA:Re.7.2.4a Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages.
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5th- VA:Re.7.1.5a Compare one's own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.
Connecting
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4th-VA:Cn11.1.4a Through observation, infer information about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created.
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5th- VA:Cn11.1.5a Identify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or society.
Featured Artists
Laylah Ali
Pranav Sood
Lynda Barry
Looking and Talking
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What is the story, what do you think is going on?
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What do you see that makes you say that?
