Allow a fifth day entirely for finishing and refining work.
Monitor your class. Classes work at different paces, and some classes will need two days to complete their project. If some of your students need time to finish, you can use the sixth day making sure each student artist who is finished fills out an artist statement, and have students who are done help you to document their artworks, and set up a display for them.
SWBAT carefully complete their work.
Students will be working individually, so have materials prepared to go out to tables/or desks depending on how your class is set up.
Drawings from Lesson 4, colored pencils
NOTE: Artist Statement Worksheet (1 per student)
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INSTRUCTIONS: CAREFULLY COMPLETE ARTWORK & ADD AN ARTIST STATEMENT
Tell the students that they will have the entire day to color and finish their work. Afterwards, explain to them that when they are finished, they can begin working on an artist statement.
An artist statement is something that an artist writes that can tell his or her viewer important information about his or her artwork if he or she is not there to explain it in person. Show them the artist statement sheet and give them an example.
Check for understanding by asking, “Who was listening closely that can sum up what we are doing today?” Make sure that student artists can list all the steps and clarify anything that needs clarifying.
The students work independently on their work as the teacher circulates. Foster strong work habits by commenting on student artists who are focused on their work as well as student artist who seems be pushing themselves to try new things.
Encourage them to cover up all the white areas before moving on to details. Ask them about the decisions that they are making to make them aware of focused artistic decisions; i.e, “Why did you decide to use a short, diagonal line pattern?” or “I’m noticing your color choices! How did you decide on them?” Keep the observations neutral and let the artists take it from there.
STUDENTS SHARE THE WORK OF THE ARTIST THEY INTERVIEWED.
Depending on the teacher’s style of classroom management, it might be helpful to only choose and train a few kids to clean. Make sure to train these helpers well in advance so that you aren’t left with a messy room.
Clean-up times will vary with materials; get to know your class and allow 5-10 minutes depending on how efficient they are and whether or not the material was messy.
* Have the rest of the class gather close, choose a partner, and interview them about the artistic decisions that they made.
* Have students come up and present the work of the person they interviewed. The artist is not allowed to say anything until the end.
It might be worth setting aside some time to look at all the work their fellow classmates made; whether through a presentation in the hall or setting them out on a table and having a walk through.
Students may move to quickly or ‘scribble’ to get through areas. Demonstrate to them the different careful coloring makes by taking a blank piece of paper, drawing two circles, and coloring one quickly with scribbles, and coloring the other slowly and carefully using whatever technique you want. Ask the student to talk to you about the different between the two.
When a student has finished their work completely, have them fill out a self-assessment using the worksheet. When they are completely done, have them work on a project of their choice (free draw) while the rest of the class finishes.
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