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Overarching Concept for the Lesson/Unit: Access to Information
Grade Level: High School
Essential Questions:
How do we acquire information? What do we need in order to acquire information? Who controls the access to information? How do we store information?
Standards:
VAHSVA.CN.2 Develop life skills through the study and production of art (e.g. collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, communication).
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Collaborate in large and small groups with peers and community to examine, discuss, and plan projects.
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Use creativity and imagination in planning and development of products.
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Use critical thinking and problem solving strategies to conceive of and develop ideas.
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Communicate meaning and ideas through a variety of means including visual representations, technology, and performance.
VAHSVA.RE.3 Engage in the process of art criticism to make meaning and increase visual literacy.
a. Create a written response to works of art through various approaches.
VAHSVA.CR.1 Visualize and generate ideas for creating works of art.
a. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
b. Consider multiple options, weighing consequences, and assessing results.
c. Practice the artistic process by researching, brainstorming, and planning to create works of art.
VAHSVA.CR.6 Keep an ongoing visual and verbal record to explore and develop works of art.
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Make visual/verbal connections through recording artistic research, planning, and reflection.
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Evaluate choice of media, techniques, and processes as a means to edit, revise and modify works of art.
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Maintain notes and class information.
Objectives:
Students can develop plans in collaboration with classmates in groups large and small. Students can construct an object that required the use of critical thinking and problem solving strategies. Students can explain their artistic choices and describe techniques that are used. Students can design a presentation that expresses these choices and techniques.
Assessment Instruments:
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eBay critique activity about Brian Dittmer’s “Gothic T”
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