Benjamin A. Gorman
Major Concept:
For decision making, available resources should be used, choices explored and considerations of the results must occur. The student’s home would be a natural resource, familiar yet often unnoticed, and given a personal connection, the consideration should be careful.
Objectives:
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1. Students will draw the facade of their home as it exists, then make a change (an addition or a deletion).
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2. Students will practice scale, use of a ruler, drawing and using their imagination.
Activities:
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1. Presentation of the architectural analysis (appendix I) of Warner’s Hardware Store while viewing the slide will illustrate how a facade can be read. It will also serve to reinforce the vocabulary introduced in Lesson II.
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2. Using graph paper the students will draw the front of their house using scale.
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3. Using tracing paper a copy can be made and the lines heavily accented; a decision can be made concerning what may be changed. A second trace copy now can be made with the change included; shrubbery can be added.
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4. Both drawings can be mounted for comparison viewing and analysis.
Extended Activities:
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1. Using the map (appendix II), students are to locate the school and their home, locate their church, any parks and the U.I. Company. Then take a walking tour as indicated.
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2. Students should select a building shown in the slides or one of interest near their house and write a descriptive narrative of the structure.
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3. Students could take photographs of buildings that are being restored, have been restored or are in need of restoration. The photos can be put into a scrapbook with the location of the structures.