The audience that students write to will be their peers. Writing conveys facts, thoughts, ideas, feelings, interpretations, and meaning to a reader. Students will analyze and use photographs as aids to multiple genres of writing -- quick write, I search Paper, short story, open-ended responses; several points of view writing; response to the prompts; descriptive, narrative, and opinion paragraphs; letters, journals, newspaper articles and editorials; compare and contrast, expository, reflective, and persuasive essays. The unit will span 17 Writing blocks of 60 minutes each.
Open ended rubrics: score of 2 Proficient, 1 and 0, non- proficient.
Writing Rubrics: Scores of 6,5,4 are proficient; scores of 3, 2, 1 are non-proficient.
Concept objectives:
Students will
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· Recognize visual arts as a language for communicating ideas and emotions.
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· Interpret history through several lenses.
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· Analyze history through primary source documents.
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· Communicate and express themes and ideas through photographs.
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· Relate photographs to historical, cultural , and personal heritage.
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· Explain cause and effect of events.
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· Demonstrate the precise use of appropriate subject, language, vocabulary and
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terminology and use the information to make comparisons of similarities and
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differences.
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· Discover an interest in, and an enjoyment of, the past.
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· Develop a knowledge and understanding of the past.
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· Make relevant connections between present and past events.
Skill Objectives :
Students will
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· Improve creative, analytic, and critical thinking skills.
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· Identify the elements of art in photographs (line, shape, form, texture, color value, space).
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· Organize information in a logically sequenced manner.
List of Images:
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Image A:
Proud Seamstress
,Daguerreotype, unidentified photographer1853
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html-
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click subject- index-sewing machines
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Image B:
The Telegrapher
, Daguerreotype,Unidentified photographer, 1853
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http://www.photography-museum.com/teleglg.html-
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click Masterworks of photography
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Image C
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American Gothic
, Gordon Parks, 1942
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Image D:
American Gothic
, Grant Wood 1930
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Image E
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Grizzly giant,
Mariposa Grove,
Carleton Watkins, 1861
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Image F
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Mirror Lake, Yosemite,
Carleton Watkins, 1866
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Image G
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A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg
, Timothy O'Sullivan 1863
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Image H:
A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia,
John Reekie, 1865
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Image I:
Portrait of Lewis Powell,
Alexander Gardener,1865
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Image J
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Looking for Lost Baggage
, Lewis Hine 1905.
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Image K:
The Steerage,
Alfred Stieglitz, 1907
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Image L
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Sand Dunes, Carson Desert, Nevada,
Timothy O'Sullivan,1868
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Image M
: Dunes, Death Valley,
Edward Weston, 1938
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mage N:
Migrant Mother,
Dorothea Lange, 1936
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Image O:
Moonrise,
Hernandez, New Mexico
, Ansel Adams, 1941
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Image P:
Oxford Tire Pile #5, Westley, California,
Edward Burtynsky,1999
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Image Q:
Garage Outside Southern City, Atlanta, Georgia
, Walker Evans,1936
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Image R
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Kitchen Corner,Hale Country, Alabama
, Walker Evans,1936
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Image S:
Flag Raising on Iwo Jima
, Joseph Rosenthal, 1903
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Image T:
Phoenix, Arizona war worker pens her Navy boyfriend
, Ralph Crane,1943
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Image U:
Three Americans
,George Strock, 1943