Units of Study / ARTS ACHIEVE VISUAL ARTS UNIT: ELEMENTARY

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LESSONS 1-3 | LESSONS 4-8 | LESSONS 9-11

Standards

Common Core standards

Students who are College and Career Ready in Reading, Writing, Listening, and Language:

1. Demonstrate independence
2. Build strong content knowledge
3. Respond to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
4. Comprehend as well as critique
5. Value Evidence
6. Use technology and digital media strategically and capably
7. Come to understand other perspectives and cultures

Students who are College and Career Ready in Mathematics:

1. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning with others
2. Use appropriate tools strategically
3. Attend to precision
4. Look for and make use of structures

NYC Blueprint Standards

Art Making

Create a series of drawings that demonstrate:

• Volume
• Proportion
• Control

Literacy in the Visual Arts

Looking at and Discussing Art

• Participate in a class discussion about a work of art. Using the techniques of accountable talk, build upon the observations of others.
• Make inferences based upon visual evidence

Developing Visual Arts Vocabulary

Using a work of art as text, write a personal response. Include a description of the artist’s:

• Treatment of subject
• Tools and techniques
• Composition

Use as a reference in class discussions and writing assignments

Problem Solving; Interpreting and Analyzing Art

• Recognize that viewers bring prior knowledge and experiences to their interpretations of a work of art.
• Note the variety of classmates’ interpretations of a single work of art; discuss the diverse responses

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