And then I heard someone else say, “What is that sound?”
And then you heard a voice of someone saying, “What is that?”
Mine was - Yeah, what was yours? Mine was hearing a roar and then hearing someone scream!
Ooooooh. And then the lion starts eating him. Okay!
You can add on to or
combine this type of activity with a writing extension
by asking your students to write a first person narrative or dialogue
from the perspective of one of the characters
included in the work of art. You can also ask them to write a postcard to a
friend about this place that they're visiting.
You can also use a thought bubble exercise to help guide your students.
Another option is to combine a sensory experience
with drawing by asking your students to make a drawing what happened before
or after the events that are occurring in the work of art that
you're looking at.
These types of sensory activities are very useful alone or combined with
writing or drawing for both younger and older students.
Teaching tip: always test out the activity plan to use with your students.
It's important to make sure that your directions are clear and that it is
developmentally appropriate.
Drawing is another great way to get your students engaged.
There are many different types of drawing activities that you can use depending on
what your goals are.
You can design drawing activities that help students record details of an artwork.
The goal with this type of activity is to gather visual information
and not to create a perfect finished drawing. You can also develop drawing exercises
that are ways for students to analyze
the form of three-dimensional objects, which are often very visually complex.
I like to use drawing in many different ways for close looking,
deep analysis and also to give students time to engage their imagination
and creativity.
This painting is called Three Musicians,
it’s by Pablo Picasso, and similar to
Sleeping Gypsy and I and the Village that you just looked at,
he’s kind of playing with this idea of real and imaginary, okay?
And he’s depicting for us
these characters which are sort of loosely modeled after himself and some of his friends
in this very festive kind of music making
kind of environment, right?
And I thought it was really interesting after talking about I and the Village where its this person showing us
this place that he’s from but he’s kind of inserted all these different kinds of things
and different kinds of
people that have sort of changed the reality of what it is.
So I thought what we could do today
is give you guys an option to make a little
visual story, a little visual portrait of you and two of your friends
and just kind of showing us what you guys
would be doing. So what I’m going to do is pass out some pencils to you.