5th Grade - Lesson 1 : Converging Lines
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Description of Project
Students create a colored pencil landscape with literature as a stimulus.
Washington Masterworks
The Willows by Peter van Veen
The Birch Grove by Ludwig Dill
City Lane by Armin Landek
Photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum.
Instructional Video
Learning Standards
Arts GLEs
- 1.1.a Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for artmaking.
- 1.2.a Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.
- 2.1.a Experiment and develop artistic ideas and work.
- 2.2.a Demonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials, tools, and equipment.
- 7.1.a Compare one’s own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.
- 8.a Interpret art by analyzing characteristics of form and structure, contextual information, subject matter, visual elements, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed. *10.a Apply formal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through art-making.
Common Core ELA
- 5.RL.1. Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- 5.RL.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.