5th Grade - Lesson 4 : Color and Line for Mood

Description of Project

Students write poems stimulated by prompts to inspire metaphor in student writing, and then translate their metaphors to abstract paintings.

Verse from the Sea 8 by Kieko Hara

Photos courtesy of 4Culture.

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.
3.a. Create artist statements using art vocabulary to describe personal choices in art-making.
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.

*5.L.5.a. Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.

5.SL.1.c. Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others.

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