HCPSS Visual Arts - Lesson Plan

Course or Grade: K-1 Unit Title: Storytelling with Art Lesson #1: Storytelling with Basquiat
Teacher(s): Ms. Aguilar Number of Minutes ___50 minutes

HCPSS Visual Arts Standard(s): What specific content standards will be the focus of this day’s learning experience?
Highlight the focus.
● Idea development: Applies strategies to generate a variety of solutions to a given art problem.
● Design/Organization. : Organizes ideas through the use of materials and compositional / formal strategies.
● Personal choice and meaning-making: Uses best practices and experiences to inform and develop an authentic voice.
● Craftsmanship: Employs strategies and techniques to insure the quality and the final presentation of completed
assignment.
● Studio Skills & Practices: Demonstrates artistic behaviors in the studio environment: perseverance of task, care of
materials, and respect for others and their work.
● Reflection: Communicates an understanding of concepts and strategies, personal choices, through the
analysis/evaluation of artworks.

Enduring Understanding(s): Essential Question(s):

● Creating: U3. To solve problems artists try new
things, collaborate with others, experiment, and
persevere.
● Responding: U2. The process of looking at art
gives us a deeper understanding of the world
around us?
● Creating: How does sharing, trying new things,
and not giving up help you solve problems?
● Responding: How does looking at and talking
about makes us see, think, and wonder about the
world around us?
● Presenting: How does sharing your work with
others help you to improve?

● Presenting:U2. Reflecting on and sharing artwork

allows artists to grow.

Today’s Learning Objectives(s): Posted in the classroom, and written from the student’s perspective, during the learning
experience, these questions or “I can” statements explicitly communicate, to students, the intended understandings or acquisitions
for this learning experience. Daily learning objectives should reflect visual arts objectives for Creating, Responding, and/or
Presenting. Link to K-12 scope and sequence of objectives.

Students will learn about storytelling pictures in order to create an artwork inspired by Basquiat to draw their
fears and how they overcome them.

Assessment Evidence: What exactly do I expect students to be able to do by the end of today’s lesson, and how will I formatively
collect and evaluate evidence of student success?
● Students will be introduced to Jean Basquiat to learn about how we can use art to tell stories.
● Students will watch a video about the poem “Life doesn’t frighten me” by Maya Angelou with Basquiat artwork
and have an open discussion about how his artwork was used to tell the story/poem.
● Students will be asked to put a blue star on the artwork they want to discuss and come up with a possible story
for the artwork.
● Students will be asked to share a previous or past fear and how we can conquer it.
● Students will be asked to check off the steps as they are completing their artwork.
Lesson Development:
Approximate Instructional Sequence
pacing

3 minutes Students will get out materials and objective will be presented.

7 minutes Artist exemplar Jean-Michel Basquiat will be introduced. Two examples of his artworks
will be displayed and with the peardeck students will pick one and come up with a
story based on the painting.

10 minutes A video of the poem/story “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Maya Angelou with
Basquiat's artwork will be shown. They will answer how we can use pictures/artworks
to tell a story. Also what are some of their fears and how they can conquer them.

30 minutes Live demonstrations of artmaking will be shown and questions will be answered.
Students work time. They will make sure they have a fear and a way to conquer it and
make sure it is abstract.

3 minutes Students will verbally participate in an informal discussion to talk about what they
learned and share their artwork.
● Think about what are some things you are afraid of?
○ Is it an animal? A place?
○ What words or images come to mind?
● What can we do to conquer/overcome these fears?

Considerations For Planning

● Vocabulary: What specific content vocabulary will be developed during this learning experience?
-Abstract: is modern art which does not represent images of our everyday world.
-Shape: A closed line.
-Color: a phenomenon of light or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects.
● Resources: What materials or resources are essential for students to successfully complete the lesson tasks or
activities?
You will need
● White paper
● Oil pastels or crayons
● Watercolors
● Paintbrush
● Water
● Anticipated Misconceptions: Some students may not have the proper materials to complete the lesson, so an
alternative use of materials can be provided. For example, students who did not have oil pastels may use
crayons.
● Anticipated Differentiation and Integration of Universal Design for Learning Principles:
Those who struggle will reinforce the vocabulary by answering open ended questions about the lesson or be
taken to a break out room to catch up.
● Extended Learning Experiences: Students will be asked to hold up their artwork as a virtual gallery.