Instructional Resource Artifact - An Exploration of Artists and Ideas with Bibliography

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Artists, Readings, Music, Other Research Considered

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This research provides YOU with background, meaningful understanding, and ideas for meaningful questions that
engage the students in discussing the critical issues of the unit. Find a minimum of 3 artworks and 2 other
resources supporting your idea. If you do not find enough research and contextual information about a topic,
chose another idea. If you find in your critical inquiry or in your contextual research that the researched artworks
do not fit your defined theme or could not be used appropriately with students, you must move on to find a
better theme or other works. This research develops the issues of the unit and give it direction.

Write a short rationale of your topic:

Briefly describe your chosen resources and how the ideas may or may not fit together…
Chose at least one resource and complete the following research actions:

1. DESCRIPTION AND INTERPRETATION Chose at least one resource. Interpret the work(s) based on personal and
contextual understanding. Consider the works story, “aboutness” and messages. Examine the work of art and
react to it. Describe what you see and begin to make connections.

Description and Interpretation are:

general and impersonal descriptive and meaningful

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Considerations:
 Do you enter the work and provide a sensory view of the work?
 Do you use elaborative language to shape and deepen initial perceptions?
 Do you demonstrate emotional or intellectual engagement with the work of art?
 Do you recognize and write about important elements of the work such as the artist’s use of the elements
and principles of design, symbolism, iconography, metaphor, subjects and events and how they have
created meaning?

2. Develop questions that need answers in order to further your understanding. These are questions that CAN
GUIDE YOU through your contextual research. These are questions you are asking yourself – not your students. If
you find yourself struggling to come up with at least six questions specific to this work of art, consider selecting
another work of art. Please post a minimum of 5 questions

Questions are:
Factual only Evidence of Personal Questioning

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Considerations:
 Do you recognize inconsistencies, ambiguities, and complexities?
 Do you use clues or evidence from the art to make inferences, speculate on the life issues and contextual
motives of the artist?
3. Your research into the historical, cultural, artistic context of the artwork. Pay particular attention to
information that begins to answer some of the questions you had in section two.

Research is:
Names and dates only Descriptive of culture and context

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Considerations:
 Do you present historical and/or cultural research that has led to an understanding of the contexts in
which the artwork was created:
 Artist personal, religious, political, cultural, historical context,
 Art world contexts,
 Events and concerns at the time and place of creation that relate directly to the work?

4. Personal uncovering of layers of meaning and message. These are socio-cultural, economic, political, and/or
social or community identity based. In this section you place your research over your interpretation and develop
all the different messages and meanings that are present.

Single Story Multiple Viewpoints

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Considerations:
 Have you thought through critical/sociological meanings and messages?
 Have you discussed the background of the issues and their relationship to the societal/personal identity
concerns and issues identified in the work or art?
5. Your discussion of why this artwork is important and how it relates to children or young people of the ages
and abilities you teach, containing ideas, meanings and messages that will cause student thought and discussion.
Be specific to your selected work of art and the students you will be teaching.

No application is found for students Application is age appropriate and meaningful

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Considerations:
 Do you form analogies between the world, the world of the art, and the selected artwork to the personal
experiences a child could have or understand about today?
 Do you make associations between the artwork’s message/meaning and his/her personal life or the life of
children?
 When are connections made are they linked to the art?
 Do you demonstrate an understanding of the age and stage of development of his/her students?

6. Research Bibliography: The student has researched, found, read, and used professional literature that
provides historical, critical, and artist information to support and develop the creative and interpretive ideas of
this lesson (at least 3 professional articles). The interpretive/research paper reflects adequate background
understanding for the development of learning objectives, student questions and teaching script.

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7. Presentation: Prepare a presentation (20 slides x 20 seconds each) of images and questions for a class
discussion

Due 10/10