Section One:
Project/Lesson Overview
Grade: 5
Subject: English Language Arts
Lesson Title: Many lives make Art work!
Lesson Description: In these lessons students will take a look at how art and the
development of a professional craft has played a role in the workplace in Saint
John during the years 1850-1950. These professional crafts people can include
musicians, painters, potters, photographers, sculptors, carvers, furniture
makers, glaziers, and fabric artists.
During
the lessons students will examine and research jobs in a particular art or
craft and tell a story in journal form and multi media form, describing how
those artisans and craftsmen acquired their trade…training; their employment in
the trade, and how this employment has contributed to their way of life here in
New Brunswick.
Time
Required: 6X 60 Minute lessons
Specific Curriculum Outcomes:
English
Language Arts
Speaking
and listening:
1.
Students will be expected to speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and
reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
-contribute
thoughts, ideas and experiences to discussion, and ask questions to clarify
their ideas and those of their peers.
-
explain and support personal ideas and opinions
2.
Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and
clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
-engage
in, respond to, and evaluate oral presentations
Reading
and Viewing:
4.
Students will be expected to select, read and view with understanding a range
of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
-
use pictures and illustrations, word structures, and text features
to locate topics and obtain or verify their understanding of information.
-
5.
Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a
variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
-
use a range of reference texts and a database or an electronic
search to aid in the selection of texts.
Writing
and Representing:
9.
Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently,
using a wide variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.
-create
written and media texts, collaboratively and independently, in different modes(
expressive, transactional, and poetic). and in an increasing variety of forms
use specific features, structures, and
patterns of various text forms to create written and media texts.
Section Two: Project/Lesson Implementation
Equipment/Materials Required: Library books, computer with Internet
access, word processor, multi-media software (e.g. PowerPoint, Keynote,
scanner, digital camera, and smartboard (optional)
Lesson Procedures/Teaching Strategies:
1.
In class the students will take a look at the photographs of the various
artisan and craftspeoples on the smartboard represented on the disc. Once the
students have decided which person they would like to research they will
brainstorm what it might take to be able to work at such a craft or artform. A
series of questions could be constructed to help lead and organize student
research. See teacher generated outline. ( I will add this)
2.
At this point, time will be given for each student to research how someone
might become a craftsperson or artisan: what their training would be; how they
are employed and how their employment may have contributed to life in Saint
John. They may use both print and internet sources for research purposes. The
teacher will remind students of the importance of documenting where their
material comes form.
3.
Students will use the information they have researched to write a fictional
account of a day in the life of an artisan or craftsperson in a diary or
journal format.
4.
Students will also work on preparing a presentation of their research in a
multimedia format to be shared on the smartboard with other class members.
Suggested Assessment Strategies:
Construct check lists or rubrics that assess
students’ abilities to achieve the selected objectives.
Record anecdotal notes as students speak, listen,
write, and read to identify their strengths and instructional needs.
Share or develop with students criteria for
assessing and evaluating their learning processes and final products.
Final presentations to class need to be self
assessed, teacher assessed and class assessed.
Section
Three: Project/Lesson Resources
Teacher Generated Resources: All of the teacher generated resources contributed to
support this lesson are available for download by clicking on the link(s)
below:
Supplementary Resources: Various craftspeople and artisans
presently working in the Saint John area could be contacted and brought in as
primary resources to assist students with their research questions about art as
work. Also local art teachers who have pursued careers outside of education would
be another important primary resource.
Web-Based Resources:
Some
present and past artisans in New Brunswick
http://www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca/en-CA/HNThingsToDo/HNArtsAndEntertainment/HNAEArtisans.htm
http://www.tourismsaintjohn.com/files/fuse.cfm?section=24&lang=
http://www.gallery78.com/fredross.htm
http://www.klinkhoff.com/fross/
http://www.gallery78.com/bbobak.htm
http://www.library.dal.ca/archives/waldren/atlphotohis.htm
Disclaimer: The recommended web-resources included here have been
scrutinized for their grade and age appropriateness; however, contents on links
on the Internet change continuously. It is advisable that teachers preview all
links before recommending them to students.
Section Four:
Additional Information
Modifications:
Additional Comments: The suggested time frame may vary
depending on student ability to use technology and availability of resource
materials.
Credits: N/A
Contact Information Including Name,
Email, School and District:
Janet Smyth
Recently Retired Dec. 31, 2007