20th Century

American Impressionism

Students will characterize how technology and current events influenced the way in which artists worked. Students will learn how Romantics, Realists, and Impressionists reacted against the traditional Academy in their break from Classicism.

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Artists Teach Us to See the World Through Visual Symbols

Students will learn how an artist can use personal images, symbols and contemporary references to address both universal and specific social and political issues in a pluralistic society, and put that learning into practice by creating a work of art themselves.

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Barn and Shed of Farm

Students will analyze how photographers depicted the effects of the Depression on Dust Bowl refugees in the United States during the late 1930s.

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Documenting the Great Depression

Students will analyze how photographers depicted the effects of the Depression on Dust Bowl refugees in the United States during the late 1930s.

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Fantasy/Art Map: Map #3

Students will learn about Jeremy Anderson's fantasy / art map, will create a fantasy / art map, based on Sacramento, explore other visual maps, and students will develop a definition for a map, which is broad enough to include fantasy / art and visual maps.

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My World and Yours

Despite his seemingly pessimistic outlook, Norman 's art is dedicated to a hope for change.

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Springtime Renewal

Students describe the social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish mission and Mexican rancho periods.

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The Progressive Era: Salvation Dinners

Use the SOAP method to analyze visual primary sources of the Progressive Era to explain how/why cities changed during the 1890s to the early 1900s and to understand the reform movements that were a direct effect of growing cities.

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