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Students will learn about warm and cool-colors and understand how artwork can portray common experiences. Students will learn how to write a short narrative using setting, characters, objects, and events based on an artwork.

Small groups of students will first speculate on a chronology for these three selected paintings. Then each group will explore one of these three paintings, looking closely at the artwork, discussing it and finding out about the artist and its context. Students next speculate about what the painting tells about the past and how people lived at this time. After small groups present what they discovered and speculated, class as a whole returns to the original speculated chronology and corrects it if needed. To conclude lesson, each student selects two of the three artworks about which to write. Each student will compare and contrast and reveal what each tells the viewer about the past and how people lived at that time.

Students will examine two landscape paintings by John Horace Hooper and Lewis Cohen and compare the artists’ portrayal of the natural world and people interacting with it.  Students will participate in a game that simulates society’s use of renewable and nonrenewable resources and identify renewable and nonrenewable resources portrayed in the focus artworks.

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

Students will learn how the differences between Indian and British cultural perspectives, as seen in works of art, reinforced the British policy of imperialism in India.

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

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.

Students explore the oldest form of the written language by creating their own system of Symbols to communicate.

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.

Students will compare various artists’ interpretation of the Abraham and Isaac story.  They will create artwork based on other key figures in the history of the Jewish religion (i.e. Moses, Naomi, Ruth, or David) or on an important story from another ancient culture they have studied.

Students will gain an outsider’s perspective of California before it became a part of the Union.

Students will improve their understanding of algebraic expressions. This lesson is intended to supplement and reinforce existing math curriculum for the corresponding reporting clusters for California CST and STAR testing. Students will gain an understanding of 16th century Italian art techniques, perspective, the use of a grid to enlarge an image, shading, texture, and volume.