Submitted by Barbara Janssen
Time Frame:
Interpretive - 20 minutes Interpersonal - 60 minutes (4 minutes max for 15 groups of 2 students) When not doing the assessment, students work on the presentational aspect. Presentational - 60 minutes (2 minutes max for 30 students)
Materials Needed:
Interpretive - reading
Interpersonal - One painting each by each of the ten artists. Found on websites or postcards or reprints in books.
Description of Task:
Interpretive - Students read an authentic description of a painting of a Renaissance artist and one of an Expressionist artist. Each student then completes a Venn diagram of the two styles.
Interpersonal - Student pairs look at two paintings, one by a Renaissance artist and one by an Expressionist. They discuss which one they prefer and why. The teacher completes a checklist of content-obligatory language and content. Paintings on the web can be used or ones from books or postcards. They can be ones we have already studied.
Presentational - Students find another painting by one of the ten artists studied and bring a copy of it for the museum. Size must be at least 8 1/2 x 11 and in color. Each plays the role of a tour guide and explains the new painting to the rest of the tour group (class).
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