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Lesson Plans: Making the Most of the Museum Visit |
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OVERVIEW The E-Journals will provide authentic vehicles for students to personally document, reflect upon and respond to the art, artists, and issues presented in the 1999 Carnegie International, and will be submitted for publication on the CI:99/00 web site. The web format enables the integration of media (text, images, movies, sound, and animation), connectivity (links, email, and chat) and interactivity within the journals. |
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ACADEMIC STANDARDS ADDRESSED Arts and Humanities |
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| • | All students describe the meanings they find in various works from the visual and performing arts and literature on the basis of aesthetic understanding of the art form. | |
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All students evaluate and respond critically to works from the visual and performing arts and literature of
various individuals and cultures, showing that they understand important features of the works. |
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| Communications | ||
| • | All students use effective research and information management skills, including locating primary and secondary resources of information with traditional and emerging library technologies. | |
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All students write for a variety of purposes, including to narrate, inform, and persuade, in all subject areas. |
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| Science and Technology | ||
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All students demonstrate basic computer literacy, including word processing, software applications, and the ability to access the global information infrastructure, using current technology. |
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OBJECTIVES The students will: |
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| • | analyze and evaluate CI:99/00 artworks using intuitive, formal, and contextual approaches. | |
| • | research and gather information from exhibition curators, advisors, critics, and artists about the exhibition and the artwork included in it, and the themes, meanings, and connections between the artwork and politics and culture, as well as formal and historical concerns. | |
| • | engage in critical and aesthetic discourse about the artworks and the exhibition. | |
| • | document creative response to CI:99/00 in their E-Journals (writing, sketching, etc.). | |
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utilize the tools of the Internet for discourse and personal expression. |
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| MATERIALS AND RESOURCES | ||
| • | Computers with Internet connections | |
| • | Browser and authoring software | |
| • | Web resources at the CI:99/00 web site | |
| • | Scanner (optional) | |
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CI:99/00 video |
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PROCEDURES Pre-Museum Visit |
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| • | Students will view the CI:99/00 video and discuss the exhibition as a class. | |
| • | Students will view and discuss the E-Journal entries of other students at the CI:99/00 web site. (In computer lab or in group setting.) | |
| • | Students will view and discuss the Journal Introduction and Journal Prompts pages at the CI:99/00 web site. (In computer lab or in group setting.) | |
| • | Teacher will inform students that they are invited to contribute journal pages to the CI:99/00 web site. | |
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Students will be asked to identify features and purposes of journal pages. |
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| Museum Visit | ||
| • | With guidance of teacher and museum docent, students will survey the exhibition to identify artworks to which they wish to respond. | |
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Students will make notes, sketches, and studies in response to identified works. |
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| Post-Museum Visit | ||
| • | Students will visit the Journal Introduction page at the CI:99/00 web site for detailed instructions for creating journal pages, available online resources, and procedures for submitting journal pages. | |
| • | Students will review and discuss student journal entries found at the CI:99/00 web site. | |
| • | Students will create journal web pages that contain critical and aesthetic discourse, creative response, and web research. | |
| • | Students will submit pages for publication at the CI:99/00 web site. | |
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Students will visit and respond to E-Journal entries of other students. |
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| ASSESSMENT | ||
| • | Depth and breath of the journal entries, including the range of critical/creative responses, the citation of evidence in the work, research sources, as well as the fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration of the creative responses | |
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Level of competence in the use of tools for web authoring and posting |
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EXTENSIONS AND ALTERNATIVES This lesson is extendable in a variety of ways. Many journal entries representing a wide range of critical and creative activity can be created. There are many opportunities for critical response to other students' journal entries through individual critique or class discussion. This experience can lay the foundation for more extensive web research on art and artists. |
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