TIME: 2 days
MATERIALS
Classroom Standards
Appendices (Worksheets)
Arm Projector
PowerPoint
Chart (to create class diamante)
INTRODUCTION/PREPARATION/ANTICIPATORY SET:
The teacher will read several diamante poems to students. The teacher will conduct a question/answer session with students after the read aloud is complete. (Ex. What do you notice about the poems I have just read? The first and last words are direct opposites (antonyms)
ACTIVITY:
Day 1
Teaching/ Modeling: The teacher will introduce the diamante poem by showing an example using the arm projector. The teacher will discuss the format of the poem with students (With discussion of format, the teacher will review several parts of speech.). The teacher will thoroughly explain each section of the poem and also provide an example of each section along the way (on whiteboard).
Guided Practice: The teacher and students will create a diamante on graph paper. The poem will be labeled for added instruction.
Independent Practice: On an 8x11 white sheet of paper, the students will create a diamante. The diamante must include all parts of the poem. (Students poems will be picked up at end of lesson for reuse during tomorrow’s lesson.)
Closure: The teacher will have several students read through their diamante in the front of the classroom. Students seated in desk will be asked to listen for mistakes and make corrections.
DAY 2
The teacher will review with the students the math lesson that was taught during the previous week (lines and line segments). The teacher will connect the math lines taught to lines that can be taught in art class.
Teaching/Model: The teacher will present a PowerPoint to the students that first discusses lines and then moves on to shapes and positive and negative space. (The PowerPoint will include terms, definitions and examples of each term.) The teacher will thoroughly discuss each term, definition and example.
Guided Practice: The teacher and students will identify lines, shapes and space throughout the classroom and on given pictures.
Independent Practice: The teacher will hand out the diamante poem written by the students during the previous lesson. The students will add a backdrop that portrays the idea of the diamante they wrote. The students will be asked to be aware of the various types of lines and shapes and include them in their drawings. (Drawings will be colored using various warm and cool colors. The introduction of warm and cool colors took place during a previous language lesson.)
Closure: Several students will be asked to present their poems and drawings. They will be asked to identify lines, shapes and space in their drawings.
EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT:
DAY 1: Formative: Students will be monitored throughout the guided and independent practice.
Summative: At the end of tomorrow’s lesson, the diamante poems that the students created during the independent practice, will be picked up and graded.
DAY 2: Formative: Students will be monitored throughout the guided and independent practice.
Summative: The students’ poems will be graded. Also, the students will be asked to identify the lines, shapes, and space that they used in their drawings on the back of their paper. This will be part of their overall grade.
ART CONTENT/CONCEPTS:
Explore and identify imagery from a variety of sources and create visual representation (VA-CE-E1)
Explore and discuss techniques fro visual expression and communication (VA-CE-E2)
Use art vocabulary and the elements and principles of design to convey the language of art (create and discuss own artwork) (VA-CE-E3)
COMPREHENSIVE
CURRICULUM, GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS AND STANDARDS/BENCHMARKS:
(ELA-6-E2) Identify a variety of types of literature, including poetry and short stories, in oral and written responses
MODIFICATIONS | ACCOMODATIONS:
A copy of the diamante poem and the PowerPoint presentation will be given to all students identified.
Students identified will receive the format of the poem to create their own.
TEACHER'S REFLECTION:
Overall, the lesson went very well. The students thoroughly enjoyed actually having an art lesson. They were anxious to get started. The students participated enthusiastically throughout the entire lesson. They continuously paid attention to the lesson, including teacher and student directed sessions.
My set induction worked very well. It brought the students into the actual lesson as planned. The integration of math during my set induction really helped the students to visualize the difference between math and art lines. I decided to use the PowerPoint presentation for both my teaching/modeling and guided practice. I read over each individual slide and thoroughly discussed the content. We viewed pictures of the terms all together. Then, for guided practice we identified the terms in a different set of pictures on the PowerPoint. My independent practice started off rocky because not every child had finished their diamante. (The previous school day was early dismissal, so not every child had a chance to finish.) I called all the students to attention and asked if they all knew their two main nouns for their diamante. Since they did, I asked them to start drawing their pictures. I didn’t want too much time to pass between learning the content and using the content. The students did very well with their pictures. They surprised me because I didn’t think they would use such a variety in their pictures (like psychic and implied lines and geometric shapes). After the students finished their pictures, they went back and finished their diamante poems. Completing the independent practice in this fashion worked out well. I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson and was proud of my students’ finished work.
REFERENCES:
Louisiana Department of Education website
HOSTS website
http://www.franklinlakes.k12.nj.us/famsweb/curriculum/English/diamantepoems/diamante.html
http://www.manassas.k12.va.us/round/ClassWeb/Slough/Poetry/diamante.htm
http://www.poetryteachers.com/
http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/KodaysKids/Diamante.html
http://www.mylearnerlink.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LearnerLink.woa/wa/authenticate
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