Content Focus: Poetry/ELA, Visual Art, some music connections/extensions

Language Focus: Reading, writing, (listening, speaking, interacting with music connections listed at the bottom of the lesson plan)

Vocabulary Focus: illuminated manuscript, meter, rhythm

Standards:

• Art
  • Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work
    • VA:Re.7.2.4a Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages.
  • Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work
    • VA:Cr2.1.4a Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.

Arts Integration: Students will create their own illuminated manuscript to show understanding of the themes in the text of a poem. Students will grow their artistic skills with drawing detailed lettering styles.

Lesson Objectives: Creating meaningful connections between a visual art form and the poetry in Grade 4 Wit and Wisdom Module 1 (specifically, the poems featured in Love That Dog by Sharon Creech).

Activities: 

• Studying poetry in music class – creating graphic scores to determine how to change the tempo and energy of certain words and lines while reciting poetry
• Studying illuminated manuscripts
• Creating own illuminations on a set of pre-printed poems

Engagement/Introduction: Studying poems separately in music class and in ELA with homeroom teacher.

Assessment Procedure: 

• Checking illuminations for thematic connections to the chosen poem
• Reflecting on musical interpretations of poetry

Materials: Pre-printed poems, Colored pencils

Supporting Documents: Lesson Plan

Contact: Katie Vander Velden (phelpssarah@aasd.k12.wi.us)