Content Focus: English Learners (EL), Writing Using Adjectives, Sketch Drawing, Drawing Texture

Language Focus: Writing

Vocabulary Focus:

Categories of adjectives:

• Color
• Size
• Texture (main focus)
• Age
• Feelings
• Shapes
• Time
• Looks

 

Standards:

• ELA W.3.1: Compose reflective, formal, and creative writing, which may happen simultaneously or independently, for a variety of high-stakes and low-stakes purposes.
• ELA W.3.2.c: Convey events, real or imagined, through narrative/short stories to develop experiences or events using descriptive details and clear event sequences to establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters. Use dialogue and description of actions, thoughts and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
• ELD-SI 4-12 Narrate: Connect stories with images and representations to add meaning
• ELD-LA 6-8 Narrate.Interpretive: Interpret language arts narratives by: evaluating impact of specific word
  choices about meaning and tone
• Art and Design 6-8 Create: I can plan and develop artistic ideas and artwork. I can brainstorm and sketch ideas to solve a visual problem.

 

Arts Integration:

• Students will practice drawing quick sketches, adjusting their drawing and trying out different ideas.
• Students will examine lines and shape of real life textures to help them draw texture onto their imaginary animal.

 

Lesson Objectives:

• I am learning to use adjectives when I write.
• I am learning to use adjectives when I draw.
• I am learning to make several sketches of my ideas.
• I am learning to redraw a sketch.
• I am learning how to draw texture.

(Extension Writing Piece)
I am learning to write about my animal.

 

Activities: 

• Group work (Adjective lists)
• Partner work (Discussing adjectives)
• Independent work (Drawing sketches, redraws, and final artwork)
• Whole class work (How to draw textures)

 

Engagement/Introduction:

• Lesson created for use in a EL Newcomer classroom, with students who are learning to use adjectives in their writing.
• Learn how to engage your students in learning adjectives and drawing concepts! Students will create their own imaginary animal, based on the adjectives they have chosen.
• Throughout the unit, students will discuss the different kinds of adjectives, create quick sketches of imaginary animals, and learn how to draw different textures.

 

Assessment Procedure: Students will be assessed on the following stages of the Adjective Animal Artwork:

1. Students work with their group to come up with 4 adjectives.
2. Students draw 4-5 sketches, using 4 adjectives in each sketch.
3. Students will redraw their favorite sketch 3-4 times.
4. Students will take their time to practice copying textures.
5. Students will draw and complete their final artwork, writing their adjectives on the final artwork.

 

(Extension)

6. Students will write 3-5 sentences about their animal, using at least 3 adjectives in those sentences.
7. Students will share their artwork and read it to at least 1 other peer.

 

Materials:

• Pencils
• Printer paper
• Heavier paper, if desired (for final artwork)
• Color Pencils or Markers
• Copy These Textures (printed out for each student)

 

Contact: Carina Brooks (brookscarina@aasd.k12.wi.us)