3rd Grade - Lesson 9 : Walking in the Artist’s Shoes
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Description of Project
Students study a landscape painting, and use it as a stimulus for use of visualization for descriptive writing.
Washington Masterworks
Mountain Brook in the Snow by Franz Xaver Hoch
Morning Shimmer by Victoria Adams
Photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum.
Learning Standards
Visual Art
- 1.1.a Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
- 7.2.a Determine messages communicated by an image.
- 11.a Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made.
Common Core ELA
- 3.W.3.b. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- 3.W.8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print or digital sources: take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into categories.
- 3.W.10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes and audiences.
- 3.SL.4. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.