What is home?
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Give each group a picture. Pictures can be pasted on large white paper for student observations, or students can use separate piece of paper to record their ideas. Give students time at their tables to record what they see, think, and wonder about the picture. Students should come up with an appropriate hashtag to identify their art. Students should hang their art and comments on the walls. Give them an opportunity to look at other groups’ images. Unpack what the pictures have in common. In discussing home, the class should discuss how people’s ideas of home are different/similar in each of the pictures. Following the activity, the teacher can share or have the students explore the information about the art provided on the Smithsonian Lab website. | Resource |
Put the question for the unit on the board, and give students a few minutes to think about their responses. Follow link to sculptures, and discuss how another artist expressed his definition of home. How does the sculpture express the author’s feelings? Students should spend some time drawing what represents home for them. If you choose, you can make this a more in-depth assignment by allowing students to use different materials (Play-doh/clay) to either draw or build/sculpt their definition of home. | Resource |
Put the sentences on the board, and read through it together. Give students time to discuss what they understand about the sentences in pairs. Go through the questions together as a group. Explain that these lines are the opening sentences of the video the students will be watching next. Students will watch the video “Fatima’s Drawings” and analyze it for her concepts of home that she expresses in her pictures. Students should discuss what changes about her concepts of home as the video progresses. What changes? What stays the same? | Support |
Divide students into 6 groups. 
