Students will read an artist's statement by Dorothea Lange and write an artist's statement based on their own photographs. Students will examine the relationship between photography and the artist's statement; look closely at their own works of art; and use the methods of description, reflection, and formal analysis to write their own artist's statements.

Students will analyze modern artists' interest in travel; discuss modern artists' radical and unusual use of artistic materials; look at the ways in which modern artists were inspired by unusual artistic sources.

Students will learn to broaden their descriptive and analytical vocabulary through comparisons and close analysis of works of art; discuss changes taking place in the modern world and the psychological effects on the artists discussed in this guide.

Students will learn that the bronze used to make this sculpture is an alloy of copper and tin with small amounts of antimony, lead, iron, silver, nickel, and cobalt. They use the periodic table to research the chemical formulas of compounds used to make bronze. After learning about oxidation-reduction reactions that occurred in the statue, students speculate about the conservation techniques needed to conserve the bronze sculpture.

Students will study an object from antiquity that was found in the sea off the coast of Italy in order to understand how conservators remove and prevent corrosion on bronze statues.

Students study an ancient bronze statue, analyze its pose, and discover how conservators remove and prevent corrosion.

Students will study "Flamingo Capsule", a painting by James Rosenquist drawing on the Apollo 1 training disaster. Students will try to connect the painting to the event by deconstructing the painting. Students will consider Rosenquist's composition and discuss the level of success the artist reached in portraying two opposite concepts within a single work. Students will research newspaper accounts of the Apollo 1 tragedy and create their own work responding to the event. Students will also experiment with scaling-up, the technique Rosenquist used to produce very large works.

Students will create a timeline outlining various groups' struggles for equal opportunity and create a 30-second radio or video public service announcement (PSA).

Students will watch and discuss an exerpt from Garmendia's "Untitled Orbea" 2007. Students will explore, video, and discuss a relevant object from the school. Students will consider local traditions, events, habits, or an unusual behavior in their community and create an imaginary monument that represents their community. Students will also design furniture playing with the function of the object.

Students will view and discuss works by Garmendia, Zabala, and Salaberria. Students will organize and construct an action sculpture, observing how objects react (how they move, sound, how the physical matter changes) if elements such as sun, water, or wind get involved. Students will use smartphones, cameras, and/or video to copy old photos and video comparing qualities of past and present. Students will also view the series "Unconscious/Conscious" and use photography and video to explore an emblematic building in their city.

Students will be able to view and discuss five different artworks (drawings and paintings created in late-1800s France) in terms of what art can tell them about vocations, social conventions, history, style, science, politics, economics, and creativity; create imaginary narratives about how the subjects came to be painted by the artist; create imaginary narratives about what the artists' private lives might have been like in Europe in the 1880s and 1890s by using historical references; learn how to organize information quickly in a visual manner by using various Bubble Maps©; conduct research to make study sketches (examples of text or graphic backgrounds); create an original work of art; and write a short essay in which they address the question: What can art tell us about ourselves?

Students will learn new vocabulary and practice using it by looking at and describing various works of art, including paintings, drawings, art objects, and photographs.

In this lesson students explore both the passion that inspired Picasso to take political action and the thought process behind the work. Students will reflect on their own decision making process when they feel compelled to take public action. This lesson will lead students to investigate the following Life-Long Learning Question: How does passion inspire public action?

Students will be able to compare portrayals of individual soldiers to depictions of battle scenes and discuss the impact of each on viewers; analyze rhetorical strategies in two newspaper articles about a current war; write two different newspaper articles about a current war from different viewpoints; and create digitally or manually manipulated photographs.

The five lessons that comprise this guide may be used sequentially or as independent units. An introduction to the key principles of each lesson is followed by a close examination of the works, including historical context and information on the artist. Discussion questions based on the images lead students through formal analysis of the artworks and seek to create connections between information and visual evidence. The activities that conclude each lesson encourage students to synthesize what they have learned about the works, and carry the lessons into the broader curriculum or relate it to skills students are practicing in the classroom.

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Students study how artists of the Neoclassical period were influenced by major historical events during the Enlightenment. They will identify and analyze the Neoclassical style.

Students will consider the challenges of representing identity visually; consider text and elements of popular culture in an image; continue to consider the role of drawing as a political medium.

Students will consider portraiture as a means of political expression; discuss the elements of a portrait that contribute to its meaning, such as expression, pose, costume, and background; consider the effectiveness of drawing as a form of political expression.