shades and intensities. Lesson Plan: Defining Civic Duty and Participation Hook: Engage Students 10 minutes Bring in two loaves of bread one made with yeast, and the other without. Ask students which loaf they would choose to eat and why. Discussion on what went wrong. Why do the two loaves of bread look different? Missing ingredients? (Key) group discussions of personal stories, where key ingredients may have been missing in order to complete a task or event. (Making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but out of jelly. Or, going fishing, but no bait….)
Set: Four Corners 20 minutes Explain to students that each corner of the room stands for either “Strongly Agree”, “Agree”, “Disagree” or “Strongly Disagree” – label if necessary. Have students stand and wait for a statement and an action word before they choose a corner to represent their position regarding the statement. Everyone should have to pick up one bag of litter per day to keep our community looking nice. All K – 12 students should have to participate in Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts or some other after school organization. Upon turning 18 years of age, one must serve a minimum of 2 years in the armed forces. Students will actively participate when statements and action word. After choosing their position, volunteers will share a reason behind their choice. Time for student discussion given.
Into: 30 minutes Review of Roman Republic through the power point – paying attention to Key Features. (Handout will be given). Review art elements using power point. Teach how tints, shades and intensities effect illustrations. Give the GRASPS to students – set up their mission as freelance illustrators. Students will briefly look at and discuss the Republic and its key features within the power point – noting the “civic duty” key feature. Students review art elements – using a scratch piece of paper to practice techniques. Students practice with scratch paper. Independently, students will begin to draw, using graphite pencils, colored pencils and drawing paper, what civic duty and participation may look like to them for the purpose of being chosen by ad agency and to help create a working definition. Share out illustrations, and thoughts with panel. Create a working definition as to what civic duty and participation means.
use of strong color making it a different texture than the rest of the artwork creating lines or shapes around it working like “arrows” pointing toward the important area overlapping shapes with the most important on top Place shapes in one of these tried and true compositional templates. Form an S Curve Form a Bridge Form an intersection Find the Golden Mean or Section (Rule of thirds) Lesson Plan: Defining Civic Duty and Participation Outline of Unit Plan: Unit Title: Will You All Please Rise? Lesson One: Defining Duty and Participation. Analogies, inquiries and reading about the Roman Republic to create a foundation in the understanding of society participation in government. Activities designed to help understand students’ backgrounds regarding service and civic responsibility. Bread analogy to show that key ingredients are essential for a successful project. Four Corners activity to represent students’ opinions regarding issues of community participation. Roman Republic information regarding the key features in making the Republic. Draw what civic duty and participation looks like to individual students.