Name: ​Paulina Wilkerson

Grade:​​ ​Middle School (Grades 6-8)

Title​ ​of​ ​Lesson:​​ ​Intro to Architectural Letters
Standards:​ ​
CDE​ ​Visual​ ​Arts​ ​Standards​ ​
7th Grade
Standard 3. Invent and Discover to Create
GLE 1. Plan, anticipate outcomes and use feedback to grow as an artist.
GLE 2. Demonstrate technical skills and processes to achieve desired results.
Standard 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
GLE 1. Investigate how artists, designers and scholars narrate their social context.
Big​ ​Ideas:​​ ​
Exploration of Building Techniques
Expressing Personal Ideas Through Art
Enduring Understandings:
Students demonstrate conceptual and project-based learning through artmaking.
Students synthesize knowledge, skill and imagination to express meaning.
Essential Questions:
Why is planning important?
What does planning a project look like?
Why do Artists incorporate personal meaning in their art?
How do you incorporate personal meaning within art?
Objectives:​ ​
Students will be able to generate works of art based on selected themes or anticipated goals.
Students will be able to create works of art from observation, photographs and stored mental
images adding personal interpretations.
Students will be able to research and communicate personal ideas and interests in works of art.
Students will be able to design and create works of art using images, words and symbols that
illustrate personal community or culture.
Activity:​ ​
Students will plan the design for the Architectural Letter they will be building in this unit. This
plan will include sketches/notes of ideas for building, design, and how they are going to
incorporate personal meaning.
Content Integration:
Students are using writing and communicating skills in order to explain their ideas/plan.
Students are applying the knowledge of their culture and how it relates to them within their
work.
Pre-assessment:​ ​
As a class, we will discuss how to incorporate personal meaning within their work and why that
is important. We will also talk about what their planning process should look like.
Success Criteria:
Students will have a completed plan for the letter they are going to create. This plan will include
various ways they can express themselves through their design.
Post-assessment:​ ​
Students will have used their knowledge of planning to create sketches or written explanations of
their ideas.
Accommodations and Modifications:
ELL, CLD Learners, or Other Learning Disabilities
● Multiple visuals and examples provided
● Verbal instructions and explanations of expectations
● Allow for verbal explanation of plan from students
Visuals:
https://youtu.be/FU2Rd8Y8U1w

Supplies and Equipment:

Sketch Book
Pencil
Safety Concerns:
No safety concerns for this particular lesson.
Teaching Procedure:
Beginning
To start the day, I will greet students at the door and let them know to get their sketchbooks out.
Once class starts, I will introduce the project. This introduction will include the steps they need
to take, examples of the project, and a video on how to begin the building process.
Middle
As a class, we will then discuss why personalizing your artwork is important. We will talk about
different ideas of things they can add to their letter to express themselves. Students will then
have time to brainstorm their ideas. During this time, I will walk around and answer questions as
needed. I will also be checking to make sure students are meeting the success criteria.
End
The last 5 minutes of class students will clean up their work space and put all supplies away.
They will be dismissed once the bell rings for the passing period.