Art Through the 20th Century

The Academy at Lexington

Pet Project

 

Organizer:

What events and milestones in the last century influenced the music you listen to or the arts you experience today?

Academic Expectations:

1.16  Students use computers and/or other kinds of technology to collect, organize and communicate information and ideas

2.22 Make presentation to convey a point of view.

2.24 Knowledge of basic forms

2.25 In products and performances they show time and place in society and influence of the arts.

 

Secondary Academic Expectations:

1.12 Speaking

1.13 Visual Art

1.14 Music

1.15 Movement

2.23 Analyze their own and other artistic products

2.26 Students recognize people are different they share common experiences and attitudes.

Essential Question:

1.      What Americans contributed to the Arts during the 1900’s?

2.    How did immigration influence American Arts?

3.    How do the Arts reflect what is happening in society?

4.    What are the Arts saying about your society today?

5.    What is the purpose of the Arts?

6.    How does economics influence the Arts?

 

Culminating Performance:

The Academy at Lexington will create a “Carousel of the Arts Museum” that includes four sections: 

                Dance, Drama, Visual Arts and Music.

Students will research milestones and events that influenced the Arts during the last century. Students will be participants by being curators, researchers or artists. Students will present this information to their audience using a multimedia platform.  Students will then demonstrate their understanding of Arts as influenced by society by creating their own original art form. (Dance, Song, Dramatic Production, Visual Arts)

	Distinguished	Proficient	Apprentice	Novice
Make a presentation to convey a point of view	Students create a work of art to present a point of view or a current trend and support it with an artist statement that includes historical perspective, cultural traditions, and discussion of art elements used for expressive purposes.	Students create a work of art to present a point of view or a current trend and support it with an artist statement that includes historical perspective, cultural traditions, or discussion of art elements used for expressive purposes.	Students create a work of art to present a point of view or a current trend and support it with an artist statement that may include historical perspective, cultural traditions. or discussion of art elements used for expressive purposes.	Students create a work of art to present a point of view or a current trend and student may be able to identify historical perspective, cultural tradition, or discussion of art elements used for expressive purposes.
Knowledge of basic forms	Students will identify in each discipline: Music – 7 elements (rhythm, tempo, melody, harmony, timbre, dynamics) Visual Arts – 5 elements (line, shape, form, texture, color) Drama – 4 elements (plot or storyline, beginning/middle/ end, dialogue, monologue, conflict Dance – 3 elements (space, force, time)	Students will identify in each discipline: Music – 5 elements (rhythm, tempo, melody, harmony, timbre, dynamics) Visual Arts – 4 elements (line, shape, form, texture, color) Drama – 3 elements (plot or storyline, beginning/middle/ end, dialogue, monologue, conflict Dance – 3 elements (space, force, time)	Students will identify in each discipline: Music – 3 elements (rhythm, tempo, melody, harmony, timbre, dynamics) Visual Arts – 3 elements (line, shape, form, texture, color) Drama – 2 elements (plot or storyline, beginning/middle/ end, dialogue, monologue, conflict Dance – 2 elements (space, force, time)	Students will identify in each discipline: Music – 1 elements (rhythm, tempo, melody, harmony, timbre, dynamics) Visual Arts – 2 elements (line, shape, form, texture, color) Drama – 1 elements (plot or storyline, beginning/middle/ end, dialogue, monologue, conflict Dance – 1 elements (space, force, time)
Make multimedia presentations that show how time, place and society influence of the arts	Students will exhibit 4 milestones or events in the 1900’s that influenced the Arts.	Students will exhibit 3 milestones or events in the 1900’s that influenced the Arts.	Students will exhibit 2 milestones or events in the 1900’s that influenced the Arts.	Students will exhibit 1 milestones or events in the 1900’s that influenced the Arts.

Content Knowledge:

Historical Events

WW1

WW2

Depression

Technology Age

Flight

Automotive

Space

Computers

Industrial Revolution

Social Movements

          Civil Rights

        Women’s Suffrage

        The 60’s

        Ecology

Exemplary Artist of the Modern Age

Innovations

        Electricity

        Computers

        Media

        Telephone

Transportation

        Boats

        Cars

        Airplanes

        Railroads/Monorails/Subways/EL’s/

        Bus

Art Elements (Visual Arts/Dance/Drama/Music)

Economics

        Urbanization

        Monetary System

Population Growth

        Migration

 

Skills/Abilities:

research skills

writing skills

technical skills (multimedia)

oral presentatin/speaking skills

problems solving skills

critical thinking skills

arts production skills – singing, dancing (refer to Program of Studies)

processing data

brainstorming

tables, graphs, timelines

knowledge of various media in visual arts

play writing skills

reading

storytelling

organizational skills

cooperative groups

observing/classifying skills

identifying controlling variables of artistic pieces

questioning

analyzing

formulate conclusion based on information gathered

        critical thinking skills

        inferencing

 

Instructional Sequence:

 

Visual Arts:

 

Music:

 

Dance:

        -Professional Dance Troupe with different types

        -list of dancers to research (library/internet/books)

        -video

        -ovation TV

Locomotor Movement:

        -teach the locomotor movement listed in core content

        -non-locomotor movement listed in core content

        -combine locomotor/non-locomotor movement

 

Drama:

 

Technology:

HyperStudio

Drawing Skills with Mouse

        On Line Research Skills

Writing:

        Note Taking Skills

Week 1:

Introduce the Unit:

-                                four Art Forms

-                                creation of a timeline (looking at the last century)

-                                TimeLiner (web resource)

-                                Quick Overview of the Century

Week 2:

-                                continue introduction of Art Forms

-                                continue with time line

-                                1900-1920

-                                interview grandparents/great grandparents

-                                compare Big Band and Swing

-                                Cubism (Picasso)

-                                Art Deco

-                                Rag Time (Scott Joplin)

-                                Vaudeville

-                                Silent Movies

-                                Jazz

-                                Charleston

-                                Martha Graham (Dance Movement)

Week 3:

        -          timeline 1930-40’s

-                                radio shows (Donovan Scholars)

-                                what items would you have to give up

-                                Harlem Renaissance

-                                Duke Ellington

-                                Cab Calloway

-                                SteamBoat Willy (animation)

-                                Abstract

-                                Norman Rockwell

-                                Musical Theatre

-                                Movies (Fred Austaire/Gene Kelly)

-                                Tap Dance

-                                Bob Fossey

Week 4:

-                                timeline 1950

-                                Elvis

-                                Ethnic Groups - music crossing over - listening to other groups

-                                Little Richard

-                                Allen Freed (movie)

-                                Josephine Baker

-                                Katherine Durham

-                                Ella Fitzgerald

-                                Maya Angelou

-                                Peanuts (cartoon)

-                                Fantasia

-                                Abstract Expressionism

-                                Smith Brothers (Photographers)

-                                Patsy Cline

-                                Steel Drum Band

-                                Calypso

-                                Walt Disney

-                                Rock and Roll

-                                Partner Dance

-                                Stan Kenton (Big Band music for listening and not dance)

-                                Mahalia Jackson (Gospel)

Week 5:

-                                timeline 1960’s

-                                Social Upheaval

-                                Jazz –original protest music

-                                Aretha Franklin

-                                sculpture

-                                Op Art

-                                Beatnic Art

-                                West Side Story

-                                Disco

-                                Individual Dance

-                                Narrative Art- Faith Ringgold

Week 6:

-                                timeline 1970’s

-                                interview parents

-                                8 tracks

-                                Disco

-                                Pop Art (Andy Warhol)

-                                Street Art (Graffiti)

-                                Craft Movement

-                                Break Dancing

-                                Performance Art

-                                John Tuska - Sculpture

Week 7:

-                                timeline 1980’s

-                                Rap

-                                Aero Smith

-                                Run DMC

-                                Faith Ringgold

-                                Ice Skating/Sports

-                                Ballroom Dancing

-                                Monumental Art – Vietnam Wall

Week 8:

-                                timeline 1990’s

-                                Country Music

-                                Reactionary Art

-                                Maplethorpe (Cincinnati)

-                                Line Dancing

-                                Stomp

-                                Tap Dancing

-                                Sport’s Dancing

-                                River Dancing

-                                Back Street Boys

-                                Partnering Dance

-                                Ballet

-                                Hip Hop

-                                Bebe King – Blues

-                                Nam June Pak- Techno Artist

Week 9:

Week 10:

 

 Styles of Music throughout the Decade:

Blues – BeBe King

Spiritual – Mahalia Jackson

Popular – Back Street Boys

Rock – Eric Clapton

Rap – MC Hammer

Country – Loretta Lynn

Game Songs

Folk Songs – Woody Guthrie/Joan Baez/Burle Ives

Work Songs – call and response

Lullaby – Braham’s

Marches – John Phillip Sousa

Patriotic Music –

Bluegrass – Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs/Bill Monroe

Alvin Ailey – African American Dance

Twilla Thorpe

Paula Abdul

Debbie Allen – Fame

Jackson Pollack – Abstract Expressionist

Ansel Adams -Photography

Edward Weston – Photography

Bridgett Riley – Op Art

Georgia O’Keefe

Harlem School for the Performing Arts

 

Critical Resources:

Museums – awareness of different types of museums such as the Children’s Museum, Art Museum, History Museum,

Dance Troupes/ People coming in/Kentucky TeleLinking Network (KTLN) with the Louisville Science Museum/on-line Museums/SCAPA bringing dancers/Folk Artist Council/Children’s Theater Group/Lexington Ballet/Art’s Place/Drama Teacher at Bryan Station High School/Kentucky Educational Television (KET)/Ovation Channel

Virtual Tour of the Kentucky History Museum - Rosemary

Reading Rainbow

Quilting Museum – Paducah

Gratz Park

Week 1:  January 24^th – January 28^th  Introduce the Unit

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Slide Show Introducing the Unit	K-W-L Chart in all Classes

 

Week 2:  January 31^st-February 4^th     Overview of the 1990’s

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Museum Curator Reading Reading Rainbow	Tour the Kentucky History Museum Henry Clays House	Discussion on different types of Museums	Field Trip to the UK Art Museum

 

Week 3:  February 7^th –11^th                Overview of the 1990’s

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading Reading Rainbow	River Dance Video	Country Music/Line Dancing/Clogging

 

Week 4:  February 14^th- 18^th              Overview of the 1980’s

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading Lisa’s Mother “The Freedom Quilt” Reading Rainbow	Charles Young Dancers   SCAPA Dancers	Punk Rock Movement

 

Week 5:  February 21^st-25^th               Overview of the 1970’s

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
President’s Day	Reading Reading Rainbow	Interview parents about the music, art, drama and dance	Disco

 

Week 6:  February 28^th- March 3^rd     Overview of the 1960’s

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading Reading Rainbow	Jazz	West Side Story – dance portion	Beatles (Mike Wlosinski)	R/C Day

 

Week 7:  March 6^th- 10^th                    Overview of the 1950’s

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading Reading Rainbow	Fantastia Cartoons	Elvis/Motown/Alan Freed

 

Week 8:  March 13^th – 17^th                 Overview of the 1930- 40’s

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading Reading Rainbow	Radio Show (Donovan Scholars)

 

Week 9:  March 20^th- March 24^th       Overview of the 1900- 20’s

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading Reading Rainbow	Interview of Grandparents/Great Grand Parents	Big Band Era/Swing	Vaudeville Era

 

Week 10:  March 27^th – March 31st

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
				PD Day