Hunter College - THE ARTS SYLLABUS - Dream Collage

		Hunter College School of Education Curriculum & Teaching Prof. John Toth, Ph.D. / jtoth@hunter.cuny.edu	THE ARTS DREAMS AND IMAGINATION: COLLAGE
TIME	MIN	THE ARTS AS COMMUNICATION... for the post modern educator	syllabus
_:_ _	15	INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT: COLLAGE - LAYERS DREAMS AND IMAGINATION Learning to tap into the imagination of young minds. Connections between language acquisition and image making. AIM: Appreciate alternative ways of visualizing the people, places and things of our world. Understand collage layering as a modernist technique for presenting multiple time frames ART ELEMENT & TECHNIQUE : Collage, photo montage, layer magazine cut-out shapes, Photoshop layers. LINE OF INQUIRY: How does Salvador Dali use scale and transformation to create a dreamlike reality? *Curriculum Inquiry*: How can the collage process encourage Visual EXPERIMENTATION that develops more expressive literacy?	ART STANDARDS: The Arts Standard 3 Key Idea: Dance - Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works Music - Students will use concepts from other disciplines to enhance their understanding of music. Theater - Students will analyze the meaning and role of theatre in society. Visual Arts - Students will compare a variety of ideas. Rubric art supplies read articles
_:_ _	20	VISUAL ART: Imaginative Representations Describe, analze and interpret painjtings that evoke dreams Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory Romare Beardon, The Block MUSIC / Claude Debussy, Claire De Lune	Grant Wood, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.
_:_ _	15 20	SKILL ACTIVITY 1: Choose and complete ONE skill activity. OBJECTIVE: selecting parts that speak to the whole, refined cutting, thoughtful interaction of parts, use of focus. Cut out 3 people, objects and places from a magazine. Arrange these parts in 3 different ways to tell a story. SKILL ACTIVITY 2: Technology Take a digital photo of each of the collage arrangements. Copy images into MS WORD or photshop and add captions to each image. You can also add a sound file if you wish.	SAMPLE ACTIVITY: COLLAGE
_:_ _ _:_ _ _:_ _	30 15 15	CREATIVE ACTIVITY: Choose and complete ONE creative activity. LAYERED DREAMS OBJECTIVE: Develop the collage process: Refine gluing, design placement, meaningful exaggeration. Create a collage using magazine cut-outs that portray a dream experience. Randomly organize your cut-out shapes. Select a background color or image. Layout the parts and consider the interaction of shapes. Use exaggerate scale, color, texture for effect. Explore focus, placement and readability from a distance before gluing.
_:_ _	20	ASSESSMENT AIM: Understand some basic ways to bring closure to the days lesson. CONTEXTUAL LINKS: portfolio of student artworks: DREAM COLLAGE PORTFOLIO ART EDUCATION: READ Maxine Greene. We Have Found the Wonders of Differences,	VOCABULARY: Dream fantasy, wonder, imagine, desire invent, concoct, devise, contrive create, aspiration, ambition, ideal
_:_ _			file: DreamCollage2008.htm Survey: Dream Collage Survey

RUBRIC FOR DREAM COLLAGE

CRITERIA	BELOW STANDARD C+ < 79.9	MEETS STANDARD B- > B+ or 80 > 89.9	ABOVE STANDARD A- > A+ or 90 > 100
Elements/ Principles Appropriate use of collage fragemnts to communicate a a whole idea or expression.	Collage shapes do not add up to a whole. Some shapes are distracting.	the collaged cutouts create a unified whole image. There is a clear idea or statement being meade.	The collage presents a convincingly , organized visual statement. The design compliments the overall meaning of the work.
Craftsmanship/TechniqueCraftsmanship in making the artwork is skillful. Technique (cutting, tearing and pasting) is done in a skillful way.	Little or no skills in manipulation of shapes and technique (cutting, tearing, and pasting) used to express the desired goal of collage. Collage is very sloppy and dirty.	Shows skills in manipulation of shapes and technique (cutting, tearing, and pasting) used to express a visual statement.	Shows great skills in manipulation of the shapes and technique (cutting, tearing and pasting) used to express content and expression in a creative way.
Creativity / Elaboration/ Inventiveness Amplification and development of an idea or expression in an original way.	The inventiveness in expressing the idea is not adding anything new to the language of collage.	Good evidence of originality. The idea, design and execution of the collage comes together in a way that is unique and personnal.	Superior degree of originalnality. The idea, design and execution of the collage adds something new and surprising to our life.