School of Education
Curriculum & Teaching
Prof. John Toth, Ph.D. / jtoth@hunter.cuny.edu
Picture Book
for the post modern educator
CONCEPT: PICTURE BOOK
- Understand and explore different ways of sequencing image and text: paintings, storybooks, portfolios, comic strips & timelines.
- Define some of the differences and similarities in the way we assess art and writing.
AIM: Understand the intuitive nature of young children's imagination as image makers and story tellers.
Inquiry:
How can a
Picture Book convey an individual point of view about a shared theme?
The Arts Standards for NY
The Arts Standard 3
Visual Arts - Reflect on, interpret, and evaluate works of art, using the language of art criticism. Students will analyze the visual characteristics of the natural and built environment and explain the social, cultural, psychological, and environmental dimensions of the visual arts. Students will compare the ways in which a variety of ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts with the ways they are expressed in other disciplines.
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ART / PAINTING:
Faith
Ringgold, Street Story Quilt
THEATER:
David Gonzales, Storyteller.
Jacob Lawrence, Migration, series
SKILL ACTIVITY:
OBJECTIVE: be able to refine the relationship between descriptive writing and detailed art making.
Write a noun; draw the image. add an adjective; redraw.
write. redraw...
http://www.innereye.net/Hunter/Examples/PictureBook/index.htm
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CREATIVE ACTIVITY:
OBJECTIVE: Learn to synthesize complex performance into scenes or chapters using text, image, sound, context, etc.
Use elements
of story telling (theme, plot, setting, props, conflict, resolution,
character development with facial expression and body language) to create a
picture book.
ACTIVITY:
Make a
Picture Book that tells the story of your group puppet show. You could start
by folding in half an 8x10 inch piece of color construction paper. Fold a
second piece of paper to form the cover of the picture book.
Create facing pages of original text & images based on your Marionette performance. You could have a picture on one page and text on the following page or a picture going across the top of two facing pages and text along the bottom. You could draw or paint these pictures. You could take digital pictures of the performance and print these pictures as another means of capturing the performance.
There should be a minimum of 4 pages to tell the story. The story should have a beginning, middle and end. The story should have a plot or theme. The story should include a setting or place. The picture story could include props that relate to the story. The picture book should use body language and facial expression to communicate something about the characters. The story could have a conflict and resolution. The story should convey an individuals unique point of view about the theme. Is there a moral to the story?
Include a
title page with an image, the names of everyone in the puppet show and the
name of the author. Remember, everyone in your puppet show group
should share the same title. EXAMPLES
1. Characters: Identify kinds of characters: dynamic vs. static; stereotype vs. original. How does body language, facial expression and clothing communication specific characters.
2. Plot: Separate the puppet show into "parts" such as introduction, rising and falling action, conflict, resolution, middle, ending.
3. Point of View: Point of view tells the story through the eyes of one of the characters. How does the voice of the story teller shape our interpretations?
4. Setting: Types of Imagery: Are there colors or textures that develop and create mood as the story progresses? Are there symbols that help lead us through the story? How are elements of space and time used as we move through the story?
National Standards for Arts Education
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Have an informed acquaintance with exemplary works of art from a variety of cultures and historical periods.
- Be able to relate various types of arts knowledge and skills within and across the arts disciplines.
CONTEXT:
ART EDUCATION THEORY:
READ
- Anna M. Kindler. Significance
of Adult Input In Early Childhood Artistic Development - KindlerArtInput.PDF
ART & LITERACY
- Jacob Lawrence & Lanston Hughes, Migration series. Artist and writer collaboration.
VOCABULARY:
picture book, point of view, plot, conflict / resolution, characters, story telling, title, author, publisher, binding, cover,
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