Tuesday, February 19, 2008

More than Plein Air


This is my third week co-teaching and we are finally starting a new group of artists! I created a colorful mural that describes the three main artists will will be studying: Edgar Degas, Mary Cassat, and Claude Monet. After my second benchmark meeting, I decided that my goals this week would revolve around planning and supplementing art activities. I have focused a lot of my time on building relationships with my students and the Burris faculty, but it is about time that I start making my mark and putting my curricular knowledge to the test!



As an introduction to Mary Cassat and Impressionism, my classroom teacher and I will be reading this story, told from the point of view of a young student writing a book report. One of the challenges of reading this book is that it is very small. I came up with the idea of scanning the images into Power Point so that all of the students would be able to see the pictures. I will be curious to see how the students respond to this from of presentation.

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