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Lesson Plan by: Judy Decker
6th Grade Lesson Plans                                            Week:

Unit:  Greek and Roman Art

Project:  Crayon etching  - Greek Pottery forms

Objectives:

1.       Art appreciation, art history- Greek and Roman art

2.       Understanding of uses of different pottery shapes

3.       Understanding ceramic vocabulary - decoration

4.       Explore theme from everyday life - recording history

5.       Develop drawing skills - work with design principlas

6.       Utilize a variety of resources to inspire art

Resources:
Ancient Art
Prints of Greek Vases, Internet Lesson 
Video: Lost Civilizations: Ancient Greece

Materials:

6"x 9" newsprint 
Handouts of Greek vases - scenes from Greek life, mythology, border designs
pencils, rulers
handouts of Greek pattern/ design
6"x 9" light brown and/or orange poster board (could use white poster board)
White paint markers
black fine point permanent markers
orange, copper colored crayons white crayons
black India ink
scratch tools

Motivation:

1.            Review/show selection from video: Ancient Civilizations: Greek

2.            Show/discuss prints of Greek vases - explain the different styles shapes

3.            Images of vases from the Internet and National Geographic

4.           Demonstrate drawing scene from life on 6 x 9 newsprint - leaving a border at top and bottom for Greek patterns. Students could draw an event from their own life or could use a Greek design if they chose. Some students drew a vessel and drew designs on body with border designs around the top and bottom - Amphora shapes work well.

5.           Demonstration transferring design to cardboard (pencil on back -- then trace over lines)

6.           Demonstrations -outlining with ultra fine point black marker - coloring in areas to be white with white paint markers (color over with white crayon). Demonstrate coloring entire picture heavily with copper or orange crayon

7.           Demonstrate - brushing India ink over (mix a little detergent with ink) -- allow to dry 

8.         Demonstrate - etching techniques using scratch tools

Procedures:

1.            Review videos and discuss examples of Greek vases

2.            Review design requirements - scene from everyday life (or theme from Greek mythology). Border designs at top and bottom.

3.            Draw scene on 6 x  9" newsprint (may put scene on shape of Greek pottery)- use ruler to mark off borders. Draw border design reminiscent of patterns in Greek vases.

4.            Transfer design to light brown cardboard (use white if brown is not available) - put soft lead pencil on back of drawing. Tape to cardboard - trace over all lines with pen.

5.           Outline design with fine point marker. - color in small areas to be white with paint marker. Color in small areas to be black with permanent marker if desired.

6.           Color entire design heavily with copper or orange crayon - press hard. Use white crayon over white areas.

7.           Brush India in over design -- allow to dry (add a little dish detergent to ink - ink should be slightly watered down)

8.           Scratch off India ink to reveal the design below - create textural interest. Leave some areas blacker than others -- scratch off more in some areas to reveal the orange/brown colors.

9.           Mount into ceramic temple frames when finished.

 

Evaluation:

Student self-evaluation.

Grade form:  Greek Vases - crayon etching                                         name_____________________

DESIGN/COMPOSITION        10                9                8                7                6                5              Teacher's  comments: Teacher's  comments:

PATTERNS/ ETCHING            10                9                8                7                6                5               

CRAFTSMANSHIP                  10                9                8                7                6                5               saved for display ___________

                                                                                                                                                             saved for Art Show__________ 

Note from Judy:

I have done a similar lesson with special ed 6th graders just using classic pottery forms on 9"x12" tag board. Students designed a pottery vessel - drawing an event from their life (templates were available or they could make their own shape by folding a piece of paper to cut a symmetrical vessel). Crayon etched vessels were framed with a tag board printed (on photocopier) classical temple frame. Students could design their own column capitals on the frame (Doric, Ironic or Corinthian). Plus draw their own sculpture relief in pediment.

Submitted by: LaDonna Dixon
UNIT: Ancient Greece Lesson 
Lesson: Greek Pottery - Vessel shaped crayon etching.

Discuss with and show visuals of ancient Grecian vessels. There are a multitude of shapes that they vessels came in....and they all had "stories" painted on them with bands of designs. Students cut out the vessel shape they wanted from poster board. They colored it with crayons, using earth tones, oranges, reds, browns, tans, etc. -- Colored heavily and filled the entire space with crayons. Next, they painted over with the tempera with a touch of liquid soap added. Let dry. Scratch the stories and tradition Greek designs into the vessels. These turned out great.

Materials: White poster board - Black tempera paint - large brushes - Liquid Soap ( a few drops) - Scissors - Crayons (earth tones) - Toothpicks (or the real scratch board tools) 
LaDonna Dixon, NBCT Visual Arts Teacher Round Top Elementary 

From Patty Caiola:

I do a lesson on Ancient Greek pottery/Scratch Art Vessels very similar to LaDonna.  I have the students create a "mosaic" frame for their vessel using metallic colored pencils (for the mosaic tiles) on gray paper (to simulate the grout) and they color in a frame of 1" squares with 1/4" space in between each square.  They paste their vessel in the middle of the mosaic frame.  I have also tried this frame idea with paint and they stamp their 1" squares or I have used pre-cut mosaic paper tiles they glue down...It Depends on the students and the amount of time that year.  All were successful.

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