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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
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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
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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
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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
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6
5 Teacher's
comments:
Teacher's
comments:
PATTERNS/
ETCHING 10
9
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5
CRAFTSMANSHIP
10
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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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