Sketchbook/Journals that build Academic Skills, Community and Caring!

Sketchbook/Journalsthat build Academic Skills, Community and Caring!Deborah Herbert Booker Middle VPA Magnet/Middle School SarasotaA Routine is Set!!!Monday: DescribeTuesday: AnalyzeWednesday: Compare and ContrastThursday: SketchFriday: Judgment

Creativity and Fun with Pages!BASIC Procedures and Understandings:

Amazing Art Moment every day at the beginning of class!Students ALL participate with journal/sketchbook or packet and pencilStudents observe, discuss and write Students share their writing with the classStudents are honored for their efforts

Monday's Amazing Art Moment:

You will DESCRIBE this work of art using complete sentences.You will descibe the COLORS, LINES, SHAPES, SPACES and OBJECTS you see.

You have 10 minutes!

Start by writing:In this work of art I see....

Tuesday's Amazing Art Moment

How did the artist organize this work of art?

Look at the Word Wall:RhythmBalanceUnityRepetitionMovementEmphasisPattern

The photographer organized this photograph by using...

Dorothea Lange Biography Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895-October 11, 1965) was an influential documentary photographer. Lange is best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.

The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother" is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement Administration. In 1960, Lange gave this account of the experience:

I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean- to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it. (From: Popular Photography, Feb. 1960).

Compare and Contrast these two images! Use a Venn Diagram

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Write a Judgement Statement about this work of art by Dorothea Lange. (at least 6 sentences!)

This photograph by Dorothea Lange is...

Make sure that you justify your answer and that you use complete sentences.

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