UNIT INSTRUCTION PLAN

utilizing the
MU Art Education Lesson Plan Format
Developed by Dr. Kathy Unrath

Name: Alison Caselman

TITLE OF UNIT: Representin GRADE LEVEL (S): 9-12 Grade

NATIONAL VISUAL ARTS STANDARDS

(http://nationalartsstandards.org/sites/default/files/Visual%20Arts%20at%20a%20Glance%20-
%20new%20copyright%20info.pdf):
VA: Cr1.1.lla VA: Pr4.1.llla VA: Cn10.1.la
VA: Cr2.1.lla VA: Re8.1.la

NETS (http://www.iste.org/standards/standards/standards-for-students):
ISTE 1A ISTE 4B ISTE 5C
ISTE 1B ISTE 5A ISTE 6D
ISTE 3A ISTE 5B

RATIONALE and GOALS FOR THIS LESSON: The rationale for this unit is for students to know that
they are more than their appearance. They will first look at who they are, then a limitation they have,
and finally create a way to overcome that limitation.

ENDURING BIG IDEA: Identity and Limitations are the big ideas for this unit. First, students have to
know who they are before they can really figure out what is a limitation for them. Then, they have to
be able to think of how they are going to overcome this limitation. These two Big Ideas are mixed
together throughout the whole unit.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Who am I?
What is a limitation I have?
How can I overcome that limitation?

KNOWLEDGE BASE AND KEY CONCEPTS:

Students will know:
The process of art making can show them more than the final product of a piece.
How to ask why.
A limitation they have.
How to create a situation to overcome their limitation.

OBJECTIVES:
The students will:
Create a triptych
Think deeply about who they are and what holds them back.
Have a better understanding of who they are.
Take time to create a solution to overcome their situation.

UNIT AND LESSON VIGNETTES:

Note: With online education there are no transitions to consider. Our agenda is set up weekly, so Ill
be breaking the unit plan into weeks so it is realistic and applicable for my current teaching situation.
I estimate students spending around 3-5 hours working on their art each week (45-60 minutes per
day). Each weeks structure will look similar because my students work better when they have a
routine that they have already become familiar with. Students are also allowed to work in an
alternative setting if they determine that it better fits their design and after communicating this to me.

WEEK FIVE
Try to complete all assignments by Friday.
Week Five assignments will not be accepted after midnight Friday of Week Six.
Task listed in the Do column are worth points.
Folder Read Watch Do
Week 5 Links on Representin Complete Who Am I worksheet
Blackboard: Introduction Analyze the articles you read and worksheet you
Artist Search completed. Start a conversation on the Discussion
for Self- Board. Reflect on how these two are similar and
Expression different. What questions do they make you think of? Do
and Identity in they help you answer anymore why questions that
Contemporary stumped you? Have your original post be 100 words and
Tibet (Photos) respond to your peers (2) giving evidence on why you
think this way.
Anonymous: CREATE: Start creating an artwork as a response to
Contemporar who you are and why you are feeling this why. This work
y Tibetan Art should show effort and time dedicated to it. It does not
opens at The have to be completed until the end of week 8, but you
Dorsky need to have a good start (about 3 or more hours) by
Museum at Friday.
the State Create a blog/vlog over this experience
University of Respond to at least 3 peers work with a WOWIE and
Ney York WHAT IF
-Points are being removed if you dont give evidence
WHY you think something looks nice or someone did
a good job.

WEEK SIX
Try to complete all assignments by Friday.
Week Six assignments will not be accepted after midnight Friday of Week Seven.
Task listed in the Do column are worth points.

Folder Read Watch Do

Week 6 Links are on Representin
Blackboard: Limitation
Week 6 Look at Paulo Analyze his art and complete the first page of the Paulo
Zerbatos work. Sergio Zerbato worksheet
Zerbatos Flickr
Account
Week 6 Paulo Sergio After doing the first page of the worksheet and reading
Zerbato (With the article, complete page 2 of Paulo Sergio Zerbato
Photos) worksheet.
- To see more CREATE: Start creating a response to a limitation you
images check
out his FineArt
have and why you see this as a limitation. This work
America links should show effort and time dedicated to it. It does not
on the bottom have to be completed until the end of week 8, but you
of the page. need to have a good start (4 or more hours) by Friday.
Create a blog/vlog over this experience
 Respond to at least 3 peers work with a WOWIE and
WHAT IF
-Points are being removed if you dont give evidence WHY you think
something looks nice or someone did a good job.

WEEK SEVEN
Try to complete all assignments by Friday.
Week Seven assignments will not be accepted after midnight Friday of Week Eight.
Task listed in the Do column are worth points.

Folder Read Watch Do

Week 7 Links on Overcoming Limitation Respond to these website and videos
Blackboard: Introduction - At least 150 words
The Psychology CREATE: An artwork in response to how you
of Limitations: Three Videos on can overcome your limitation talked about in
How and Why Website: Week 6. Use the medium you pick from the
Constraints Can - Bruce Lee: High beginning of the block. This work should
Make You More Speed Painting show effort and time dedicated to it (at least 4
Creative - Phil Hansen: hours).
- Also watch Embrace the Shake It does have to be completed, along with
videos on this
website
- Sigurd Larsen & Week 5 and 6s creations by Friday of Week
Michael Johansson: 8.
Exceeding
limitations is all
Real Life Tetris Blog/Vlog about this weeks experience.
- 200 words or more and at least 60 seconds on the
about the way vlog
you think Respond to at least 3 peers work
-Points are being removed if you dont give evidence
WHY for your WOWIE and WHAT IF

WEEK EIGHT
Try to complete all assignments by Friday.
Week Eight assignments will not be accepted after midnight Friday of Week Eight.
Task listed in the Do column are worth points.
Folder Read Watch Do
Week 8 Final End of the Block Survey
Week for Turn in you final tryptic
General - Turn at least 4-5 images of your work and captions on what these
Art images are of.
Turn in an Artist Statement over your project.
- Use the links in blackboard to help you know what an artist statement
is.
- Needs to be at least 400 words
Respond to 3 Peers artwork and artist statement
- Points are being removed if you didnt give evidence on why you
think what you do.
Week 8 One Page Complete and turn in your One Page Portfolio
Portfolios - Can be traditional like the examples or more digital.
Information
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND ADAPTATIONS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS:
Differentiate Tools for My Diverse Classroom:
o Text to Speech apps for their readings
o Students using Speech to Text apps for their blogs
o Making sure the materials that students use fit their small and large motor abilities
o Allowing the students to create what has meaning to them and being open to the
unknown outcome.
Keeping Students Engaged:
o By allowing them to create artwork for personal reflection
o By making computer art lessons more hands on with less text to read
o By giving them the ability to make choices and problem solve for themselves.
Challenge Highly Talented Students:
o Ask them to try an unfamiliar medium
o Encourage them to continue to research the Big Idea and to dig deeper into the
content.
When Students Finish Early:
o One great thing about online education is student can finish early without needed busy
work to keep them from bothering others.
o They need to make sure to login each day for attendance
o Work on other work from previous units
Work on other work from a different class

ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES:
With this class being online, it is hard to really get substantial formative assessments. I am
able to see what they are thinking and the steps students take by reading and responding to their
blogs. How the student receive points is if they hit the word count and stay on topic for their
discussion board writings and explanations of what they did that week and turned in their image(s). If
they do both of these tasks, 100% is awarded to the students
Examples of Summative Assessment for this Unit:
Student success will look like a 3-piece work (triptych) that allows the students to depict who
they are and how they feel about themselves and their limitations. Students will first start off creating
an artwork about themselves, then the next week about a limitation they have, and finally creating an
artwork that helps explain how they can overcome their limitation. Exemplar is below.
I will be able to know they put effort into their work by their craftsmanship and also by reading
their blogs. At the end of this project, they are asked to write an artist statement that will also help
describe their intentions and how meaningful their artwork is to them. There will be no rubric for this
project, because I do not want to set limitations on my students and their artwork.
Exemplar:

Representin Self

Representin Limitation
 Overcoming Limitation

Student Examples:
RESOURCES AND LINKS PAGE

Links for contemporary artist:

Anonymous work from The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art:
o http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/tibetan-art_n_3762140.html
o http://artdaily.com/news/64343/Anonymous--Contemporary-Tibetan-Art-opens-at-The-
Dorsky-Museum-at-the-State-University-of-New-York#.WMbwx28rLIX
Paulo Sergio
o https://www.flickr.com/photos/pszerbato/sets/72157623590448069
o http://www.escapeintolife.com/interviews/paulo-sergio-zerbato/
Bruce Lee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbvSms-1yj4&feature=youtu.be
Phil Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrZTho_o_is
Sigurd Larsen and Michael Johansson: https://vimeo.com/55804669

Links to videos created specifically for my class and students:

Representin Unit Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuWaPJdYMcU
Representin Limitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k93sB3uFST8
Overcome Limitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkv6fIzZm5k
Who Am I?
Please answer at least 8 of the following questions. Then create 2 more questions that you also think
need to be answered.
Who am I? How do others see me? Who do I want to become? Who can I imagine
myself to be? What are characteristics of me? What do others think of me? Do the
people I hang out with say something about me? Does my culture say things about
me? What about the clothes I wear? Am I religious? Do I want to be? Do I think for
myself or do I just repeat what I hear/read? Would I change my identity if I could? Am I
happy who I am? Should I strive to be something different?
- For each of the questions you ask, ask yourself why multiple times.
o So, after you first answer the question ask yourself Why? then write down that answer.
Then ask Why? again and record that answer. Do this at least 2 more times. Really try
to think why you answered the way you did.
o Points will not be given for I dont know answers or something similar.
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 Paulo Sergio Zerbato Worksheet
Pick four artworks that you think are interesting. Answer these next questions for each artwork. Think
back to last week where you had to go beyond the surface and answer why multiple times to the
previous answer you gave. Please make sure to give detailed and deep responses when answering
the questions.
Please insert the picture and also the answers to the questions below.
Title of work:
Image:
What do you see?
What makes you think that?
What more can you find?
What do you see?
What make you think that?
What more can you find?
What do you see?
What make you think that?
What more can you find?
So for each of your four images, answer these ten questions and add the image.
After completing the previous page and looking deeply at four of Zerbatos work please read the
article on Blackboard.
1. Were the artists answer what you expected him to say? What makes you say this?
2. After reading this article, did it have you thinking differently about his artwork? How so? Or
Why not?
3. What do you think his overarching theme is for his work? Do you think he has more than one?
4. How does this artists artwork work for this weeks theme or Representin Limitations? Why?