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Power of Collaboration

Participants will discuss ways to collaborate for find a team to integrate art. They will do a “Get to Know You Bingo” activity and have a group discussion. Supporting Documents: Slides, Bingo Sheet Contact: Leigh Marmes

Turning Stories Into Stage

– Choose a familiar story to work with and use a story graphic organizer or story board to break up the story into clear scenes or acts- Pull text directly from story or summarize to create the narration script- Create a character list and determine single items...

Summarizing with God’s Eyes

Students created a God’s Eye to represent the core emotions of the main character of their book, in the order in which the character felt those emotions, to create a “summary” of the book. The students also wrote a short paragraph accompanying the art piece to...

SEL and the Star Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key dealt with his experiences aboard an enemy ship during the War of 1812 by writing down his thoughts and feelings, which would one day become our national anthem. We can learn from his coping stategy of writing and explore other ways in dealing with...

Symbolism

Watch “What is Symbolism” on YouTube (https://youtu.be/8Vwek28P9Gk)Teacher will read books such as:Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller, The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco, The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson, The Memory Coat by Elvira...

Geometry Lamps

Students will create Egyptian inspired lamps using shape names, characteristics, angles, and lines that they learned in our Geometry unit. This can be used as a post-assessment, a review, or a math extension lesson. Lesson plan, material list, slide show, and template...