ACTIVITIES WORKSHEET

Grade Level: 6

Course: Don't Laugh At Me

Week Taught: 30

State Standard: Arts and Humanities 7.1.6.E Know and demonstrate how arts can communicate experiences, stories or emotions through the production of works in the arts.

St. Marys Standard:

Students will be able to portray thoughts, feelings and experience through creations of

works in the arts. .

Student will know: Student will be able to:

That life experiences can be reflected Demonstrate a work of art that reflects

through art a life experience

Assessment Question: How can life experiences be reflected through works in the arts?

Paper/Pencil:

Q) What mediums can artists use to show emotion?

A) theatre, create painting or drawing, write a song

Performance Question: How can students use art to show kindness, cooperation, and caring?

Assessment Tool: (performance task) Student will create artwork focusing on incidences of kindness, cooperation and caring that happen at school.

Type of Assessment: Observation, Self and Peer Assessment, actual performance, live presentation

Activity: Explore Families

Write the word "culture" on the board and ask students what the word means to them. What words or phrases come to mind when they hear the word? Write their contributions on the board in the form of a web diagram, connecting related ideas with lines to the word "culture" or to other related words. Use the students words to help the class create a definition of culture that includes the particular values, beliefs, customs, and ways of life of groups of people.

*Introduce the activity: "families are an important part of culture. There is great variety in the kinds of families people live in today. In this activity we're going to celebrate many of the differences in the families in our classroom. Explain that families are not only comprised of people who are blood related. Discuss what makes someone part of your family.

*To start students thinking about the different family arrangements and cultures represented in the class, ask some of the following questions:

With whom do you live? Who else do you consider to be part of your family? What attributes make someone a "family" member? What are some of the things you like to do with members of you family? What are some of the things you like to do with members of your family? What are special foods in your family? What holidays they celebrate, memories, important events, values, beliefs, etc.

*Distribute art supplies and a copy of the nine-square patch to each student. Ask students to decorate the middle square of the patch with the names of their families and drawings showing all the members. The remaining eight squares could describe, with words, symbols, or other images, things that are important to their families. Students can include anything they want - special foods, pets, holidays they celebrate, memories, important events, values, beliefs, etc.

*When students are finished have them pair with a partner to share the stories of their families depicted on the patch.

Duration: 30 minutes

Resources: DLAM curriculum, copy of the nine-patch. square for each student, art supplies (Optional): fabric and sewing supplies for creating a cloth quilt

Code: 1.6.6.E Date Developed:

Teacher Assigned: Patty Dillinger Date Approved: 06/03

Note: There may be some sensitivity issues if there are any adopted students in your classroom. Please take that into consideration and spend some time discussing this with the adoptive child and his/her parents on how they wish this to be handled in the classroom.