Teacher: LaVerne Miers-Bond

Teaching Context: Visual Art

Art/Dance/Theater/Language Arts/Technology
Integrated objective
Students will use technology to document a performance that represents a personal

narrative.

Integrated assessment

Students will show understanding of All subjects by meeting the following

final assessment criteria:

Create an artwork that reflects their memory of a significant event in

their life.

Compose and stage a performance inspired by personal

experience.

Document an artwork using video technology.

Compose an artists statement.

Participate in an online group critique.

Arts Standard(s): VA s3: Personal Other Subject Standard(s):

choice-making and meaning: Uses best
practices and experiences to inform and
develop an authentic voice.
C4: Explore a variety of approaches to art
making, including experimentation,
observation, narrative, imagination, and
memory to arrive at personal solutions.
ELA
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or
events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and
well-structured event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research,
reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single
sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and
audiences.
STEM
A.Analyze interdisciplinary
connections that exist within science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics disciplines and other
disciplines.
Media Arts
Indicator 4A: Integrate and synthesize various arts, media
arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions.
Indicator 5A: Demonstrate and employ artistic, design,
technical, and soft skills in managing and producing media
 artworks.
Dance
Indicator 1A: Demonstrate the ability to create dance by
improvising, using a variety of stimuli, and organizing dance
ideas.
4A: Work collaboratively with diverse teams to perform
choreography in unison and interact effectively and
cohesively as a member of an ensemble.
Theater
Indicator 1B: Develop a complete design concept,
incorporating multiple aspects of technical theatre, for an
original theatrical work.
Indicator 3C: During the course of the rehearsal process, use
available technology to re-imagine and revise technical
design choices to enhance the story, emotional impact, and
theme of a devised/adapted theatrical work for performance.
Indicator 8A: Develop and justify personal aesthetics and
artistic point of view.
Anchor Standard 1

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Introductory Activities:
- Introduction to connecting the physical body to art making.
- Discuss drawing from observation
- Discuss Surrealism and Surrealist games.
- View and discuss the examples of Fluxus scores.

Check for understanding:

Drawing Breath
- Timed drawing with eyes closed following the breath, run for 3 min, repeat

drawing, notice the difference in the body and how it manifests in the drawing.

(formative assessment reflecting, comparing )

Check for understanding:

Surrealist exquisite corpse dance
- Discuss the form of an exquisite corpse drawing, divide students into groups of

three, groups collaborate to choreograph an exquisite corpse movement piece.

(formative assessment levels, speed, locomotor movement, freeze, gesture,

expression)

Fluxus Score
 - Students will view Fluxus scores from the past and compose one of their own.

(formative assessment composing)

- Scores are dropped into a vessel, students take turns being the conductor

who reads and controls the duration of the performance. (formative

assessment performing

Final Piece
- Students will brainstorm and plan content for their final performance. (formative

assessment planning, composing)

- Students compose and produce a process or performance piece based on a

significant personal memory. (formative assessment composing, blocking,

rehearsing)
- Students will use video to document their piece. (summative assessment

performance, documentation)
- Present piece to class by uploading the finished video and image of the object

(if a process piece) to Padlet. (summative assessment - exhibiting)

- Compose an artists statement. (summative assessment - reflecting)