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| Red Cloud, by N. Hakikah |
What joy I felt last week after one of my students, J. Hutchinson let me know that he was more aware of the content in his GA High School Graduation Test, because of his art class. He said "Ms. Hill, Manifest Destiny was on that test!" I had no idea, honest... I had just hoped that by reinforcing SSUSH7 students may do better in social studies period. The standard states:
Students will explain the process of economic growth in the early 19th Century and the different responses to it. The students found this part of history fascinating (I love history!). We compared and contrasted the economic effect of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, with the legalization of marijuana in certain states in the U.S. - SMH, hey... if the shoe fits.... I required my students to choose an element from the standard: a. - e. and then from their research settle on an individual who had an impact on it, or was impacted by it. That person became the subject for their block prints. Then the art began. They had to choose parts of the portrait to show in white (the recessed areas) and parts to show with different values. Earlier in the Quarter I'd introduced them to linoleum block printing, then this became their culminating project. A student, T. Anderson remarked, "dang, we started with those little samples now look how far we've come."
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| Eli Whitney, by J. Hutchinson |
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| John Brown, by J. Blair |
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