Standard: English Language Arts

12 Mar 2023

Bring a Book to Life: Hatchet

August-June

The young adult novel, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen is the story of how Brian survives on his own after a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. Students will experience some of Brian’s adventures through hands-on survival skills and knowledge.

Standards:

  • RL.4.2 Analyze literary text development. a. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text. b. Summarize the text, incorporating a theme determined from details in the text.
  • RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
  • RL.4.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons.

Vocabulary:

Character, Setting, Theme, Survival, Wilderness

11 Mar 2023

Binding Your Story

August-June 

Help your students unlock their inner artist at the Arts Center simply by being themselves! In this program students will reflect on their personal experiences by creating art journals. Art journals are a place where students can express their creativity in a mixed-media fashion through both writing and art. Our educators will help students foster a place of creative escape, where they can document memories, thoughts, goals, ideas, and inspiration!

Standards:

  • W.HS.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences
  • VA.HS.1PR Demonstrate increased technical skill and craftsmanship with various art media when creating images from observation, memory and imagination.
  • VA.HS.3PR Solve visual art problems that demonstrate skill, imagination and observation.

Vocabulary:

Art journal, mixed media, craftsmanship, book binding, awl, bone folder, narrative

11 Mar 2023

Arts Appreciation Series: Visual Art

August-June

Art evokes reactions. Do you ever find yourself liking or disliking a work of art, but you struggle to articulate why? Students will don the hat of “art critic” in this immersive program as we seek to build our art appreciation toolkit.

Standards:

  • SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  • VA.3.1CE Observe and compare similar themes, subject matter and images in artworks from historical and contemporary eras.
  • VA.3.3RE Compare and contrast their opinions of a work of art with those of their peers.
    VA.3.1RE Examine and describe how art and design principles are used by artists to create visual effects. 

Vocabulary:

Painting, ceramics, Rookwood Pottery, art history, art criticism, gallery, curator, Feldman Method, description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation

11 Mar 2023

Arts Appreciation Series: Music

August-June

This program provides time for your students to immerse themselves in the world of music. Exploring different instruments, genres, and styles, students will have a hands-on learning experience designed to cultivate an appreciation for music in their lives.

Standards:

  • RL.2.2 Analyze literary text development. a. Determine the lesson or moral. b. Retell stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures.
  • MU.5CE Explore selected musical instruments visually and aurally.
  • MU.3RE Discuss how music communicates feelings, moods, images and meaning.

Vocabulary:

Orchestra, appreciate, genre, instruments, melody, rhythm