A few weeks ago Lauren and I presented our first lesson from our unit to the class. Over all, it went really well! There will definitely be some changes if this lesson would be used in the future, but it's a good start. Here is our lesson overview: This lesson asks students to respond to a news publication while using the influences of Faith Ringgold and Robert Rauschenberg to create a hybridized artwork on newspaper.
We started off with an open discuss of the two artists we used, showing their work and explaining to the class how their work relates to hybridization. Two examples we used were Monogram by Rauschenberg and Who's afraid of Aunt Jemima by Ringgold.
We then had the students pick an article that they were going to respond to from a pile of articles we provided for each table. A table of five had at least twenty articles to pick from, so there was a good variety of subjects for the students to relate to one, if not more.
We reminded students they had to pick an artist to focus on : Ringgold who had personal, community, and cultural connections to her work or Rauschenberg, who was more about current events and politics. We also asked for students to use text, whether it was making words that stood out to them in the article visible or adding their own.
The class seemed to really enjoy the materials provided while exploring and responding to their chosen article. I wish I documented everyone's work! But it really was a great experience doing this with our class.
Here are my teacher examples:
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