Elementary Visual School Arts

Rigorous Curriculum Design

Unit Planning Organizer Template
Subject (s) Visual Art

Grade/Course 2

Unit of Study Art Criticism (Follow Up Activity to Mask Making)

Unit Type Topical Skills-based Thematic

Pacing 1 Session after art production

Priority Standards or Learning Outcomes

Supporting Standards/Outcomes

2.CR.1 Use critical analysis to generate responses to a variety of prompts.

Clarifying Priority Standards or Learning Outcomes
Supporting Standards/Outcomes
2.CR. 1.1 Use art terminology to describe art in terms of subject and
physical characteristics.

2.CR.1.2 Evaluate personal work, while in progress and at completion.

Name of Unit: Art Criticism

Lesson Plans Brief Description Pacing
Formal Critique of Mask Steps in the Critique
process:

Describe: How do you

describe art? How do

you use art terms in

describing art?

Tell exactly what you see

Analyze: Use the

elements/principles to

reflect upon the art form

Art vocabulary

Color Use

Shapes

Feelings

Mask Use

1 Session