Elementary Visual School Arts

7

Asst. 18” x 24” colored paper
Asst. 1” squares of scrap booking
paper

Unit Vocabulary Terms Enrichment/Extension Interdisciplinary

Connections

Priority

Standards

Concepts

Supporting
Standards
Concepts
and Other
Unit-
Specific
Terms
Elements of
Art:
Lines
Shapes
Colors
Textures
Space
(Near/Far)
Overlapping
Watercolor
wash
Pattern
Quilt making
Story quilt
Faith Ringgold

Principles

of Design:

Movement

Jazz

Harlem

The Apollo

Theater

Activist

Listen to jazz music by

artists such as Duke

Ellington

Show photos of Harlem

in the 1930s when Faith

Ringgold was growing

up in that neighborhood

Read

If A Bus Could Talk: The

Story of Rosa Parks

Examine how quilts

were used in the

underground railroad

Music: Jazz

Math: Quilt Patterns,

shapes

Language Arts:

Compare/Contrast

narrative art and

writing narratives

Social Studies: The

Civil Rights Movement

Activism