Rivera Lesson Plan Formal Observation
Teacher   Catherine Thomas				Date:  January 2015-May2015
Unit Name/ Big Idea/ Grammar Topic: Picasso Cubism
Date of Observation 4/23/15 Time of Observation 11:55-12:30
Content Standard(s):  
Artistic Process Connecting:  Relating artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external contex.  
Anchor Standard 11| Relate Artistic ideas and works and works wih societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
4th VA:  CN11.1.4a Through observation, infer information about time, place and culture in which a work of art was created.
	
Content Student Friendly Objective:  Student will be able to use pencils and markers to create a cubist portrait in the style of the artist Pablo Picasso.

ELP Standard(s):
 Speak in complete sentences.
 Follow multiple-step instructions for familiar process or procedures.

ELP Student Friendly Objective:  Student will be able to ask and answer questions in complete sentences.  Student will be able to follow step by step instructions.

Pre-Assessment:  Teacher pre-assessed the students with a teacher made multiple choice questions on Picasso and Cubism. Excellent 90% S=Satisfactory 83%   All of the class scored no points. 

	
Lesson:
Anticipatory Set:  Teacher will explain to the students that when they get their pictures taken it is called a portrait.  When an artist looks in the mirror or at a picture and draw what he sees it is a self-portrait.  Pablo Picasso would draw and paint many portraits but he wanted to break away from what was already done and create a new way of drawing portraits.  In 1907, Paris France, Pablo Picasso along with the artist George Braque invented cubism.  Cubism broke the rules and broke up the picture.   The major characteristics of cubism are geometric shapes, lines and multiple views of the face.  Also, Picasso would abstract or take out and creatively put parts of the portrait back together.  Abstract means to take apart.  For example shattering the picture and then selecting the pieces to go back into the portrait.  A rearranged face.

Guided Practice:

Teacher will explain the characteristic of Cubism Art:
•	Geometric Shapes
•	Lines
•	Patterns
•	Multiple views of the face
Teacher will demonstrate how to use an oval to draw the shape of the face and then add the neck.
Teacher will draw a profile line down the center of the oval to create multiple views of the face.
Teacher will draw in the facial features: eyes, noses, mouths, ears.  Students can draw more than one feature of the face such as the nose, and mouth.  
Teacher will draw geometric shapes around the facial features.
Teacher will draw in the hair using shapes and lines.
Teacher will abstract or break apart the portrait with lines...
Guided Instruction
Teacher will walk around the room to check for understand and provide instruction and feedback.
Independent Instruction
Students will read a biography about Pablo Picasso.
Student will locate on a map where Pablo Picasso lived and worked during his lifetime.
Students will analyze Pablo Picasso’s pictures of paintings:  Maya with Boat, 1938, Crying Woman (1937), Portrait of Dora Maar, 1938.  
Students will draw and color a portrait in the style of Cubism.

Assessment: 
Student created a Cubism Portrait
□ Student drew a profile line down the center of the face multiple views of the face.
□ Student created multiple views of the face
□ Student drew geometric shapes
□ Student used lines to abstract the portrait.
□ Student evenly colored with markers the whole portrait.

4 or more correct= E/Excellent 90%
2-1 = S/Satisfactory 80%
 Teacher will assess the final artwork with an E for Excellent or an S for Satisfactory.

Closure:
Teacher will review the objective:
Student can recognize a cubist portrait.
Students know the characteristics of a cubist portrait.
Students can identify the artist Pablo Picasso
Students can independently draw a Cubism Portrait.

	
Differentiation: Teacher will help students that are having trouble by re-teaching and giving individual attention to student by drawing on a separate paper to help solve the problem.

Technology:   Technology is not available.