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Lesson Objectives: (Excellent resource at http://www.teachervision.fen.com/curriculum-planning/new-teacher/48345.html?for_printing=1&detoured=1): What you want the students to do. *
1. Visual Art: The students will be able to recognize common themes or artwork seen in similar traditions and celebrations (ie. Dia de los Muertos, Christmas,
Hanukkah, Kwanza, birthdays, Thanksgiving, etc...
2. Literacy: The students will be able to create a traditions book of a tradition or celebration that they and their family do every year around a certain time
and be able to illustrate it.
3. Social Studies: The students will be able to learn to understand and appreciate the cultural diversity that exists among each other through traditions and
celebrations and the artwork that represents it.
Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) (3-4) (http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/)
1. Visual Art:
Explain different responses you have to different artworks
Theme: Purpose of art in culture
2. Literacy:
Recount stories, including fables and folktales
from diverse cultures, and determine their central
message, lesson, or moral.
Use information gained from the illustrations and
words in a print or digital text to demonstrate
Identify & define common vocabulary that connect the art form with the
other identified content areas: