Rationale
My unit will focus on how literature and art can change ideas, specifically how they can influence the current culture and its laws. My sixth-grade curriculum begins the year with a unit on communication, specifically on how art communicates. This unit, on Black Beauty, Weir, and Landseer, will follow the communication unit and will explore not only how art can be used to communicate ideas and beliefs, but also how it can change ideas and beliefs. The examples from art and literature that will be shared with the students will be ones that have made an impact on the perception of animals and animal rights. This has a personal connection to me since I am a big supporter of animal welfare, animal rights, and pro-animal legislation. Developing a unit that will allow me to share with my students something I feel strongly about is an added bonus that teaching of the unit will offer me.
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