Teaching Strategies
Visual literacy strategies will be the foundation for the students to begin their understanding of the unit. Students will learn to "read a picture" to build focus and skill at looking at the whole painting. They will be looking carefully at works of art to discover clues about the people who made them and the world in which they lived. Students will learn to slow down, look closely, and think about what they see as they prepare to dramatize a work of art.
In staging their tableau vivant, the students will choose from a number of paintings that represent events that align with the classroom learning. They will look carefully and become characters in the paintings, silently holding their poses. This strategy reinforces the idea that looking at art is an active, not passive, experience and understanding a work of art takes time and effort to create and has a story to tell its viewers.
Students will then be challenged to determine the storyline of the image - what were the people in the painting doing before that moment and what might they have done after. They will work in small groups to create a story line.
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