Think Art!

1. Think Art! Marjorrie C. Custodio Heritage Middle School 7th Grade Fine Arts

2. Teaching art history can be a challenge because students might find it boring.

3. We need to be excited about teaching art history and engage the students.

4. Make art history entertaining and get the students to think critically.

5. Art history can be entertaining and engaging at the same time.

6. Present students entertaining facts about the artist’s life.

7. Claude Monet • Monet was well known at an early • age for his drawings of caricatures.

8. Paul Cezanne 12. Zola wrote a book based on a painter who became a failure.

9. Vincent van Gogh 12) Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night when he was in an insane asylum.

10. Salvador Dali 4) Dali once arrived in a heavy deep sea diving suit to give a lecture and nearly suffocated.

11. Present students images that will grab their attention.

12. Diego Rivera

13. Detail of the Sistine Chapel

14. Self-portraits

15. Increase student interest by using Pop culture references.

16. Santino

17. Simpsons

18. Andy Warhol

19. Students can develop critical thinking skills and art appreciation.

20. Teach students to make inferences about the artist’s life.

21. Modeling Inferences

22. Guided Inferences

23. Independent Inferences

24. Teach students to make connections to the artist’s life.

25. Modeling Connections

26. Guided Connections

27. Independent Connection

28. Teach students to apply their inferencing and connecting skills to the artist’s work.

29. Picasso’s Blue Period I think ______________________________ ________________________________________ because____________________________ ________________________________________ _______________________________________. Support:__________________________ ________________________________________ _______________________________________.

30. Connecting works of art to each other. Banksy Monet

31. We need to be excited about teaching art history and engage the students.

32. Resources