Content Area: Visual and Performing Arts

 

Index: 1.4B Grade 6 CPI 1

 

Standard: 1.4 - Critique

 

Strand: B - Skills

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 -  The student will critique performances and exhibitions based on the application of the elements of the art form.

 

Grade: 6

 

Sample Activities:

 

Visual Arts / Critical Statements - Select a two or three dimensional image for students to critique.
·        Write critique categories on the board based on the Bates model or the model you choose to use
-Motivation (labeling information m- size, medium, etc.)
-Identification (Detailed description of subject matter, if identifiable),
-Description (the use of art elements),
-Analysis (the use of the Principles of Design),

      -Interpretation (meaning of the art for the viewer, artist or the culture of origin),
-Evaluation (judgments made about the quality or success of the work).
·        Develop multiple teacher-made statements about the image responding to each critique category and write these on index cards.
·        Randomly distribute index cards to groups of students.
·        Each group should determine the correct category for each statement.
·        Students post their statements under the correct category on the board.
·        Defend any disagreements and label each statement as fact or opinion.

 

Essential questions:
·        What is the value of critique? What can we learn from it?
·        How can we distinguish fact from opinion?

 

Reflective Practice:
·        Display another image. Hand each group of students an index card with a critique heading written on the card. Students write a statement corresponding to the heading. When finished, each group can read their statement aloud. The class then determines the appropriate category to which the statement responds.