Lesson 3

Title of Lesson: Poster of a Civil Right


Enduring Big Idea:

Revolution/Civil Rights. Students will explore different civil rights they are passionate about and create “posters” exercising that right. They will create a series of 4 of the same poster.

Essential Questions:
• What is revolution?
• What are civil rights?
• How do (past and present) civil right movements and revolutions relate?

Objectives:
• Students will create a series of 4 posters that advertise a civil right they support

• Students will consider historical civil rights movements and revolutions and the artwork that helped these revolutions take place
• Students will create the same poster 4 times, once with graphite, once with white and black and two tones of grey, once with 2 analogous colors and two tones, and once with 2 complimentary colors and two tones.


Lesson vignette:
Anticipatory set-
• I will start the lesson by showing the students artwork from previous civil rights and revolutionary movements. More specifically “The Death of Marat” by Jacques-Louis David, Palmer Cole Hayden

• Students will then consider civil rights movements and revolutions in history and decide if these movements were for better or worse
• Student will brainstorm 10 civil rights they support

Body of lesson-
• Students will narrow the ten down to three with my help, and create sketches for posters supporting the three and choose their favorite sketch to create the series of four. Students will be asked to consider color schemes that would help support their ideas

• Students will create their first “poster” using graphite then create the following three as specified in the objectives.
Closure-
• Students will have a critique pow-wow.
• We will go around the classroom and students will talk about their artwork.
• They will discuss which poster best supports the civil right and how the color scheme works in relation to the message