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Creating Original Avatars: Enhancing Visual Literacy in Middle School

This lesson plan is designed for middle school students to foster their understanding of visual literacy through the creation of original avatars. Students will engage with portraits from American artists, comparing and contrasting them using visual vocabulary. They will also create a podcast to enhance their profile images, merging visual art with technology. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, students will cultivate skills in analysis, creativity, and digital communication, culminating in a product shared on a classroom blog.

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Creating Original Avatars: Enhancing Visual Literacy in Middle School

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  1. Blog Profiles: Creating Original Avatars Roosevelt Middle School Michelle Brower, PDRT Liz Feeney-Hunt, Title I/ELA Dept Head Carol Chaloux, TIS

  2. Cisco-Smithsonian American Art Museum-Jefferson Parish Public School System Teacher Institute 2009 • Lesson Plan Template: Interdisciplinary Teams • Title: Blog Profiles: Creating Original Avatars • Content and Substance: To enhance student’s ability to understand visual literacy in connection with portraits from American Artist. • Students will be able to compare/contrast portraits using visual vocabulary • Students will be able to create a podcast to enhance their original profile image • Standards: ELA7-M2 –Use tech. information and other avail. Resources to solve problems • 6-M2 – Compare/Contrast elements in multiple genres • 2-M5 – Write for a wide variety of purposes • 5-M1 – Locate/Select info using organizational features of grade appropriate resources • Grade Level / Subjects: 6-8 All Content Areas • Art Images / Resources Required: Artwork: Somewhere in America & Junior Wells • Technology Components: Video Conference entitled Visual Literacy “To See Is to Think” Podcast, Image Manipulating Software • Background: Students should have a basic knowledge of podcasting and power point or Photoshop • Organization of Knowledge: • Background Knowledge - Viewing of Mult-Cultural Portraits • Video Conferencing – “To See Is To Think” • Analyze two portraits – Somewhere in America & Junior Wells • Create their image for their blog profile • Podcast • Protection from Adverse Consequence: Work in Partners, Time line schedule, Rubric • Clear and Compelling Product Standards: Rubric, Assess to Internet Blog, Handouts, Samples of Acceptable Images • Affirmation of Performance: Students images will be posted on classroom blog to be shared with school • Choice: Work with a partner, use of materials to create own image other than technology to be photographed and downloaded. • Affiliation: Students will be apart of an educational community to be shared throughout the year with comments and assessments.

  3. Ms. Roosevelt’s Introduction

  4. Step one Building background knowledge: Handout Art Analysis Process

  5. Video ConferenceVisual Literacy: “To See is to Think”http://americanart.si.edu/education/tours/video/ Step two National Standards http://americanart.si.edu/education/pdf/looking_standards.pdf

  6. Step threeCompare and contrast

  7. eye of the soul Junior Wells 1989 Frederick Brown Born: Greensboro, Georgia 1945 oil on linen 36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase made possible by William Cost Johnson, George W. Story, Robert J. Oliver and Mrs. Barwig-Wagner 1990.31 Not currently on view Somewhere in America 1934 Robert Brackman Born: Odessa, Russia 1898 Died: New London, Connecticut 1980 oil on canvas 30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.5 x 63.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.75 Smithsonian American Art Museum1st Floor, West Wing

  8. Step four: Time to create. You must incorporate or more representations of you. You may use non tech mediums: pencils, pens, crayons clay which we can digitize and upload to your blog, or you may use PowerPoint or any photo editing software. 3 (three)

  9. Remember Cyber safety:Avatars will contain no names/addresses/phone numbers/other identifying details.If you use your face it must be digitally altered to be unrecognizable.

  10. http://media.photobucket.com/image/blog%20profile%20photos/Sydney_Cullen/layouts%20and%20templates/voguelayout-needscoding.pnghttp://media.photobucket.com/image/blog%20profile%20photos/Sydney_Cullen/layouts%20and%20templates/voguelayout-needscoding.png • Examples

  11. Step fiveYou have your Avatar. Now with your best visual grammar explain your avatar. Justify the visual synthesis of your image.Write a script for your podcast.Final product will include uploading of image and podcast.

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