Terra Teacher Lab

2009-10 Summer Institute Materials

Agenda and Outcomes

Terra Teacher Lab Summer Institute Agenda 2009-10

Professional Development Outcomes

Teacher Development: Competencies and Indicators

Student Development

Faculty and Presenter Biographies

 

Defining Self and Society through Portraits

Wendy Greenhouse's Portrait Image List

Related Readings:

George Washington Lansdowne Portrait, from Picturing America Resource Book

Quick, American Portraiture Reading

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Website Page on Lansdowne

Reproduction: The Promised Land--The Grayson Family

 

Amy Mooney's Portrait Image List

Related Readings:

"Beauford Delaney," African American Art Teacher's Manual

Biography of Beauford Delaney, Smithsonian Website Page

"On the Painter Beauford Delaney," W.E.B. DuBois Institute

 

Diversity of Place: Natural and Urban Landscapes

Wendy Greenhouse's Landscape Image List

Related Readings:

Thomas Cole Biography from Terra Website

Hudson River School Essay from Metropolitan Museum of Art Website

Reproductions:

White-Headed Eagle

Landscape with Figures: A Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans"

Brace's Rock, Brace's Cove, 1864

Hunter Mountain, Twilight

 

Amy Mooney's Landscape Image List

Related Readings:

Georgia O'Keeffe, AIC Art Access

Georgia O'Keeffe, "Her Life" from the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Website

Reproduction: Telegraph Poles with Buildings

 

Communities and Their Stories

Wendy Greenhouse's Stories Image List

Related Readings:

Lilly Martin Spencer Biography from Terra Website

The American People

American Encounters

Reproductions:

The County Election

Apotheosis of Washington

Our Banner in the Sky

The Home of the Red, White and Blue

 

Amy Mooney's Stories Image List

Related Readings:

Archibald Motley, Jr., AIC Art Access

 

Interpreting Art

Art Institute Gallery Activity 2009  Word / PDF

Developing Questions about Works of Art

How to Interpret Art through the "Close Read"  PDF / PowerPoint

Strategic Questioning Practice

Asking Good Questions

Visual Arts Glossary

 

Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Template   Word / PDF

Exemplary Lesson Plan by Craig Segal, Whittier School

Multi-Grade Language Arts Lesson Draft

American Art Connections Plan for 2009-2010   Word / PDF

Key Information Graphic

Instructions for Uploading Lesson Plans to GroupHub
Romance-Precision-Generalization: The Rhythm of Learning

Reading/Writing

Question Builders

Analyze an Artist's Technique

Analyze and Infer

Interpret a Painting

Interpret a Painting in Words

PQROST: The Reading-Thinking-Writing Connection

Connect Art and History

Interpret History

Connect People and Places and Times

Get It Together: Show What's Important

Infer from Images

Knowledge Connector

Kinds of Communication

Use Pictures as Pre-Writers

Get it Together: Write

 

Field Trip

Register for a Student Tour at the Art Institute of Chicago
Field Trip Planner

 

Research Resources

American Art Resources at Selected Web Sites

 

Illinois Learning Standards

Illinois Learning Standards: Fine Arts, English Language Arts, Social Science

 

Forms

Photo/Creative Consent Form

Supplies Reimbursement Form   Word / PDF

Field Trip Reimbursement Form  Word / PDF

 

Assignments

June 21 Assignment: Make Interesting Idea-Example Connections

June 22 Assignment: Collect and Combine Information about a Topic