Painting the Corners
Fine Arts Grades 4 - 8
Relevant National Learning Standards
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History
1) Describe
how regional artists and writers portrayed American
life.
2) Investigate
new forms of popular culture and leisure activities
at different levels of American society.
3) Analyze
how working conditions changed and how the workers
responded to new industrial conditions.
4) Explain
how principles of scientific management and
technological innovations, including assembly lines,
rapid transit, household appliances and radio,
continued to transform production, work and daily
life.
5) Analyze
how radio, movies, newspapers and popular magazines
created mass culture.
6) Examine
the contributions of artists and writers of the
Harlem Renaissance and assess their popularity.
7) Assess
how increased leisure time promoted the growth of
professional sports, amusement parks and national
parks.
8) Analyze
the impact of the Great Depression on the American
family and on ethnic and racial minorities.
9)
Explain
the cultural life of the Depression years in art,
literature and music and evaluate the government’s
role in promoting artistic expression.
10)
Explain
how the United States mobilized its economic and
military resources during World War II.
11)
Explore
how World War II fostered cultural exchange and
interaction while promoting nationalism and American
identity.
12)
Analyze
the effects of World War II on gender roles and the
American family.
13)
Analyze
the effects of the GI Bill on American society.
14)
Explain
the reasons for the “return to domesticity” and how
it affected family life and women’s careers.
15)
Explore
the influence of popular culture and analyze the
role of the mass media in homogenizing American
culture.
16)
Explain
the origins of the postwar civil rights movement and
the role of the NAACP in the legal assault on
segregation.
17)
Analyze
how social change and renewed ethnic diversity has
affected artistic expression and popular culture.
18)
Explain
the influence of media on contemporary American
culture.
19)
Explain
the reasons for the increased popularity of
professional sports and examine the influence of
spectator sports on popular culture.
B.
Fine and
Visual Arts
1) Students
select media, techniques and processes; analyze what
makes them effective or not effective in
communicating ideas; and reflect upon the
effectiveness of their choices.
2) Students
intentionally take advantage of the qualities and
characteristics of art media, techniques and
processes to enhance communication of their
experiences and ideas.
3) Students
generalize about the effects of visual structures
and functions and reflect upon these effects in
their own work.
4) Students
employ organizational structures and analyze what
makes them effective or not effective in the
communication of ideas.
5) Students
select and use the qualities of structures and
functions of art to improve communication of their
ideas.
6) Students
use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate
knowledge of contexts, values and aesthetics that
communicate intended meaning in artworks.
7) Students
know and compare the characteristics of artworks in
various eras and cultures.
8) Students
describe and place a variety of art objects in
historical and cultural contexts.
9) Students
analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of
time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas
and technology) influence visual characteristics
that give meaning and value to a work of art.
10)
Students
compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.
11)
Students
analyze contemporary and historic meanings in
specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic
inquiry.
12)
Students
describe and compare a variety of individual
responses to their own artworks and to artworks from
various eras and cultures.
13)
Students
compare the characteristics of works in two or more
art forms that share similar subject matter,
historical periods, or cultural context.
14)
Students
describe ways in which the principles and subject
matter of other disciplines taught in the school are
interrelated with the visual arts.
15)
Students
compare in two or more arts how the characteristic
materials of each art (that is, sound in music,
visual stimuli in visual arts, movement in dance,
human interrelationships in theatre) can be used to
transform similar events, scenes, emotions or ideas
into works of art.
C.
Language Arts
1)
Students
read a wide range of print and non-print texts to
build an understanding of texts, of themselves and
of the cultures of the
United States and the
world; to acquire new information; to respond to the
needs and demands of society and the workplace; and
for personal fulfillment. Among these texts are
fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary
works.
2) Students
adjust their use of spoken, written and visual
language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes.
3) Students
employ a wide range of strategies as they write and
use different writing process elements appropriately
to communicate with different audiences for a
variety of purposes.
4) Students
apply knowledge of language structure, language
conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media
techniques, figurative language and genre to create,
critique and discuss print and non-print texts.
5) Students
conduct research on issues and interests by
generating ideas and questions, and by posing
problems. They gather, evaluate and synthesize data
from a variety of sources (e.g., print and non-print
texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their
discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and
audience.
6) Students
use a variety of technological and information
resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer
networks, video) to gather and synthesize
information and to create and communicate knowledge.
7) Students
develop an understanding of and respect for
diversity in language use, patterns and dialects
across cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions
and social roles.
