Schenectady City
  School District


108 Education Drive
Schenectady, NY  12303
518.370.8100

 
 

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

 

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Brainstorming Worksheet                      
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Everyday Life in Your Community and School
This activity is designed to help you gather ideas for your "social realist" fresco design.  It will also make you think about the events that take place in your everyday life as a member of your school and community.

Please fill out this sheet.

List ten things you see everyday in your school or community.

 

List 3 noises you hear everyday at school.

How many friends have you seen today?

List one thing that makes you laugh.

List two things you would like to change about school.

How would you change the one thing you dislike most in your school?

List one thing that you struggle with most.

What would make the struggle easier?

List five things you see on the way to school.

List three emotions that you have felt at school.

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What color would you use to represent each emotion
(example:  emotion - Anger/ color - Black

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Using the information, ideas and images you listed above, make several sketches which illustrate or symbolize your ideas.  Your sketches should include people.  You must create symbols for some of your images and ideas.

Examples of Symbols:

Picture of an apple = school

Picture of sneaker = your walk home

jagged lines = anger

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