Ashley Koopmann

Art 7th and 8th Grade Lesson Plan

Enduring Idea: Throughout time and across cultures, artists have celebrated and exaggerated the human visage. Lesson Title: Crazy Caricatures Grade/Class: Grades 7 and 8 Time Allotment: Five 45-minute class periods

Overview
Lesson Summary: Students will explore the caricature genre of portraiture. They will learn about the comedy and distortion caricature requires; in order to accomplish this, they will first practice drawing celebrities and then themselves. Their final project will be a polished piece of self-portrait caricature. Artists, artworks, and/or artifacts: Image of Angelina Jolie Image of Jay Leno Caricature of Snoop Dogg Exemplar(s)

Key Concepts: Each human face has features unique to its owner. Humans use facial features to form identities and associations with people they encounter. Artists create caricatures as an avenue to depict people with distinctive facial features using a humorous and sometimes grotesque style of portraiture.

Essential Questions: What makes a face unique? How do faces help us connect with others? What is a caricature, and what is the purpose of such a style of portraiture?

PA Standards: Arts & Humanities o 9.1.8.A: Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities.

o 9.1.8.B: Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts. o 9.1.8.E: Communicate a unifying theme or point of view through the production of works in the arts. Interdisciplinary Connections: This lesson asks students to make connections with popular culture through a form of iconographic portraiture.

Objectives
Students will...
Knowledge: Skills: Render the caricatures of two celebrities and themselves for practice in the introductory packet. Draw a caricature of themselves by emphasizing their own facial characteristics. Understand the basic features and principles of caricature by listing them on their handout and showing understanding in their drawings. Comprehend the essential meaning of caricature by participating in the introductory discussion and through practice exercises in the handouts.

Dispositions: Decide which features of the given celebrities and their own faces are most important to emphasize in a caricature depiction. Evaluate their performance by completing a self-assessment worksheet.

Assessment
What objectives or performances will count as evidence of student learning as stated in your objectives? Completion introduction packet (practice drawings) Completion of final project (caricature self-portrait) Completion of self-assessment worksheet

How will you measure student achievement? Pre-Assessment: Introduction Packet Ongoing assessment: Focused independent work and practice Summative Assessment: Completion of project, completion of self-assessment

Instructional Procedures
Day 1: Motivation/Engagement o Show caricature drawing and engage in Q&A What is this? What is different about it? Has anyone seen portraiture like this before? What is caricature? What is the purpose or goal of caricatures? What are some techniques artists use to create caricatures? Development o Demonstrate the process of caricature drawing o Introduce caricature packet o Allow students to practice independently on one celebrity image Culmination/Close o Ask students about the level of difficulty they are experiencing: Are caricatures difficult to draw? Are they harder or easier than a regular portrait?

Day 2: Motivation/Engagement o Review concepts of caricature with students (ask them what they remember) Development o Students continue practicing in the packet with the second celebrity drawing Culmination/Close o Ask students to look at their neighbors and talk about which features they should think about emphasizing when they draw themselves

Days 3 Motivation/Engagement o Review concepts of caricature again o Ask students: What makes you stand out? Development o Instruct students to look at themselves and design a practice caricature (self-portrait) in their practice packet using a mirror Culmination/Close o Ask students if they noticed anything about themselves while looking at and drawing their faces that they didnt quite realize before

Day 4:

Motivation/Engagement o Tell students to prepare for their crazy caricature final draft and review (tell them to take their time with this one and make it look fantastic!) Development o Give students the materials to begin their final draft of their caricature self-portrait Sketch lightly in pencil Finalize with marker outline No shading necessary Culmination/Close o Remind students that this is a short project and they will have just one more day to finalize their projects

Days 5: Motivation/Engagement o Remind students that they should do their best and will be finalizing their drawings with marker and that they do not need to include shading Development o Students continue independent work Culmination/Close o Students fill out self-assessment and do a gallery walk, leaving comments on peer work o Ask students what they learned through doing this project (could be in relation to cartooning, drawing, self-portraiture, caricatures, etc.)

Preparation
Teacher Research and Preparation: Google images researching caricatures and celebrity reference images Google web search compilation of definitions for caricature Create exemplar Assemble practice packet Vocabulary o Caricature a picture or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic, grotesque, or distorted effect o Emphasis something that is given great stress or importance

Instructional Resources: Project exemplar Practice packet Reference image for demonstration

Student Supplies: Pencils White paper Marker

Adaptations: Students with mild visual impairments may use the tactile properties of their faces to render their caricatures on paper with either pencil or with a three-dimensional medium (yarn or pipe cleaners and glue is an option). They could also press into a soft, clay-like material to draw.

Extensions: Teachers and administrators are invited to come sit for the class to have their caricatures drawn

Introduction to Caricatures! What is a caricature? What is the purpose or goal of caricatures? What are some techniques artists use to create caricatures? Caricature a picture or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic, grotesque, or distorted effect

This is a caricature of Snoop Dogg. What are a few things you notice about this drawing and how the artist created this effect?

You may mix and match the provided facial features to help you design caricatures:

Draw both celebrities and THEN yourself on the next few pages.

Use the provided area to practice your caricature drawing:

Use the provided area to practice your caricature drawing:

1. What is your own definition of caricature?

2. List the main facts for what you learned about caricature:

3. Which features did you exaggerate in your caricature?

4. On a scale from 1 to 5, how well did you do with creating your own crazy caricature? Circle one.

5
(5 = AWESOME!)

(1 = Not So Good)

5. What was your favorite part about making caricatures? Why?

6. What was the hardest part about making caricatures?