Introduction:
This project will provide students an opportunity to examine the human right to be free and equal. Students will investigate, analyze, and compare how their privileges in life might be restricted and in some cases unlimited. Learners will discover how people all around the world share different experiences when it comes to the topic of “freedom”. Through lesson activities, students will study the ways in which freedom or lack thereof changes us as individuals. Reflection strategies will allow the learner to gain a deep understanding of the sacrifices humans make in order to be free. Students will learn how art provides many artists who struggle with issues of freedom an opportunity to explore the liberties of self-expression.
Overarching Understandings:
The act of art can provide a sense of freedom
Artists create awareness about oppression within their art work
The term "freedom" varies depending on the individual
Essential Questions:
How can art create freedom?
How do artists create awareness about oppression within their art work?
What makes one "free" or "un-free"?
Goals:
Students will analyze how art becomes a tool of empowerment in the freedom of self-expression.
Students will explore the freedoms they have and don’t have.
Students will compare their freedoms to those in other countries.
Students will understand what people forfeit in order to obtain freedom.
Students will know:
How artists from various places throughout history have taken risks in the name of “freedom”
How to create art works that express the rights of freedom
How to reflect on their own individual privileges and non-privileges as a teenager, student, and American citizen
How to link similarities and differences of freedom to other people of different cultural backgrounds
Unit Questions:
How does self-expression within art give you personal freedom?
How has freedom shaped our country?
What sacrifices do we make in order to be free?
Evidence of understanding will be exhibited by students through a variety of assessments summarized on the "Lessons" link: Lessons
"Artists" link: Artists
"Resources" link: Resources
This project will provide students an opportunity to examine the human right to be free and equal. Students will investigate, analyze, and compare how their privileges in life might be restricted and in some cases unlimited. Learners will discover how people all around the world share different experiences when it comes to the topic of “freedom”. Through lesson activities, students will study the ways in which freedom or lack thereof changes us as individuals. Reflection strategies will allow the learner to gain a deep understanding of the sacrifices humans make in order to be free. Students will learn how art provides many artists who struggle with issues of freedom an opportunity to explore the liberties of self-expression.
Overarching Understandings:
The act of art can provide a sense of freedom
Artists create awareness about oppression within their art work
The term "freedom" varies depending on the individual
Essential Questions:
How can art create freedom?
How do artists create awareness about oppression within their art work?
What makes one "free" or "un-free"?
Goals:
Students will analyze how art becomes a tool of empowerment in the freedom of self-expression.
Students will explore the freedoms they have and don’t have.
Students will compare their freedoms to those in other countries.
Students will understand what people forfeit in order to obtain freedom.
Students will know:
How artists from various places throughout history have taken risks in the name of “freedom”
How to create art works that express the rights of freedom
How to reflect on their own individual privileges and non-privileges as a teenager, student, and American citizen
How to link similarities and differences of freedom to other people of different cultural backgrounds
Unit Questions:
How does self-expression within art give you personal freedom?
How has freedom shaped our country?
What sacrifices do we make in order to be free?
Evidence of understanding will be exhibited by students through a variety of assessments summarized on the "Lessons" link: Lessons
"Artists" link: Artists
"Resources" link: Resources