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Lesson 21: Flex Research: What Is This Image Saying About Craft?
50 min
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
Student Lesson
Lesson 21: Flex Research: What Is This Image Saying About Craft?
Student Learning Objectives
1
Content
Students will analyze how images of craft processes and Korean celadon pottery communicate ideas about skill, culture, and value.
2
Language
Students will explain how composition, emphasis, subject positioning, and omission shape meaning in a visual source using precise source notes.
Essential Question
How does art connect people to their history and community?
Connections to
Knowledge-Building:
Students use visual sources connected to Goryeo celadon pottery and artisan traditions to deepen understanding of Tree-ear’s world in A Single Shard.
Enduring Understanding:
Through practice and mentorship, people turn skill into voice and work into art.
Future Lessons:
In the next lesson, students will bring forward one selected visual source and annotate it more fully as evidence for research and explanatory writing.
Unit Performance Task:
This lesson prepares students to select and explain visual evidence for the Gallery of Learning process diagram and explanatory piece.
Lesson Pacing
| Lesson Flow | Purpose of Learning Experience |
|---|---|
Launch5 Minutes | Students activate prior knowledge about apprenticeship and begin noticing that images are sources that make choices. |
Literacy Lab: Visual Rhetoric: Noticing Design Choices10 Minutes | Students learn the Grade 6 visual rhetoric routine for reading images as designed sources rather than neutral records. |
Learning in Action30 Minutes | Learning in Action A: Read Two Craft Images Closely (RI.6.7) Students integrate information from multiple sources to explain how visual media add to their understanding of skill, craft, and apprenticeship. Learning in Action B: Select a Visual Source to Carry Forward (W.6.8) Students choose one relevant image and record source notes they will use in the next lesson. |
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Addressed in Lesson
- composition
- how the parts of an image are arrangedomit: to leave something out on purpose
Vocabulary for Additional Support
- celadon
- green glazed pottery from Koreaartisan: a skilled maker of useful or beautiful objects
Material List
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
- Student notebooks or journals
- Unit 6.2 Lesson 21 Student Edition
- Media Literacy Image Analysis graphic organizer
- Visual source set from Lesson 21 connected to pottery and craft traditions and/or teacher-selected images on celadon pottery and craft
Routines
- Turn and Talk
- Think-Pair-Share
- Quick Write
