I've Just Seen a Face: Portraits. [Lesson Plan]

Image has always been important to the powerful. Their portraits have traditionally been designed to impress people with the gravity of the subject, but changing sensibilities and media have tended to introduce more intimacy and spontaneity. Creating visual and literary representations of people has...

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Format Web Resource
LanguageEnglish
Published For full text: http://edsitement 2001
Subjects
Class Activities
Classroom Techniques
Curriculum Enrichment
Descriptive Writing
Elementary Education
Facial Characteristics
Image Analysis
Learning Activities
Lesson Plans
Portraiture
Student Educational Objectives
United States History
Visual Learning
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Summary:Image has always been important to the powerful. Their portraits have traditionally been designed to impress people with the gravity of the subject, but changing sensibilities and media have tended to introduce more intimacy and spontaneity. Creating visual and literary representations of people has proved to be an enduring human activity. This EDSITEment lesson helps students examine this compulsion to capture the human in image and words. The lesson plan contains guiding questions and material on how to prepare to teach the lesson. It also contains suggested activities for these lessons: Lesson 1: Portraits of Children: Developing Criteria; Lesson 2: Status Portraits: Using the Criteria; Lesson 3: American Portraits in History: Using the Criteria; Lesson 4: Portraits in Pictures and Words; Lesson 5: Subjects and Their Work; Lesson 6: Self-Portraits; and Extending the Lesson. The lesson plan provides detailed information and ideas for teaching each lesson; cites learning objectives; gives appropriate grade levels and approximate length of time required for each lesson; and outlines national standards for social studies, arts, and language arts covered in the lessons. (Lists 7 recommended readings for younger readers, and 18 related Internet links.) (NKA)