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Look at the California missions from two perspectives
Look at the California missions from two perspectives
Students explored the perspectives of the California Native Tribes and the Franciscan Missionaries to create two-voice poems and two images based on a single mission. Follow the Lesson Plan link for resources.
Process
Process
Brainstorming
Brainstorming
We brainstormed as a class what we had learned about the lives of California Indians and Franciscan Missionaries and how their lives changed as the mission system grew.
& writing a rough draft
& writing a rough draft
Students turned their ideas into two-voice poems, playing with the back-and-forth of voices and ideas as they shaped their rough drafts.
Students then created artwork with oil pastels and watercolors to depict the different points of view of a single mission. They identified an abstracted area of the mission and used a grid transfer method to create their images.
The finished products
The finished products
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