Artifact Description

The Italian portrait painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) is the inspiration for these writing lessons. In the Google Slide Deck there are three portraits made of food with different types of prompts: complete the sentence, graphic organizers, and a request to write a story. There is an example of a warm up using Wordwall. At the beginning of each lesson the students see the goals for writing and speaking. These charts also show my attempts at trying to track when students worked on the goals.

On this page:

1. Link to Google Slide Deck with six different writing prompts, plus examples of student work organized by grades.

2. Graphic organizers showing goals related to these tasks

3. Link to warm-up activity

4. Link to a Smithsonian article about Arcimboldo.

Reflection

I am an artist and interested in the Italian portrait painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi) (1527-1593).

I quickly discovered that tracking student work became difficult and time-consuming. No doubt there is an efficient way to accomplish it. Finding slides that they worked on during a previous session also took some time. I settled on asking them what color they wanted to use for the text box with their name. Some students chose to add background colors, and when these were always the same, then I could find the work they had done so that we could expand on it.

Having a sequence of writing prompts ready gave me the opportunity to support students in building on their writing. The topic was already recognized and known, and the next writing task had a slightly different format.

World language teachers use the ACTFL 5 Cs for lesson planning. This set of tasks could be expanded to include an art lesson about Arcimboldo, using the "C" for Connections.

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