Demonstration Lesson

The new millennium students better known as Millennial's (born between early 1980” s and after.) Due to cut backs, shortage in federal funding and less donation money from private sectors this generation of youth have very little interest to no appreciation for the arts. The arts meaning: Visual, Theatrical, Dance, Music, Gym, Cooking, and Sewing just to name a few. This field is brush off as an elective/ specials class. Unless you are in high school to receive a credit, kids do not take this precious field of study and those who work so hard to teach it everyday seriously. Curriculums across the board are just as equally of importance to integrating studies has become my objective and make my class priority in art.

Therefore, Picasso me Please is an art lesson given the second week in the beginning of the school year. Students come into middle school unsure of themselves feeling afraid, feeling out of place and feeling like they cannot do art; this is one way I break the ice and bring out the hidden artist in them and well as introduction to then becoming a better writer. Pablo Picasso was not only the founder of cubism but he also had a way conveying self-identity messages through is portraits. Through this lesson it is my objective to help my new middle schoolers view identity in a variety of spectrums.

Please, enjoy the lesson.