Creative & Aesthetic Expression
Objectives
- D07.S1.11.01 Create an artwork that addresses a social or environmental issue and explain its intended effect on an audience.
- D07.S1.11.02 Curate a small exhibition of artworks, their own or others', and write the reasoning behind the selection and order.
- D07.S2.11.01 Arrange or compose a piece that responds to a social or environmental issue and explain its intended effect.
- D07.S2.11.02 Curate a listening program of works from several cultures and write the reasoning behind the selection.
- D07.S3.11.01 Create a performance that responds to a social or environmental issue and explain its intended effect on an audience.
- D07.S3.11.02 Direct or curate a short performance program and write the reasoning behind the selection and staging.
- D07.S4.11.01 Design a solution to a social or environmental problem, building and testing a prototype and explaining its intended impact.
- D07.S4.11.02 Evaluate the full life cycle of a designed object, from materials and making through use and disposal, and propose improvements.
Essential questions
- How do I create artwork, music, and performance that respond to a social or environmental issue and move an audience?
- How do I curate exhibitions, listening programs, and performances, and write the reasoning behind my selection and order?
- How do I design a solution with a tested prototype, and evaluate the full life cycle of a designed object from materials to disposal?
Big ideas
- Art, music, and performance can address social and environmental issues and are judged by their intended effect on an audience.
- Curation — selecting, ordering, and staging works — is itself an act of reasoning and meaning-making.
- Design is a way to serve social and environmental needs, and every object has a life cycle from materials through use and disposal that can be improved.
Lessons
- 1 Art With a Purpose: Choosing the Issue 55 minutes
- 2 Making an Image Speak: Craft & Intended Effect 60 minutes
- 3 The Art of Curation: Selection & Order 55 minutes
- 4 Composing a Response in Sound 55 minutes
- 5 Curating a Listening Program Across Cultures 55 minutes
- 6 Performing a Response: The Body Speaks 55 minutes
- 7 Directing a Program: Selection & Staging 55 minutes
- 8 Designing for Impact: Prototype & Test 60 minutes
- 9 The Life of a Made Thing: Full-Cycle Evaluation 55 minutes
- 10 The Gallery: Curating Our Voices Together 60 minutes
Assessment plan
A created artwork, an arranged or composed piece, and a performed piece, each responding to a social or environmental issue with a written explanation of intended effect; a curated exhibition, a curated listening program, and a curated performance program, each with written reasoning; a designed and tested prototype for a social or environmental problem with a stated intended impact; and a full-life-cycle evaluation of a designed object with proposed improvements, gathered as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 7 — Creative & Aesthetic Expression
Overview
This unit gives the co-author’s deliberate, ethical voice to the imagination, building on Grade 10’s craft and appreciation-versus-appropriation ethics. Learners create an artwork that addresses a social or environmental issue and explain its intended effect on an audience, and curate a small exhibition of artworks, their own or others’, writing the reasoning behind the selection and order. They arrange or compose a piece that responds to a social or environmental issue and explain its intended effect, and curate a listening program of works from several cultures, writing the reasoning behind the selection. They create a performance that responds to a social or environmental issue and explain its intended effect on an audience, and direct or curate a short performance program, writing the reasoning behind the selection and staging. They design a solution to a social or environmental problem, building and testing a prototype and explaining its intended impact, and evaluate the full life cycle of a designed object, from materials and making through use and disposal, proposing improvements. The arts of other cultures are met as living traditions to honor with respectful questions, never as specimens.
Essential questions
- How do I create artwork, music, and performance that respond to a social or environmental issue and move an audience?
- How do I curate exhibitions, listening programs, and performances, and write the reasoning behind my selection and order?
- How do I design a solution with a tested prototype, and evaluate the full life cycle of a designed object from materials to disposal?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| L.11.007.01 | Art With a Purpose: Choosing the Issue | D07.S1.11.01 |
| L.11.007.02 | Making an Image Speak: Craft & Intended Effect | D07.S1.11.01 |
| L.11.007.03 | The Art of Curation: Selection & Order | D07.S1.11.02 |
| L.11.007.04 | Composing a Response in Sound | D07.S2.11.01 |
| L.11.007.05 | Curating a Listening Program Across Cultures | D07.S2.11.02 |
| L.11.007.06 | Performing a Response: The Body Speaks | D07.S3.11.01 |
| L.11.007.07 | Directing a Program: Selection & Staging | D07.S3.11.02 |
| L.11.007.08 | Designing for Impact: Prototype & Test | D07.S4.11.01 |
| L.11.007.09 | The Life of a Made Thing: Full-Cycle Evaluation | D07.S4.11.02 |
| L.11.007.10 | The Gallery: Curating Our Voices Together | D07.S1.11.02, D07.S2.11.02, D07.S3.11.02 |