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Lesson Plan Example:

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Illuminations:

Middle School Lesson Plan:

Illumination is the decorating of books or manuscripts with ornate lettering, icons and designs with luminous color and precious metals. During the Medieval Ages, literacy was rare, so dedicated scribes created illumination to guide the viewer through the document. It was their artistic goal to provide comprehension, beauty and honor to the pages they were writing because, in most instances, they believed they were copying the words of god. Thousands of examples have survived from Europe and the Middle East with stunning ornamental type and illustrative scenes.

After critiquing an illuminated page of the Book of Kells, students will create their own personal illuminated letter using symbols to represent themselves and decorative flourishes.

Objectives:

Students will critique, analysis and speculate about Chi Rho from the Book of Kells. (4.c)
Students will gain an understanding of and explain how books began to be produced and how information through written word was passed on for centuries. (6.a)
Students will describe ways in which art supports literature through decoration and illustration to provide better comprehension and added value to the written word. (4.c)
Students will use decorative designs/ flourishes, color, and metallic coloring tools to imitate gilding to provide artistic ornamentation to text. (1.b)
Students use personal symbols to create their own illuminated letter. (3.a)

(National Visual Art Standards)

Chi Rho from the Book of Kells

A critique involves 3 steps:

I Notice...
I Wonder...
I Speculate...

Vocabulary used in the critique (speculate, inference, intended, convey) are used in TCAP testing.

Full Lesson Plan with details on procedure, future, materials, resources, rubric, and meeting idividual needs- click here- for a Google Document.
An examlpe of the PowerPoint made and used in the lesson - click here - for a Google Slide version.

A video clip used from the movie Secret of Kells on YouTube.

I was observed on the critique day, day 1, of the Illumination lessons. Based on the T.E.A.M rubric my supervisor gave me a 4.2/5.