Standards-based Planned Instruction Template

Name: DAVID HENSCHEL

School District: PENN HILLS SCHOOL DIST.

School Building: LINTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

Piloted with Students in Grade: 9TH / ART 1

Lesson Title: FUN WITH GAMES AND RUSSIANS

Grade Level (Check One):

Primary

 

 

Intermediate

 9TH

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PA ARTS & HUMANITIES STANDARDS CATEGORIES

 

 

9.1 Producion, Performance and Exhibition

 

 

9.2 Historical and Cultural Contexts

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9.3 Critical Response

 

9.4 Aesthetic Response

 

9.5 Connections to Other Academic Subjects

Standard Statement:

Lesson Topic/Theme: 

To correlate Alexander Nevsky's life with an invented/created (chess) game. (Use Prokofieff cantata background music)

Overview:

The students will :a. learn Russian historic background b. the game of chess

Keywords:

Nevsky / Prokofieff / design / cantata / synopsis

 

Learning Objective(s):

  • c. invent /design --------elements of their game (masks-players-board-costume....etc)

  • d. listen to the elements of design in Sergei Prokofieff cantata (eyes closed?)
  • e. produce a final What will students do to demonstrate they have reached the standard?
     

Assessment-Task Criteria:

below basic--project done poorly /sloppy or not done

no objectives/rules not making sense

basic---lines and borders not measured--color choice adequate, but not outstanding

few rules -one objective

proficient--nice lay out---neat board with border --tonation of color--clear understandable objectives --rules easy to learn and follow.

advanced---outstanding color/design and form. Complicated shape and color pattern

 

 

 

Materials: SOUND TRACK OF PROKOFIEFF CANTATA
SERGEI ELSENSTEIN"S--MOVIE-ALEXANDER NEVSHKY

CHESS BOARDS/AND RULES

ART MATERIALS : WHITE OAK TAG

WATER COLORS

MARKERS/THICK/THIN

RULERS

TAPE

SAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK

SHORT SYNOPSIS OF ALEXANDER NEVSKY LIFE

ENEMIES-SWEDEN-GERMANS --ETC.

RUSSIAN TOWNS/VILLAGES LOST

WINS/LOSES

Warm-Up: View Student sample 1, sample 2

 

Procedure: THE STUDENTS WILL:

READ SYNOPSIS OF NEVSKY

LISTEN TO PROKOFIEFF SOUND TRACK /TEACHER WILL DISCUSS RISING FALLING ACTION OF SOUND -------EMOTIONAL FEELING EX. WHAT SOUNDS POWERFUL / SAD / SOMBER / EXCITEMENT, ETC.

WHAT MAKES IT THAT WAY ( SLOW OR FAST TEMPO)

SHOW SERGEI EISENSTEIN"S MOVIE ALEXANDER NEVSHKY

DISCUSS THE PROCEDURES OF INVENTING--------{OBJECTIVES AND RULES}

Correctives:

Complete teacher assigned readings on the topic of twelfth century Russian history.

Listen to the score of "Alexander Nevsky" by Sergei Prokofieff.

Watch the motion picture "Alexander Nevsky".

 

Extensions

The student can cross reference other types of musical compositions going on at the same time in other countries

 

The student can look up origins of chess {a war game} and /or other games such as monopoly {the most successful game in history}. Ask them to compare and contrast their guide to strategy.

 

The student can analyze the different color backgrounds-middleground-foregrounds of other board games. What medias were used in combination with each other (ez.--india ink over top of a dried watercolor wash)?