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🎨 8th Grade · ArtVA:Cn11.1Unit 4: Art history & movements

American artists

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🎯 Objective: Students study American artists (e.g., Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence).

Lesson outline

  1. Research.
  2. Present.
  3. Create.
  4. Exit: one artist.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

VA:Cn11.1

National Core Arts Standards — Visual Arts (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Compare art movements
  • Connect art to its historical context

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🖍️ Coloring pages🎨 Drawing ideas⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Art history & movements”

  1. Renaissance to Impressionism
  2. Modern art movements
  3. American artists

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