An American scene painter
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2050/
A lesson plan for grade 4 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts
In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students learn about American artist Charles Burchfield and his style of painting. Following Burchfield’s example, students capture information and sketches in a personal journal, then use these ideas to create an original watercolor.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 4
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.07: Compose fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using self-selected and assigned topics and forms (e.g., personal and imaginative narratives, research reports, diaries, journals, logs, rules, instructions).
Visual Arts Education (2001)
Grade 4
- Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
- Objective 4.03: Enumerate characteristics of artist's work that distinguish it from others.
- Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
- Objective 5.02: Make responses that are both knowledge-based and personal (objective and subjective).
