Unit 6 Ode on aLA Urn
April 2012
Essential Question: What is the lasting effect of leaving your mark?
Enduring Understanding: While art making appears to be a simple exercise of exploring our creativity that can and does often resemble child's play, artists understand that their mark is left. Meaning, metaphor, culture, time are all revealed.
Objectives: Students will join the the historical continuum of art makers in the creation of a story vase or Amphora in the style of the Greeks and Etruscans. Students will reflect on the Keats poem "Ode On a Grecian Urn" and create a story vase that is unique to their time in history and culture. Students will use their urn as the basis to create a poem, "Ode On a LA Urn."
Vocabulary:
Urn. Amphora. Vessel. Glaze. Earthenware. Kiln. Bisque. Coil. Score.Carve. Leather hard. Ode.
Pay attention to Contrasts as in Keats: still figures portrayed in movement, the passage of time and the stillness of the figures and story on the urn.
Points:
Urn/Amphora: 50 points
Ode: 25 points.
50 point urn is:
The required size: as big as the student's hand.
Carefully glazed and carved with at least one figure which is flat and 2D but NOT a stick figure!
Tells a story about students time in history and culture ie: figures texting, gaming, skating, surfing, dancing. . .
Poem/Ode Rubric
Category | 4Advanced | 3Proficient | 2Emerging | 1Not There Yet |
Neatness \& Organization | The poem is very neat and easy to read. It has very well organized information. | The poem is neat and easy to read. It has well organized information. | The poem is somewhat neat and easy to read. It has adequate information. | The poem is sloppy and hard to read. It does not have adequate information. |
Content Accuracy | The poem has all of the required information and some additional information. Student has explored the story and design of their urn in a compelling and advanced manner. Student used Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn as an example. | The poem has all of the required information. Student has demonstrated effort in exploring the story and design of their urn. Student used Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn as an example. | The poem has some of the required information. Student demonstrated some effort in exploring the story and design of their urn. Student used Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn as an example. | The poem has little of the required information. Student shows little effort and no indication that their vase had a story or that their design was thought out. |
Writing – Mechanics & 7 deadly sins: Spelling Sentence Form GrammarPunctuationCapitalization | All of the writing is complete. Capitalization, punctuation and spelling are correct throughout the student’s Ode. | Most of the writing is complete. Most of the capitalization, punctuation and spelling are correct throughout the student’s Ode. | Some of the writing is complete. Some of the capitalization, punctuation and spelling are correct throughout the student’s Ode. | Very little of the writing is complete. Very little of the capitalization, punctuation and spelling is correct throughout the student’s Ode. |
