Week 5

·       Critically evaluate Image #2 that you have just presented to your students

·       Reflecting on Yenawine, was this image an appropriate choice for your students?

I think this image was a good choice for my kids. They already had some experience to do VTS, so they could read images in higher levels. And these two images were based on a same theme. In addition, it had expressive content, and there were still some objects they could list.

·       Did this image motivate rigorous & engaging discussion for students?

I think the students are very interested in the strings in the house at first sight, and then they find more things in common in these two images. When they went deeper, they got more. I think they became excited about it because we did 22min VTS.

·       Did this image satisfactorily support/expand Big Idea, Key Concepts, & Essential Questions for the unit?

Yes. It will be a great image choice for my unit. It obviously presented my big idea memory. They found both these two images reflect the time: past and now, and they think maybe these places were in the artist’s memory because she went there before. I think they got the idea successfully.

·       Was the image rich enough to encourage continued discussion &/or independent student investigation? If so how might you provide for continued inquiry?

Yes, it was. Since this image was a contemporary art, I think I can introduce more about contemporary art, explain how artists express one big idea using various media and what are the differences to express the same theme from past to now.

·       Did this image invite opportunities to explore the BIG IDEA through artmaking? Explain.

Since this image was about an installation art, maybe I can let them use clay and strings to build some three-dimension artworks to show one place in their memory.

ü  REFLECT on Image #2 and the VTS discussion:

·       Would you use this image again to introduce the BIG IDEA?  If so, why?

I will definitely use this image to introduce my big idea memory, because this image was closely related to memory and presented memory in a unique way.  Moreover, it can help students know more about contemporary art.