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The Mini Page — 2003 Activities

A Thanksgiving Painting

This week´s standards:

Students identify works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places. (Visual Arts)

Students understand how an artist´s experiences influence the development of specific artworks. (Visual Arts)

Activities:

1. Draw a picture of your family or friends sharing Thanksgiving. Write three sentences describing things you are thankful for.

2. Make a list of five things about your life that would make good subjects for a Norman Rockwell painting. For example, you might include you and a friend playing, something you share with your family, and something you do at school.

3. Find three newspaper stories that show important issues of our times. Describe how an artist might depict each issue in a painting.

4. Look at the paintings of Norman Rockwell in today´s Mini Page. Make a list of the elements in the paintings that show you they were painted in an earlier time. What clues about the people and the items in the paintings reflect a different time period?

5. Write an essay about "The Four Freedoms Today." Explain how each of these freedoms is important: freedom from want, freedom of worship, freedom from fear and freedom of speech.

Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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