Education

“I think that education should be preparing you to go out into the world--so that you will be ready to give something to the world.  It should also be fun so that people understand it better.”-K, Grade 6

Ted Talk: John Hunter, Teaching with the World Peace Games:

Know Your Onion! Multi-media depictions of Joy Harjo and Pablo Neruda...

Grade Level: Middle School and High School

Objective: To engage with the food poetry we encountered earlier this semester in a different way.

This week our community is in the midst of a film festival.  One Tuesday, my environmental literature class watched Billy Collin's Ted talk on the poetry videos he worked collaboratively on during his time as Poet Laureate.  We discussed the possibility of creating our own poetry videos but decided instead to use different mediums (paint, charcoal, pastel, photography) to explore poems we'd read earlier this semester.  The students divided into two groups and began working.  I spent time with the group is working to represent Pablo Neruda's poem "Ode to an Onion."  Next Tuesday both groups will reveal their final project, displaying it in a public space.

 

 

More Geometric Art with Lisa Maren Thompson

Grade Level: Elementary/Middle School

Objective: To learn about elements of art through the act of constructing a 3-D sculpture out of geometric and organic shapes

Learning in Public: Celtic Snacks, Sculptures, and Roundhouses

Grade Level: Middle School

Objective: To share our learning about the Ancient Celts through models, sculptures, and snacks

Table display in Holden Village's dining hall

 

A. and K worked together on this round house.  K had the idea to use Popsicle sticks for the walls, A constructed the roof, the base, and the garden.  She also sculpted the pigs using bake-able clay

A gold torc, likes the ones worn by Celts going into battle, sculpted and painted by A.

Ancient Celtic oatcakes

Beginning French Lessons

Grade Level: Middle School

Objective: To begin creating visual associations between objects in our classroom and their names in French

Environmental Literature: Studying food by analyzing cookbooks (worksheet + helpful vocabulary)

Grade Level: High School

Objective: To empower students to apply their analytic skills to a variety of forms of writing they may encounter in everyday life

Cookbooks: A literary analysis

“Eating is an agricultural act”-Wendall Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating"

Everything makes an argument—our literature and our advertisements, our sermons and poems, our news broadcasts and our popular films. Today we're going to continue our conversation about food and the environment by analyzing a number of cookbooks. Work in groups to answer the following questions. For each answer your group should be able to provide concrete evidence from the text.

1-What is the tone of the piece? How does the author establish ethos (personal credibility)? What is his/her intention? (To attack or defend? To praise or blame? To teach, to delight, or to persuade?)

Organic and Geometric Shape Sculptures

Grade Level: Elementary and Middle School

Objective: To learn about geometric and organic shapes in a sculptural art project

One of our volunteer art teachers, Lisa Maren Thompson, has been working with the students on a very exciting art project using geometric concepts to create sculptural art.