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The four lessons are:

1. The Masters: Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo

2. American Women:  Georgia O’Keefe and Mary Cassatt

3. Cincinnati Cartoonist: Jim Borgman

4. Pop Art:  Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud

There is a lesson for each of the above.  There are ideas in this folder for various activities for each one.  Pick one that interests you or you can come up with your own.

The Masters lesson was written when there was 80 minutes for Art Awareness.  Now that there’s only 50 minutes you may not want to present the entire lesson, or plan an activity that’s short.  The drawing activities that accompany that lesson can be done quickly.  The teacher could also do the activity with the class for their next art lesson.  Check with the teacher first.

For the American Women lesson, there is a book on Georgia O’Keefe and many copies of her desert and city paintings in the 7^th grade drawer.  A page has been added to the lesson to include those paintings.

If you chose to do the Abstract Flower activity make sure the students start big and draw their lines far apart or it takes too long to color.  There are 30 permanent markers in the art cabinet you can use.  Instead of markers you can also use oil pastels or watercolors.  Be sure the students cover their desks before using permanent markers.  The students don’t have to make flowers for this activity, they can do any pattern similar to O’Keefe’s work, such as bones, or buildings.

For the Borgman lesson, there are mirrors in the art cabinet the students can use if they are doing caricatures of themselves.  Another idea is to have the students draw caricatures of the 7^th grade teachers (ask their permission first).  Suggest they include a favorite saying or mannerism of the teacher.  They should emphasize distinct features, like the shape of the head or nose, etc.  Tell them that they cannot draw anything mean or nasty. Vicki Linnehan supplied blown-up pictures of some of the teachers so the students could remember what they looked like.   They can mount their favorite drawing (if they do more than one) on black construction paper and maybe the teacher will display them. 

There is a Power Point presentation for Pop Art on the 7^th grade shelf.