Art Literature Courses 2021-2022
September 2021 - May 2021
Each week, students will be a corresponding art project to enhance their reading! Students will share their projects in class.
It is quite motiving and fun to join together to read and to create!
Expectations for each lesson:
1. Art Projects: - Complete the art project based on the reading.
2. Write about 100 words to explain your artistic response or
be prepared to explain your artistic response to the class.
These courses meet via Zoom Room weekly
Tuition $300/Student/Semester $550/year
REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW! (EMAIL MRS. G. TO REGISTER YOUR STUDENT)
Art/American Literature
Ages 13+ Tuesdays @ 1:00 EST Beg Sept. 7, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following American Literature Classics (order TBD): Covering: The Great Gatsby The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Fahrenheit 451 The Crucible Walden Pond Of Mice and Men My Antonia The Light in the Forest The Secret of the Chimney This is the intended list, but some titles might be replaced as your teacher prepares the lessons:). Art/Literature - Middle
Ages 10-16 years Wednesdays @ 2:00 EST Beg Sept. 8, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following Literature Classics (order TBD): Covering: Call of the Wild Frankenstein Treasure Island National Velvet Legend of Sleepy Hollow Last of Mohicans War of the Worlds In the Heart of the Rockies The Coral Island This is the intended list, but some titles might be replaced as your teacher prepares the lessons:). |
Art/Literature - Elem.
Ages 8-12 Tuesdays @ 2:00 EST Beg Sept. 7, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following Literature Classics (order TBD): Covering: Black Beauty The Borrowers Cheaper by the Dozen Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm The Pushcart War Redwall The Summer of the Swans The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E... Swiss Family Robinson This is the intended list, but some titles might be replaced as your teacher prepares the lessons:). Art/Christian Literature
Ages 10-16 years Thursdays @ 2:00 EST Beg Sept. 9, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following Literature Classics (order TBD): Covering: Bearing the Saint Letters to Saint Lydia Keeper of the Light: Saint Macrina The Dome-Singer of Falenda Basil’s Search for Miracles ICON Watership Down Dogsbody Spyridon’s Shoes This is the intended list, but some titles might be replaced as your teacher prepares the lessons:). |
Art/Literature - Virtues
Ages 6-12 Wednesdays @ 1:00 EST Beg Sept. 8, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Literature/Art Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great literature. Over the school year, we will read the following topics from the Book of Virtues. (About 1 a month) Covering: Self-Discipline Compassion Responsibility Friendship Work Courage Perseverance Honesty Loyalty Faith **** Art/Composers
Ages 10-16 years Wednesdays @ 12:00 EST Beg Sept. 8, 2021 Tuition - $550/year ($300/semester) This weekly Art/Composers Course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the world of choice based art in response to great music. Over the school year, we will read about the following composers. (order TBD): Covering: Vivaldi Handel* Bach* Haydn* Mozart* Beethoven Schubert* Mendelssohn Chopin* Schumann* Liszt* Verdi* Bruckner Foster Brahams Tchailkovsky Dvorak Faure Debussy Strauss Joplin Ives Gershwin. Copland The "Composers and Art course will provide your student with the opportunity to respond to biographies and the music of famous composers through many different types of choice based arts projects. Art projects are not step by step projects, but projects that encourages students to response to the composer of the lesson. For each lesson, students are required to explain their artistic response with a few words explaining their creations when they share in the following lesson. |
Art Literature Courses 2020-2021
September 2020 - May 2021
Art/Literature - Narnia
Tuesday @ 2:00 EST Beg. Sept 22nd Covering: "The Chronicles of Narnia" (Ages 8-12) |
Art/Literature - Lord of the Rings
Tuesday @ 1:00 EST Beginning Sept 22nd Covering: "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" (Ages 11+) |
Art/Literature - Beatrix Potter
Mondays @ 2:30 EST Beg January 4, 2021 Covering: Books from the "Beatrix Potter Series" (Ages 5-11) |
These weekly LIVE ZOOM Literature/Art Courses are geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the respective worlds of the "The Chronicles of Narnia" or “The Lord of the Rings”.
Over the 2020-2021 school year (September - May), we will read each of the books in the respective series. Each week (of the thirty weeks), students will be assigned a corresponding art project to enhance and to bring life and purpose to their reading! This is a true integrated project-based learning experience. Students encourage each other as they share their responsive art projects with the class each week. Student are motivated by knowing that their artwork and explanations will be posted online* (first names, age).
Over the years, Mrs. G's Art/Literature courses has proven to be highly successful, fun and motivating for art minded students!
Expectations for each lesson:
- Art Projects: – Complete the art project based on the reading.
- Write about 100 words to explain your artistic response OR be prepared to explain your artistic response to the class.
Narnia Projects
"The Magician's Nephew" - Pages 1-54
"The Magician's Nephew" - Pages 55-109
"The Magician's Nephew" - pages 110 - 166 (Your version of Narnia)
"The Magician's Nephew" - pages 167-End
"I cleaned and hollowed out a gourd to create the world of Narnia. I painted the ground to match the hillside and added painted rocks to serve as mountains. The pegasus, Fledge, is made of a twig I hand-carved, and I added a piece of a maple leaf for wings. On it, Pauly and Digaree are riding, one in front of the other, and they are made from twigs and string, attached to the top of the gourd by a thread. To photograph it I shined a flashlight in from a hole I made in the back of the gourd." - By Inga
"The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" - pages 1- 46
"The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" - pages 47-94
"The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" - pages 95-146
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"The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" - pages 147-206
"The Horse and His Boy " - pages 1-52
"The Horse and His Boy " - pages 1-52
"The Horse and His Boy " - Chapters 7-9
"The Horse and His Boy " - Chapters 10-12
"The Door" - by Inga
"Prince Caspian " - Chapters 5-7
"Prince Caspian " - Chapters 8 -10
"Prince Caspian " - Chapters 11- 15
"Prince Caspian " - Chapters 11- 15
"Lord of the Rings" Projects - "The Hobbit"
"The Hobbit" - Pages 1-54
"The Hobbit" - Pages 55-111
"The Hobbit" - Pages 112 - 170 (Animal Persona - If you could change into an animal... "
"The Hobbit" - Pages 171 - 233
"I tried to include both elements of barrels and invisibility into it. My project is a suncatcher I made from a plastic water bottle, which is clear and looks invisible when placed against the right background. Also, I painted ( with watercolors) the scene of the barrels in the river, as the dwarfs and Bilbo are escaping from the Elvenking. Also, I included a purple dot to identify Bilbo, purple because the water was cold and that would make him turn purple, like having frostbite all over." - Zahara
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"The Hobbit" - Pages 233-287 - Respond Artistically to a Quote from the book.
"The Hobbit" - Pages 288- End - What did you learn?
"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapter 1
"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 2-3
"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 2-3
"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 3-7
"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 8-10
"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Chapters 10-12
"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Book 2 - Chapters 3-4
"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Book 2 - Chapters 5-6
I call this piece, The Friends Ship Bracelet. The reason is, the overall goal of my project was to capture Frodo and Sam's good friendship. The best example of their companionship in the book involves a boat, a rowboat, which Frodo had first planned to use to leave, alone, for Mordor, but Sam then insisted that he come along to help him. To create my project, I first made the bracelet part out of a plastic water bottle, the rowboat with Sam and Frodo on it I drew on a piece of paper (with colored pencils and sharpies) which, I cut out and then glued to the back of the bracelet. ( I mention this because I realize that in the picture, the boat looks like it is on the outside of the bracelet, but it's not, it's just the little bit of shadowing I did with a blue sharpie under the boat). Once the glue was dry, I then painted the inside part of the bracelet with watercolors to create the river Sam and Frodo sailed on to Mordor. - By Zahara
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"Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" - Book 2 - Chapters 7 -8