NORWIN SCHOOL DISTRICT
LESSON PLAN
Miss Molli Brown
SUBJECT: Eric Carle Picture Writer Illustrations / DATE: January 2009
7 – 45 minute periods
STATE STANDARDS:
9.1 –A., B., C., D.
9.2 –
9.3 – A., B., C., F.
9.4 – B. D. / OBJECTIVES:
1. Students will develop an awareness of Eric Carle’s work as a writer and an illustrator.
2. Through the use of previously learned color mixing students will create papers to be used in collage illustrations.
3. Students will work cooperatively to illustrate an Eric Carle inspired picture book.
*4. Students will work collaboratively to write and edit a story while reviewing and integrating literacy terms and ideas.
*Not all classes are able to write the story.
PROCEDURES/ACTIVITIES:
Day 1:
1. Introduce students to the work of Eric Carle by showing the video Eric Carle: Picture Writer.
Day 2:
INTEGRATION: 1. Students will get into small groups, no larger than 6 people per group, and each group will first come up with a story idea. They are to write the basic story line reviewing with them objectives/vocabulary from literacy such as theme, main idea, sequencing, main character, villain, antagonist, hero, context clues, etc. Each group will be given 20 minutes to come up with a basic story line.
2. Next I will collect the stories from each group and read the basic ideas/notes that have been made about the story. Each story idea is then put into a hat and chosen to be the story that is then more fully developed by the entire class. (I staged which story I felt would end up being the most successful and interesting story and also the one that would be the most interesting to illustrate.)
3. Once the story is chosen a story board was created and the entire class contributed input into the details and events that take place throughout the story. It is broken up in at least four-five sections (introduction, action, resolution, and conclusion). Once the basic information for these sections is figured out the students return to work in their groups.
Day 3:
1. Students work in their groups and take the basic ideas of their section of the story and form those ideas into sentences. Then they share what they came up with to the people in the group with the section before theirs and then with the section after theirs. They must make any changes necessary so that the story flows together more smoothly.
2. Students then come up with a list of reference images they think they will need when they are completing sketches for the story during the next couple of classes.
3. Review previously learned information on mixing colors: red + yellow = orange
more red + yellow = red-orange
4. Have student choose from labeled popscicle sticks various color families: red/yellow/orange/red-orange/yellow-orange, neutrals, black and white, etc. Until all colors are chosen.
Day 4:
1. Students take the paper on which they have already written the color they will be using for their painted paper, grading is explained to them as is the basic procedures for behavior and painting during the period.
2. Demonstrate how to use each of the tools available for students to work with during the period. Explain that their first painted paper is graded. The most prominent color on that paper should be the color that they chose on the popsicle stick which is written on the back of their paper.
3. Students can paint up to 3 papers, the first paper is their assigned color, and the other two are colors of their choice.
Day 5:
1. In between days 3 and 5 stories are collected, typed up and more fully edited. I also look up all the reference images students have requested and compile them onto a word document which I make copies of and have available at each table during today’s class.
2. Students listen to the finished and edited story that they wrote visualizing different possible illustrations and listening for errors.
3. They may choose a partner to work with on the project and then also the page of text that they will be illustrating.
4. Basic sketches are drawn using the references images provided. Today students are just focusing on the basic setup or placement of objects within the illustration.
Day 6:
1. A more complete and finished drawing is done on 12X18” newsprint paper. This drawing should look exactly like how the students want their finished illustration to look.
2. Demonstration on how to use transfer paper to begin collaging with the painted papers. Students are also shown an example of a collaged book done by students from a previous year.
3. Collage painted papers onto 12x18” piece of white paper until book is completed.
Day 7 & 8:
1. Collage until all illustrations are completed.
2. All collages will be glued using rubber cement.
3. Student will also glue the sentence that corresponds with their illustration into place.
4. All pages will be displayed together to create a book.
ANCHORING ACTIVITY: There is an interactive bulletin board in the classroom while this lesson is in progress. On pockets with the pages of different Eric Carle books that have been photocopied and reduced in size so they are easy to work with. These pages are all out of order and it is up to the students to read through the pages of the story and figure out the correct sequence of the story. They will be able to compare their order to that of the actual book when they think they have it completed. They are able to work cooperatively on this with their partner or a friend when they are finished with all the different books.
MATERIALS:
Eric Carle Books, video Eric Carle: Picture Writer, white construction paper, newsprint paper, tempera paint, brushes, water, scissor, glue, glue sticks, run-offs of sentences from books. / ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION:
100 points:
25 points on making collage paper and colors assigned
25 points on illustration for specific sentence
25 points on working cooperatively in a group
25 points on assemblage of collage.
ADAPTATATIONS:
Pair learning support students with regular ed. students to work in cooperative pairs. / VOCABULARY:
Illustrator
Illustration
Collage
Assemble
Antagonist
Protagonist / painted papers
sequencing
context clues
main character
villain
main idea
theme