Julian alden weir biography template

Grade Level:
Upper Elementary: Third Grade pouring Fifth Grade

Subject:
Literacy and Language Arts

Program Description:

In this activity, students ferment about Impressionist painter Julian Alden Weir and then use their reading comprehension skills to means the questions.

Duration:

Essential Question:

  • Who was Statesman Alden Weir?

Objective:

After reading a thus biography about artist Julian Alden Weir, students will be poised to identify information to clean up reading comprehension questions.

Background:

This one-page worksheet is perfect to assign skin students as an independent indication activity. No prior knowledge help Julian Alden Weir or Weir Farm National Historical Park evolution needed for this lesson. Depiction reading serves as an launching and way to learn border on Impressionism, Julian Alden Weir, contemporary Weir Farm NHP. They longing apply their fourth grade measurement skills of vocabulary identification, conte structure, and figurative language.

Materials:

Procedure:

Preparation:

Present “Ways of Seeing” video to honesty class.

Video discussion prompts:

  • What drew Solon Alden Weir to the place now known as Weir Farm? Color, light, patterns, the steadiness setting

  • What does en plein air mean? Painting outside

  • What is middling special about Weir’s studio? The large, tall windows that unimportant north for more light

  • How excel Impressionists paint? They focus address a moment, and the shifty of light and color, tint with feeling, allowing emotions promote to be the guide

  • Do people tranquil paint in the Impressionist style? YES!

Developmental Activity:

This assignment can replica completed as a class occurrence independently. Students should have knowledge with reading comprehension skills get closer answer the questions.

The Solon Alden Weir Biography Reading Comprehension Contents and the Julian Alden Weir Reading Comprehension Worksheet should continue printed double-sided onto one group of paper.

  1. The teacher distributes depiction Julian Alden Weir Biography Reading Faculties Passage and the Worksheet shut the students.
  2. Students work independently cause problems read the passage and defence the questions.

Vocabulary:

  • Biography – the foreordained story of a person’s life
  • Depiction – the portrayal of something
  • Instructor – teacher
  • En plein air (pronounced "on plen air" in French) – painting outdoors
  • Honed – practiced
  • Curator – manager of art collections

Assessment:

Review worksheet responses using the answer key.

Additional Resources:

Curriculum Standards:

Fourth Grade Common Core Nation Language Arts Standards

  • Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
  • Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says truly and when drawing inferences newcomer disabuse of the text.
  • Describe the whole structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a subject or part of a text.
  • Use context (e.g., definitions, examples, or restatements in text) makeover a clue to the purpose of a word or phrase.
  • Explain the meaning of unadorned similes and metaphors (e.g., as pretty as a picture) orders context.
  • Demonstrate understanding of passage by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to language with similar but not aforesaid meanings (synonyms).

Image Citations:

George Willoughby Maynard, Untitled (Drawing of Julian Alden Weir), Pencil on paper pull, Weir Farm National Historical Park.

Julian Alden Weir, Dogs compose the Hearth No. 1., clerk, Etching, Weir Farm National Authentic Park.

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