Mini-Lesson Plan ArtEd 303

1. Grade Level: 3rd
Estimated Time: 3 hr. 30 min.
Lesson By:
Vanessa Haney

2. OBJECTIVE
Students will be able to discover the concept of
identity, such as influences upon it and the role
of it in one's life, in relation to their own
personal identity through an exploration of the
fairytale Cinderella and art making.

3. MATERIALS
• Individual Practice: (materials listed below x the number of students)
• (1) 9” x 12” black construction paper
• (1) 9” x 12” colored construction paper
• (1) Scissors
• (1) Glue Stick
• Oil Pastels
• Magazines/Newspapers (numerous)
• Projector (used for tracing silhouette of student)
• Guided Practice:
• Cinderella DVD (Disney Movie)
• (2) Images of William Wegman photography
• (1) Large sheet of paper for “Cinderella” Acrostic Poem (post on board)
• (1) Standard size notebook paper for personal name Acrostic Poem

4. INSPIRED RESOURCES
Artist: William Wegman
-uses Fay Ray, his Weimaraner to express identity through photography
-has a set of children's books inspired by the dogs various acting
abilities: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, ABC, Mother Goose, etc.
-has created visual works for Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, Saturday
Night Live, and many others
Website: http://www.wegmanworld.com/home.html
Guided Activity: show images of Polaroid’s, and guide children to see
identity of each of the dogs beyond what meets the eye

5. FAY RAY

7. INSPIRED RESOURCES
Acrostic Poem: is a very fun poem for kids. Each acrostic poem has a topic
idea running down the left side of the poem. Each letter in the topic
word has a new thought that runs off the side from left to right and is
relevant to the topic word. The topic word is typically the title as well.
Guided Activity: Brings in the idea of Cinderella’s identity throughout fairy
tale, and also incorporates the aspects of language arts (descriptive
words)
-CINDERELLA (group)
-STUDENTS NAME (individual)

8. Group Acrostic Poem Example: Individual Acrostic Poem Example:

10. INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY
Silhouette Collage
-By working with students to create their own silhouette
collage, they will be able to make connections to Cinderella, and
William Wegman pieces through cutting out words to fill their
profile silhouette.
-This helps children to think deeper into what their personal
identity is as well as holding them accountable for gaining and
retaining new educational information.
-Helps further knowledge in skills of reading, and word
vocabulary, as well as listening to and following directions
-Encourages creativity, not only with the collage, but also by
having them matte their silhouette on their favorite color
construction paper, and being able to draw a border with oil
pastels.
Estimated Time: 1hr. 30 min.

11. Individual Art
Activity

12. EVALUATION
Informal: Not only by group discussion of Wegman photography, but also
by creating two sets of Acrostic Poems, this will help teacher check for
understanding. The idea of identity is a deeper process than seeing
what's on the surface, so by challenging students with these guided
assignments it will help them to grasp the true meaning which will show
in their individual activity (Identity Silhouette)
Formal: