A collaboration
One of my most favorite projects with my second graders was an art history book. A class mother, who was also my friend, asked why I didn't teach Art Appreciation and I said, "You're right! I should do that." So I gave my students postcards of famous works of art from the Met and assigned them to draw the image and write an essay about it. Some writing prompts were, What do you think of this picture? How would you describe it? What do you think the artist was thinking? "How would you like to be inside this picture?" Here are a few samples. They had to pick the cards sight unseen and I was glad that a little girl chose this one. When she turned it over her eyes popped! Here's what she did with it. The handwriting is excellent but I'll print the text. She wrote; Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres French, 1780-1867 Portrait of the Princess de Broglie If I was Princess de Broglie I would be happy. I would think I would live a long life. Every...