Marta Tena i Pereiro

Practicum IV - Emotions through art

EMOTIONS THROUGH ART 

How can we turn emotions into art? 
Communicating in a foreign language

Key  Learning to learn

Competences  Cultural awareness and expression

Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship

Collaboration

21st Century  Communication

Competences  Creativity & Innovation

Initiative & Self-direction

Discursive  Create an Art Gallery with all the artworks created during the
Objectives  sequence
Describe their feelings in a foreign language and auto-regulate their
emotions
Create their own works of art
Learning 
Objectives  Use English as a vehicular language for the main communicative
situations
Work in groups and cooperate

Linguistic Content  Subject Content 

Subj + feel/felt + adj Jackson Pollock
Learning 
To be + adj Action Painting
Content 
Emotions & feelings vocabulary
(happy, fun, sad, scared, Emotions
embarrased, guilty, angry...)

Overview 

Session 1  Introduction of the topic and checking for previous knowledge

Session 2  Developing our senses

Session 3  Creating a Pollock painting

Session 4  Creating a 3D sculpture

Session 5  Creating a 3D sculpture + Art Gallery Design

Session 6  Creation and exposition of the Art Gallery

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Session 1 

Introduction to Art & Emotions

Objectives 

- To identify the previous knowledge of the students

- Introduce the new content

Content 

- Jackson Pollock
- Action Painting
- Pollock biography
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Development 

To introduce the lesson we will do two different activities to contextualize the main
topics. The class will be divided into two and two simultaneous activities will happen at
the same time.
Activity 1:
This activity will consist on a running dictation about the Jackson Pollock biography.
Different fragments of his biography will be placed on the classroom wall. In groups of
four, one student will be in charge of writing, while the others should go running to read
the fragment and come back to dictate it to their mate. Finally, when all the groups
have finished they will have to put in common the information and put it in the correct
order so as to create the complete biography.

Activity 2:
This activity will consist on a jigsaw about the action painting technique. In groups of
four students, they will be numbered from 1 to 4, then they will be grouped by their
numbers (all the 1 together, all the 2 together…), and will have to read a short
sentence about action painting. Finally, they will go back into their based groups and
will have to share the information in order to answer some questions about action
painting.

Finally, we will see some videos about this technique.

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Teacher Role 

In this session the teacher will develop the role of ​guider​, it is important to give clear
instructions about the different activities so they are a bit complex. Clear and brief
explanations will be essential so as to make students understand the tasks they have
to carry out.

Furthermore, the teacher will be carrying out the role of ​monitor, walking around the
class, observing and guiding students during the performance of the activities.

Assessment 

Participation
Questionnaire sheet
With regards to the instructions for the main activities, they will be
provided in different formats so as to arrive to all students. First of all,
Attention to  they will be explained by the teacher with some visual support.
diversity 
Besides, they will have some flashcards with the instructions written
which they will be able to check every time they need.

- 10 min of introduction
Timing  - 20 min for activity 1
- 20 min for activity 2
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Session 2 

Developing our senses

Objectives 

- To develop the four senses (taste, touch, smell and hearing)

- To describe feelings

Content 
- Jackson Pollock
- Action Painting
- Vocabulary related to emotions
- Lexico structures (Subj + feel + adj)

Activity 1 The whole class will be

- Paints: blue, yellow, divided into two. Then, for
black, white, green, both activities students will
red be grouped in groups of 4.
- Elements: water, a As they are 24 students,
lemon, coffee, cotton, three groups of four (12) will
leafs, strawberry be doing one activity, and
- Wrapping paper three groups of four (12) the
  other one.
Classroom 
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&  will work with the whole
organization  group.
The individual task reflection
Activity 2 will be individual.
- Instructions for the Activity 1 will be done in the
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- Memory of emotions
vocabulary
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- Cards to work lexico
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Development 

In this session, the class will be divided into two groups, and they will do two different
activities simultaneously. Each activity will last 30 / 45 minutes, depending on their
needs.

Activity 1:
Students will be blindfolded and using their hands they will have to paint in a piece of
wrapping paper. As they won’t be able to know what colors are they using, they will
have an element that represents each color, so through the taste, the touch and the
smelling they will have recognise the colors.
Moreover, some music stimuli will be performed in order to see the different reactions
and influences that has on each child.

Activity 2:
While the half of the class is doing the discovery activity, the other half will work on the
language. Students will have two different tasks to work the main vocabulary and
structures of emotions:
- A memory in which they will have to relate the emotion in english with the one in
catalan (15 min).
- Some cards with different subjects, verbs and adjectives to create sentences (15 min)
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During this activity students will work autonomously, without teacher support.

Conclusion:
At the end of the class they will do a final reflection with the whole group in order to
explain their feelings when doing the discovery activity. They will use the vocabulary
and structures worked previously.

Finally, at home students will do a guided reflection that the teacher will provide them in
order to assess the activity itself and their attitude towards the performance. 

Teacher Role 

During the first part of the activity, the teacher will be an ​observer​. As the activity
implies a complete participation of students and it’s aimed to discover elements and
colors through their senses, it is important to see the different reactions and attitudes
that students have during the performance, as well as the level of cooperation among
students (if they help each other on the discovery, if they cheat, etc…)
In specific cases, the teacher can also be a ​monitor so as to help students to discover
and facilitate them some processes of the activity taking into consideration they will be
blindfolded. However, we should try not to interfere so much on their performance.
At the last part of the activity (the final reflection), the teacher will play the role of
facilitator​. She/he will have to manage the discussion trying to make students talk
about their feelings and sensations they had during the activity.
Finally, during the whole session the teacher will also play the role of ​language
resource​ helping students to get the main language skills in English.

Assessment 
- Observation during the activity
- Cooperation of the students during the activity
- Observation of the final reflection
- Written guided reflection

Attention to  As it is a cooperative activity, the students will work in groups so as to

diversity  facilitate the inclusion of those who have more difficulties.
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Regarding the written reflection, it will have different ways of

representation such as images in which students can answer them by
coloring without problems of comprehension.
- 30 minutes for activity 1
Timing  - 30 minutes for activity 2
- 20 minutes for the final reflection
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Session 3 

Creating a Pollock painting 

Objectives 

- To develop the action painting technique

- To express emotions through art

Content 

- Jackson Pollock
- Action Painting
- Vocabulary related to emotions
- Lexico structures (Subj + feel + adj)

- Paints
Classroom  Individual
- Paper
Material  management 
- 3D materials (sand, & 
salt, recycled organization 
material)

Development 

Individually, students will put into practise the technique of action painting. During this
activity students will be able to express whatever they want in their papers.
Some of the material provided will be paints of different colors, organic materials such
as sand, coffee, salt, leafs… and some recycled materials such as plastic caps.
Then, they will put a title to their artworks and they will have to write a very brief
explanation about it.

Role of the teacher 

During this activity the teacher will have the role of ​observer. ​The activity demands an
active participation of the students, for that reason it is important to let them express
themselves without interfere in their decisions.
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In the second part of the activity, the teacher can get the role of ​monitor and ​language
resource​, helping students to write the brief explanation of their paintings.

Assessment 

Observation of participation and motivation towards the activity

In this activity students are free to express themselves in many

different ways and using different types of materials.
Attention to  With regards to the last part of the activity, the explanation of their
diversity 
work, I will provide them some support with vocabulary and structures
they can use.

Timing  1:30 hour

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Session 4 

Creating a 3D Sculpture 

Objectives 

- To create a three dimensional sculpture

- To shape emotions into a physical way

Content 

- Contemporary Art
- Volume and three dimensional shapes
- Vocabulary related to emotions
- Lexico structures (Subj + feel + adj)

All kind of material Students will be organized in

students want to use: groups of four done by the
- Natural material teacher.
(sand, leafs,
Every team will have a
branches…)
space of the class assigned
- Recycled material Classroom 
in which they will work
Material  (plastic bottles, plastic management 
caps, wire…) & 
organization 
Fact sheet provided by
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Development 

This activity is aimed to make students create a three dimensional shape based on an
emotion.
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Students will be grouped in groups of 4 and they will have to think of an emotion they
want to represent. Once they have decided the emotion, they will have to choose the
material and the tonalities they want to use according to the emotion chosen.
Moreover, they will have to do a previous draft to clarify their ideas.
Once they have the ideas clear, they will start creating the artwork.
Finally, as a group, students will have to fill a fact sheet justifying their choices and
explaining briefly the meaning and representation of the artwork.

Teacher Role 
In this session the teacher will take the role of ​observer​, so in this activity is really
important to pay attention to the social interactions students have within the groups. In
this activity they will have to take group decisions and it would be nice to observe how
they solve the problems or confrontations that may arise. Moreover, the teacher will act
as a​ monitor​, walking around the class and helping students in case they need it.

Assessment 
The assessment of this activity will be the observation of the group working and
cooperation within the group, which is the key point of this session.
Moreover, the active participation of every student and their role inside the group.
In this particular activity, they will work in groups of 4. The groups will

Attention to  be done by the teacher in order to create heterogeneous groups in

diversity  which some students can help to the others and all of them
participate actively on the activity.
- 20 min for the drafts
Timing  - 1 h to work on the creation
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Session 5 

Creating a 3D Sculpture + Designing an Art Gallery

Objectives 

- To create a three dimensional sculpture

- To shape emotions into a physical way
- To arrive to a common agreement on the Art Gallery Design
- To express ideas

Content 

- Contemporary Art
- Volume and three dimensional shapes
- Vocabulary related to emotions art materials
- Lexico structures (Subj + like/want + noun)

Students will be organized in

groups of four done by the
All kind of material
teacher.
students want to use:
- Natural material Every team will have a
(sand, leafs, space of the class assigned
branches…) in which they will work
- Recycled material Classroom 
For the second activity,
Material  (plastic bottles, plastic management 
&  students will work with the
caps, wire…)
organization  whole group. In this part the
- Invitation Cards
teacher has to be clear and
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Development 

This session will be divided into two. The first part of the lesson will be to continue with
the three dimensional creation in case they need more time to finish it. Then, the
second part will be dedicated to agree how students want to design their Art Gallery.
To do this they will have to think of some items and elements they have to take into
account such as where they want to place it (in the classroom, in the corridor, in the
library..), the style or thematic they want to use, the spatial organization, etc.. To do
that and facilitate the discussion I will provide them some visual support (prezi, canva..)
with the main topics such as where, when, how.. And different options to choose.
Finally, they will have to create an invitation card with all the information about the
Gallery and their expositions (the day, the time, the place..) in case parents or other
students of the school want to come to visit it. In case they don’t have time to finish it,
they will have a entire week to keep working on it both at school and at home and the
teacher will provide them some cards models with the information so as to facilitate
them through google drive the creations.

Teacher Role 
As in the previous session, the first part of the session the teacher will have the role of
observer​ and ​monitor​.
Regarding the discussion part, the teacher will take the role of ​facilitator​. She/he will
have to manage the discussion trying to make students participate and express their
ideas. Moreover, she/he will be a ​language resource​, in order to help students with
the language. It is not expected that students talk all the time in English, but at least
that they try to do it if we provide them some support.

Assessment 
The assessment of this activity will be the discussion and the invitations cards they do.
In this activity I will assess the participation, the classroom organization (if they respect
the turns, they talk one by one, they take their turn to speak…) and the effort they do
using English as the vehicular language for the main communicative situations.
Moreover, students at home will have to do a self and peer-assessment about their
work in groups during the 3D figures.
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As mentioned before, during this activity I will provide students a lot of

Attention to  support regarding language so as to facilitate them their
diversity 
comprehension.
- 15 min to finish the sculptures
Timing  - 15 min to agree on the design
- 20 min to elaborate the invitations cards
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Session 6 

Creation and exposition of the Art Gallery 

Objectives 

- To create an Art Gallery with all their elements

- To expose their artworks

Content 

- Contemporary Art
- Vocabulary related to emotions and art materials
- Lexico structures (Subj + feel / felt + adj)

Classroom 
The creations done management  Whole class group
Material 
during the sequence & 
organization 

Development 
Students will have to create the Art Gallery, and to do that they will have to decorate
the place as they want, to manage the spatial organization, to organize the artworks, to
create cards for every work of art with the title, the author, the year, etc…
Finally, each group will expose their three dimensional creations.

Teacher Role 
The teacher will guide students and help them to organize the event. However, in this
activity students will be the protagonists.

Assessment 
Observation
Attention to  - (No needed)
diversity 
- 30 min for the preparation
Timing 
- 50 min for the expositions