UNIT X UNIT 4 | 159 Cityscapes Acityscape is a type of painting. It shows how a city looks. This cityscape is by Roberto Gutierrez. He is a painter from Los Angeles. He makes paintings of the buildings in Los Angeles. It is one of the biggest cities in the world. Roberto grew up in Los Angeles. He loves to paint everyday life in his community. He uses bright colors and loose lines. He shows a mood. In this painting, we see a busy and happy community. The buildings look like they are moving or dancing. Art in the Community A Read the informational text. B Draw a cityscape. 1. Choose a cityscape. What buildings will you include? 2. Use a pencil to sketch. 3. Next, add colors and lines. Use them to express a feeling. C Making connections Share your drawing with a classmate. Describe the cityscape. What mood does it have? Life in Downtown L.A. Roberto Gutierrez 1993 What can art tell us about a community? ? ESSENTIAL QUESTION CONNECT TO Art UNIT 4 159 CON22_3_SE_U04_158-159_CMA.indd 159 30/10/2020 13:44 Instructional Routine: Art p. Txxxiv Art in the Community A • Build background knowledge Display examples of urban and rural landscape paintings. Ask: What do you notice about these paintings? Explain that all the paintings are examples of landscapes, or views of a large area of land. • Learn content vocabulary Play the audio for students. Write cityscape on the board and ask if parts of the word are familiar. Draw a line to separate city from scape. Explain that the suffix -scape means a view. Say: A cityscape shows the view of a city. • Listen actively Point out the words in bold type and assess whether they are familiar to students. Then replay the audio as students follow along in a whisper read. Then have students reread the text in pairs. Remind them to use context to help them understand the words in bold type. • Use content vocabulary Have students describe what they see in the painting. Supply vocabulary if necessary. B Follow a sequence Ask a volunteer to read the instructions and choral read the steps. Provide access to photos of large cities from around the world. Have each student choose a photo to use as a model. Then direct students to follow the steps to create their cityscapes. C Use academic language to share ideas Have two students with greater proficiency demonstrate sharing and discussing drawings. Then arrange students for a fishbowl activity and have them share and discuss their drawings. Check in with students and supply vocabulary and sentence frames as needed. Your cityscape has a _____ mood. Essential Question: What can art tell us about a community? Have students discuss the Essential Question in pairs. Then ask them to share their answers with the class. ANSWERS Sample answer: It can tell us if a community is big or small. Practice Book p. 86 EXPLORE AND LEARN PRACTICE COMMUNICATE UNIT 4 / CONNECT TO ART DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Support students in understanding the meaning of mood by displaying photos of people with different facial expressions. Ask: This person is frowning. Do you think he is in a sad mood or a happy mood? Continue with other images. Then guide students to use the word mood to describe their own cityscapes. Ask: When you look at your drawing, how do you feel? Supply the sentence frames My drawing shows a _____ mood. It has _____. Amplify Ask students to generate artist statements to accompany their cityscapes. They should include a description of the location and information about the mood it conveys. Ask: What do you want someone to feel when they view your drawing? Tell students to explain their ideas (e.g., The mood of this drawing is cheerful it has bright colors). FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Ask and answer: Identify communities in art • Ask students to identify three cityscapes in the unit (including the painting on page 159). • Ask and answer in pairs: What are some things you might see in a cityscape?
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