Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Brainstorming for Lesson Plan

For this lesson plan, Melissa and I struggled with finding an interesting yet related lesson for our theme of escaping the museum.
We played around with 3-4 ideas, from stenciling to collaging from magazines but these ideas didn't really work out. So when we went to talk to Aaron about our lesson, he sat us down and brainstorm some ideas with us.
Somehow during the brainstorming session, Melissa came across the idea of memes, which I have seen on the internet before but wasn't all too familiar with. Aaron suggested doing the lesson on computers, which scared me a bit because I'm not very tech savvy.

SO...
our lesson plan is basically creating a meme out of some images that we have pre selected. The students are to create a slogan that deals with an issue that interests them.
Some of the artists we used were Banksy, Barbara Kruger, and Guerrilla Girls:





We wanted a presentation in the beginning of the class to kind of introduce the students to these artists who use text and image to appropriate their work.
These artists also relate to our themes of escaping the confines of the museum.

Here are some memes that we looked at that deals with political, racial, etc. issues:


So we wanted the students to look at these also and relate these memes to the artists' works that they saw earlier.

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