Grade (or Art Class) Level : Middle school Enduring Idea: Community Essential Questions What/who is my community? How can I be involved in my community? How can art serve/help the community? Lesson Objectives : Students can name the communities they feel a sense of belonging to, recognizing the importance of community. Students can represent their chosen community through a drawing, highlighting what/who makes that community important to them. Lesson Description : Students wi

Students will use a variety of found materials to construct a 3D mixed media introspective on the ways they have experienced power struggles, privileges, or disadvantages. They will craft a self- portrait of sorts—although it does not need to be directly representational—using different elements of art to analyze how empowerment and social standing are represented in portraiture.

This unit for upper-level high school students will help prepare them for further art studies in college, as well as engage them with multimodal ways of learning, and encourage student choice in subject matter.