Week 9 10/29-11/02/2007

10/29

Aim: What's mood?

Do Now:

  1. WOD
  2. Test-Prep Question of the day
  3. Respond:

Activities:

 

Starry Night, c.1889 Vincent Van Gogh

  1. Describe how the painting makes you feel. What mood does it represent? What makes you feel the way you do( colors? forms? shapes?)
  2. Read the poem "Ambivalence" and explain :How does it make you feel? Why does it make you feel the way you do?( imagery, metaphor etc)
  3. HW: Represent mood with pieces of paper OR draw on Microsoft word /Fireworks) (various colors, various shapes) as a collage.
  4. Represent the same mood with words.

AMBIVALENCE

Around the corner
on the surface
piercing like a needle
surrounding my thoughts like an electric blanket
As if to rip open and shock you to death.
Alas comes the hero
whirling, whipping, shining bright
skipping, sliding, dancing across the
page.
With a hip and hop
A jump and skip
And wash their tears away.

10/30/07

Aim: What does color blue signify?

Do Now:

  1. Copy WOD
  2. Do Test-Prep Question
  3. Read and copy one of the most interesting news summaries including the headline in your notebook.

Activities:

  1. Use your imagination and come up with thoughts and feelings associated with “blue.”
  2. Discuss: emperature—water/coolness associated with blue,;vastness—the sky associated with blue; piritual connotations; mood. “I’m blue.” “THE BLUES” (music)
  3. Study paintings from Picasso’s blue period: 

    Le Gourmet (1901)

    Self-Portrait (1901)

    Blue Nude (1902)

    The Tragedy (1903)

    La vie (1903)

    The Old Guitarist (1903)

    La Celestina (1904)

    Le Repas Frugal (1904)

    Discuss the questions:

    • Why did Picasso choose blue?
    • What does the color have to do with the theme of each work?
    • When is one “blue "?
    • What is the mood of each painting?
  4. Songs associated with “blue”—Am I Blue?
    • written by Grant Clarke and Harry Akst
      © 1929 (renewed) Warner Brothers Inc (ASCAP)

      Am I blue
      Am I blue
      Ain't these tears in my eyes telling you
      Am I blue
      You would be too
      If each plan with your man just fell through

      Was a time I was his only one
      Now I'm the sad and lonely one
      Ooh
      Was I gay
      Till today
      Now he's gone and we're through
      Am I blue

      Was a time I was the only one
      Now I'm the sad and lonely one
      Ooh
      Was I gay
      Till today
      Now he's gone and we're through
      Am I blue
      Am I blue
      Ooh hoo
      Am I blue

      —Music—“Black and Blue”—Andy Razaf—Lyrics, Thomas Waller and Harry Brooks—Music.
  5.  write personal reactions to each of the songs.
  6.  discuss:
    • The “story” in each song,
    • How did each song reflect a “blue mood Tempo etc. is discussed.
  7. visually depict “the blues.” Draw a picture which would be entitled “The Blues.”
  8. depict their own representation of or condition for “the blues”—in words (poem).