Art 1 · Week 13 · Culture, Memory, and Celebration
Art That Remembers
Students study how cultures use art to honor those who have died and listen respectfully to classmates' views of the traditions studied.
- Students will
- Students describe how culture, tradition, and history shape the way remembrance art looks and what it means, and explain how knowing a tradition changes their response to a work.
- SEL skill
- Restate a classmate's view of a tradition before adding your own
- What it looks like
- Students practice empathy by restating a classmate's view of a tradition before adding their own.
- Content focus
- Art That Remembers
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how other people see the world, including people with different traditions, and caring about their view. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- VA:Cn11.1.HSI: Visual Arts, Connecting, Anchor Standard 11 (Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Connecting
- Level: High School Proficient
More social awareness activities for Art 1
- Seeing Through Someone Else's Eyes Social awarenessPairs describe the same image and compare what each noticed, then discuss how life experience shapes what we see.
- Space Between Us Social awarenessExploring positive and negative space, students connect the space around shapes to the personal space people need from one another.
- Murals of the Coachella Valley Social awarenessStudents study murals in Coachella and other valley towns and discuss whose stories they tell and who is honored in public art.
- Artists Who Look Like Us Social awarenessStudents explore an exhibit of California artists from many backgrounds and describe how it shifts their beliefs about who becomes an artist.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.