Art 2 · Week 7 · Experimentation and Material Mastery
Images That Persuade
Students evaluate how ads and social media images target specific audiences and notice how those images make them feel.
- Students will
- Students evaluate how an ad or social media image targets a specific audience and notice how the image makes them feel.
- SEL skill
- Notice a feeling an image creates and check whether it is honest before deciding
- What it looks like
- Students use their feelings as information when judging whether an image is honest and what choices it pushes toward.
- Content focus
- Images that persuade
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Responsible decision-making
Responsible decision-making means making caring, constructive choices by thinking about ethics, safety, and consequences. More responsible decision-making activities
What you get
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Standards
- VA:Re7.2.HSII: Visual Arts, Responding, Anchor Standard 7 (Perceive and analyze artistic work), High School Accomplished
- Artistic process: Responding
- Level: High School Accomplished
More responsible decision-making activities for Art 2
- Choosing a Medium Responsible decision-makingStudents weigh traditional and contemporary materials for a planned work and notice how excitement and fear influence their choices.
- Ethics of Making and Sharing Responsible decision-makingStudents examine copyright, fair use, and image borrowing and decide how to credit sources honestly in their own work.
- Borrowing With Respect Responsible decision-makingStudents analyze cases of cultural appropriation in art and fashion and write guidelines for honoring sources in their own work.
- Whose Criteria Responsible decision-makingStudents examine how critics, judges, and communities evaluate art and decide which criteria feel fair and relevant.
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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.