Art 2 · Week 18 · Art, Culture, and Context
Semester Reflection
Students review their semester work and write about the risks, growth, and feelings that shaped their artistic voice.
- Students will
- Students review a semester of their own work, identify a risk, a growth point, and a feeling tied to their artistic voice, and set one direction for next semester.
- SEL skill
- Name the feelings and strengths that shaped your artmaking
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by naming emotions and strengths tied to their artmaking and linking them to how their voice changed.
- Content focus
- Semester Reflection
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths, and how they influence what you do. More self-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:Pr4.1.HSII: Visual Arts, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 4 (Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation), High School Accomplished
- Artistic process: Connecting
- Level: High School Accomplished
More self-awareness activities for Art 2
- My Artistic Voice Self-awarenessStudents revisit a past artwork, name what still feels true about it, and formulate a new creative problem that grows from their own voice.
- Material and Mood Self-awarenessExperimenting with an unfamiliar material, students notice how its texture and resistance change their mood and their marks.
- Research Through Art Self-awarenessStudents use observation and experimentation to investigate an unfamiliar desert subject and record the questions and feelings it raises.
- Beauty in the Everyday Self-awarenessStudents sketch overlooked beauty around campus and describe the feelings it stirs.
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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.