Lesson Plan for Day One Teaching a Leisure Activity Lesson Title/Topic: Calligraphy Duration: an Hour and Supplies/Equipment a Half
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Lesson Plan for Day One Teaching a Leisure Activity Lesson Title/Topic: Calligraphy Duration: an hour and Supplies/Equipment a half. Learning By learning this skill students will be able to: Objectives/Outcomes ! Develop a new leisure skill ! Identify the purpose of calligraphy in our country ! Name different countries that use it and it’s purpose to the countries. ! Be aware of the background and cultures that use calligraphy as a skill. ! Improve their hand/eye coordination ! Improve concentration. ! More open about trying new leisure skills. Introduction/Warm ! Ask the students why they want to learn PowerPoint Up a new leisure skill and discuss the Visuals importance of leisure skills while explaining the importance of being willing to try new things. 10 minutes -It is important because we always need to learn new skills to apply to our lives. If you always do the same things you’ll never know what you could be missing out on or what you are truly interested in. Leisure is a way for you to express yourself and find yourself by while learning and having fun. ! Brainstorm and ask the students if they know what calligraphy is, and what it is used for. - What is calligraphy? “The art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or a brush.” It is used for many art pieces, professional business work, and banners for events, cards, certificates and signatures. Examples provided in the power point/ visuals. Summary of You tube -Powerpoint Tasks/Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQPAHKx -visuals bQU -books ! Ask the students if they like to doodle, - pencils - What do you doodle? Doodling is -markers 1 hour similar to calligraphy because you -paper are using your creativity to create swirls, lines, curves, and squiggles. - Activity: Students will each doodle on their page. First draw a curve, second draw a line, third draw a swirl, and fourth draw a squiggle. Teach the basics and history of Calligraphy: ! Discover calligraphy as a traditional art expressed through many countries. Show examples and visuals to the students. ! Calligraphy once used as a form of communication through many time eras (Egyptian, Medieval, Roman, and Early Renaissance) ! Calligraphy became a big part in religion (Christianity, Buddhism, Shintoism) Activity: Hangman. Leaders will split the room into two teams. • Way to separate into groups for game. Leaders will have students stand up and circle up. Students will be playing rock paper scissors with the person to their right. Instead of using their hands they will be using their bodies. This will be done to separate the group into two teams. To replace rock, paper, scissors, students will use human, trap, and tiger. The human beats the cage, the cage beats the tiger, and the tiger beats the human. Students will play Leaders will then come up with a word and the students have to guess the word by playing hangman. If the team guesses the word correctly then each member must write the word in calligraphy in order to get the points for their team. After this is done students will be asked how the word relates to the lesson. Words to use are: (calligraphy, doodle, Egyptian, curve, roman, hieroglyphics, printing press, certificate, skill, leisure, art, graphic design, ink and pen, paper, fancy font.) Continued History ! -Calligraphy “revived,” in modern 21st century by designer William Morris (re- introduced classes in England) ! -The power of calligraphy has changed lettering and alphabets everywhere to different “art styles” and techniques ! -Calligraphy becomes a big part in graphic design in modern society to advertise, promote, and display different visuals Activity: PowerPoint with pictures where graphic design in modern society is used as advertisement. Have students raise their hands and guess what parts are considered to be calligraphy? What are they trying to sell by using calligraphy? And why is calligraphy helpful in selling this product? Types of Calligraphy (during time eras): ! Hieroglyphics -Example: The book of the dead 1300 BC. -written on papyrus Activity: Hieroglyphics Worksheet. Students will be given a worksheet and will be expected to “crack the code” using hieroglyphics and the key that we give them. ! Eastern Asia (Chinese, Korean, Japanese) -used for scriptures and interpretation ! Medieval -written in books and on certificates ! Early renaissance -many of the calligraphy was written in bibles and religious works. Example (the Hours of Jeanne de Savoie by Jean Pucelle Activity: The students will be given Chinese Numbers and will be expected to try writing them out. Way to separate into groups for game. Leaders will have students stand up and circle up. Students will be playing rock paper scissors with the person to their right. Instead of using their hands they will be using their bodies. This will be done to separate the group into two teams. To replace rock, paper, scissors, students will use human, trap, and tiger. The human beats the cage, the cage beats the tiger, and the tiger beats the human. Students will then play to determine their group. Activity: Hollywood Squares (Tic Tac Toe) The Leaders will divide the group into two teams. They will be given a symbol/ letter and will be asked to write it out, or draw it. If it is correct they will be given an X or an O to place on the board. The team that wins will receive candy. Wrap-up/Reflect – Closure ! Ask the students what they think about learning this skill, calligraphy. 10 minutes - What did you like? What did you dislike? What do you want to learn more about regarding calligraphy? Can you see yourself using this skill in the future? Are you looking forward to the rest of the lessons? Adaptations (For If there are any students with disabilities we will assign another Students With individual to assist the student with learning the skill and participating in Disabilities): the activities Safety Considerations Make sure that students are aware of how to use the tools and how to take care of them. Lesson Plan for Day 2 Teaching a Leisure Activity Lesson Title/Topic: Duration: 1 hr and 30 min Supplies/Equipment Learning By participating fully in this activity, student will be able to: Objectives/Outcomes • Develop a new leisure skill • Identify different styles of font in Western Calligraphy • Explore the culture and writing styles of Asian cultures from Japan and China. • Write out one calligraphy symbol that is Chinese & know its meaning. • Write out one word (their name) with real calligraphy ink pens in Western fancy font. • Learn about how to write the western calligraphy alphabet Introduction/Warm • Ask the Students what they have learned Ball Up about calligraphy so far. • Allow some time to have students ask questions on any confusion or concerns 10 minutes about Day 1. Activity: have an item (ball) for students to pass around to one another. Once a student catches the item they must say one thing they enjoyed or learned a bout our last lesson, and a new leisure skill or activity they would like to learn or try. • Introduce the students about what they will be learning for Day 2 A. Different Styles of Calligraphy B. Cultures and writing styles from Japan and China C. Writing out Japanese and Chinese Calligraphy symbols D. Identifying and practicing Fancy font in calligraphy E. Calligraphy Western Alphabet • We will also be practicing different styles of calligraphy (Western, Japanese, Chinese) Summary of White Paper Tasks/Action A. Different Styles of Western Construction paper Calligraphy Black paint 1 hour B. Foundational Hand Alphabets (Upper Paint bruses and Lower case) This style is the basis Markers before getting into different styles Calligraphy kit C. Unical Aphabet- Known as “Old Worksheets Roman cursive. This type of style was used to write important texts from 600 AD to the early renaissance D. Illuminated Letters- Thick letters used to emphasize bold and importance in writing E. Other types of forms: Lowercase Blackletter, Italic Swash, and Italic Hand. F. Identifying and practicing fancy font in calligraphy G. Activity: worksheets will be passed out by the leader that shows the fancy letters in calligraphy. Students will be asked to trace and practice writing all of the letters. For example they will trace the letter “A” and then write the letter “A.” Activity: After this the students will use the ink pens to write out their names. (For us to put into their certificates that will be given on day 3) Illuminated letters: • They are thick letters that are used to emphasize & bold. It’s important because it emphasizes certain words in writing and on important pieces of work. Activity: students will be asked to create their own illuminated letter using the first letter of their name. They will be asked to make it as detailed as possible (like examples). And If needed, may work on it throughout todays lesson. Cultures and writing styles from Japan and China • China- Used the Kanji system: Which is characters that are used to form words. Many other countries such as Japan and Korea took China’s Kanji System and made it into their own word systems. There are 85,000 characters that can be used to make words. • Japan- Calligraphy word system taken from China and made it as their own. Japan’s word system has about 12,000-13,000 characters to use to form words. • Writing out Japanese and Chinese Calligraphy symbols Activity: Students will then be given other interesting worksheets to test out some other fun Chinese calligraphy styles. Show image- Have students pick their favorite of the many Chinese symbols, and attempt to draw it to practice and practice it.