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English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Aligned PERFORMANCE WRITING TASK (PWT) TH th 11 and 12 GRADE 2012-2013 Student Name: ____________________________ School Name: _____________________________ Teacher Name: ____________________________ Room #: __________ Class Period_____________ Date: ____________________________________ ELA 11th and 12th Grade Performance Writing Task DEFINITIONS graf·fi·ti [gruh-fee-tee] noun 1. plural of graffito. 2. (used with a plural verb) markings, as initials, slogans, or drawings, written, spray-painted, or sketched on a sidewalk, wall of a building or public restroom, or the like: These graffiti are evidence of the neighborhood's decline. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/graffiti art [ahrt] noun 1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. 2. the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection. 3. a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art. 4. the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture. 5. any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/art com·mer·cial·ize [kuh-mur-shuh-lahyz] verb (used with object), com·mer·cial·ized,com·mer·cial·iz·ing 1. to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit. 2.to emphasize the profitable aspects of, especially at the expense of quality: to co mmercialize one's artistic talent. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/commercialize au·then·tic [aw-then-tik] adjective 1.not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique. 2. having the origin supported by unquestionable evidence; authenticated; verified: an authentic document of the Middle Ages; an authentic wo rk of art. htt //di ti f /b / th ti Oakland USD 2012-2013 Page 2 of 20 STUDENT VERSION th th ELA 11 and 12 Grade Performance Writing Task PHOTOGRAPHS 2 4 1 3 Oakland USD 2012-2013 Page 3 of 20 STUDENT VERSION th th ELA 11 and 12 Grade Performance Writing Task PHOTOGRAPHS 6 8 5 7 Oakland USD 2012-2013 Page 4 of 20 STUDENT VERSION ELA 11th and 12th Grade Performance Writing Task ARTICLE 1 Sony Draws Ire with PSP Graffiti by Ryan Singel Seeking to market its handheld game device to hip city When asked about the criticism, Sony spokeswoman dwellers, Sony has hired graffiti artists in major urban Molly Smith countered that art is subjective and that areas to spray-paint buildings with simple, images of both the content and the medium dovetailed with kids playing with the gadget. But the guerrilla Sony's belief that the PSP is a "disrupter product" that marketing gambit appears to be drawing scorn from lets people play games, surf the internet and watch some of the street-savvy hipsters it's striving to win movies wherever they want. over. "With PSP being a portable product, our target is what Coming after widely publicized news that Sony music we consider to be urban nomads, people who are on CDs infected customers' computers with security-hole- the go constantly," Smith said. inducing spyware, the campaign for the PlayStation Portable is being derided on the internet as an attempt Floyd Hayes, the head creative director at Cunning to buy the credibility of street art. Work, which specializes in nontraditional marketing campaigns, doesn't disapprove of the campaign, though In San Francisco, critics have expressed their he thinks the seemingly hypnotized kids in the artwork disapproval by adding some spray paint of their own to might send the wrong message. the Sony ads. On a wall outside a beer garden in San Francisco's Mission District, someone spray-painted But Hayes doesn't think Sony has crossed any lines with over every character, adding the commentary, the faux street art. "Sony and PSP have every right to "Advertising directed at your counter-culture." use this type of media," Hayes said. "They have done it for a very long time very successfully and spoke the Outside Casa Maria, a small Mission bodega, someone language of the streets without being patronizing." wrote, "Get out of my city," added the word "Fony" to the graffiti and penned a four-line ditty slamming Sony. Piers Fawkes, who runs the IF blog that focuses on new currents in marketing, also liked the campaign. Fawkes questioned whether the backlash was very widespread. "I wonder if that's a San Francisco phenomenon," Fawkes said. "I know there's certain mindset there." Sony isn't the first corporation to use graffiti and stencils to market its products. In 2001, IBM paid Chicago and San Francisco more than $120,000 in fines and clean-up costs after its advertising agency spray- painted Linux advertisements on the cities' sidewalks. Unlike IBM, however, Sony says it's paying businesses The advertising, based on original artwork and building owners for the right to graffiti their walls. commissioned by Sony's ad agency, features a collection of dizzy-eyed urban kids playing with the PSP Casa Maria was paid $100 for two weeks' use of its as if it were a skateboard, a paddle or a rocking horse, wall, according to co-owner Mario Arana. but doesn't include the word Sony or PSP anywhere. Oakland USD 2012-2013 Page 5 of 20 STUDENT VERSION ELA 11th and 12th Grade Performance Writing Task ARTICLE 2 Banksy Interview TimeOut London by Ossian Ward Reclusive street artist, Banksy, comes out of the you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild shadows to tell Time Out about his notoriety, and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art ongoing graffiti wars, and increasing the value of should stay outside. Then again, some old people get London property. a lot of comfort from having a pet around the house. Now that your mugshot has appeared in the paper, 'It's hard to capture the adrenaline of street painting do you get recognised on the street? when you're in a nicely lit studio with the kettle on. 'I know a couple of years ago a bloke (guy) claimed Maybe the people who steal graffiti off walls are on he was Banksy to get into a nightclub in Shoreditch to something - the edge is still there. But those and when word went around he got a kicking off people are funny - they ask me for a letter of some other graffiti writers. It's in my interest not to authentication saying I painted a certain piece, but comment on any of the photos doing the rounds.' that's basically a signed confession on headed notepaper.' What's this battle with Robbo and Drax all about, then? So you want your art to be preserved for the 'I didn't deliberately start a battle with Robbo - have nation? you seen the size of him? In the '90s him and Drax 'It's impossible to predict which paintings will last were infamous enough that we'd even heard about and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a them in Bristol. The truth is I didn't paint over a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned piece that said "Robbo", I painted over a piece that cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the said "nrkjfgrekuh". But either way, I don't buy into piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a the idea a wall "belongs" to a certain writer, or crack house and the proprietor didn't like the anyone else for that matter. attention. 'Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they 'The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, become a graffiti artist so I could have somebody then someone will preserve that piece, remove it else tell me what to do. If you're the type who gets and a few months later it'll be paraded round sentimental about people scribbling over your stuff, I Sotheby's* by people wearing white gloves.' suggest graffiti is probably not the right hobby for What do you make of the financial value of your you.' works? Do you mind people trading them like You are accused by the graffiti community of selling property or luxury goods? them out? How do you plead? 'My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not 'It's hard to know what "selling out" means - these actually be able to charge me with criminal damage days you can make more money producing a run of any more - because theoretically my graffiti actually anti-McDonald's posters than you can make increases the value of property rather than designing actual posters for McDonald's. decreasing it. That's his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good 'I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe look.' I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger *Sotheby’s: an auction house that auctions art, often house than I used to live in.' for millions of dollar Can street art ever be shown in a gallery? 'I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If Oakland USD 2012-2013 Page 6 of 20 STUDENT VERSION ELA 11th and 12th Grade Performance Writing Task ARTICLE 3 The History of American Graffiti: From Subway Car to Gallery Since its explosion onto city walls and subway cars in one's name over and over again on property, which the 1970s, the increasing popularity of graffiti as an doesn't translate when it moves into a more sterile art form has won commercial success for its artists setting like a gallery.

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