Modification & Accommodation

Project A: Magazine Collage (1 day)
Create a collage of collected letters/words and add patterns and images that help describe the mood or tone of your message or make up your own style of letters and write your favorite word or phrase decorating with color.
Youngest Students: Trace Letters and letter styles as practice in learning to write the alphabet. Teachers can ask students to pick a special word or write a statement about what they wish or dream for the future and draw around the word. 

Project B: Printmaking (2–3 days)
Students create a word or phrase by making a print of the letters/words. Colored foam is inexpensive and easy to cut. Cut letters should be glued backwards on cardboard or wood. Roll printmaking ink or paint with a brayer or paint stamps with a brush or foam brush and print letters like a stamp. Print on paper, fabric, t-shirts, etc. You could make a class banner or have small individual prints.

Project C: 3-D Cardboard Construction and Painting (5–6 days)
4–5th Grade. Enhanced technical skills takes text art to a 3-dimensional level building words or phrases with pre-cut ½” in thin chip board or cereal box strips and masking tape. Letters are drawn onto a heavier flat piece of cardboard approximately 12” x 18”.  Holding strips of cardboard on their side, shape them on top of drawn letters, cut to fit and tape to secure. Mod Podge the finished constructions to harden and stabilize the letters. Students paint the whole piece (white is recommended first) and then add color to express mood or preferred style (4-5 days)

• Alternate version of 3-D cardboard construction Students can shape letters with cut cardboard pieces laid flat. Building letters up with several layers gluing differently sized cardboard and/or corrugated pieces. This process is less time consuming, materials are easier to manipulate, and creates a more whimsical and playful look.

Modifications

1. Students can make 3D letters with clay, playdough, modeling clay, tin foil, pasta, etc. 
2. Print on collaged paper, newspaper, burlap, or fabric. Letters can be created with colored foam, thick cardboard, or sheets of white styrofoam or recycled styrofoam from grocery products. 
3. Instead of, or in addition to Mod Pdge you could use plaster gauze to cover the letters and the board.

Extension

• Students listen to the recordings/podcast of the ten artists who comment on Corita’s Kent’s Ten Rules. Students record a short voice recording discussing their own favorite of the Ten rules or select one of their own rules to talk about. (Corita.org website)
• Students record a small video explaining their art work with guided questions for students.
  • What inspired them to choose that word? 
  • What was their favorite part of the process?
  • Why is this kind of art work important?
  • What are their hopes for the future? 
• Students can do extensive historical research on the sixties as an important time of change.
• Music: Play some music of the time; Supremes, Beatles, “Put A Little Love In Your Heart” 1969, Jackie DeShannon and other recordings from the time period to set the stage for context. 
• Partner with the Dreamline project. Dreamline’s mission is to promote hope, connection and belonging by providing educators with resources to inspire, capture and share young people’s dreams for the future on a global scale. Dreamline supports its mission with professional development, project materials, events, and a worldwide network of leaders and participants.

Reflection and Teacher Notes

• Curate a Gallery Walk: Set up an exhibition of student art work, and videos or voice recordings.
• T.A.G: Hand out paper and pencil while students walk through the gallery. Ask students to pick one (or two) students' works they like. For each, write the following T = Tell us something you like, A = Ask the artist a question, G = Give a compliment or a suggestion. This can be shared as a class or handed in to the teacher as an exit ticket.