Today I began a 10-week residency with Mrs. General’s 7th grade class.
In my planning meeting with Mrs. General in November we decided to present two short narrative poems to the class and let students debate on which we would use to direct the focus and imagery of our artwork. The narratives that we chose were The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes and Annabel Lee by Edger Allan Poe.
In class today I led the students to draw and take notes while they listened to the narrative poems. We then broke the students into groups and asked each group to construct an argument to debate why we should choose one poem over the other. I stressed to the class that they must argue why the poem is a good fit for the purpose of art making, and to really start envisioning what we could create for the hallways at Grover Washington Jr. Middle School. Each group created a collaborative drawing to help visualize their argument.
At the end of the class we picked The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
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