TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS (TEKS)
IN FORCES OF NATURE

 

TEKS for Art, Grade 5

5.1 Perception. The student develops and organizes ideas from the environment.

5.2 Creative Expression. The student expresses ideas through original artworks, using a variety of media with appropriate skills.

5.3 Historical/Cultural Heritage. The student demonstrates an understanding of art history and culture as records of human achievement.

5.4 Response/Evaluation. The student makes informed judgments about personal artworks and the artworks of others.

 

TEKS for English Language Arts, Grade 5

5.10 Reading/comprehension. The student comprehends selections using a variety of strategies. The student is expected to draw inferences such as conclusions or generalizations and support them with visual text evidence and experience.

5.12 Reading/text structures/literary concepts. The student analyzes the characteristics of various types of visual texts and describes how the author's perspective or point of view affects the text (visual).

5.15 Writing/purposes. The student writes for a variety of audiences and purposes, and in a variety of forms. The student is expected to: (C) write to inform such as to explain, describe, report, and narrate.

5.22 Viewing/representing/interpretation. The student understands and interprets visual images, messages, and meanings. The student is expected to describe how illustrators' choice of style, elements, and media help to represent or extend the text's (artwork's) meanings.




ART-O-GRAM

A haiku is a thoughtful, unrhymed Japanese poem
that attempts to express the essence of a moment in which nature is linked to human life.
Write a haiku about one of the works of art studied.

Line 1_______________________________________________________(5 syllables-when-short line)

Line 2_______________________________________________________(7 syllables-where-long line)

Line 3_______________________________________________________(5 syllables-what-short line)




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