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This is a continuation of the unit Seeing the World Through Different Eyes. The lesson can also be used alone. Children will extend their knowledge of observation poetry and haikus to incorporate art. They will learn about Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night Painting and create a haiku based on this painting.
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Seeing the WorldThrough Different Eyes
Observation PoemsStarry Night
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Observation Poems, Art, Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night
Great teachers have always mixed writing with other curriculum areas. Art is especially inspiring. This lesson has been used from Kindergarten to eighth grade. Before the lesson, children have a good grasp of imagery, onomotopeia, adjectives. Also, Thesaurus use can be included.
Day 1
Compose a KWL chart for Vincent Van Gogh.
What do they Know
What do they want to know.
What they learn will be empty until the end of the entire lesson.
Show the children a series of his paintings and try to elicit anything they notice about the way he painted.
Day 2
Have the children listen to Starry, Starry Night by Don McLean video on this page.It has the lyrics which we go over together, as well as Van Gogh's famous works.
Starry, starry night
Paint your pallet blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
And now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
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Day 2
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds of violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue
And now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you
(more on next page)
Day 2
Starry starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the stranger that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
And now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
Ask the children to come up with questions about the song and try to answer them for each other. We record anything new learned on the KWL chart.
Day 3
Read a biography of Van Gogh suitable for the age group you are teaching.
Elicit any new learning. Discuss Van Gogh's alleged mental illness and how that
may have reflected in his work. This is important for Starry Night because of the chaos of a picture that was meant to be serene.
Talk about impressionism. Have the children stand and look at each other and tell
me what they notice about each other. That is an impression they get.
Day 3
Explain that impressionist did the same, they stood outside with canvases so they could show the world the impression they got at that time of day in the landscape.
Continue with the fact that though Van Gogh wanted to be an impressionist, he is considered an expressionist because of the emotion that comes out in his work.
Even with kindergarten explain all of this. They are particularly fascinated with the cutting off of his ear. Understanding his suffering lends itself to a deeper meaning in the poetry they write.
Day 4
The children already have a basic understanding of phrases.
Ask them just to brainstorm phrases that describe his work.
For younger children, record this on a class chart.
Day 5
I have taken the children to the Museum of Modern Art where they can look at the painting and brainstorm more phrases describing it. They may also draw a picture to go with it. Afterward, in class, we talk about these phrases and see how we can make them “worth more” (in terms of vocabulary).
Day 6
As a class we create an observation poem of “Starry Night.”
Day 7
Children create their first draft and peer edit.
Day 8
Children revise using their thesauruses trying to find larger words to describe the original words
used.
Day 9
Children revise using their thesauruses trying to find larger words to describe the original words
used.
Examples
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