Spanish Level 4- Activities Designed for Online Instruction
🎨 Spanish Level 4, Activity 08: El arte / Art (Online)
Description: In this activity, students will learn how to share their interpretations on artwork from the Spanish-speaking world. They will discuss art and express their opinion with a partner or in a group. Students will answer questions across different time frames (past, present, future).
Semantic Topics: art, artists, painters, conversation, questions, arte, artistas, pintores, conversación, preguntas
Grammatical Structures: Conditional tense, conditional perfect, el condicional, el condicional perfecto
Products: Artwork
Practices: Art techniques, art mediums
Perspectives: What can we learn about a culture or place from the artwork that originates there?
NCSSFL-ACFTL World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret spoken and written Spanish on a variety of topics.
- Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas in Spanish to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
- Standard 2.2 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of Hispanic culture.
- Standard 3.2 Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the Spanish language and its cultures.
- Standard 4.2 Students demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons between Hispanic culture and their own.
Idaho State Content Standards for World Languages:
- COMM 1.1 – Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
- COMM 2.1 – Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- COMM 3.1 – Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media in the target language.
- CLTR 2.1- Analyze the significance of a product (art, music, literature, etc…) in a target culture.
- CLTR 2.2- Describe the connections of products from the target culture with the practices and perspectives of the culture.
- CLTR 2.3- Justify the underlying beliefs or values of the target culture that resulted in the creation of the product.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can ask a variety of questions across different time frames (past, present, future)
- I can participate in spontaneous conversation
- I can share my interpretations of a piece of art with someone else while respecting theirs (intercultural)
Materials Needed
- Google slideshow (linked)
- Artist Cards
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Warm Up
Materials Needed for Warm Up
- Begin by introducing the Can-Dos for today’s activity and opening the Google Slideshow.
¡Hoy vamos a charlar del arte! Vamos a hablar de nuestros diferentes puntos de vista e interpretaciones de diferentes obras con una pareja o en un grupo. Cada cuadro es de un artista del mundo Hispanohablante. - Before beginning, introduce students to vocabulary using the Google Slideshow.
Antes de empezar vamos a repasar algunas palabras en Google Slideshow. - Students will scan the QR code with the art cards (they should keep these for the main activity as well). They will choose a painting that they think resembles them and have a simple explanation as to why they chose it (the more abstract the reasoning the better!).
Para nuestro calentamiento vamos a elegir obras de arte que parecen como nosotros. Cada uno de ustedes se va a elegir sus propias obras y decir porque eligieron.
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
- Put the students in breakout rooms (no more than 3) and discuss the art on the slides and the questions that coincide with them. Make sure to mention that each student should share their opinion.
- For the main activity, you will be art critics. You will be in pairs or small groups to discuss the paintings on the slides and answer a question about the art. Everyone has to share their thought on the art piece.
- “Ahora son críticos de arte. Con una pareja o en un grupo pequeño van a compartir sus opiniones en cuanto a las obras de arte. Todos tienen que tener la oportunidad de compartir.”
- Post the link to the artists’ cards in the chat. Explain how it’s set up, and how the activity will work.
- Open the link in the chat. The first 13 slides contain the paintings, followed by 11 slides containing questions about the paintings.
- “Abran el enlace que he puesto en el “chat”. Al principio hay 13 diapositivas con obras de arte, seguidas por 11 diapositivas con preguntas para contestar acerca de una obra.”
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- There’s a question for each painting.
- You will have two minutes to answer the question and discuss the painting.
- For example: If you had to recreate the painting with other materials, how would it be? If I had to recreate the painting, I would use physical objects to create a 3D effect. Like cotton balls or tree branches.
- You will have to use two of the questions twice.
- “Hay una pregunta para cada cuadro”
- “Van a tener dos minutos para contestar la pregunta y hablar sobre la obra”
- Por ejemplo: “Si tuvieras que volver a crear la pintura con otros materiales, ¿Cómo sería? Si tuviera que volver a crear la pintura, tal vez lo crearía con materiales físicos para que fuera 3D. Como bolas de algodón o ramas de árbol.”
- Van a tener que repetir dos de las preguntas.
Wrap Up
- Which artwork pieces were your favorite? Why did you like them?
- ¿Cuáles fueron tus obras de arte favoritas? ¿Por qué te llamaron la atención?
- Did you recognize any of the artists or have you seen any of the art pieces before?
- ¿Reconocieron a algunos de los artistas o han visto algunas de estas obras de arte antes?
- Do you have a favorite artist? What is his/her name?
- ¿Tienen un artista favorito? ¿Cómo se llama?
End of Lab
- Read can-do statements and have students evaluate their confidence
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
Can-Do Statements:
- I can ask a variety of questions across different time frames (past, present, future)
- I can participate in spontaneous conversation
- I can share my interpretations of a piece of art with someone else while respecting theirs (intercultural)
CULTURAL NOTES:
- “Los pintores españoles más famosos de la historia y sus obras más importantes”
- “Arte, mujer, y memoria: arpilleras from Chile” – This is a virtual exhibition from the Museum of Latin American Art of Chilean arpilleras that were made during the years of the Pinochet dictatorship.
- “Artistas latinoamericanos que no te puedes perder”– artículo sobre arte urbano en Latinoamérica
- “9 artistas latinoamericanos que se inspiran en los pueblos originarios”
- Lista de museos hispanos con visitas virtuales
- Una visita virtual del Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires Malba
- “11 mujeres artistas latinoamericanas que debe conocer”
- “5 artistas centroamericanos que todo el mundo debe conocer”
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