Lesson Title:
Fun with Phrases
Content Area & Arts Discipline:
Language Arts and Visual Arts
Overview of the lesson: Students will create an abstract representation of a sentence with adjective and adverb prepositional phrases.
Grade Level: 4
Proposed Time Frame:
1 45 minute class period
Lesson Author:
Andrea Schipke and Casey Watts
Materials/Equipment:
Construction Paper
Markers
Cardstock
Glue
Scissors
Example Sentences
Resources:
NA
Vocabulary:
Prepositional Phrase
Adjective
Adverb
Abstract
Collage
Movement
Space / BIG IDEALEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to know that prepositional phrases function as either adjectives or adverbs and can move in the sentence according to their function.
Students will show an interest in abstract art and how to incorporate movement and space in artwork.
PROCEDURES
The teacher/teaching artist will engage students (“the hook”) by:posing the question “Can art move?” The teacher and students will discuss their answers to this question. The teacher will explain that today we will make art move.
The teacher/teaching artist will build knowledge by: creating an abstract representation of a sentence with adjective and adverb prepositional phrases that illustrates how phrases can move in a sentence.
The teacher/teaching artist will model/guide the experience by:showing the students a sentence that contains prepositional phrases that function as adjectives and adverbs. The teacher will guide the students in finding the prepositional phrases, determining whether they function as adjectives or adverbs, and how the phrases could move in the sentence (adjectives must stay with the noun; adverbs can move throughout the sentence).
The students will apply understanding by:
  • Highlighting prepositional phrases in example sentences and determining if they function as adjectives or adverbs.
  • Using construction paper and markers to create a collage that represents the prepositional phrases that functions as an adjective. This phrase is represented on a stationary background to show that the adjective phrase must stay with the noun. Students will have to be aware of space in order to incorporate the adverb phrase later.
  • Using construction paper and cardstock to create a collage that represents the object of the preposition from the prepositional phrase that functions as an adverb.
  • Creating movement to show that a prepositional phrase that functions as an adverb can move throughout the sentence. Students will achieve this by placing a pre-cut strip of cardstock in the appropriate space on the background (the strip could be horizontal, diagonal, etc) and cutting slits in the background for the cardboard strip to slide into. Students will glue the object of the preposition from the adverb phrase on the strip once they have the correct position.
The teacher/teaching artist will create opportunities for reflection (Closing) by:allowing the students toshare their creation with the class and show how the abstract representation that they created illustrates the prepositional phrases found within their example sentence.
The teacher/teaching artist will assess the students’ learning by:
Students will be assessed through a rubric based on correct representation of both prepositional phrases as well as the use of movement and space within their abstract art piece.
STANDARDS & PRINCIPLES
Please list the competency from the following:
State Content Standards: MS 4a7, 4c4, 4c5; CCSS L.4.1e
Arts Standards:Visual Arts 1, 2d, 2f, 4a
Principles of Universal Design for Learning: 1.1, 1.3, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 3.1, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 7.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

2/4/13