Learning Objectives

1. SWBAT illustrate their bedroom in their medium of choice.
2. SWBAT use color to show mood.
3. SWBAT write a statement about what they were trying to say in their piece. 
4. SWBAT recognize and discuss various artists' interpretations of bedrooms (both "famous" and their classmates)

Essential Questions:

How do you define yourself? How can a bedroom tell about who you are? How can one use the elements, particularly color, to indicate a mood?

Materials:

posters of artists' renderings of bedrooms, images of bedrooms from around the world (4 by 6 notecards, variety of media

Activities:

Begin with a discussion about what students have in their bedrooms...What various bedrooms are traditionally like...Then turn to a discussion of various artists' renderings of bedrooms.  What mood is conveyed?  How did they do that?...

Students draw in their journals rough compositions of their bedroom, realistic or abstracted...their own interpretation, that conveys a mood about themselves. Then, they pick their most successful piece and make a final piece to a 4 by 6 card,  paying attention to the mood and composition.

Mount the cards in a grid on the wall, bringing all the students work into one large work.

Students will write an artists' statement about the mood of the piece and what they were trying to say about themselves.

Assessment:

rubric including effort, sketch journal requirement, use of medium, composition, conveyance of mood, artist statement

Introductory Question:

How can a bedroom tell about who you are?  If I were to be plunked down in your bedroom right now, what would I find?  And what does that say about who you are?

What is more personal of a space than a bedroom?  A bedroom says a lot about an individual.  The students will wrestle with defining themselves through the use of design principles.