• Language Arts
• Economics
• Art
• Music
• Dance

• Love is blind.
• Compare fantasy and reality.

Enduring Understanding:

• People create art to serve specific useful purposes.
• People create art to adorn themselves and their surroundings.

Essential Questions: How can I use yarn to create a weaving?

Performance Indicators:

Background information: As a continuing look at the Renaissance art though Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream students will discuss the character of Nick Bottom. At this performance, Nick Bottom is filling in for Charlie in a book by Tomie dePaola. Nick produces a cloak using the artisan method. An Artisan is a person who produces a product from start to finish.

Instructional Outcomes:
Maryland State Department of Education’s Essential Learner Outcomes for Visual Art

Aesthetic/Perceptual: Students will use yarn to produce a weaving.

Historical/Cultural: Students will show knowledge the history of weaving.

Productive/Creative: Students will create with yarn.

Critical/Evaluative: Students will use the above objectives to evaluate their work.

Objectives:

• Students will create a loom using tag board and yarn.
• Students will create a weaving using yarn.
• Students will identify economic resources (natural, capital, and human) in the production process.

Vocabulary:

Shear, card, spin, weave sew, and cloak, economics, natural resources, human resources, capital resources.

Materials and Visual Resources

• Tomie dePaola’s book Charlie Need a Cloak
• Tag Board
• Rulers
• Pencil, Yarn
• Leonardo & His Times, Dorling Kindersley, Eyewitness Books
• Renaissance People, Sarah Howarth
• Renaissance Places, Sarah Howarth
• Shakespeare for Kids His Life and Times, Colleen Aagesen and Margie Blumberg
• Tales From Shakespeare, Seven Plays presented by Marcia Williams

Instructional Strategy/Procedures

Pre-assessment:

Have students created weavings before? Have students had experience with economics?

Procedure:

• Students will bow in the style of the Renaissance dance
• Students will listen to part of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Kids by Lois Burdett.
• Show examples of weaving.
• Demonstrate how to create a loom.
• Have students walk as if they are the weft around other students who are the warp to the Three Renaissance Dances by the Monumental Brass Quintet.
• Have students create a Loom and weaving.

Formative assessment:

• Are students creating a loom?
• Are students able to weave over and under?
• Summative assessment:
• Did Students create a loom?
• Did students create a weaving?
• Can students retell parts of the story?

Summarizer (Evaluation) Closure:

• Students may create more than one weavings.
• Students will summarize the lesson.