The students were placed in four different groups. Each group was given one marker colour. Each group started out with a 18 x 24" sheet that had one of the following quotes on it from Picasso (all new from when we did this last year):
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels, what he tells himself about, what he has seen."
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." (Think about our visual journal work here!)
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
The students had to analyze as a group what they thought Picasso was implying in his quotes. When time was up, each quote was moved to a different group and the students could then comment on the original quote or the thoughts that the other members had written down. By building upon what the others had written, they could follow the trail of thought that their classmates left for them, while pondering the original quote in their own way. Here is the result:
We then had a great discussion as a group as to the meaning of these quotes and their implication in our society. We also focussed on the importance of implicit vs explicit questioning on the upcoming literacy test. This was one of the most fun and interactive classes we have had this term. Way to go 9s and10s!
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