Classroom Resource

Rhythm and Repetition

Subject Area

English Language Arts
Arts Education

Grade(s)

2

Overview

Students will identify repetition in works of art.  They will write a poem using repetition.  They will create a border using a repetitive pattern.  Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.  

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.32

Identify rhyme schemes in poems or songs.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.32

Vocabulary

  • Rhyme schemes
  • Poems
  • Songs

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Rhyme schemes are patterns of sound that repeat at the end of a line or stanza in a poem or song.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify rhyming words in poems or songs.
  • Identify the pattern of sounds that repeat at the end of a line or stanza in poems or songs.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Rhyming words have the same vowel and ending sound.
  • Poems and songs often have a pattern of rhyming words, called a rhyme scheme.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.42

Write an opinion piece about a topic or text with details to support the opinion, using transitional words and providing a sense of closure.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.42

Vocabulary

  • Opinion
  • Topic
  • Text
  • Details
  • Transitional words
  • Closure

Knowledge

Students know:
  • An opinion piece is a writing that provides an opinion about a topic or text and provides reasons for the opinion.
  • Opinion pieces often include transitional words.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Write an opinion piece about a topic or text using details to support the opinion, transitional words, and a concluding statement.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Opinion writing follows a predictable structure which includes, stating the opinion, providing details to support the opinion, and ends with a conclusion.
  • Opinion pieces often include transitional words.
  • Opinion writing can be used to explain their opinions and the reasons they have the opinion.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.2.2

Explore personal interests and curiosities with a range of art materials.

Unpacked Content

UP:AE17.VA.2.2

Vocabulary

  • Principles of design
    • Balance
  • Brainstorming
  • Composition
  • Concepts
  • Characteristic
  • Elements of art
    • Space
    • Value
  • Expressive properties
  • Foreground
  • Middle ground
  • Neutral colors
  • Resist

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
EQ: How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?

Skills Examples

  • Create two-dimensional artworks such as drawing or painting by using a variety of media.
  • Use the book, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L.
    • Blood & Martin Link to learn about weaving.
  • Use clay or pipe cleaners to create small animal sculptures.
  • Work in groups to brainstorm ideas for a collaborative art project.
  • Use a book about clay, When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor to study Native Americans and their traditions.
  • Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle to explore collage techniques.
  • Create a real or imagined home using two-and-three-dimensional media.
  • Learn how to properly use and store brushes, close glue bottles and marker tops.
  • Use found objects such as leaves, rocks, paper tubes, egg cartons, etc.
    • to create artworks.
  • Use the book A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch to explore different colors and values.
  • Create a landscape showing depth by placing the foreground, middle ground and background in their correct positions.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.2.3

Extend skills by individually following sequential steps to create works of art on subjects that are real or imaginary.

Unpacked Content

UP:AE17.VA.2.3

Vocabulary

  • Principles of design
    • Balance
  • Brainstorming
  • Composition
  • Concepts
  • Characteristic
  • Elements of art
    • Space
    • Value
  • Expressive properties
  • Foreground
  • Middle ground
  • Neutral colors
  • Resist

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

Skills Examples

  • Create two-dimensional artworks such as drawing or painting by using a variety of media.
  • Use the book, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L.
    • Blood & Martin Link to learn about weaving.
  • Use clay or pipe cleaners to create small animal sculptures.
  • Work in groups to brainstorm ideas for a collaborative art project.
  • Use a book about clay, When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor to study Native Americans and their traditions.
  • Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle to explore collage techniques.
  • Create a real or imagined home using two-and-three-dimensional media.
  • Learn how to properly use and store brushes, close glue bottles and marker tops.
  • Use found objects such as leaves, rocks, paper tubes, egg cartons, etc.
    • to create artworks.
  • Use the book A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch to explore different colors and values.
  • Create a landscape showing depth by placing the foreground, middle ground and background in their correct positions.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Link to Resource
http://artsedwashington.org/curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Second-Grade-…

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