8th Grade:

Art and American Experience

Program Lesson Overviews

National Visual Arts

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8-1 Roy Lichtenstein

Genre: Pop Art
Project Medium: Colored Marker
Length: 60 minutes
Integration: Language Arts
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8-2 Flo Oy Wong

Genre: Mixed media
Project Medium: Mixed Media and Fabric
Length: 90 minutes
Integration: Language Arts
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8-3 Edward Hopper

Genre: American Realism
Project Medium: Watercolor
Length: 75 minutes
Integration: Music
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8-4 Dorothea Lange

Genre: Photography
Project Medium: Graphite
Length: 45-60 minutes
Integration: Language Arts
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8-5 George Caleb Bingham

Genre: Luminism
Project Medium: Watercolor
Length: 60 minutes
Integration: Language Arts
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8-6 Mimbres Pottery

Genre: Pottery
Project Medium: Clay
Length: 90 minutes
Integration: Social Studies
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8-7 Grant Wood

Genre: American Painting
Project Medium: Soft Chalk Pastel
Length: 45-60 minutes
Integration: Language Arts
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8-8 Robert Rauschenberg

Genre: Abstract
Project Medium: Tempera Paint and Oil Pastel
Length: 60-75 minutes
Integration: Music
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8-9 Thomas Hart Benton

Genre: Realism
Project Medium: Watercolor and Oil Pastel
Length: 60-75 minutes
Integration: Music
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8-10 Judy Chicago

Genre: Mixed Media Art
Project Medium: Mixed Media
Length: 60 minutes
Integration: Social Studies
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8-11 George Segal

Genre: Pop Art
Project Medium: Joint Compound and Foil
Length: 60 minutes
Integration: Social Studies
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8-12 Frank Stella

Genre: Minimalist
Project Medium: Tempera Paint
Length: 60 minutes
Integration: Math
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L-13 Ruth Asawa

Genre: American Sculpture
Project Medium: Wire (not included in ARTbox or Papers Plus)
Length: 60 minutes
Integration: Social Studies
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