Chinese Grade 4 Art Lessons - Unit 1

Class:________________ No.:______ Name:________________ Unit 1 Claude Monet Claude Monet was born in _____________. He loved to ______ when he was a child. At the age of ____________, he entered __________ ___________. His father was a ____________ and his mother was a __________. His mom suppo...

Class:________________ No.:______ Name:________________ Unit 1 Claude Monet Claude Monet was born in _____________. He loved to ______ when he was a child. At the age of ____________, he entered __________ ___________. His father was a ____________ and his mother was a __________. His mom supported him to become an ___________, but his dad wanted him to take over the ____________ ____________. Monet was not happy with the __________ style and created a ____________style called ________________. He loved to paint _______________with________ ___________. He was famous for his___________ _____________, ____________ ___________, and ____________. 1 Class:___________ No.:______ Name:__________________  Target words: 1. enter:______________________________________________ 2. support:____________________________________________ 3. take over: __________________________________________ 4. business: ___________________________________________ 5. traditional: _________________________________________ 6. haystack:___________________________________________ 7. cathedral:__________________________________________ 8. series:_____________________________________________  Answer the questions according to page 16. 1. Where was Monet born? ____________________________________________________ 2. What did he love to do when he was a child? ____________________________________________________ 2 3. What did he do when he was ten years old? ____________________________________________________ 4. What did Monet’s dad want him to do? ____________________________________________________ Homework __________ Due date___________  Circle the correct answers. 1. Monet loved to use (watercolor paints/oil paints) to paint (indoors/outdoors). 2. Monet was born in (Germany/France). 3. Monet called the new style (Cubism/Impressionism). 4. Monet’s dad didn’t support him to become an artist because he wanted his son to take over the (family business/family house). 6. Among Monet’s famous series, which series is your favorite? Why? ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 3 Class:______________ No.:______ Name:________________ 1.1 Monet’s Famous Paintings 1. Rouen Cathedral The paintings in this series capture the ___________ of the cathedral at different times. There are more than ___________ paintings in this series. Monet lived in the room __________ _________ the Rouen Cathedral to paint the view of its façade. Target words: 1. capture:____________________________________________ 2. cathedral:__________________________________________ 3. façade: ____________________________________________ 4 2. Haystacks Monet painted the ____________ in different ___________. There are _____________ paintings in this series. 3. Water Lilies This series includes the paintings of the __________ in different ____________. The pond is near Monet’s pink and green house in Giverny, France. Most of the Water Lily paintings are __________.  Target words 1. include: ___________________________________________ 2. huge:_____________________________________________ 5 1.2 Impressionism It began in __________when a group of young and __________ artists decided to create a new style of painting. Impressionists painted ___________and __________. They wanted to capture a moment in time and the _________ before it changed. They cared about the __________and the _________ of the moment more than the ____________ of objects. Sometimes they finished their paintings later from their _________.  Target words: 1. talented:___________________________________________ 2. decide: ____________________________________________ 3. moment:____________________________________________ 4. in time: ____________________________________________ 5. memory: ___________________________________________  Make a sentence using decide to V. ___________________________________________________  Highlight all the past tense verbs in the articles about Monet. 6 Class:___________ No.:______ Name:__________________ Homework ________ Due Date___________  Circle the correct answers. 1. There are more than (one hundred/ thirty) paintings in the Rouen Cathedral series. 2. Monet lived in rooms (next to/ across from) the Rouen Cathedral so he could capture its (back/facade) at (different/the same) times. 3. Monet painted the haystacks in (different/the same) seasons. 4. There are (fifty/twenty-five) paintings in the Haystacks series. 5. The paintings in the Water Lily series are the paintings of the (river/pond). 6. Most of the Water Lily paintings are (huge/small). 7. Impressionism (begins/began) in (Germany/France) when a group of (old/young) artists (decide/decided) to create (a new/ an old) style of painting. 8. Impressionists cared about the (light/details) of the moment more than the (color/details) of objects. 9. Sometimes Impressionists finished their paintings later from their (photos/memory). 7 Class:_________ No.:______ Name:____________ Review 1  Target words (Please review the spelling.) 1. enter 2. support 3. take over 4. business 5. traditional 6. haystack 7. cathedral 8. series 9. capture 10. memory 11. huge 12. talented 13. decide 14. moment 15. in time  Make a sentence using the word(s) above or Write a sentence with the word(s) above from the reading. 1. __________________________________________________________ 2. _________________________________________________________ 3. _________________________________________________________ 4. _________________________________________________________ 5. _________________________________________________________  Complete the sentences in past simple tense. 1. Monet ____________ (live) in the room across from the Rouen Cathedral so he ___________ (can) capture its facade at different times. 2. Monet _____________ (paint) the haystacks in different seasons. 3. Sometimes Impressionists ___________ (finish) their paintings later from their memory. 8 Unit 2 Edgar Degas Edgar Degas grew up in ____________, ____________. His mom was an ____________ ____________and his dad was a ____________. His parents were ____________ so he could go to good schools. His dad loved art, but he knew it was a hard way to make a living. He wanted Degas to become a ___________. Degas entered ____________school, but eventually his dad supported him to become an ____________. Degas was an _________________ but he didn’t like to paint ______________. He loved to paint the ____________ practicing before a show. He wanted to capture their ___________and __________. He created more than ________ pictures of them. 9 Class:________ No.:_____ Name:______________  Target words: 1. banker:_____________________________________________ 2. opera: _____________________________________________ 3. wealthy: ___________________________________________ 4. lawyer: ____________________________________________ 5. make a living:________________________________________ 6. eventually: __________________7. initially: _______________ 8. grace: _____________________________________________  Answer the questions according to p.10. 1. Where did Degas grow up? ____________________________________________________ 2. Why didn’t Degas’s dad initially support him to become an artist? ____________________________________________________ 3. What did Degas love to paint? ____________________________________________________ 4. What did Degas want to capture while he was painting? ____________________________________________________ 5. How many paintings of ballerinas did he create? ____________________________________________________ 10 Class:_____________ No.:_____ Name:________________ Homework _____________ Due Date______________  Circle the correct answers. 1. Degas’s dad was a (farmer/banker) who loved (arty/sports). 2. His dad didn’t want him to become an artist because he knew it was (a hard/an easy) way to make a living. 3.(Eventually/Initially), Degas’s dad wanted him to become a lawyer but (eventually/initially) his dad (supports/supported) him to become (a lawyer/an artist). 4. Degas loved to paint (the nature/the ballerinas practicing). 5. He created more than (one thousand/one hundred) pictures of ballet dancers. Match the words with their definitions. 1. banker ˙a play with music 2. opera ˙a person who advises people about the law 3. lawyer ˙in the end 4. eventually ˙someone who works in banking 5. grace ˙elegance 6. initially ˙in the beginning 7. make a living ˙earn money 11 Class:_____________ No.:_____ Name:________________ 2.1 How Did Degas Learn to Paint? The Louvre Degas spent a lot of time at the ____________, a famous art museum in ______________. He copied many of the __________________. Initially Degas made _____________ paintings including portraits. Then he wanted to try a new style of art called _______________. He was different from many Impressionists. He only painted _____________. Target words: Degas’s early painting 1. masterpiece:_____________ 2. indoors: ________________  Answer the questions: 1. Where did Degas copy many of the masterpieces? ____________________________________________________ 2. How was Degas different from other Impressionists? ____________________________________________________ 12 Class: _____________ No.:_____ Name:________________ Homework ___________ Due Date_______________  Circle the correct answers. 1. Edgar Degas spent a lot of time at (the Metropolitan Museum of Art/the Louvre) copying the masterpieces. 2. Initially, Degas made (Impressionist/traditional) paintings. 3. Eventually, he became (an Impressionist/a Realist) because he wanted to try a new style of art. 4. His art was different from Monet’s art. He didn’t paint (in his studio/outdoors). 5. The Louvre Museum is in (Paris, France/Berlin, Germany). 6.Which of the following pictures is Degas’s early painting? 13 Class: _____________ No.:_____ Name:________________ 2.2 How Did Degas Paint Ballerinas? Degas tried to capture his scenes of ballerinas, like a ____________. He stood in the doorway of the dance studio to make ______________ of the ballerinas and put them together in his paintings when he went back to his _______________.  Target words: 1. sketch:____________________________________________ 2. studio: ____________________________________________  Answer the questions: 1. What did Degas try to capture? ____________________________________________________ 2. What did Degas do before he painted? ____________________________________________________ 3. Where did Degas finish the paintings of the ballerinas? ____________________________________________________ 14 Class: _____________ No.:_____ Name:________________ Homework ____________ Due Date_______________  Circle the correct answers. 1. Degas tried to capture the scenes of ballerinas, like a (camera, computer). 2. Degas (made many sketches/took many photos) before he painted. 3. Degas stood (in the center/in the doorway) of the dance studio to (paint/make sketches) of the ballerinas. 4. He put all his drawings together in his paintings when he went back to his (studio/dance studio). 5. A sketch is a (slow/quick) drawing. 6. A studio is a place where (an artist/a doctor) works. 7. Where did Edgar stand in the dance studio to make sketches? 15 ___________ No.:____ Name:____________________ 2.3 Project  Let’s make sketches of the ballerinas in the videos. 16 Class:______________ No.:_______ Name:________________ Review 2  Complete the sentences in past simple tense. 1. Edgar Degas __________________ (grow) up in France. 2. Degas’s mom ___________ (is) an opera singer and his dad __________ (is ) a banker. They _________ (are) wealthy. 3. Degas’s dad _____________(love) art, but he ___________(know) that it was a hard way to make a living. 4. Degas’s dad _____________(want) Degas to become a lawyer so Degas _____________(enter) law school. 5. Degas ____________(is) an Impressionist, but he ________ (does not) paint the nature. 6. Degas ________________(create) more than one-thousand pictures of ballerinas. 7. Degas _________(spend) a lot of time at the Louvre. He __________(copy) many of the masterpieces. Before he __________(become) an Impressionist, he ___________(make) traditional paintings. 8. Degas ___________(try) to capture the scenes of ballerinas, like a camera. He __________(stand) in the doorway of the dance studio 17  to make sketches of the ballerinas. Then he ____________(put) them together in his paintings when he _______________(go) back to his studio.  How many of the verbs are regular verbs? ____________  How many of the verbs are irregular verbs?____________  What are the differences and the similarities between Monet and Degas? 18