Art and Literacy > Journey

All three 6TH grade classrooms were reading stories around the theme of immigration, migration and refugee’s journey.
Students interpreted and analyzed the artwork Cabin in the Cotton by Horrace Pippen’s, The Herring Net by Winslow Homer, Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz, The Train Station by Walter Ellison, Love of Winter by George Bellows, and Venetian Glass Workers by John Singer Sarget, to explore how artists communicated the theme journey.
It was decided that each classroom would do a different section of an immigrates journey, The 3 sections would be;
Why Journey? The Journey’s Travel, and Journey’s end, Conflicts
Each student would create a symbol that represented a part of a journey.
This exact symbol image would then be created in 4 different medias.
Each class would then display all artwork grids.
The tooling metal grid was then digitally photographed and uploaded into computer.
Students than video interviewed 30 people who immigrated to America.
When you clicked computer screen on grid image, video would come up with interviewees telling that part of their story of coming to America.
Unfortunately this site is no longer up.
Special thanks needs to go out to Chicago Goudy schoolteachers, Ms. Le, Ms. Lopez, Ms. Parks, and computer specialist Ms. Filip