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Unit 4
My Community
141a
Key Vocabulary
cityscape
objects
drawing
perspective
Functions and Forms
Q
Comparing and contrasting elements of art
McMahon’s cityscape has more details than
mine does.
Q
Identifying art forms
This painting is a cityscape of Chicago.
English Language Development Skills
Listening
+
Respond to questions with appropriate
elaboration.
Speaking
+
Use clear and specific vocabulary to communicate
ideas and establish tone.
Reading
+
Extract appropriate and significant information
from the text, including problems and solutions.
+
Demonstrate knowledge of levels of specificity
among grade-appropriate words and explain the
importance of these relations.
Writing
+
Write descriptions that use concrete sensory
details to present and support unified impressions
of people, places, things, or experiences.
Materials
Community
Photo Cards
Blackline Masters 2a and 2b
Frontload Vocabular y
ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Use the
Community
Photo Cards that show place wherever possible to
elicit the key vocabulary words. Read the key words aloud. Have the class
chorally read them. Then, have students write the words five times each.
Note:
The phonics activities on the back of each photo card may be used
to supplement instruction.
Drawing a Cityscape
READING COMPREHENSION
Student Book page 141: Read the passage aloud, pointing out the key words
as you come across them in the text. Read the directions with the class.
Check that students understand each task. Then, have students complete the
activities.
Lesson 14
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Have the class describe
McMahon’s cityscape.
Ask them to use
details about his use of
perspective. Then, ask
students to describe
their own cityscape and
the perspective that
they used to create the
illusion of distance.
Have students work
independently to
describe details in
McMahon’s cityscape.
Ask them to consider
how he used
perspective to create
an illusion of distance.
Then, ask students to
notice details in their
work and how they
used perspective to
create the illusion of
distance.
Have students work
in pairs to describe
McMahon’s cityscape.
Ask them to use
details about his use of
perspective. Then, ask
students to describe
their work to their
partner and discuss the
perspective they used
to create the illusion of
distance.
Beginning
Intermediate
Advanced
Targeting Proficiency Levels
Meeting Individual Needs
You may assist students experiencing difficulties with the fine motor skills
necessary to draw a cityscape for this assignment by allowing them to use
the photo from the Student Book as the basis for their compare-and-contrast
paragraph.