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Lesson: Students will 1) become familiar with Wong’s artistic style and recognize how an artist can have many influences and sources of inspiration; 2) use compare-contrast skills in discussing artwork from different cultural contexts; and 3) practice online research skills, presentation skills, and working in groups.

Students will practice close looking and writing skills through crafting poems inspired by Chiura Obata’s natural landscapes.

Activity: In the following activity, you will make your own orihon to use as a journal. What stories might you record in it?

Lesson: Students will 1) understand how Wong was viewed by her community as a rebel in her choice of career and in her artistic style; 2) practice using compare/contrast skills to identify the hallmarks of art from the Qing and Song dynasties, to understand how Wong’s work was initially judged; and 3) hone discussion skills through the use of Project Zero’s Artful Thinking Routines.

Students use visual evidence to convey character by constructing a visual identity for their shadow puppet, and demonstrate principles of shadow-casting and puppet-making by performing their shadow play.

Asian Art Museum storyteller, Liz Nichols, tells a Japanese story about a boy who was only one inch tall.

Watch a Lunar New Year story about a beast named Nian.

Carlos Villa Biography and Lesson Plans

Biography and lesson plans