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Unit 5 - How We Express Ourselves

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Central Idea: Personal experiences provide inspiration for an artist to create Lines of Inquiry:   Key concepts: perspective, form, causation Perspective: Sharing personal experiences Form: Art and inspirations Causation: How experiences affect creations Related concepts: values, similarities, impact Learner profile: communicators, open-minded, risk-takers Approaches to Learning: thinking skills, communication skills This unit we learned about art forms, and the connection between artists experiences and their art works. We worked hard developing our communication and thinking skills, and making connections between our own life and our art.   We created characters and wrote our own scripts for our end of year performance, creating props and costumes.   English In English we continued working on our narrative writing, looking at artworks for inspiration.   We also worked on our persuasive writing by preparing for weekly debates.   Grade 3 was very excited to debate each other, a