Illustration Curriculum Integration:
 English 1-4

 Concepts 
NC Course of Study Objectives: 21st Century Skills:
  • Principles of Design
    		• 3.01, 3.02 B.1, B.2
  • Images that tell the story
    		• 1.04, 4.03 B.2, C.5
  • Cooperating with Text - Writing Caption
    		• 4.05 B.2, B.3
  • Graphic Novels
    		• 4.04, 7.04 B.3
  • Making the Unreal Real - Dreams, Fantasy, and SciFi
    		• 5.03, 5.04 B.2, B.4

    An illustrator imagines how the impact would look Did Coca Cola's illustrators 'invent' Santa?



     Skills 


     Artists 

    • Dr. Suess - 1904-1991 - Children's book author and illustrator

      Sam I Am from 'Green Eggs and Ham' 'Horton Hears a Who' 'The Cat in the Hat'

      Dr. Seuss also drew political cartoons during World War II

    • Salvador Dali - 1904-1989 - Perhaps the most famous Surrealist painter

      'The Face of War' - the illustrator makes a statement through artwork



     Words We'll Use 

    • Caption: The words printed with an illustration to clarify the meaning or identify elements.

    • Content: In visual arts, the meaning of an image, beyond its overt subject matter, including the emotional, intellectual, symbolic, thematic, and narrative connotations.

    • Criticism: The art, process, or principles used to analyze and judge literary or artistic works.

    • Graphic novel: A currently popular artform that uses many of the features of comic books but strives for a more literary outcome.

    • Image: A physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, or sculptured; a thought from the imagination made visible.

    • Imagery: Mental images.

    • Intuitive: Perceived immediately by the mind, instinctive knowledge or feeling.




    • Simple illustrations for simple concepts

    • Evaluate illustrations in textbooks and other sources

    • Writing captions

     Projects 
    • Ink and watercolors - Graphic Novels

    • Mixed media - Illustration from a work of literature or a children's story



     Keeping Busy 

    • Onomatopoeia - the word is the illustration



     Enrichment 

    • Picture This! by Molly Bang

    • Pictionary

    • The Human Footprint

    • Pen & Teller on LINE

    • World Music - Wicked Witch Video

    • Children's book collection of BCurrin



     Homework/Makeup Work 

    • Illustrate a famous children's fairytale. At least four illustrations, with captions.

    • See also - General Homework options on the Homework page.