Artists of War and Exile
In this activity, students will present the work of an artist or writer impacted by war or exile.
WAR & ACTIVISM LESSON 2:
PRESENTATION
1-2 class periods (60-120 min) + visual assignment
VIDEO:
A Culture of War Video and Transcript (as needed)
HANDOUTS:
Unit Research
Handout 3 (as needed)
Handout 4 (as needed)
Art & Literature Unit Research (as needed)
WORKSHEET:
TEACHING PLAN:
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History
Subject Matter > Music
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
Themes > Immigration/Migration
Themes > Politics and Citizenship
Themes > War and Foreign Policy
World > The Modern World
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Biography
Genre > Drama
Genre > Essay
Genre > Novels
Genre > Poetry
Genre > Short Stories
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Gathering, classifying and interpreting written, oral, and visual information
- Historical analysis
- Internet skills
- Interpretation
- Literary analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Media analysis
- Musical analysis
- Online research
- Oral presentation skills
- Poetry analysis
- Report writing
- Representing ideas and information orally, graphically, and in writing
- Research
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Technology
- Textual analysis
- Using primary sources
- Using secondary sources
- Visual art analysis
- Visual presentation skills
- Writing skills
- ELA Reading: 1, 7
- ELA Writing: 2, 4, 6-7, 9-10
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2, 4-6
- HSS Reading: 1, 7, 9-10
- HSS Writing: 2, 4, 6-7, 9-10
LESSON 2 HANDOUTS
- Coordinate presentations as part of a class initiative to raise awareness of a specific war, armed conflict, or human rights abuse (see Class Action Activity), with individual students highlighting different artists or writers impacted by this conflict.
- Allow additional time for peer review, editing, and revision of presentations, or for students to critique the visual arrangement, style, and impact of their finished works.
- Assign a longer essay or response paper in place of the short reflection, asking students to research their artist or writer’s experiences of war or exile in