Mark Rothko Lesson Plans

1. It's in the Cards
...nline at http://www.nytimes.com/ learning/teachers/featured_articles/20070504friday.html (one per student) -access to images of Study From Innocent X (1962) by Francis Bacon, Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) (1963) by Andy Warhol, and White Center (Yellow, Pink, and Lavender on Rose) (1950) by Mark Rothko -pieces of card stock (one per student) -resources about modern art movements such as: Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, German Expressionism, Russian Constructivism, De Stijl, New Objectivity, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Impressionism, Art Deco, Minimalism and Pop Art (art history books, reference books...

2. A Way with Words
...don't the noises of each frog species interfere with each other? f. How long does it take for a bullfrog tadpole to mature? g. How does Joe Roman, the author of the article, describe his surroundings at the pond? h. What does it mean for Mr. Roman to compare the "peepers' upslurs" to a painting by Mark Rothko? i. Why are "spring breeders ... always frantic"? j. How big are spring peepers? k. How does Mr. Roman describe the sounds made by a peeper? l. Why are these sounds hard work for the male spring peepers? m. How do female peepers decide which male to take as a mate? n. How is the noise made by a nort...

3. Global Citizen 2000 - Visual Arts
...rench Revolution and the Oath of the Horatii by Jacques Louis David IV. The Horrors of War 5. World War I and Fountain by Marcel Duchamp 6. The Spanish Civil War and Pablo Picasso's Guernica V. Art That Heals 7. The Great Migration and Jacob Lawrence's The Migration of the Negro 8. World War II and Mark Rothko's Untitled VI. Commemoration: Public Art and the Collective Memory 9. The Vietnam War and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin VII. Conclusion: Student Projects + This study culminates with a student project to be created in response to the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, which students...

4. Coming To Our Senses
...to find out in what ways the human genome project may be able to address the problems of lost sight, hearing, or other senses among disabled people. Write a report describing what you learn. Fine Arts-Look at an abstract work of art (such as that of Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, or Mark Rothko). Read a review of this particular work, then write one of your own. Finally, write another review of the work, this time trying to see it the way that a synesthete might, trying to describe it from his or her point of view. Through a painting or another work of art, see if you can describe the expe...

5. Get Surreal
...and allow each pair to select a different artist mentioned in the article. Alternatively, print out the following list of some of the artists mentioned in the article, cut names into strips and fold over, and allow pairs to blindly pick a strip of paper. Roberto Matta Arshile Gorky Jackson Pollock Mark Rothko Robert Motherwell Pavel Tchelitchew Ivan Albright Vera Berdich Charles Howard Joseph Cornell Isamu Noguchi Marcel Duchamp Salvador Dali Joan Miro De Chirico Helen Lundberg Kurt Seligmann Charles Seliger Federico Castellon Charles Rain Yves Tanguy Andr Masson Max Ernst Explain to students that their...