Common Core Initiative
How is Chinese painting unique?
In this unit students access prior knowledge regarding colors and expressing likes and dislikes. They identify and describe Chinese painting and calligraphy. They use traditional Chinese tools and techniques to create an original Chinese painting. They exchange information about what they want to paint, what colors they use, what tools they use and how the painting makes them feel. Students continue to develop recognition of characters within the context of Chinese painting and calligraphy as well as explore pinyin, radicals, and writing characters. As a result of this unit, students gain an awareness of and appreciation for traditional Chinese art.
1. What are the Four Gentlemen of Chinese painting?
2. What are the Four Treasures of Chinese painting?
3. What do Chinese artists traditionally paint?
4. What is calligraphy?
5. How does Chinese painting make me feel?
1. Review colors from Kindergarten, Unit 2 and expressing likes and dislikes from First Grade, Unit 6 and Fourth Grade, Unit 4.
2. Identify and describe Chinese painting and calligraphy.
中国画, 书法, 文房四宝, 人物画, 山水画, 花鸟画, 四君子,梅, 兰, 竹, 菊, 笔, 墨, 纸, 砚, 高兴,难过,放松,兴奋
zhōnɡ ɡuó huà , shū fǎ , wén fánɡ sì bǎo , rén wù huà , shān shuǐ huà , huā niǎo huà , sì jūn zǐ , méi , lán , zhú , jú , bǐ , mò , zhǐ , yàn,ɡāo xìnɡ , nán ɡuò , fànɡ sōnɡ , xīnɡ fèn
中国画有人物画,山水画和花鸟画。
Zhōng guó huà yǒu rén wù huà, shān shuǐ huà hé huā niǎo huà.
3. Ask and answer questions about painting and calligraphy:
Nǐ yào huà shén me ?你 要 画 什 么 ?
Wǒ yào huà ________ 。我 要 画 ________ 。这是我的中国画,我画了 _________( 山水, 人物,花鸟), 我用了( 颜色 ) , 我用了 (工具) , 我(不)喜欢我的画,因为我觉得____(感觉)。Zhè shì wǒ de zhōnɡ ɡuó huà , wǒ huà le _________ ( shān shuǐ , rén wù , huā niǎo ), wǒ yònɡ le______ ( yán sè ) , wǒ yònɡ le______ ( ɡōnɡ jù ) , wǒ ( bú ) xǐ huɑn wǒ de huà ,yīn wèi wǒ jué dé ____( ɡǎn jué ) 。
4. Identify characters: 梅,兰,竹,菊,笔
5. Introduced but not assessed:
6. Ongoing review of pinyin and strokes.
Sample Performance Assessments:
1. Assess students' current level vocabulary related to this unit of study (oral language).2. Given the characters with pinyin for painting and calligraphy terms, students match the characters/pinyin with the corresponding pictures/English words. (1.2.N.R.a)
3. Students create a Chinese painting project. They then orally make a presentation to the class telling what they painted, what tools they used, what colors they used and how their painting makes them feel. (1.1.N.SL.j, 1.3.N.S.b, 2.2.N.F.b)
4. Students orally survey three classmates for what they want to paint and orally present their findings to the class.(1.1.N.SL.b, 1.3.N.S.b)
5. Given a paper with the characters for the Four Gentlemen, students number them according to the the teacher's oral instructions, e.g., #1, 兰. (1.2.N.L.a, 1.2.N.R.a)
Identify
Describe
Recommended (not required) Instructional Resources:
Teachers Resources:
1. Four Treasures: Inkstick and Inkstone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPgN4ectOf8
2. Four Treasures: Painting Brushes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-htyFTYKf7g
3. Four Treasures: Xuan Paper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eCZsGSmKMs
4. Chinese Calligraphy Demonstration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM4BuhTFxho
5. Chinese Calligraphy: History and Development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO4xurhLIEw
6. Animated Chinese Painting - Landscape, Animals, Figures, Flower & Birds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4mlYGAZgZs
7. Learn How To Write Chinese Calligraphy : Numbers 1-6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTYIDS6rb8k
8. Bamboo and Bird - Chinese Brush Painting by Virginia Lloyd-Davies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr6HEm_kkPM
9. Panda Bears - How to Paint Animals in Sumi and Watercolor Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLQ0LKa0thY
10. Animated Chinese Painting - Kungfu Martial Arts Panda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T-eAgs17No
11. Animated Chinese Painting Cartoon LU LING, part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzWSVlu4Tvw
12. Animated Chinese Painting Cartoon LU LING, part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hmROFYoAx8
13. Animated Chinese Painting Cartoon LU LING, part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxQdnmAL38
14. Animated Chinese Painting Cartoon Little Tadpole looking for Mom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RCgNbfNTEs
15. Chinese Treasure Chest, Volume 2, Page 345-348
16. Free Chinese Calligraphy Models for Beginners & Non-Chinese
http://www.art-virtue.com/models/