Anticipatory Set Strategies
Anticipatory sets are a way to capture students’ interest in the beginning of a lesson. Anticipatory sets should be exciting, active and peak students’ curiosity in a way that speaks to the developmental stage of the students.
Comic Cutout or Funny Quotes
Using a comic related to the given content area ia a great way to peak students interest at the beginning of a class period.
Here are a few funny ones that would work in the art classroom:
What do you get if you cross a painter with a boxer?- Mohammed Dali
Why was the art dealer in debt?- He didn't have any Monet
What did the artist say to the dentist?- Matisse hurt
Here are a few funny ones that would work in the art classroom:
What do you get if you cross a painter with a boxer?- Mohammed Dali
Why was the art dealer in debt?- He didn't have any Monet
What did the artist say to the dentist?- Matisse hurt
Start With a Video
Since media and technology is so evasive in our culture I think it is a good idea for teachers to use multi-media to aid in teaching their content. A great anticipatory set is to show a short 3-8 minute clip to get students interested and on track with what the lesson will be about that day.
Assembly Line
Doing something kinesthetic yet related to the content area gets students involved right away. The "assembly line" anticipatory set could be altered for the art classroom when discussing and debating the controversy of contemporary artists using mass production techniques to complete their large scale works.
Interest Inventory
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Demonstrate Your Knowledge
Based off of last weeks mini-lessons on the elements of art I developed 2 anticipatory sets for this week to help students to continue to dissect and understand the elements of art. For the first anticipatory set students are asked to give an example (a drawing without using words) of a randomly selected element of art. Students are then asked to exchange their papers with a partner and asked to improve their partners 'drawing' by drawing directly over their work or starting a new image on the same page. For the second anticipatory set students are shown a work of art on the screen and are asked to give one example of how their randomly selected element of art is used in the work. Students then share with their partner what they found.
Attached below is my anticipatory set developed specifically for the art classroom but can be adapted for other contexts.
Attached below is my anticipatory set developed specifically for the art classroom but can be adapted for other contexts.
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Food for Thought
A picture is worth a thousand words.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
-Oscar Wilde
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
-Albert Camus
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
-Aristotle
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
-Henry Miller
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh
A picture is a poem without words.
-Horace
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
-Twyla Tharp
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
-Hedy Lamarr
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
-Khalil Gibran
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-Oscar Wilde
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
-Henry David Thoreau
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
-Michelangelo
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
-Thomas Merton
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
-Charles Horton Cooley
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
-Oscar Wilde
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
-Gertrude Stein
Art is the proper task of life.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Napoleon Bonaparte
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
-Oscar Wilde
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
-Albert Camus
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
-Aristotle
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
-Henry Miller
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh
A picture is a poem without words.
-Horace
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
-Twyla Tharp
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
-Hedy Lamarr
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
-Khalil Gibran
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-Oscar Wilde
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
-Henry David Thoreau
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
-Michelangelo
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
-Thomas Merton
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
-Charles Horton Cooley
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
-Oscar Wilde
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
-Gertrude Stein
Art is the proper task of life.
-Friedrich Nietzsche