SpaceTime Cat: Response to Katie's Response

"Great overview of the chapter! I'm curious to know what strategies do you think you would use in your own classroom and why?"

Thank you for the awesome question!

I think I would like to modify the Lectio Defina exercise. Christopher Uhl modifies it to be used in a group setting with a focused group of older students. I would use it for my oldest students - fifth graders. I would have the students choose a print or postcard of an artwork that "speaks" to them. I then would ask them to answer the following questions in writing, by themselves, to quietly hear themselves think:

1.If a crowd of people walked into an art museum and saw this artwork, what would they say the artwork is about?
2. Does this artwork remind you of an experience you have had in your own life?
3. If you had a question for the artist, what would it be?
4. If you could go into this artwork, what would you do?

I might use copies of allegorical work from a specific time period, to get the students thinking about metaphor in art. For example --