San Diego Jewish Academy
10th Grade Humanities
Art With a Voice Feature Article


Essential Ingredients of Article:

  • Works cited and citations for each quote
  • Title to capture our interest
  • Byline
  • Birth and death dates of artist
  • Artistic movement with which your artist identifies (Romantic, Realist, Impressionist, Victorian)
  • Examples of art created by the artist which demonstrate the traits of the artistic movement
  • Picture of artist
  • Brief biographical sketch of artist
  • (optional) Appropriately incorporate five words from the vocabulary lists of 2-05 to 2-26.
  • Discussion of how artist represents traits of the movement with which he/she identifies (this is the focus of the article)


Format of Article:

  • One 8" x 11" page only
  • Magazine-style feature article including:
    • Title
    • Byline
    • Picture(s)
    • Text in columns
    • Pull-out quote emphasizing point of interest
    • Drop-cap


Due Dates:

4-26 - Artist name, life dates, artistic movement, representational art pieces, works cited

4-30 - Completed draft of article text

4-30 - Revision and editing of draft

- Production of article in Adobe InDesign

5-3 - Final article due for sharing and assessment


19th Century Artists to Consider:

Emily Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Mary Shelley

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Beethoven

Chopin

Eugene Delacroix

Caspar Friedrich

Charles Dickens

Schumann

Mendelssohn

Jules Verne

Gustave Couret

Karl Marx

Honore Daumier

Henry James

Jane Austen

Gustave Flaubert

George Sand

Rudyard Kipling

Leo Tolstoy

Degas

Monet

Renoir

(or other artist of the 19th century)


Art With a Voice Feature Article Rubric

You have synthesized the essential ingredients

completely

mostly

somewhat

One 8 _ x 11" page only

Title capturing interest

Byline

Picture(s) of artist and art with captions

Text arranged in columns

Pull-out quote

Drop-cap

Citation format and Works Cited

Biographical information including dates and influences

Incorporated five words from the vocabulary lists of 2-05 to 2-26.

Focus on a discussion of how artist represents traits of the movement with which he/she identifies

your overall performance /50


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