Mr. tiger goes wild teacher companion digital art

1. Digital Art Lesson Plan:
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
Amy Zschaber
Stanislaus County Office of Education
azschaber@stancoe.org

2. Question: Do you think shapes can tell a
story? Why/why not?

3. Can you spot the shapes in this story?
Three Musicians
Pablo Picasso
1921

4. Can you spot the shapes in this story?
Three Musicians
Pablo Picasso
1921
Art tells stories
with shapes.
Some books use
only words to tell
stories.
Some books use
words and shapes
to tell stories.

5. Read: Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown
• Read aloud: https://youtu.be/gh0RzikLtx4

6. What shapes do you see in the pictures?

7. Who is the main character in Mr. Tiger
Goes Wild?

8. What does Mr. Tiger do?

9. What do the animals think of how Mr. Tiger
acts?

10. Where
does Mr.
Tiger
go?

11. What do the animals do after Mr. Tiger
goes into the jungle? How does the story
end?

13. Henri Rousseau
• This is Henri Rousseau.
• What is Rousseau
doing?
• Does Rousseau live
today or long ago?
• Where is Rousseau?
• Why was this picture of
Rousseau made?

14. Henri Rousseau
• This is Henri Rousseau.
• Rousseau lived 1844-1910
• Rousseau is an artist.
• Rousseau is French.
• Rousseau did not begin
making art until he was
very old. He retired from
his job, and taught himself
how to paint.

15. Rousseau loved painting jungles
• Rousseau never
left France.
• There was little
photography in
Rousseau’s time.
• How do you think
Rousseau knew
what jungles look
like?

16. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

17. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

18. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

19. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

20. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

21. Same / Different?
Illustration from Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
by: John Brown
Tiger in a Tropical Storm
by: Henri Rousseau

22. Same / Different?
Illustration from Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
by: John Brown
Jungle with Tiger
by: Henri Rousseau

23. Do you think Peter Brown was inspired by
Henri Rousseau? Why / Why not?

24. Let’s make digital art inspired by Mr.
Tiger Goes Wild & Henri Rousseau