This lesson plan involves a two-day art project where students create self-portraits in the style of artist Chuck Close. On day one, students will take photos of themselves, enlarge the photos using a grid, and outline the portraits with markers. On day two, students will fill in the grid squares with shapes and colors to complete the portraits in Close's style. They will then present their portraits and write poems about themselves. The lesson aims to teach students about different cultures and facial features while learning self-expression through portraiture.

1. Lorena Rodriguez
Marisela Cavazos
Claudia Chavez
Tiana
Art Lesson Plan Assignment
Self Portrait
Part 1: Preparation and Goals
Number of Leaders: One Classroom teacher
Grade(s) of Student Participants for which the Lesson is designed: Grade 4
Number of Sessions: Two Sessions
Length of Sessions: Session 1:30 -45 minutes
General Student Objectives:
Student will learn about the artist, Chuck Close, his life and how to illustrate a grid
portrait in Closes’ style, media, and theme.
Students will translate values into color in the creation of portrait or image in the
style of Chuck Close.

2. Students will learn about different facial features by discussing different cultures around
the world.
Pre-assessment:
Students in this class should know that people from different places in the world have
unique facial features. They might compare and contrast their friend’s features by their
diverse classroom environment. I will review with them that not all individuals from a
certain country look the same.
Teaching Materials:
1. T-Shirts
2. Book: The World Around Me
3. Grid Paper (9x12)
4. Camera
5. 8x10 paper
Student Materials:
1. Rulers
2. Pencil
3. Sharpies
4. Color Pencil
5. Crayons
6. Color Markers
7. Grid Paper

3. 8. White and black photo
9. Map of the World
10. Paper Cultural dolls
Attention Getter for the Art Lesson:
1. Students will see teachers wearing t-shirts with a self- portrait
drawing in Close’s style.
2. Students will listen to the reading of The World Around Me
Presentation Central Activity:
Instructions: After the warm-up students will use a map given
to them and will place a paper doll in its proper country based by its outfit.
Students will be asked to right any visible features that
identifies the paper doll to people from the country chosen
Take students photo and print in black and white in an (8x10)
paper.
Students will be handed their black and white photo (8x10) to
use as a guide to draw their self-portraits in a bigger scale (9x12) paper.
Students will trace major outlines with a sharpie in their
(8x10) photo.
Demonstrate the grid process to enlarge their self- portraits.
Students will transfer square by square into their (9x12)
gridded drawing paper.
Day 2:

4. Demonstrate steps to Close’s art style.
Students will trace major outlines with a sharpie.
In each square, students will draw a shape or symbol.
Students will pick two complementary colors to color
(background, hair, face, and shirt) on their self- portraits.
Have students share the choice of color and shape of their
gridded portraits, when finished with the art project.
Main Activity:
Lesson Plan overview:
This lesson is about getting to know oneself and others that come
from other places. For students to understand that not all classmates come
from the same place and do not have the same features or ways of being the
lesson will have students write about another person that is not from the
same place as them and will point out different features from them. The
students will make a self- portrait and write a paragraph of their features,
who they are and where they come from. This will show students that to
appreciate other cultures.
How geography is used in the lesson plan:
Geography is used in this lesson plan by having students talk about
other cultures around the world. The teacher shows the class a map and
portraits of people from other cultures and races and has students point out

5. where some of these people may come from and what life might be like in
those places, as well as talking about their features. Not only are students
learning about others but also about themselves, where they come from and
their family members and their life and habits. This shows students that
there are people around us that come from other places and learn to respect
each other even if we are different.
Practice/ Learning Activity:
After students are done with their self- portraits students will have the
opportunity to create a poem about them -selves and present in front of the class
with their self-portraits.
Closure:
Teacher then will stop the class and recap what everyone learned. The
teacher will show a slide of different people from around the world and ask the
class if they know where they live. The teacher will ask students what they
learned about people around the world and their own self-portraits.
Part 3: Assessment and Follow UP
Student Evaluation: I will have a rubric to grade their work. There will be four
sections, neatness, completeness, spelling, and creativity, all worth five points each.

6. Application/Reflection/Self-Lesson Evaluation: I plan to evaluate the
effectiveness of my work based on my how my students respond to the activity. If
students have do not understand a component of the lesson this will enable me to
modify future lessons or just find ways to explain it better.
Follow-Up Activities or homework: Two possible activities that could stem
from this lesson are assigning each student to write their own book on plants and
flowers and the sun with pictures.
Rubric:
P Grammar/ Neatness/Comp Colorfu Overall
oints Spelling leteness lness/ Participation in
Creativ Activities
ity
No spelling Fully complete Full of 100%
5or grammar and neat colors participation
errors Very
detailed
A couple of Fully complete Colors 75%
4spelling or and somewhat neat. but not much Participation
grammar errors Neat but not detail on
fully complete. creativity

7. Four or Half complete Few 50%
3more spelling and Somewhat neat colors and little participation
grammar errors creativity on
details
6 or more At least 1/3 Few 25%
2spelling and complete and not very colors and no participation
grammar errors neat creativity
7 or more Less than 1/3 No Less than 25%
1spelling and complete and not neat or colors and no participation
grammar errors not complete at creativity
all