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For Teachers
Assessment Questions
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Can students define the word landscape? |
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Can students analyze and describe a landscape painting? |
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Are students able to compare/contrast two landscape paintings? |
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Can students identify Jacob Francis Cropsey? |
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Can students identify some of Cropsey’s work? |
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Can students define the Hudson River School? |
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Are your students able to connect art to geography, literature, history and/or nature? |
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Can students tell you how an artist’s decision-making process affects his/her final product? |
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Are students able to explain how landscape painting influenced European’s view of Americans and Americans view of themselves? |
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Are students able to identify and apply the principles of art and design to their analysis of landscape paintings? |
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Are students able to use landscape paintings as catalysts for writing assignments? |
Sources: Celebrate America! Three Centuries of American Art from the Currier, Exhibition Guide; American Art from The Currier Gallery of Art, American Federation of Arts, 1995.
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