To Parents:

We're excited to introduce our 9th-grade Cultural Arts Exploration course, designed to offer a unique and enriching experience for your child. In this 3-days course, we aim to celebrate diversity, foster creativity, and provide a welcoming environment for international students, ensuring that they feel at home and confident in their new school.

We invite you to join us on this journey to inspire cultural pride, creativity, and self-assurance in your child. Let's celebrate diversity together!

To Educators:

By incorporating our Cultural Arts Exploration course into your school's curriculum, you are not only promoting cultural understanding but also enhancing the creative and social development of your students. This enriching experience contributes to a more inclusive school community and aligns with educational standards.

The Course Design

Note: This lesson plan is generated by ChatGPT using the prompt I provided.

Key Takeaways:

Cultural Appreciation: This course provides an opportunity for your child to learn about famous artists from their own cultural background, creating a sense of pride and connection to their heritage.
Global Perspective: By exploring artists and art forms from various cultures, your child will gain a global perspective, helping them appreciate and respect diversity.
Self-Expression: Through hands-on art activities, students will gain confidence in expressing themselves artistically, which can have a positive impact on their overall self-esteem.
Inclusivity: Our class accommodates both individual and group work, allowing students to collaborate and learn from one another, fostering a sense of belonging.
Gallery Showcase: The course culminates in a gallery walk, where your child's artwork will be displayed for the entire school to see, celebrating their creativity and culture.

The Prompt:

Generate a 3-day long, 9th-grade lesson plan as a table. It is a Chinese painting class with rice paper, ink, and masks for students to explore Chinese traditional art. The table should have columns for “Objectives,” “Standards,” “Activities,” “Accommodations,” and “Time”.

The goal of this class is to welcome the incoming Chinese international students as they step into a new school environment. This class is a chance to show that the school welcomes their diverse cultural backgrounds as valuable assets to the school culture. By the end of the class, students will have opportunities to showcase their artistic expression in a gallery walk. Their work will be presented in the hallway (with their consent) so other domestic students can appreciate other cultural art and crafts. It will be In-person classes and a maximum of 10 students for each class. This art class accepts individual work and group work (a maximum of 2 people in a group).

Here are the standards for the lesson:

Students will learn about famous artists in the realm of Chinese painting, including both classical and contemporary Chinese art.

Students will learn basic skills in the use of ink and brush and drawing on rice paper and explore other fundamental Chinese techniques

Students use the new techniques they learned and create one drawing related to their new journey in the US or about self-identity exploration.

One of the objectives: With their new skills, students will gain confidence in art expression and see the connection between their personal creativity and Chinese culture.

I would like for you to generate the objectives, activities, and accommodations for the lesson plan. In the time column, include the amount of time that should be spent on each part of the lesson.

Brush & Beyond: Fostering Cultural Curiosity through Creativity