!,000+Words

Saturday, November **14, 2015**
8:30am–2:30pm

// If a picture is worth a thousand words, how can the Art Institute of Chicago use art to assist English Language Learners //// (ELLs) //// in bilingual classrooms to expand their vocabularies, broaden their cultural understanding, and enhance their self-expression and confidence? //// Visual art and art museums can be powerful tools for language development and expression. In particular, they can help World Language and ELLs encounter language in dynamic ways, build vocabulary, and make sense of new cultural contexts. // // In this program the Art Institute of Chicago will partner up with 15 elementary grade teachers from five different Chicago Public Schools located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. These schools are currently involved in CPS's initiative to restructure its approach to bilingual education ////. A //// rt-centered discussions measurably improve critical thinking; increase observational skills, evidential reasoning and meaning-making; and engender a willingness to find multiple solutions, through language, to complex problems. // // This program through art-centered discussions will ground ELLS growing understanding of English along side their home language and prepare them to explore complex subject matter and multiple perspectives, resulting in thoughtful citizens contributing to a diverse and changing world. //



**//Storyteller Figure//**
A.D. 100/800 Jalisco/Ameca Style Ameca Valley, Jalisco, Mexico

Helpful links:
 * Below is a list of the materials that were reviewed and compiled by Teacher Programs in preparation for this program. **
 * **Resource** || **Link To Resource** || **Downloadable PDF** || **Description** ||
 * Storyteller Figure, A.D. 100/800 || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="Storyteller Figure_Mexico.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/Storyteller Figure_Mexico.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/Storyteller Figure_Mexico.pdf|Storyteller Figure_Mexico.pdf]]
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 * 226 KB || What stories do we tell and how do we tell those stories? ||
 * Mexicanidad || __[]__ || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="Mexicanidad_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/Mexicanidad_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/Mexicanidad_Packet.pdf|Mexicanidad_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 8 MB || The Art of Mexico as a springboard for multidisciplinary studies. ||
 * Making Stamps || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="StampsMeso_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/StampsMeso_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/StampsMeso_Packet.pdf|StampsMeso_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 104 KB || Stamps were not used only for decoration but also to identify symbolic domains of ancient Americans. ||
 * From China to Mexico: Silk Road Ceramics || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="ChinaMexicoCeramics_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/ChinaMexicoCeramics_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/ChinaMexicoCeramics_Packet.pdf|ChinaMexicoCeramics_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 29 KB || Encouraging students to reflect and study how symbols are historically used across cultures. ||
 * Flowering Cherry with Poem Slips, Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese,c. 1675 || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="JapanesePoemSlips_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/JapanesePoemSlips_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/JapanesePoemSlips_Packet.pdf|JapanesePoemSlips_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 300 KB || Utilizing nature for the symbolization of ideals. ||
 * Bell Krater, Glazed Earthenware, Greece, c. 450 B.C. || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="Bell Krater_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/Bell Krater_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/Bell Krater_Packet.pdf|Bell Krater_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 168 KB || The use of myths to connect to the natural world through storytelling. ||
 * Arts of Africa || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="ArtsofAfrica_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/ArtsofAfrica_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/ArtsofAfrica_Packet.pdf|ArtsofAfrica_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 6 MB || African Art objects that give information about history, religion, and social systems. (Middle School-HS.) ||
 * American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="AmericanIndianArt_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/AmericanIndianArt_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/AmericanIndianArt_Packet.pdf|AmericanIndianArt_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 4 MB || Includes resources for understanding themes of daily life, beliefs, art making and economy. ||
 * Train Station, Walter Ellison,Oil on Canvas, 1935 || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="WalterEllison_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/WalterEllison_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/WalterEllison_Packet.pdf|WalterEllison_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 12 MB || Describing migration stories. ||
 * The Return of Odysseus (Homage to Pintoricchio and Benin), Romare Bearden,1977, Collage on Masonite || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="RomareBearden_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/RomareBearden_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/RomareBearden_Packet.pdf|RomareBearden_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 846 KB || Utilizing the arts to examine narrative and history. ||
 * Telling Images: Stories in Art || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="ImagesStories_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/ImagesStories_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/ImagesStories_Packet.pdf|ImagesStories_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 2 MB || How, Why, What of stories. Geared for ages 7-10. Stories are based on folklore, religion, and mythology;genealogy and history; autobiography and fantasy. ||
 * Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="FacesPlacesSpaces_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/FacesPlacesSpaces_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/FacesPlacesSpaces_Packet.pdf|FacesPlacesSpaces_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 7 MB || Interdisciplinary resource for looking at works of art. Features 11 pieces of art from the museum and includes and ELL resource on page 95. ||
 * Self, Family, and Community || [] || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="SelfFamCom_Packet.pdf" link="file:learningthroughmuseums/SelfFamCom_Packet.pdf"]] [[file:learningthroughmuseums/SelfFamCom_Packet.pdf|SelfFamCom_Packet.pdf]]
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 * 390 KB || To facilitate understanding of abstract identities in self, family and community by grounding experiences in objects, not just words to express ideas. ||

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