Creating African Textile Paper Collages & Learning Their History.
Help me give my students African textile paper patterns and art board to make a collage about Cameroon to go with their orphan portraits they will be drawing for the Memory Project.
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
Our Title I school serves free breakfast for 85% of the students, and they get to the school early to eat the breakfast that they don’t get at home. My students eat their breakfast at school each morning before they come to my class. Fuel in their bodies makes them ready to learn and start the day. We are a uniform school. Some kids have uniforms that fit and are clean, and others have uniforms that are too big, too small, and don't really look clean. The majority of kids are happy, energetic, and ready to learn, but some students have trouble staying awake and staying focused. They come every day from group homes, and some are homeless or being raised by grandparents.
My students are 11, 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys and girls who are growing, trying, creating, experiencing, experimenting, challenging, and ultimately becoming educated with art in my classroom.
My classes are all year long, so I can work with these students in-depth with technology, get to know their strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, and see their creativity develop as their experience with art increases and grows.
My Project
We are doing an African American Unit and students are starting to draw their Cameroon orphan portraits with The Memory Project and learning about life in Cameroon for African people and their culture. They will be using multicultural color pencils and to tie in with this will be making African textile collages with African printed textile papers and multicultural papers. We are studying patterns and learning about the elements and principles of design.
There are more African American talented art students in my art classes this year and so I am trying to include African Art projects as well in the art program in distance learning during the pandemic hence the African American Unit that students will be working on for at least a month.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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