“from sea to shining sea: exploring america in art”

“From Sea to Shining Sea: Exploring America in Art”

Recommended for Grades 3-5:Experience the history of America’s struggles and triumphs through the museum’s collections. Students compare and

contrast works of art to explore ideas of freedom, development, economics, and America’s ever-changing

landscape.

Social Studies: 3.H.1, 3.H.2, 3.G.1, 3.E.1, 3.C.1

4.H.1, 4.E.1, 4.E.2, 4.C.15.H.1, 5.H.2, 5.G.1, 5.E.1, 5.C.1

Visual Arts: 3.V.I, 3.V.2, 3.CX.1, 3.CR.1 4.V.1, 4.V.2, 4.CX.1, 4.CR.1 5.V.1, 5.V.2, 5.CX.1, 5.CR.1

English Language Arts: 3.SL.1, 3.SL.2, 3.SL.3, 3.SL.4, 3.SL.6 4.SL.1, 4.SL.2, 4.SL.3, 4.SL.4, 4.SL.6 5.SL.1, 5.SL.2, 5.SL.3, 5.SL.4, 5.SL.6

North Carolina Common Core and Essential Standards Correlations:

Pre-Visit Key Questions:

• Before the invention of photography, television and the internet, how did people see images of other places across the country?

• What are some ways an artist can show us how important a person, place, or event in American history might be?

Roger Brown, Landscape with Revolutionary Heroes (American, 1983)

Jasper Francis Cropsey, Eagle Cliff, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire(American, 1858)

Jacob Lawrence, Forward(American, 1967)

William Tylee Ranney, First News of the Battle of Lexington (American, 1847)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, The Puritan

(American, originally modeled 1886, reworked in reduction and cast after

1899)

John Singleton Copley, Sir William Pepperrell (1746-1816) and His Family (American, 1778)

John Singleton Copley, Mrs. James Russell (Katherine Graves) (1717-

1778)(American, c. 1770)

Winslow Homer, Weaning the Calf(American, 1875)

Christian Friedrich Mayr, Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia (American, 1838)

Post-Visit Key Questions:

• Did you have a favorite work of art that you saw today? Which one, and why?

• If you had to choose a moment in American history to represent in a work of art, what might you choose? Why? (How would you show it in a work of art?)