Virtual Lesson Plan: Following the Phoenix

This virtual tour is part of the Art + History learning frame, which emphasizes the close reading of works of art as primary sources. Contextual information and prompts for reflection and discussion are layered in to help scaffold students’ understanding from simple to complex.

• Explore how artworks can serve as primary sources that spark historical inquiry.
• Analyze different historical sources and perspectives, including artworks, and consider how they can impact understanding.
• Examine the movement of ideas, people, and materials over time and throughout Asia and beyond, gaining a more complex understanding of Asia as a global continent.

Art + History Frame

• What can primary sources (including artworks) teach us about art, history, and culture?
• How can multiple perspectives, as expressed in artworks and other sources, deepen and challenge our understandings? 
• Based on a deepened historical understanding, what new questions can we ask about our own place and time?

Asia in the World Theme

• How has Asian art and culture intersected with and/or impacted the development of ideas around the world over time?

Reading: Key Ideas and Details

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it: cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2

Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Illinois Arts Learning Standards: Visual Arts

Responding

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic works

Historical Sources and Evidence

D2.His.10.3-5. Compare information provided by different historical sources about the past.

6–12