Creating an Artistic Representation of my culture - due 10/20

Assignment:
Your assignment is to create a three-dimensional artistic representation of your culture and compose a written text that explains the significance of two of the symbols you have chosen to represent yourself.

Steps:
Planning:

1. Use the graphic organizer on the next page to generate a list of symbols that represent the cultures with which you identify
2. Select 2 symbols for each category (a total of 10) and think of an artistic method for making each symbol.  You may use painting, sculture, collage, found materials, watercolors, cut paper, ik, pastels, and/or actual artifacts or souvenirs, and so on.  Remember that your final product must be three dimensional, not a flat surface.

Creating:

1. Collect and/or create the objects for your artistic representation
2. then choose two symbols from the ten you have created that are especially meaningful to you.  Write two paragraphs that explain the significance of the two symbols.

Refining:

1. Experiment with various arrangements until you find a way to display the 10 objects that is aesthetically pleasing and engages your audience.
2. As you look at your artistic representation, try to anticipate questions that your audience might have.  Practice answering the questions aloud.
3. When your evise your written explanation of the significance of your symbols, try to incorporate answers to those anticipated questions into your explanation
4. Edit your written explanation using the tools available to you to presentan error-free text
5. Be prepared to share and explain your artistic representation of your culture to a small group or in a gallery walk
6. Reflection: did people read my symbols in the way that I thought they would? Hwo might I revise accordingly?