Last week, the students spent time analyzing a piece of artwork entitled "Day and Night" by a famous artist named M.C. Escher. His work uses various optical illusions which enables someone who is observing his work to interpret it based on things that they notice. To help students examine his work, we used a strategy called See Think Wonder. First, students were asked to be good investigators and identify what they saw. Next, they were asked to make interpretations based on evidence within the art piece. Finally, students were challenged to ask broad questions that they had related to the work of Escher. The goal for students was to ask questions that Escher himself would only be able to answer. I was very impressed with all of the students' thinking. We then moved on to a wordless picture book called Free Fall by David Wiesner. Many of the illustrations found in this book were similar to the style of Escher's work. We completed a gallery walk and had the opportunity to look at each illustration from the book. I placed them in order on the floor and students were asked to think about what could be seen upside down that could also be seen right-side up. Again, they were asked to be good observers and look for things that may not be easily seen upon first glance. Below is a video of the book that I shared with students. Afterwards, they had to sequence the illustrations. We will continue our work with Free Fall over the next two days.
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