Keith+Haring

This unit will introduce Keith Haring, his work and his use of Semiotics, using symbols. The goal is to get students to create their own symbolic drawing in the style of Keith Haring and then to critique some murals created my Shanghai American School High School students that were also created in the style of Keith Haring's work.

This unit fulfills the following 8th grade SAS MS Standards: 3.3 Create unique work 5.3 Critique, (observe, analyze, interpret, judge), artwork

Use the following presentation to introduce Keith Haring

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Have students do the following lesson plan found here but instead of showing the video, show the keynote: @http://www.haringkids.com/lesson_plans/learn/keith-haring-semiotics-poster I created a worksheet to help my students do the lesson and also created an altered version of the attached ppt that has assignment specific alterations linked to the worksheet.

Ask students in pairs to go to the murals and with an one laptop handy answer the following questions from this blog post: []