This art history video discussion examines Gustave Caillebotte's "Paris Street; Rainy Day", 1877, oil on canvas 83-1/2 x 108-3/4 inches / 212.2 x 276.2 cm (The Art Institute of Chicago).

Students will work in groups to visually analyze a work of art and then research what was happening in the time period when the work was made. Students will then discuss what impact their research had on their original perceptions. Students will finally be given background information about the work of art and will discuss how their ideas are different or similar to what they read.

This art history video discussion looks at the "Holy Thorn Reliquary" (made in Paris for Jean, Duc de Berry), c. 1390s, gold, enamel, ruby, pearl, sapphire, and rock crystal, 30 x 14.2 x 6.8 cm (British Museum, London).

Students will analyze "Man with a Hoe" by Jean-Francois Millet, and learn how the artist's use of shape and space creates emphasis. Students will discuss their interpretations of the painting and provide visual evidence to back up their ideas. They will create a persona poem that demonstrates their interpretation of how the man in the painting feels. Students will then illustrate their understanding of how shape and space creates emphasis by drawing a person in their family who works hard.

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Students will create a drawing from a written description and examine and discuss how European artists from the past created images of China that combined imagination with written descriptions and limited visual imagery.

Students will consider the challenges of life as an adolescent working in Paris in the late 1800s by analyzing a series of works of art. They will compare the vocations depicted in the artworks with those they might encounter in 21st-century Los Angeles.

This art history video discussion looks at Marcel Duchamp's "In Advance of a Broken Arm", 1964 (fourth version, after lost original of November 1915) (MoMA).

This art history video discussion examines Ingres's "La Grande Odalisque", 1814, Oil on canvas, 36" x 63" (91 x 162 cm), (Musee du Louvre, Paris).

This art history video discussion looks at Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Princesse de Broglie, oil on canvas, 1851‰غز53 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

This art history video discussion looks at Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's "Raphael and the Fornarina", 1814, Oil on canvas (Fogg Art Museum).

Students explore the concept of work, and work typically assigned to women, through artwork depicting laundresses.

Students write a friendly letter based on their observations of a painting by Poussin. They demonstrate their observation of the painting's content and new vocabulary that they access themselves, using a thesaurus.

This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students practice looking and formal analysis skills by studying a reproduction of the work of art they will see on their museum visit in Lesson 2. Prepare students for their trip by reviewing appropriate behavior in a museum and discussing the role of the museum as an institution that collects, conserves, and interprets works of art.

This is the second lesson in a sequential unit. Students practice looking skills from Lesson 1 in a museum gallery. Through a drawing exercise and discussion, students use the elements of art to explore the differences between viewing original works of art and reproductions. Students also compare how the elements of art are used in different works of art in the same gallery.

This is the third lesson in a sequential unit. This exercise reinforces what students learned on a visit to an art museum about looking at an original work of art and looking at a reproduction. Students create a drawing using the elements of art reviewed in Lessons 1 and 2. Students in grades 2-5 reflect on their museum visit in writing.

Students will analyze the form and function of a table made in the 1700s. They will appropriate elements from a preexisting work of art to create a new work of art that reflects the students' identity.

Students will imagine that they are an 18th-century "marchand-mercier", or salesman, and will write a persuasive letter to sell a French bed, the "Lit a la Polonaise", along with other bedroom furnishings for a client.

Students will study a French cabinet and research and discuss its symbols. Students will then create their own marquetry design based on an animal symbol from another country.

Research activities investigate social-science connections such as trade, societal impact, and style on the production and consumption of porcelain in the period leading up to the French Revolution. Extensions relate to chemistry connections.