Curriculum: Language Arts

This wonderful project celebrates freedom and Keith Haring at the same time, while helping students to understand what makes this country so unique and special.

Offering students the possibilities to express their thoughts and concerns, this project outlines a structure to help students make public posters with important messages in a bold and straightforward manner, similar to some of the work Haring did during his lifetime.

Although initially used as an adjunct to a larger scale lesson, this activity provides much potential when used with Keith Haring's book, NINA'S BOOK OF LITTLE THINGS, which allows for interactive visual and conceptual activities.

Using the "Posters with a Message" Lesson as a starting point, this project allows students to exhibit their work publicly and address the related concerns of presentation and observation.

An explorative lesson that stimulates language skills while aiding in the development of social and emotional awareness.

A wonderful lesson sent in by a school in England that helps students examine and discuss art while developing their own fun and silly essays.

Using Keith Haring's book, TEN as a starting point, children will learn to quantify and visually depict numbers.

Similar to the book, I WISH I DIDN'T HAVE TO SLEEP, containing children's responses to Haring's work, students are encouraged to look at Haring's work, and create their own stories.

Inspired by work Haring explored throughout his life, this project asks students to photograph one another and reflect upon what they see both externally and internally.

Using Keith Haring's book, BIG, Children will write and illustrate all the words they know for the word small.

This collaborative project, inspired by a set of prints Haring made titled, RED AND BLUE, asks children to interpret classmates' abstract shapes and write or tell a story about them.

A writing lesson that asks children to determine questions to elicit interesting and revealing biographies of other children.