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Visual Storytelling
Grade 5Grade 6SecondaryDrawing2024–2025
Overview
A term-long project inviting older students to make an extended drawn or painted narrative — a memory, an imagined place, a small piece of family history.
Inspiration
Marlene Dumas, Shaun Tan, William Kentridge, and the students' own family archives.
Curriculum connections
- ·Visual Arts — extended project work
- ·English — narrative writing
Downloadable resources
Lesson plans and printable handouts will appear here in a future release.
Learning objectives
- 01Sustain a project across multiple sessions.
- 02Move fluently between sketchbook and final piece.
- 03Write an accompanying short artist statement.
Materials
- Sketchbooks
- Ink and technical pens
- Watercolour, gouache
Process
- Step 1Story mapping and thumbnail studies.
- Step 2Two long drawing sessions with peer critique.
- Step 3Final piece plus a 200-word statement.
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