The lesson plan outlines a 12-day graphic design project where high school students will create a poster for a fall theatre production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by combining images, text, and materials to convey meaning and target an audience, with the teacher providing instruction on poster design history, composition techniques using materials like paper and ink, and use of the Canva software to add text.
The lesson plan outlines a 12-day graphic design project where high school students will create a poster for a fall theatre production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by combining images, text, and materials to convey meaning and target an audience, with the teacher providing instruction on poster design history, composition techniques using materials like paper and ink, and use of the Canva software to add text.
The lesson plan outlines a 12-day graphic design project where high school students will create a poster for a fall theatre production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by combining images, text, and materials to convey meaning and target an audience, with the teacher providing instruction on poster design history, composition techniques using materials like paper and ink, and use of the Canva software to add text.
The lesson plan outlines a 12-day graphic design project where high school students will create a poster for a fall theatre production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by combining images, text, and materials to convey meaning and target an audience, with the teacher providing instruction on poster design history, composition techniques using materials like paper and ink, and use of the Canva software to add text.
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Lesson Plan
Teacher: Dianna Coleman Grade Levels: 9-12
Class: 3D Design Unit Title Graphic Design
Time Frame 56 min/class Lesson Title Fall Theatre Poster:
12 classes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Lesson Summary
Students will first learn about the history of poster design, discussing how the use of combined images, words, and other materials show specific meaning. They will then learn how to compose a poster for the Fall Theatre Show: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, focusing on a specific target audience. Afterwards, students will choose their materials from cut paper, pen & ink, or colored pencils. Once students have made their artwork, making sure to leave space for the text, they will then scan their work and use the program Canva to finalize a digital version of the poster with the title and all important information. The purpose of this lesson is to show how combined images, text, and other materials can create meaning and target a specific audience. Students will also make connections between their project and the career of poster design for film, music shows, and theatre.
Connection to Previous Unit (prior knowledge)
Prior to this lesson, students learned about collage, and how combined images can create a carefully composed image that shows meaning. Students have also studied the elements of art and how they can be employed to create artwork, they have specifically focused on the element of line and created a final composition using contour line with pen & ink. Throughout the school-year so far, students have also focused on their craftsmanship and attention to detail in the creation of art.
This poster project will require students to synthesize their knowledge of combined images showing meaning, craftsmanship, and the elements of art to create a poster for the fall theatre show that reveals something important about the story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
○ Theatre Poster ● Cut Drawing Paper ● Small Group Research ○ 8.5”x11.5” Discussion Activity ● Demo materials ● Whole Group ● Drawing Paper - ○ Example Discussion 8.5”x11.5” posters ● Guided Practice ● Black, White, & Grey ○ Construction ● Individual Practice Construction Paper paper ● Sharpie Pens ○ Sharpie Pens ● Colored Pencils ○ Colored ● Xacto Blades Pencils ● Scissors ○ Paper ● Self-healing mats ● Set up document ● Chromebooks camera for ● Canva program demonstration ● Document Camera ● PPT ○ “Poster Design - Theatre Fall 2023”
CA Visual Art Standard(s) Behavioral Objective(s)
Prof.VA:Cr1.1 Use multiple approaches to SWBAT use multiple approaches to
begin creative endeavors. brainstorm and create a final poster for Dr. Prof.VA:Cr1.2 Shape an artistic investigation Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of an aspect of present-day life using a SWBAT shape an artistic investigation contemporary practice of art or design. surrounding the career of graphic and poster design by creating a theatre poster that uses imagery and typography.
Students will discuss the I will walk the room to ask Students will create a theatre poster art as whole-class - questions and review student poster that uses imagery and and share their knowledge of work in progress to check for typography to reveal how combined images, with understanding. Students will something important about words, can reveal a message also engage in an early the story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. or idea - and target a specific critique/feedback activity Hyde. audience. focused on the message of their artwork and composition.
Daily Lesson Introduction Daily Closure
● Greeting ● Review goals ● Daily Question (in Daily PPT) ● What is due ● Supplies ready on desks ● Where to turn in
Body of Lesson
Introduction ● Introduction to Poster Design PPT (15-20 min) ● Theatre Poster Research Activity (20+ min) ○ Review expectations ○ Discuss Thumbnails and how they help composition Day 2 ● Review of Poster Expectations (5 min) ○ Discuss project options ■ Construction paper (black, white, grey) ■ Pen & Ink ■ Colored Pencils (Black, White, and Grey Only) ● Feedback Activity: ○ In small table groups, share out thumbnails and describe ideas ■ What important part of the story are you trying to show? ● Continue finalizing brainstorming using feedback received. Day 3 ● Receive final 8.5”x11.5” paper ● Demonstration ○ How to get started on final paper using ■ Construction paper ■ Pen & ink ■ Or Colored Pencils ● Begin lightly sketching out your composition Day 4 ● Demo: Building your images with construction paper using negative & positive space. ● Continue working on your imagery ○ Individual check-ins to see how work is progressing Day 5 ● Demo: Using pen and ink techniques for your final image ○ Discuss how line can be used (activating prior knowledge) ● Continue working on poster imagery ○ Individual check-ins to see how work is progressing Day 6 ● Continue building imagery through chosen technique (56 min) ○ Individual check-ins to see how work is progressing Day 7 ● Mid-point critique (56 min) ○ Gallery walk to see how work is progressing ○ Whole-class discussion of student work focusing on whether message of student work is clear Day 8 ● Last studio day in class to complete visual imagery for cover (56 min) ● Turn in your imagery to Mrs. Coleman for scanning! Day 9 ● Demo: using scanned image in Canva (15-20 min) ○ Using typography discussion ● Discuss and review important information that must be included ● Discuss hierarchy with examples Day 10 ● Continue building final poster in Canva ● Individual check-ins to see how work is progressing Day 11 ● Final studio day to complete poster ● Demo: how to download final file in correct sizing Day 12 ● Final critique (56 min) ● Discussion on how combined images/words/and etc. can show specific meaning. ○ Additional focus on craftsmanship & target audience ● Class vote on top 3 posters
