Design YOUR totem pole.

16 page unit of work. With 3 homework exercises.

The goal of this exercise is to learn how to symbolise and simplify everyday objects, animals and experiences. Allowing the student to construct and assign meaning to their designs. interpretation and representation.

So the student can design their own Totem-pole! Personal to them.

At the end of the exercise the teacher should be left with a collection designs that can work towards a display.

The work explores, objects, animals and ‘notions’ or ‘experiences’

In American Indian culture, objects, animals and experiences are defined in a manner that allows the artist means to portray such subject matter in a particular style.

In learning how to symbolise objects and other such things, we can begin to interpret things in our own manner, developing an individual interpretation on the matter being portrayed.

The unit of work covers homework exercises and other means to encourage the student to develop their own interpretation on various things and experiences that will eventually contribute to a series of designs that can be applied to the their totem pole design.

There are also written tasks that encourage the student to apply imagery to stories. Which should encourage the totem pole design.
As well as descriptive exercises to help understand the subject of the totem pole.

There are also colouring in exercises.