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Self Portrait and Story

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area
Arts
Grade
7

The goal of this assessment is to represent what it means to be human through expression. In Task One, students are artists who have been asked to create two self-portraits to be displayed on the Internet. The self-portraits must tell the story of what it means to be you in your culture and country through use of color, expression and imagery. Each student must complete six draft drawings and two finished self-portraits. In Task Two, students participate in a gallery walk and two peer critiques of fellow artists' self-portraits. In the first peer critique, students give and receive feedback and in the second critique they justify their opinions and ideas and give explanations using classroom vocabulary.

MA Standards

7-8.MA.R.10
Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Describe and demonstrate influences of personal artistic style and preferences in media arts.
7-8.V.Cr.01
Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Generate artistic ideas that demonstrate differences in composition principles (e.g., balance, proportion, emphasis) and push the boundaries of what materials can do.
7-8.V.Cr.02
Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Develop clear artistic plans that others could implement.
7-8.V.Cr.03
Refine and complete artistic work. Apply strategies to work through creative blocks.
7-8.V.P.06
Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Match a piece of artwork with expressed intent (e.g., wanting the audience to feel tension between two positions).

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