{"id":191603,"date":"2020-09-21T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=191603"},"modified":"2020-09-21T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:39:13","slug":"exploring-surrealism-in-grade-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2020\/09\/21\/exploring-surrealism-in-grade-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Surrealism in Grade 8."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We began the year with an introduction to the Surrealist art movement and how it was influenced by World War I, French polite society, and psychology. So far, we have discovered that the Surrealist artists and writers used specific techniques to generate their strange-seeming ideas. They weren\u2019t actually crazy! Instead, they wrote down their dreams, or rolled dice to decide what to draw, or played a word game similar to MadLibs to create silly sentences that would then inspire their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/september-14-pj-g8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191585 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/september-14-pj-g8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/september-14-pj-g8-980x554.jpg 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/september-14-pj-g8-480x271.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; 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--smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/542;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that students have a general idea of what Surrealism is, they are going to each research one Surrealist artist and share back to the group! This research task will give everyone a chance to practice their information and media literacy ATL skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"\/\/\/var\/mobile\/Containers\/Data\/Application\/5F908E28-8D49-4F4D-9ED9-609E1DF6C975\/Library\/Caches\/Media\/thumbnail-p19311-2224x2224.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1821928586 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2224px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2224\/2224;\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We began the year with an introduction to the Surrealist art movement and how it was influenced by World War I, French polite society, and psychology. So far, we have discovered that the Surrealist artists and writers used specific techniques to generate their strange-seeming ideas. They weren\u2019t actually crazy! 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