UoI 1: How We Express Ourselves

Talking Without Words

3TS 2013-14

Learner Profile and IB Attitudes: 

Learner Profile

• Communicator – through visual images and non verbal devices (eg inference, body language, gesture)

• Thinker- what is the message, how can I get my idea across• Open-minded- others will interpret an image differently

Attitudes • Creativity: apply visual devices in their way to illustrate a narrative, creating posters

• Appreciation: illustrators choices, what’s the meaning of an image to you and to others

• Curiosity : showing an interest in images and what’s behind them

Talking Without Words!What do we think this means?• Write on the computer

Typing- Tony/ Maly• Body expressions- Yuki• Movement- Sonny• Using codes- Christopher• Miming- Joong Gun• Sign language- Maly• Acting Out- Kiana• Lips shapes- Jeong Seo

• Body language- Yuki• Drawing- Tony• Writing- Sonny• Creating letters- Joong

Gun• Puppets- Sonny• Silence- Miss Tracy

• 20 August 2013

Talking Without Words!What do we now think this means?• Using gestures and facial

expression to say what you want- Erin

• Body language and colour shows how angry or happy you are- Christopher

• Body language can be used to express a feeling- Maly

• How illustrators use visual devices together to talk without words.- Tony

• Using visual devices to ‘talk’ without words- Kiana

• Size can be used to show how angry or sad you are- Yuki

• I can use my facial expressions to agree or not with peoples ideas- Jeongseo

• You can use background to show where the book is taking place- Tony

• When an illustrators draws a characters expression you follow it- Joong Gun

• Background can be used. It is doesn’t look nice it could mean its dangerous. – Anna

• You don’t always need to use background- it helps them focus on the main thing- Lilly-Bea

• If there is a lack of colour except for one thing you focus on that- Tristan / Sonny

• 22 October 2013

Provocation: Silent Building Challenge

• Photos/video here

Use play dough and sticks to build a 3D house The materials are on the carpet A leader who knows the task but can not tell their builders!

Provocation Reflection:First a individual reflection was completed then a class response snapshot was taken.What was hard?• As the leader I couldn’t talk and my team

couldn’t understand me- Daisy• When we built it kept collapsing –

Christopher/ Theo• When we left it, it broke and then it was hard

to fix- AnnaWhat was easy?• The equipment we needed was easy- Tristan• Talking without words- Sonny• Easy to understand Lilly- Joong Gun• When they got what I was ‘saying’ it was

easy for them to build- Tony• Our team got paper and pencil to help- MalyWhat would you change?• I would like to try being a builder- Kiana,

Daisy, Tony• I would like to be a leader- Erin, Yuki,

Christopher, Tristan, Ji Won, Angelina, Jeong Seo, Joong Gun, Anna, Maly, Mateo, Theo

• Change the teams for a different mix- Sonny

Mona Lisa Activity: Making connections to previous

learning across the grades and curriculum.What do these Mona Lisa’s say to you?How do they make you feel?What devices did each artist use to convey a message?

If you were an illustrator what would you have to 

think about?

How illustrators or artists use SIZE to communicate

messages or meaning to us?

What does this image show or tell us?.

We will look at 2 images and discuss what is shown in each and then compare the messages in the two.

What does this image tell us?

What has the illustrator communicated by making the change?.

Image taken from ‘Where’s my Teddy?” by Jez Alborough            What do you see?

What is the illustrator/artist trying to tell you through the device  size?1.

How do you know? .

Body Language and Gestures

Body language and gestures can show us how a character is feeling, what their personality is like or can tell us how to react. It can express a feeling, mood or behaviour.

What do you think we are trying to tell you in the poses?

What might the message be?

COLOUR as a device.Anna: the bear is dead or someone is because red is like bloodChristopher: bear could be hurt because it redErin: the bear is mad- seeing redJeong Seo: Anger- red

Angelina: energetic because of the all the dabs of colourTheo: a happy ending and someone is in loveTristan: happy because of the bright coloursAnna: someone is feeling excited or happyMiss Tracy- happiness is not always neat and tidy

Interesting to note both use red but our thoughts and reactions about these 2 pictures a very different!

Device: Background

Background and putting ourselves in a scene.

Putting it together:

Creating a poster on the tablet

Putting it together: Homework project

Artists use various devices to portray emotion and character.• Illustrators make choices to create emotions and meaning

• The choice of medium by the illustrator can provide the readers with clues to the message or purpose of the text: i.e. photos likely to be non-fiction

• Illustrators uses visual devices to influence the readers: artistic style, colour, composition, medium, size and detail