Grade 5 and 6
The Stories That Ships Tell
Introduction
English Curriculum Resources
The Stories that Ships Tell Grade 5/6 Lesson Unit
This lesson contains a lesson plan file and 16 BLMs.
Students will represent their investigation of the history of immigration into Canada through the eyes of a traveler on the Komagata Maru. This story will be told through a portrait drawing of an individual who traveled on that ship. Inspired by, The Arrival by Shaun Tan, a book that tells the story of a migration through wordless images, students will learn to create visual narratives.
Students will learn to use drawing tools and techniques to create realistic proportions of facial features in a portrait. They will learn drawing skills to articulate a subject’s expression, clothing and artifacts creating a portrait that retells information about an individual’s past.
French Curriculum Resources
Below you will see process work and finished products from the lesson including studies for drawing faces, researching the stories of people who might have been on the Komagata Maru, and examples of illustrations made to accompany text about people who might have been on the ship, and their stories.
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