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US HISTORY:
Settlement - Settlement
of the West (The Last Frontier: The Panhandle of Texas)
GRADE LEVEL:
11th Grade
TEKS:
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Chapter 113.32(c)
(2) History (B) analyze economic issues such as the growth of
railroads
(20) Culture (A) describe how the characteristics and issues of
various eras in U.S. history have been reflected in works of art,
such as the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe.
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OBJECTIVE:
Students will utilize
a painting to explore the effects of the railroads on the U.S. in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Students will discover
how art can reflect the mood and spirit of the time in which they are
created.
MATERIALS:
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DISCUSSION:
- What catches
your eye in this photograph?
- What decision(s)
has the artist made to paint the subject? Why has the artist
shown only one object?
- In what parts
of the United States would a lone train garner such attention?
- Why is the Panhandle
of Texas sometimes considered the "last frontier"?
ASSIGNMENT:
Research other images
by O'Keeffe in which she used similar techniques/similar subject matter.
How do these art objects reflect the places they depict?
RESOURCES:
Publications:
O'Keeffe,
Georgia. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York: Viking, 1985
Bry, Doris
and Calloway, Nicholas, eds. Georgia O'Keeffe in the West. New
York: Knopf, 1989
Commager,
Henry Steele, ed. Living Ideas in America. New York: Harper,
1964
Limerick,
Patricia Nelson. Legacy of Conquest. New York: Norton, 1987
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