Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Mountain Goats Lyric Interpretation

For the Drawing II class, I am having them do visual interpretation of song lyrics that I chose for them.  I decided to pick lyrics from my favorite band, The Mountain Goats.  When selecting lyrics, I tried to make sure none of them would be "too easy" for students to interpret them.  The class is a sort-of a precursor to AP Art where they need to be independent and come up with interesting ideas on their own.  I think that most of the lyrics that I chose leave a lot of room for the students to apply their own meaning to them. 
Here's the handout I gave them when I introduced the project:

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