Grades/Level: 	Adult Learners
Subjects: 		Visual Arts, English—Language Arts, ESL
Time Required: 	Single-Class Lesson
Author:		Getty Museum Education Staff

Featured Getty Artworks
Still Life: Game, Vegetables, Fruit, Cockatoo, Adriaen van Utrecht, 1650
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o562.html 
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Claude Monet, 1869
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o828.html 
	
Lesson Overview	
Students learn about and discuss the objects commonly found in still life paintings.

Learning Objectives
- Students will identify the objects pictured in still lifes.
- Students will indicate which of a set of objects are natural and which are man-made.
- Students will use new vocabulary.

Materials 
- Looking at Still Life Student Worksheet 1a
- Looking at Still Life Student Worksheet 1b 
- Picture dictionary or realia or cutouts of fruits, vegetables, and containers (optional)
- Images of featured Getty artworks

Lesson Steps
- Explain that artists throughout time have employed the subject of still life using a traditional group of objects, some natural and some man-made.

- Display Still Life: Game, Vegetables, Fruit, Cockatoo.

- Point out the objects in the painting. Introduce the vocabulary to students.

- Employ early production strategies to help students use this vocabulary. 

1. Ask yes/no questions (Is this a tablecloth?). 
2. Ask or questions (Is this a tabletop or a tablecloth?)
3. Ask wh- questions (What is on the tablecloth?)
4. Make open-ended statements (The tablecloth is on the . . .)

- Write the vocabulary on the board.

- Display Still Life with Flowers and Fruit. Repeat the process given above.

- Ask students to identify objects that are present in both paintings or that are unique to one painting.

- Ask students to identify which objects are natural and which are man-made.
Student Worksheets
- For reinforcement of the vocabulary and concepts, use Student Worksheet 1a. Distribute the worksheet to students and have them fill in the blanks with the correct vocabulary words.
- For reinforcement of the difference between natural and man-made objects, use Student Worksheet 1b. Distribute the worksheet to students and have them list which objects are natural and which are man-made. 

Suggested Activities
- Using realia or a picture dictionary, teach the names of different fruits and vegetables and have students identify which fruits and vegetables are depicted in the paintings.

- Using realia or a picture dictionary, teach the names of different containers and have students identify which containers are depicted in the paintings.

- Using realia or cutouts of fruits, vegetables, containers, etc., have students construct their own still lifes and identify the objects for their classmates.

- Using realia or cutouts of fruits, vegetables, containers, etc., have students construct their own still lifes and draw and label their compositions.