You and your friends want to paint a wall in your own classroom . You wish to ask principal to assign a wall to students to let them show their creative expression
Discuss with your partner
Answers
You can either use the following conversation or develop similar one using ideas from it:
Student A: Hey, where have you been all this while? I have been looking for you everywhere. I want to discuss a very creative idea with you!
Student B: I was at the accounts office paying my fee. What creative idea do you have?
Student A: I was wondering if we could have our class walls painted with some informative themes, the class will look so cool.
Student B: Hey, our class is already beautifully painted; besides there are notice boards on the walls. Don’t you think the wall painting will spoil the beauty of the class?
Student A: Actually you are not getting me! I am talking about painting the blank parts of the left, right, and the rear walls. The other day I went to my younger brother’s school. His class was looking awesome with different themes painted on them. I got the idea from there!
Student B: Really? What theme do you have in mind for our class?
Student A: On left side we can paint solar system; on the right we can paint galaxies; on the rear wall we can either paint India’s Mars Mission or dolphins theme.
Student B: Wow! The very idea sounds so great! But how will we paint, we are no professional painters!
Student A: I know it will make our class look just wow! We will take our arts teachers’ help. I have already discussed it with her. She said she would draw the outline of the theme herself and assign different sections to different students for painting the colours in them.
Student B: Well, that is good. But how will we arrange the money? We need some good paints, brushes, and other material for the wall painting, won’t we?
Student A: I have also decided on that; I will ask the principal to provide us with the paints and the other material from the school; if we don’t get any help from the school, we will contribute the money.
Student B: That’s a great idea. Have you talked to the class teacher?
Student A: Yes, I have. She has liked the idea. She says she will cooperate with us fully.
Student B: I am really excited about it. Let’s go to our class teacher to request her to go to the principal right now for the permission.
There are many problems that can occur during the project:
1. Deciding who will paint what.
2. Delegation of duties.
3. Which design or theme to paint?
4. How to arrange for the material and the expenses involved?
5. When to paint—during school hours or after the school hours?
All of them can be solved by dividing the students into groups and delegating chunks of work among the groups. For example, one group can be asked to draw the theme on the wall; another group can do the base painting; another group can fill colour in the design. The art teacher and the class teacher can further help by assigning duties to these groups under their supervision.
Student 1: Arts is my favourite subject and I feel like expressing it in some creative way in the school, a way in which everyone would be proud of me and thank me
Student 2: How about that wall in our classroom? It has not been painted in a long time, it's ugly and there is damp, what if you could redo the whole thing?
Student 1: Do I look like a construction worker to you?
Student 2: That is not what I meant!, You love to wait right? use your skills to make this wall look beautiful, then not only us, but all the coming classes in the next so many years will be able to enjoy the art you left here
Student 1: That's a great idea! I love to paint and I actually have an idea! I would like to paint the flag of India and draw the many famous monuments of the country on there! It can be a great project! Let me talk to the teacher!
Student 2: yea, let's see what the teacher says
Student 1: I asked the teacher and she was really excited about it herself! However she said I need to ask the head mistress for her permission and that I can work over the weekend when we have holidays and I think 2 days might be enough so when everyone comes on Monday, they will see my work!, Also!, she said I would need to use my own resources, but I don't mind
Student 2: Well then, what are you waiting for , go talk to the Head-mistress!
Student 1: Thanks, I will be right back1