Using the American Masters online essay as a tool, this lesson will examine the cultural context of Robert Rauschenberg’s work.

Students will discuss the nature of art, what purposes it serves, and how Rivera's art reflected what was happening in the world during his lifetime.

In this lesson, students will use Guided Reading techniques to learn about Capa's style and to discover the techniques that made him a great photographer.

Through these activities students will explore various definitions about what constitutes art and how other periods in art history may have framed these definitions, develop their own ideas of what constitutes art, and use representative works of art to support their own definitions of art.

In this lesson students will learn about Smith's compassion for the human race through his work during WW2, examine W. Eugene Smith's photo-essays, build a pinhole camera, and create their own photo-essay.