As a first year art teacher, this was my first attempt at a group project. I was very hesitant at first but very pleasantly surprised by the way my 6th graders worked together. For the school's black history month concert, I chose Michael Jackson as a focus in honor of his passing away. My sixth graders were each given a different verse to Michael Jackson's "We are the World" They were to make a sketch that really went along with the words or feeling of their verse. Students got into groups with classmates who had the same verse as them, making the groups random. THe students were instructed to look at each group members sketches and discuss which one they thought would work the best. The students were then to make a final sketch together as a group. THey could combine aspects from each of the four sketches or come up with a new one together as a group.
