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Today, I got to school in the middle of first block to find that the middle schoolers were watching yet another movie. This time it was a documentary about a four-year-old painter and whether or not her art can be considered abstract fine art. After watching this movie again with the next middle school class, I went to print some permission slips with my SCORE adviser who told me a should take charge. So I went back to class (by then the class was an art foundations class) and told the sub that I think they had watched enough movies for the time being and should do one of the assignments that Ms. Epp had suggested earlier that day. Thus, I handed out a worksheet and told them to analyze one of the several pieces of famous artwork that I had spread out on a table. Thankfully, the sub was on board and after everyone had finished the worksheet, the sub held up each piece of art and the entire class analyzed each work together. I thought that while many students didn't take the analysis seriously, they still participated and even gained a curiosity about the artists and their intentions as questions arose about the depictions of the paintings. One student even looked up the artist Edward Hopper after seeing one of his paintings. I told the students that after they watched the next movie, there would be a follow-up assignment. Hopefully this will encourage the students to actually pay attention to this movie.