Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Are Artists Good Neighbors?

After reading the picture book When Pigasso Met Mootisse by Nina Laden, students will research an artist with a unique style. Students will partner with another student who's artist has a different style. Students will pretend their two artists--like Pigasso and Mootisse--live across the street from each other, and they will decorate the front of their artist's house in a style that resembles his/her style. Partners will exchange their decorated houses, and use the drawings to compose a letter of complaint in their researched artist's voice; the letter will explain to their "neighbor" what about his/her house offends the artist who is writing.