Subject Art Calendar: 1 st Nine wks Timeframe: Level/Grade: 7/8 Unit Objectives: Upon completion of the unit TLW: Understand that art is created for practical, cultural and personal function. Understand and explain the difference between subject and theme in artworks. Learn that artworks may be created in individual, cultural or historical styles. Identify and understand ways other disciplines are connected to and informed by the visual arts. Learn to look at and comment respectfully on artworks by peers. Distinguish between two and three dimensional art forms and media. Know that sculpture, architecture, environmental design and many industrial designs and crafts are 3-D art forms. Perceive and identify the art elements in artworks: line, shape, form, color, value, space, and texture. Understand and perceive the principles of design in artworks. Lesson 1: Students will define vocabulary: subject, theme, style. Lesson 2: Students will create a drawing that fulfills one of these functions. Featured artists: M.C. Escher, Kathe Kolwitz, Leonardo da Vinci, Henry Moore, and James Wyeth. Lesson 3:Students will define vocabulary: ceramics, fresco, mobile, montage, mosaic, and relief sculpture. Lesson 4: Students will explain the difference between art media and art forms, demonstrating that 3-D artworks have height, width and depth. Lesson 5: Students will create an illusion of depth in a still life drawing, demonstrating use of gradated values Featured artists: Robert Arneson and Cindy Sherman. Lesson 6: Students will define vocabulary: line, shape, form, color, value, space, and texture. Lesson 7: Students will create a four square design in the Pop Art Style, following designated color schemes. Featrued artists: Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Activity Type: Studio lab- drawing and painting. Pencil, paper, marker, watercolor, and colored pencil. 2A, 2C 3A, 3B, 3C TA
GT Modifications: Rubric for assessment Subject Art Calendar: 2 nd Nine wks Timeframe: Level/Grade: 7 Unit Objectives: Upon completion of the unit, TLW: Understand that asking questions can guide up to better understand and appreciate artworks. Consider aesthetics questions about artworks. View and evaluate the use of face masks in different cultures and create a unique facemask. Reflect on one s own purpose and process of art making. Explain how artists select subject matter and use the elements of art to present their own interpretations of nature. Explore creating the secondary and tertiary colors and experiment with different color schemes. Lesson 1: Students will explain the role of art historians in art inquiry and define terms: art historian, art critic, artist and aesthetician. Lesson 2: Students will create and design a personal facemask using paper mache and a backboard. Lesson 3: Explain how artists select subject matter and use the elements of art to present their own interpretations of nature. Lesson 4: Create mandala using the colors of the color wheel. Lesson 5: Students will create a unified series of paintings, using shape and other design elements. Lesson 6: Identify ways color can be used to offer different interpretations of nature. Lesson 7: Students will define vocabulary: complementary, analogous expressive color, intensity, shade, spectrum, tint. Lesson 8: Students will explain the process of creating tints and shades and how creating color intensity differs from creating shades. Lesson 9: Students will create a painted interpretation of a sunset. Lesson 10: Students will create a painted interpretation of a landscape using tints and shades of colors. Featured artist: Gustave Courbet, April Gornik, Franz Marc, Theodore Waddell, and Johannes Vermeer
Activity Type: Studio lab- drawing, painting and mask making. Paper, watercolors, tempera, paper mache and pastels. 2A, 2B, 2C 3A, 3C TA GT Modifications: Rubric for assessment Subject Art Calendar: 3rd Nine wks Timeframe: Level/Grade: 7/8
Unit Objectives: Upon completion of the unit, TLW: Understand and perceive the principles of design in artworks. Perceive and identify the art elements in selected artworks. View selected artworks and describe use of pattern, balance and variety of art elements. Identify and understand ways other disciplines are connected to and informed by the visual arts. Choose and evaluate subject matter, symbols and ideas. Understand art in relation to history and cultures. Lesson 1: Students will define the principles of art: balance, unity variety, emphasis, pattern, proportion, movement and rhythm. Lesson 2: Students will create a collage and emphasize a strong center of interest. Lesson 3: Students will describe purposes and methods used by artists to create story telling artworks. Lesson 4: Explain the importance of developing a systematic approach to creating artworks in a series. Lesson 5: Students will create a unified series of three paintings using shape and other design elements to tell a story. Lesson 6: Students will define narrative art and describe similarities between narrative art of the past and that of the present, giving examples of how narrative artists of the present have been influenced by artists of the past. Lesson 7: Design and draw a comic strip. Lesson 8: Explain how a visual arts career relates to narrative art. Featured Artist Yolanda Lopes, Doug Webb, and Jacob Lawrence. Activity Type: Studio lab- drawing, painting and collage. 2A, 2C Paper, watercolors, tempera, and colored pencil. 3A, 3C TA GT Modifications: Rubric for assessment
Subject Art Calendar: 4th Nine wks Timeframe: Level/Grade: 7/8 Unit Objectives: Upon completion of the unit, TLW: Identify ways that color can be used to offer different interpretations of nature. Recognize similarities and differences among Romantic, Realist and Luminist painters. Demonstrate the process of creating tints and shades. Explain why nature is a source of inspiration for Chinese artists. Evaluate how artists work with colors and color schemes to express moods or ideas. Compare symbols in portraits by Chardin, Picasso, Kahlo and Foseca. Lesson 1: Students will create a painted interpretation of an animal in natural surroundings. Lesson 2: Students will interpret an outdoor scene by using pastels for blended color. Lesson 3: Students will learn about the process of creating color intensity and how it differs from creating shades. Lesson 4: Use watercolors to paint a colorful floral arrangement Featured Artists: Gustave Courbet, Franz Marc, JW Turner Lesson 5: Students will define monoprint, pictogram, portrait, relief print, self-portrait and symbol. Lesson 6: Students will create a set of symbol stamps for sending a message. Lesson 7: Use colored pencils to create a self-portrait. Featured Artists: Frieda Kahlo, Jean-Baptiste Chardin, Pablo Picasso, Keith Haring, and Harry Fonseca. Activity Type: Studio lab- drawing, painting and collage. Paper, watercolors, tempera, and colored pencil. 2A, 2C 3A, 3B, 3C TA GT Modifications: Rubric for assessment