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HIGH SCHOOL (ART) CURRICULUM GUIDE

Artistic Process Strand 3: Respond

Stage 1: Desired Results
Anchor Standard 7:
·  Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Enduring Understandings:
·  Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed.
·  Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Questions:
·  How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art?
·  How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world?
·  What can we learn from our responses to art?
·  What is an image?
·  Where and how do we encounter images in our world?
·  How do images influence our views of the world?
What Key Knowledge and Skills will Students acquire as a result of this unit?
Knowledge: / Skills:
A.  Proficient
B.  Accomplished
C.  Advanced / ·  Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
·  Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.
·  Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
·  Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
·  Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
·  Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture. / Research, Analysis, Writing
Research, Analysis, Writing, Connecting
Research, Analysis, Writing, Connecting, Responding
Stage 2: Assessment Evidence
What evidence will show that students understand?
Performance Task Option(s):
Proficient:
·  Research details from various sources to learn about a favorite artist/artwork.
·  Write an essay about a favorite artist/artwork.
Accomplished:
·  Critically review artworks by making personal connections to artist, medium, meaning.
Advanced:
·  Discuss the meaning of an artwork or series of artworks to personal and communal responses to the selected work(s).
Student Learning Objective / Students will (I will) be able to:
Proficient:
·  Analyze how Art is influenced by an artist’s experience(s).
Accomplished:
·  Justify personal connections to an artwork.
Advanced:
·  Discover similarities and differences within and between Art periods/movements.
·  Analyze how an individual or community may respond differently to a single artwork.
Notes:

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