SPHS Curriculum Map

Course: Art 9

Date Revised: Summer 2013

Month / Units/Content / Objective/Outcomes/Assessments / Standards / Instructional Methods/Materials
August 26
August 30 / Gesture
Contour
/ 1.1 (Outcome) – Students will use and identify gesture, contour, continuous, and blind contour lines.
1.2 - Students will create still life drawings using gesture, contour, and blind contour methods.
1.3 - Students will be graded using a rubric / NE.VPA.K12.
V5.1
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V4.2 / Lecture
Visual Examples
Demonstration
Create artwork using sketch paper, pencil, and eraser.
September 2-6 / Contour
Blind Contour / 3.1 (Outcome) - Students will study value by creating a value scale using pencil, ink, and charcoal
2.2 - Students will take the value scale and interpret the value scale into an individual art project.
2.3 - Students must think outside of the box.
2.4 - Students will display and critique each other’s artworks. / NE.VPAK.12.
V4.2
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V8.1 / Demonstration
Value Scale Worksheet
Visual examples
Discussion Q&A
Handouts
Create artwork using collage techniques.
Critique
September 9-13 / 3. Value: Part 2 / 3.1 (Outcome) – Students will use a photo of an object to create 7 to 10 shifts in value using transitions, highlights, and contrast learned from part 1.
3.2 – Students will use a grid to draw the object.
3.3 – Students will acquire the photo from the schools digital cameras.
3.4 – Assignment will be graded with a rubric. / NE.VPAK.12.
V2.2
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V4.2 / Demonstration
Create artwork with paper and pencils.
September 16-20 / 4. Photography: Light / 4.1 (Outcome) - Students will use photography to analyze how light affects a subject.
4.2 - Students will use digital cameras to demonstrate light.
4.3 – Students will be assigned to stage their photograph subject recreating a famous work of art through photograph.
4.4 - Critique photographs as a class. / NE.VPA.K12.
V8.2
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V8.3
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V5.2 / Review camera functions
Lecture: staged photography and light
Visual examples
Create artwork using subject and digital camera.
Critique
November / 5. Self-Portraits / 5.1 (Outcome) – Students will create a self-portrait.
5.2 – Students will use pencil.
5.3 – Students will be graded using a rubric. / NE.VPAK.12.
V4.2
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V4.3 / Visual example
Lecture
Demonstrations
Create artwork using pencil and eraser.
December / 6. Form / 6.1 (Outcome) – Students will study the human face.
6.2 – Students will create a plaster mask that will fit on a human face.
6.3 – Students will be responsible for choosing a theme (animal, decorative, partial, full, etc.).
6.4 – Students will be graded with a rubric. / NE.VPAK.12.
V4.2
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V2.3 / Demonstration
Lecture
Visual examples
Create artwork plaster and paint.
January / 7. Clay: Decorative Slab Boxes / 7.1 (Outcome) – Students will learn about the clay process.
7.2 – Students will be tested on the clay process.
7.3 – Students will learn about constructing clay boxes using the slab method.
7.4 – Students will create a slab box that they will decorate on five sides to describe themselves.
7.5 – Students will be graded with a rubric. / NE.VPAK.12.
V5.1
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V4.2 / Lecture
Visual examples
Test
Demonstration
Hands on project with clay
February / 8. Color and Shape / 8.1 (Outcome) - Students will study color schemes while creating a geometric abstract painting.
8.2 – Students will sketch out design before painting.
8.3 – Students will be given a test on the color schemes: analogous, secondary, primary, complement, and neutral color schemes.
8.4 – Students will choose a color scheme and paint their painting.
8.5 – Painting will be graded with a rubric / NE.VPAK.12.
V4.2
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V7.2 / Lecture
Visual examples
Test
Demonstration
Hands on projects with paint
February-March / 9. Space / 9.1 (Outcome) – Students will study space and watercolor techniques while creating landscapes.
9.2 – Students will be visually influenced by landscape artist techniques: overlapping, size, change in clarity, diagonal composition, and winding paths.
9.3 – Students will be graded with a rubric. / NE.VPAK.12.
V4.2
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V7.1 / Lecture
Sketchbook Time
Demonstration
Hands on project with watercolors
March-April / 10. Art History Project / 10.1 (Outcome) – Students will learn about an artist in history.
10.2 – Students will choose an artist to create a presentation about.
10.3 – Students will create an artwork inspired by the artist chosen using any materials the class has previously used.
10.4 – Students will present the artist and the artwork created to the class using a power-point presentation.
10.5 – Students graded with a rubric. / NE.VPAK.12.
V4.2
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V1.3 / Lecture
Demonstration
Presentation example
Research and PowerPoint
Create artwork using chosen media.
Give presentations
May / 11. Repetition Junk Sculptures / 11.1 (Outcome) – Students will learn about repetition by creating a sculpture out of found objects.
11.2 – Students will be giving the whole school year to collect the same object repeatedly.
11.3 – Students will be graded with a critique and rubric. / NE.VPAK.12.
V4.2
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V8.1 / Collection time
Lecture
Tool discussion
Create artwork using tools, glue, and found materials.

Additional Learning Activities:

Artist of the Month Journal writings about artists (descriptions, comparisons, connections, and reactions to artwork). Students will choose an artist each week to speek about. Student will find three representational pieces from each artist. They will present the images to the class and using proper art vocabulary tell us why they did or did not like the artist and his/her work. Some artist from the list are: August: Alberto Giacometti, September: Loui Jover, October: Dorothea Lange, November: Leonardo DaVinci, December: Jeff Semmerling and Sonja Schaefer, January: Lisa Pedolsky, February: Mark Rothko, March: Frank Eber, April: Student Presentations, May: Leo Sewell

Sketch Assignments - Continuous practice drawing outside of class assignments

Writing Across the Curriculum. PROPEL Assessment Activity
Students will be asked to recycle “junk” that they can use for a sculpture that uses repetition (so they will need a large amount of the same object).

Curriculum Map Art 9 revised spring 2014Tim ONeill