ART CLASS MEETS TWICE PER WEEK FOR 40 MINUTES EACH CLASS

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Students are expected to bring their sketchbook to class each day.  Class often starts with a quiet warm-up drawing (QDT).  The sketchbook will also be used for brainstorming ideas, making thumbnail sketches and rough drafts.  Sketchbooks are also used for note-taking, research and self-reflections.

A summary of progress, including information from student self-reflections and self-assessments, along with information from pre-assessments and both formative and summative assessments will be provided in narrative form at the end of the first and second semesters, at report card times.  Formative assessments include the gathering of information through daily observations, interactions, conversations, questioning and completion of activities.  Summative assessments can be considered tests.  Letter grades will not be a part of the grading system in art.

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Lesson Highlights 5/6                       Lesson Highlights 6/7                           Lesson Highlights 7/8

Art History Cubes                                 Art History Cubes                                    Art History Cubes

Animals in Watercolor                         Surrealism Self-portraits                        Animal Morph Self-Portraits

Veterans Day Poppy Posters              Skeleton Drawings - proportion            Transformation Drawing

Self-portrait silhouettes                      Editorial Cartoons                                    Editorial Cartoons

Editorial Cartoons                                "Tree of Life" acrylic paintings                Art History - with Technology             

Clay Castles                                           Mayan Lettering - printmaking              Acrylic Painting- "Day of the Dead"

Medieval Knight Sculptures                Perspective Drawing - skyscrapers       Paper Sculpture  - pos/neg  space     

Perspective Drawings                          Mayan Clay Vessels                                  Printmaking - multi-layer