akendrick

Class Information
Teacher Name	Amy Kendrick
Grade	6th, 7th, & 8th
Academic Team	Cultural Arts
Subject	Visual Art and Yearbook Staff
Room #	122
E-Mail	apkendrick@clevelandcountyschools.org
Planning Time	8:00- 9:05
This page was last updated on: October 28, 2009


	News and Announcements:

	The Yearbook Staff is currently working on the theme idea for the 2010 yearbook, though you won't know what it is until May! They are also learning layout and design and have started uploading photos that they've taken that will be added to the pages they are working on. They will be writing stories and captions for their spreads this week. Art students have just finished their grid portraits. They used the grid technique to help them understand the proportions of the head and face. They colored each individual square of their grid in which their portrait is drawn so that their finished portraits look similar to a Chuck Close portrait painting. The upper grades are beginning to work on their tessellations, a repeating pattern that creates an optical illusion. All art classes created Dia de los Muertos skulls and flowers for the Mexican holiday Nov. 2nd-4th


	Important Dates:

	October 28th is the end of the first nine weeks. Sixth graders will begin their second nine weeks elective classes. October 30th is a planning day.


		Homework Assignments:

	You can only get better at drawing by practicing. Practice drawing anything and everything you can see or imagine!


		Links and Online Resources:


		Downloads:

	Art Webquest


		Additional Information:

	Students need to be prepared for class each day. Art supply checklist: a supply of wooden pencils a large eraser a hand-held pencil sharpener that catches its own shavings


		Frequently Asked Questions:

	What will be doing in art class? My Art Syllabus Sixth Grade This is an overview of what you will be doing in visual art class this nine weeks grading period. The assignments may change as the teacher sees necessary. In art class you will be learning about the elements and principles of design, and you will do a variety of hands- on art projects. You will receive a grade for each assignment in this class just as you do in all of your other classes. Week 1 Drawing 1. Folder Cover Design 2. Three- dimensional Shapes Week 2 Drawing (contd.) 3. Value Scales 4. Adventures in Value Quiz 5. Adventures in Line 6. Cartoon or other line drawings Week 3 Colored Pencils 7. Color 8. Color Wheel Spinner 9. Color Word Search Puzzle Quiz 10. Colored pencil techniques 11. Drawing of still life using colored pencils Week 4 Painting 12. Becoming Van Gogh video questions 13. Van Gogh example 14. Painting in the style of Van Gogh Week 5 Clay 15. Clay Pinch Pot 14. Glazing clay Week 6 3-D Sculpture 16. Twisteze or other 3-D 17. Alexander Calder video with questions Week 7 Fiber Art_________________________________ ______ 16. Weaving with a cardboard loom Week 8 Printmaking_______________________________________ 17. Styrofoam carving with pencil or toothpick 18. Inking a plate 19. Making multiple original prints including artist signature (1/5, 2/5, etc.) Week 9 Review_________________________________________ ____ 20. Art game to review terms 21. Mixed media project as time allows My Art Syllabus Seventh & Eighth Grades Week 1 Drawing__________________________________ 1. Folder Cover Design- Radial symmetry or other pattern 2. Introduce three- dimensional shapes as time allows Week 2 Drawing (contd.) 3. Value Scales 4. Adventures in Value Quiz 5. Basic Shapes drawing 6. Still life drawing with light source Week3ColoredPencils 7. Color Wheel vocabulary 8. Color Wheel Spinner 9. Color Word Search Puzzle Quiz 10. Color basic shapes or other drawing to look 3D Week 4 Colored Pencils (contd.)_______________ ___ _ 11. Chuck Close video and/or slideshow 12. Head shot photo of each student 13. Grid drawing to begin self- portrait 14. Self- portrait Week 5 Colored Pencils (contd.)_______________ _ 15. Self- portrait continued Week 6 Perspective _________________ 16. One- point perspective drawing of cityscape Week 7 Painting_______________________________ _ 17. Impressionism video with questions 18. Pointillism painting using q-tips and tempera paint Week 8 Painting (contd.)__________________________ 19. Georgia O’keeffe video with questions 20. O’keeffe style painting with watercolors on large sturdy paper Week 7 Clay 21. Clay terms and techniques/ practice each 22. Clay utilitarian object 23. Clay sculpture or handmade jewelry or rattle Week 8 Clay (contd.) 24. Clay sculpture/ handmade jewelry/ rattle (contd.) 25. Firing clay 26. Glazing clay Week 9 Review _________________________________ _ _ 27. Art games to review terms 28. Test on first nine weeks terms and art techniques Week 10 Fiber Art_____________________________ __ _ 29. Discovery Education video with questions 30. Weaving with a cardboard loom or other fiber project Week 11 Printmaking______________________________ _31. Andy Warhol video with questions 32. Styrofoam or rubber carving 33. Inking a plate 34. Making multiple original prints with proper artist signature (1/10, 2/10, etc.) Week 12 Sculpture____________________________________ 35. Alexander Calder video with questions 36. Mobile or other sculpture project Week 13 Sculpture (contd.)__________________ 37. Discovery Education video on cultures that use masks as tradition 38. Mask- making project Week 14 Mixed Media_____________________________ 39. Collage 40. Assemblage Week 15 Webquest____________________________________ 41. Art history webquest in media center lab Week 16 Art History Presentation_______________________________________ 42. Group presentation of research collected during webquest Week 17 Handmade Sketchbook________________________________________ 43. Make a sketchbook bound with yarn 44. Decorate the cover 45. Fill the sketchbook with drawings using “Drawing Drawer” Week 18 Review_____________________________________________________ 46. Games to review second nine weeks material


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