Course Description
This course will allow students to develop basic artistic skills to increase their confidence in expressing themselves through drawing, painting, sculpture. Several ‘mini lessons’ will help students to overcome some common pitfalls in trying to draw from observation. We will also experiment with color themes through watercolors and form through clay sculptures. Introduction with the Elements of Art will improve students’ capacity to describe and reflect upon art.
This course is nine weeks in length.
Academic Standards
Art Standards
- Creating: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Combine concepts collaboratively to generate artistic ideas.
- Creating: Refine and complete artistic work. Reflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise.
- Presenting: Select, analyze and interpret. Analyze similarities and differences associated with presenting 2-D and 3-D artwork.
- Responding: Analyze artistic work. Analyze how visual components and cultural associations influence ideas.
- Connecting: Relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Generate a collection of current interests to inspire art.
Approaches to Learning Skills
Thinking Skills
- Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument
- Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
- Evaluate evidence and arguments
- Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
- Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
Social Skills
- Practice empathy
- Delegate and share responsibility for decision making
- Manage and resolve conflict and work collaboratively
- Negotiate effectively
- Encourage others to contribute
Communication Skills
- Give/receive feedback
- Use appropriate forms of writing for various purposes and audiences
- Interpret and use modes of non-verbal communication
- Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and teachers
- Organize and depict information logically
Self-Management Skills
- Plan short and long term assignments; meet deadlines
- Set goals that are challenging and realistic
- Bring necessary supplies to class
- Practice bouncing back after adversity, mistakes and failures
- Develop new skills, techniques for effective learning
Research Skills
- Access info to be informed and inform others
- Make connections between various sources of information
- Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied sources
- Use critical literacy skills to analyze and interpret media communications
- Present information in a variety of formats and platforms