Grade 6 Week

Column1 Column2 Foundations Media/Techniqu e/Product Line Pencil, Contour line drawings

Column3 Theme/Diversity

Column4 Visual Culture

Classroom Unity

Photographs from vacation spots/activities

Column5 Aesthetiscs/Art History/ Art Criticism Photo Realism. Is drawing from photographs a creative process? John Constable landscape artist

Column6 Journal

Column7 Special Needs

Write a story that goes along with the drawing.

ADHD: work in groups LD: timed conferences with teacher Gifted: Journal Extension

2 3

Shading

Charcol, Tonal/value drawings

The world around us Online images of landscapes, nature

Write about the ADHD: time break difficulty of LD: also use a photograph as an aid drawing from Gifted: create a second drawing using real life images colored pencils applying the techniques

4 5 Blending Oil Pastels, Inspiration, Racism Video of Martin Blending Luther King Jr.'s technique drawing Speech Civil Rights Movement Write a reflection of your "I have a dream" drawings ADHD: seating to avoid distractions during the video LD: written description of video for memory Gifted: Choose an African American leader and write 3 page paper about their views

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Light

Charcol, Still life drawings

Self-interests, different cultures

Personal objects

Audrey Flack personal belonging still life paintings

Write a reflection ADHD: allow break time about how your LD: use a photograph image along with items relate to the real objects you Gifted: same still life abstracted Sketch an image ADHD: one-on-one instruction with of someone being the teacher to check progress bullied and list LD: worksheet given examples of how ways to prevent line and gesture portrays mood this from Gifted: Create a scenario of a student happening being bullied. How would you handle this situation as a classmate?

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Movement

Paint, Nonobjective art with emotions

Losing forms, school bullying

Online images of Non objective art

Jackson Pollock, Alberto Burri

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Color Wheel

Magazine, Collages of Monochromatic colors

Monochromatic Food palette, the food advertisments industry and obesity from magazines

History of the color Create your own ADHD: Have pieces of magazine prewheel color wheel using cut images of food. LD: Create a list with the student of Describe the Monochromatic colors they could use affect food Gifted: Have student find articles advertising has regarding food advertisement and on people. follow up with a summary.

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Contrast

Vinyl and markers, Stained Glass Clings

Beauty

Online images of Frank Lloyd Wright stained glass windows

When have you ADHD: Continuously check on student last seen a progress stained glass LD: Allow extra class time to complete window? Did you the project consider it to be Gifted: Define beauty and how they art? feel it relates to art. Create your first sketch in the sketchbook that resembles the mood you portrayed Design a mug and include a portrait of yourself, family member, or pet ADHD: Work with a partner when putting the sketchbook together LD: Create a list with the student of colors that portray moods. Gifted: Choose a color that best fits your personality and write about it in the sketchbook. ADHD: Work with a partner when using tools to cut/score the clay LD: Provide step-by-step instruction on how to use each tool and what they do Gifted: Create two mugs; one geometric and the other organic

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Color Harmony

Paint, Colorfield sketchbook

Creating moods with color

Online images of Helen Frankenthaler colorfield artwork paintings

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Form

Clay, Slab mugs

Geometric and organic shapes

Household ceramic mugs

Functional art as Fine art

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Grade 7 Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4 Week Foundations Media/Technique/ Theme/Diversity Visual Culture Product 1 Line Black Marker, Incorporating music with art Emotional, personal lines Images of abstract artworks

Column5 Column6 Aesthetiscs/Art Journal History/ Art Criticism

Column7 Special Needs

Robert Talk about your favorite ADHD: Breaks between songs Rauschenberg song and draw an LD: Create a list with the student of association with abstract image that songs they may want to use musician, John expresses the emotion Gifted: Choose an art piece and write Cage you get from listening a story going along with the emotion to it. Cubism: Braque and Picasso Discuss the importance of the object you have chosen and how it reflects your culture. ADHD: Use less geometric shapes LD: Use less geometric shapes Gifted: Create another image with different shapes

Shading

Pencil, Shattered Images Value Study

Cultural objects

Actual object or an image of that object

3 4

Blending

Oil Pastels, Thumbnails for Cezanne

Unity within the classroom

Online image of a Cezanne art piece

Paul Cezanne

Discuss in your journal the advantages and disadvantages of collaborating with classmates for one art piece.

ADHD: Work with a partner LD: Check with classmates Gifted: Create their own Cezanne painting

5 6

Light

Recycled objects, Jellyfish sculptures

Environmental Impacts

Recycled objects found at home, online image of jellyfish, environmental ads Magazine and ads for ideas

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Draw an environmental ADHD: Individual conferences poster to help save the LD: Work with a partner jellyfish. Gifted: Do a write-up about the light affecting the sculpture

7 8

Movement

Oak tag paper, Consumer objects Acrylic paint, Creating a mobile sculpture

Pop Art

Discuss what you think ADHD: Work with partner to cut out life would be like shapes without consumer LD: Have magazine articles ready for objects? student Gifted: Create a larger scale sculpture

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Color Wheel

Paint, Monochromatic portrait

Inspirational leaders

Images found online Study of Portraits Discuss the importance or in ads of the of the person you chose leader chosen and why you chose him/her.

ADHD: Use a limited amount of colors LD: Provide list of leaders Gifted: Use two sets of Monochromatic colors

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Contrast

Paint, Persuading Advertisements

Food

Advertisements with Toulouse Lautrec's Explain in your journal ADHD: Work with partner contrasting colors Posters why contrasting colors LD: provide examples of contrasting are bad with colors advertising. Gifted: Use two sets of contrasting colors Online images of landscapes History and influence of cameras on art Discuss if you would rather paint from real life or from a photograph. ADHD: Break time LD: Help to take a picture of landscape Gifted: Create a landscape with also buildings ADHD: Work with a partner LD: Slab bowl Gifted: Make a slab and coil boil

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Color Harmony

Water color paints, Landscape Referencing images, Using images to paint photography as a source to paint

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Form

Clay, coil bowls

Design, culture

Different styles of bowls

African clay art

Students will sketch a bowl creating designs that involve their culture.

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Grade 8 Week

Column1 Foundations

Column2 Media/Technique/ Product

Column3 Theme/Diversity

Column4 Visual Culture

Column5 Aesthetiscs/Art History/ Art Criticism Is architecture art?

Column6 Journal

Column7 Special Needs

One point perspective

Drawing paper, colored pencils/ Futuristic drawing persepctive

Ideas on the future

Students will draw their idea on the future based on society today

Students will ADHD: Allow break time for explain why they student chose their image LD: Provide examples of images and how present that show what the street may have day may affect the looked like before present day for future. an idea Gifted: Students work in twopoint perspective Take one of the ADHD: Work with partner to objects from the help organize still life still life and LD: Work from photograph as create/sketch it into well something that Gifted: Include another shading would make it technique other than crosshatching interesting

2 3

Shading

Drawing paper, drawing pencils/Crosshatchi ng trompe-l'oeil still life

Personal disinterest

Stones and Other Alan Magee and Works and Alan Trompe-L'oeil art Magee

4 5

Blending

Oil pastels, paper, Rise of women graffiti Grafiti Women: Graffiti art artists Street Art from five Continents

Women Graffiti Explain in your ADHD: Individual conferences Artists, is grafiti journal why grafiti with the student art or vandalism? art should or should LD: Provide images of Grafiti art not be considered for examples. art. Gifted: Choose a Woman Graffiti artist and explain the theme used throughout her art

Light

Recycled bottles, sculpture

Making use of trash

Found bottles

Can trash be made beautiful, or art?

Sketch an image of ADHD: Work with a partner a sculpture using when cutting bottles something other LD: Continuously make than bottles. preliminary sketches used for their sculpture Gifted: Reasearch an artist who create sculptors out of recycled objects. What makes them unique?

8 9 10

Movement

Conte Crayon, moving figures

Self-interests

Students as models

Figure drawing With a partner, ADHD: keep their time as a techniques, gather photographs model short Marcel Duchamp of each other LD: Provide photographs of the moving with LED students in case of needing extra lights in the dark. time Gifted: Choose a drawing done in class and refine it ADHD: Work in groups LD: Provide examples of current news events they could choose from Gifted: Create a second sculpture using other materials along with the paper clips relating to the same event

11 12

Color Wheel

Paper Clip sculptures, color wheel scheme

Current events

Newspaper, news Everyday objects Explain in you events as art journal the current event you chose and how the paper clip sculpture relates to that event. Also explain the relation with the colors chosen

13 14 15

Contrast

Plastic face mask, Plaster, Masks

Concealing Identity

Venetian Volto Masks

Carnival of Venice

If you could cover up your identity for a day, who would you choose to be and why?

ADHD: Allow break time for student LD: Have them choose a color scheme for their masks to work from Gifted: Research the Carnival of Venice and write a 2 page paper explaining this event

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Color Harmony

Tempra Paint, Paper, Mandala

Radial Symmetry

Religious Mandalas

Art used for Religion

In your journal, ADHD: Individual conference sketch the design with student when measuring for your mandala LD: work with a partner for the that tells a story measurments and explain that Gifted: Research and write about story. a mandala used in a certain relgion

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