DEAR STUDENTS AND PARENTS BEGINNING THE 'O9-'10 SCHOOL YEAR: The information below will tell you what is scheduled for my class. Sixth grade is listed first, then seventh grade. If a date isn't current, you are looking at the schedule for the previous trimester, which will give you a pretty good idea of what will be happening when. Each trimester is different, however, depending on field trips, assemblies, standardized testing, and just the general daily happenings. (Sometimes I even think of a better way of doing something!) I will update the schedules as we go along. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to e-mail. Let's make it a great year!

Ms. Hayday


ART 6, 2009-2010  TRIMESTER 1

(For grade 7, keep scrolling to the next large heading)


9/8: General introduction to class. Begin "Expressive Line" activity. This teacher-guided activity will not receive a grade.


9/9: Complete "Expressive Line" activity. Instructions for "Elements of Art" sheet, which is due tomorrow.


9/10: In-class activity in which students use their art textbook to find works of art that utilize art elements (line, shape, color, value, etc.) to express particular moods or ideas. Students then discuss in groups which works are the best examples, and a spokesperson for each group presents the result to the class.

9/11: Yesterday's activity is completed. Students learn to identify works of art as either realistic or abstract and to explain why. They then begin their own abstract colored-pencil drawings expressing an idea or feeling of their choice. Students are given approximately 3 days in class to produce 2 small drawings, due by 9/21. (These will each receive a letter grade.)

9/14, 9/15, 9/16: Continue work on abstract colored pencil drawings expressing an idea or emotion. (Two are due on Monday, 9/21.)  Shortened class periods on 9/14.

9/17: Students view examples of quilt designs and watch a video on the quilts created by the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, which have been exhibited in major art museums and included in a series of U.S. postal stamps. Students begin drawing a related design of their own.

9/18, 9/21: Students finish designs and use a "crayon rubbing" technique to create patterns in the spaces on their quilt-inspired design. They may also draw their own patterns. The project will be continued during class. No homework has been assigned.

9/22: Discussion of resist techniques such as batik and Easter egg dying. Demonstration of procedures for mixing watercolor washes to apply to the crayon texture rubbings to create a contrasting resist. Vocabulary: wash, transparent, contrast, resist.

9/23: Students continue applying watercolors to their quilt designs.

9/24: More Elements sheet, done in class, due tomorrow. This sheet deals with the concepts of shape and form, positive and negative space, and visual and tactile texture. Students finish resist, study for midterm test, scheduled for OCTOBER 13******.  Students have received a list of terms and definitions (the Art Terms list), with the test terms marked for them.

9/25, 9/28: Paint the Color sheet, an in-class assignment requiring students to use only the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) to mix all colors on the color wheel. On the sheet, colors are identified as primary, secondary, or intermediate and as either warm or cool. Instructions for painting with tempera paint are given.

9/29: Students add colored-pencil emphasis to the rubbing/resist project. Students apply the principle of emphasis by darkening, brightening, or adding detail to areas of texture and color to make them more prominent.

Turn project in when finished.

9/30: Instructions for painting #1, using geometric shapes, warm colors, and opaque tempera paint. Students mix secondary and intermediate warm colors and tints (made by adding white).

10/1, 10/2, 10/5: Paint.

10/6: Instructions for painting #2, using freeform shapes, cool colors, and watercolor wash.

10/7: Continue painting.

10/8: Instructions for painting #3. This assignment is a landscape or cityscape incorporating foreground, middleground, and background space. Color scheme is neutrals (black, white, brown, gray) mixed/layered with spectral colors, to create golden-browns, reddish browns, bluish grays, yellowish whites, etc. The medium to be used is watercolor colored pencils. 

10/9: Continue work on paintings.

10/12: Review, paint.

MIDTERM VOCABULARY TEST IS OCTOBER 13. 

10/14: Grade tests, paint.

10/19, 20, 21: Two sketching packets are done in class in preparation for the upcoming bird/reptile/amphibian drawing. (Students will need a black felt-tip pen for that assignment.) Using basic shapes in sketching, measuring proportion, and attention to detail were stressed in class. Students who need to finish paintings may do so, but the sketching assignment then becomes homework.

10/22: Start new project, a drawing done in felt-tip pen. Students select a bird, reptile, or amphibian to draw in its environment. They should study pictures to learn about details, but the composition (arrangement on the page) must be their  own design. Use of textures, patterns, and a variety of values (areas of light and dark) are objectives of the assignment. Students are shown the following techniques of shading: stippling, hatching, and cross-hatching. 

10/23: No school. 

10/26, 10/27, 10/28, 10/29, 10/30: Continue work on drawing.

11/2: Work on drawing if necessary. Complete "Language of Art" sheet in class.

11/3: Go over Language of Art. Begin art history packet.

11/4: Complete art history packet.

11/5: Art history videos.

11/6: Bird/reptile/amphibian drawing due. Go over art history packet, short lesson on drawing boxes in one-point linear perspective.

11/9: Continued work on one-point perspective with worksheet assignment in which students draw boxes and complete a drawing of a hallway with lockers.

11/10, 11/11, 11/12, 11/13, 11/16, 11/17, 11/18, 11/19, 11/20: Design, enlarge, color, and paint fish mobile project. (Students may make smaller "baby" fish to hang from the primary fish.) In any free time, students should be preparing for the final test, having received a list of which terms will be on that test.  Definitions are in the Art Terms list and the art history packet. The Language of Art sheet covers some of the terms as well.

11/23: Review for test. Continue fish.

11/24: FINAL TEST. 

11/30, 12/1: Finish fish, grade tests.

12/2: Attach strings to fish, attach baby fish, locate missing work.

12/3: Last day of trimester. Pass back work, clean out storage shelves, finish any remaining tasks.

 

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ART 7, 2009-2010 TRIMESTER 1



9/8: Introduction to art class and the concept of creativity. Video featuring a television producer, a dancer, a photographer, a writer and teacher, a clothing designer, and an architect and their thoughts about learning and creating. (Begin Creativity sheets.)

9/9: Discussion of creativity continues. (Turn in Creativity sheets.) Reading assignment and sheet on art careers is begun in class.

9/10: Complete Careers sheet in class. Due tomorrow. Students may borrow a copy of the chapter to finish at home if necessary.  Bring colored pencils or markers tomorrow.

9/11: After learning about the job of a graphic designer, students work in class to create a design for the front of a t-shirt. The design may be a personal logo, representing the student and his or her interests. Colored pencil or marker, due Tuesday 9/15.

9/14:  Do and go over Expectations packet (on class behavior and procedures).

9/15: Go over Careers sheet. See video about the making of the animated character SpongeBob Squarepants, including viewing storyboards and voice actors.

9/16: Short video segment on Sesame Street's international range and its use as an educational tool. Work in class on Frank Lloyd Wright sheet, due tomorrow.

Note: CAREERS TEST has been scheduled for TUESDAY, SEPT. 29********

9/17: Go over Frank Lloyd Wright sheet, see video on Falling Water House, discuss tips for remembering names on test.

9/18: Video segments on Frederick Law Olmsted (designer of New York's Central Park) and Frank Gehry (Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, glass fish in the Sculpture Garden, etc.). Students receive assignment sheet for developing a cartoon character, due 9/22.

9/21: Video on history of special effects. Groups for cartoon project requested/assigned.


9/22: Cartoon-character assignment sheet due when students come into class. Students begin working in small groups to compare and refine ideas and develop one character per group.

9/23, 9/24, 9/25: Groups continue working to produce a final idea (detailed on the group sheet) and a large, color drawing of the final character. Review for careers test.


COLOR TEST IS SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 13.

9/28: In groups, do Color Terms sheet, and work on cartoon in remaining time. When/if finished, students should read, do other homework, or draw.

9/29: Careers test.******* Students should bring a book to read in case they finish early. When all students are finished, groups may work on their cartoon character.


9/30: Class goes over Color Terms sheet, makes corrections, and receives a list of the terms that will be on the OCTOBER 13 COLOR TEST******. Class plays a game to test their knowledge of the color terms. Class also gets a copy (and performance)of Ms. Hayday's "Color Rap," written as a study aid.

10/1: Grade careers test, finish work on cartoon project. Students should assign the tasks of presenting the visuals, voice, and other descriptions of their characters, as they are to be given by the group on the next day in class. In remaining time, work on flashcards or study sheets for learning color terms. If all students are finished with cartoons, play a game to review color terms. 


10/2: Groups present their cartoon projects to the class.

10/5: In class, using tempera paint, begin painting color wheel. Using only the primary colors, students are to mix secondary and intermediate colors and paint them in the correct location on the wheel.

10/6: Paint value and intensity scales. (Students create a range of values, or dark and light, by adding black or white to a primary color. Adding black creates a shade; adding white creates a tint. Next, students paint an intensity scale by selecting a primary color and mixing into it increasing amounts of its complement.) 

When students have finished, they should start the Color Schemes sheet by drawing three designs and by copying the required definitions.

10/7, 10/8: Paint Color Schemes sheet. On this sheet, students select colors for painting the first two designs in monochromatic and complementary color schemes. The third design is to be painted in an analogous scheme. After copying the definitions of the schemes, students write their selected colors on the sheet. Students must have the teacher verify that the colors fit the intended scheme before applying paint.

10/9: Turn in finished Color Wheel and Color Schemes sheets before beginning design for new project: an abstract design based on letters of the student's name, using alphabets and symbols from around the world or invented by the student. Students are to select a color scheme (monochromatic, analogous, complementary, or neutral), list the colors they intend to use in the scheme, and have the teacher check the list before the students begin to paint.

10/12: Continue project. Review for color test.

10/13: COLOR TEST. 

10/14, 10/19, 10/20, 10/21, 10/22: Paint, grade tests.

10/26: Reading assignment on balance and proportion.

10/27: Discussion of the artist Chuck Close. Watch video about the artist, who painted large portraits by using a grid.

10/28: Use a grid to draw a face. Portrait partners for upcoming project are requested/assigned.

10/29: Go over balance/proportion sheet. Turn in this sheet and the gridded faces. Portrait partners are announced. With portrait drawing handout, students practice drawing eyes, nose, and mouth using basic shapes and adding shading.

10/30: Shading styles are desribed. Students spend the class period on practice sheet for shading a face. Blending, hatching, erasing highlights, noting the shapes of shadows, and careful attention to each feature on the face are stressed. Assignment is collected at the end of the class period.

11/2: Instructions are given for drawing face, neck, and shoulders of a classmate. Location of eyes, methods of drawing nose and mouth are reviewed. "Sighting," a technique of visually measuring proportion, is explained. Students begin drawing portraits of their partners.

11/3: Continue work on portraits.

11/4, 11/5: Work on portraits. Each student should complete a shaded drawing that includes at least four different values (degrees of darkness and light).

11/6: Begin Monet video.

11/9: Finish Monet dvd and video.

11/10, 11/11: Dvd on American Impressionist Mary Cassatt.

  : Start art history packet #1 (Impressionism and Post-Impressionism). Students who still need to work on portraits may do so.

  (Courage Retreat affected scheduling.)

 11/16: Continue packet #1.  

11/17:  Go over packet #1. See additional video material on Monet and waterlilies at Giverny.

11/18, 11/19: Work on packet #2. (Matisse and Fauvism, Picasso and Cubism, Surrealism, Dada, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Regionalism and Grant Wood, Assemblage and Louise Nevelson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Abstract Expressionism, Op Art, Pop Art, New Realism, etc.)

11/20: Romare Bearden information, video segment. Assignment of final project, a collage based on the work of Bearden or Matisse or Surrealist artists. The collage must show a scene of some sort, with foreground, middleground, and background, not just be a collection of pictures. It should have a theme, whether personal or nonsensical.

11/23: Go over packet #2.

11/24: Finish going over packet #2. See dvd's on art history material we have covered. 

11/30: Review for art history test. Work on project in class.

12/1: Art history test.  Work on project in class.

12/2: Work on project, grade tests.

12/3: Last day. Final project due at the end of the period.  Work is passed back, storage shelves cleaned out, last chance to get credit for missing work.

 
 

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