8th Grade
Visual Arts
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Drawing
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Claywork
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Responding
Skills and Student Outcomes
Compositional awareness
Creating illusion of space, shape/form
Editing/revising
Grid measuring strategy
Imagination-based drawing
Observational drawing
Surface quality awareness/texture
Shading techniques- value/blending
Thumbnail sketches
Skills and Student Outcomes
Additive and subtractive processes
Control of glazes
Glazing process
Hand building techniques
Hollow/closed forms
Planning sketches
Scoring and slipping
Use of clay tools
Skills and Student Outcomes
Apply art vocabulary in expressing thoughts/opinions
Considering the thoughts/ideas of others
Critical thinking
Developing, expressing and defending your opinion
Interpreting the meaning in artwork
Putting one’s ideas into words
Self-assessment of one’s own work
The ability to make historical/cultural connections
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Color Theory Painting
Skills and Student Outcomes
Applying color schemes
Brush techniques
Brush cleaning/maintenance
Color mixing
Choosing color schemes
Recognizing color schemes
Recognizing color associations (personal, social, cultural)