Quarter 2

7th Grade Art

(2 Day Rotation: B Day)

Days: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,

Activities:

1. Watercolor: practice for final project.

2. Watercolor: complete final project.

3. Watercolor Final Project Tutorials:

Wild Flowers Daffodils Seascape Sunset Sky & Mountains Hummingbird Summer Stream

Objectives: Students will learn about watercolor and develop techniques to create a final watercolor project. The techniques they will acquire are: bands of color, thick and thin, wrist flick, painterly strokes, texture, cutting edges, wet-on-wet and dry brush.

Assessments: Students will demonstrate knowledge of watercolor by using the following techniques in their final project: bands of color, thick and thin, wrist flick, painterly strokes, texture, cutting edges, wet-on-wet and dry brush.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Days: 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37

Activities:

1. Cultural Clay Jewelry Project, research and sketches.

Homework: Project research, images and sketches.

Objective: Create clay jewelry using a culture study to incorporate your designs. Research a culture and incorporate symbolism from that culture into your necklace pieces.

Assessment: Students can discuss the culture they choose to represent in their clay jewelry piece and the symbolism that their jewelry piece represents.

Standard(s): Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Days: 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44

1. Native American Dream Catchers

2. Native American Dream Catcher History.

3. Meaning of the Native American Dream Catcher.

Homework: None.

Objective: Understand the visual arts in relation to history and the Native American Culture.

Assessment: Students will interpret and express the Native American Culture by creating a personalized Dream Catcher.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect