Quarter 3

8th Grade Art

(2 Day Rotation: A Day)

Days: 1

Activities:

1. Introduction and course expectations.

2. Make Portfolio to store work in.

Objective(s): Become familiar with the course expectations & projects. Use the portfolio to store work in the art room. The portfolio will focus on organizational skills and personal pride in student work.

Assessment(s): Students will have an understanding of course expectations. Students will use the portfolio for organizational skills in the classroom.

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

Days: 2, 3, 4,

Activities:

  1. Daily Doodle.

2. Oil Pastel techniques:

Tints and shades, pressure blends, stippling, scrumbling, sgraffito and blending.

Objective(s): Work with oil pastels as a medium to create tints and shades, pressure blends, stippling, scrumbling, sgaffito and blending.

Assessment(s): Students will demonstrate how to use oil pastels to create tints and shades, pressure blends, stippling, scrumbling, sgaffito and blending.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Days: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

Activities:

  1. Daily Doodle.

2. Basic Oil Pastel Techniques: Rule of 3's

Objective(s): Use color theory and take 3 different colors and layer them with oil pastels to create an abstract work of art with a variety of shapes. Each shape should have a different mixture of 3 colors layered.

Assessment(s): Create an artwork by using color theory and layering of 3 oil pastel colors using a variety of shapes and colors to complete an abstract work of art.

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

Days: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,

Activities: Select one for a final project.

1. Flower Tree drawing with Oil Pastels

2. Northern Lights Mountain Sky

3. Northern Lights Forest

4. Oil Pastel Winter Scenery

Objective(s): Work with oil pastels as a medium to create tints and shades, pressure blends, stippling, scrumbling, sgraffito and blending to create a project.

Assessment(s): Students will demonstrate how to use oil pastels to create tints and shades, pressure blends, stippling, scrumbling, sgraffito and blending.

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

Activities:

1. Learn the history of Vincent Van Gogh.

2. Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night at the MoMA

3. Tutorial of a recreation of Starry Night using oil pastels.

Homework: Practice using oil pastels for fun at home! :)

Objectives: Study history and artwork by Vincent Van Gogh to inspire their own oil pastel artwork.

Assessments: Students will create an oil pastel artwork with inspiration from Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Activities:

1. Flower Tree drawing with Oil Pastels

Homework: Practice using oil pastels for fun at home! :)

Objectives: Create a Flower Tree drawing with Oil Pastels, using the following: rule of 3's, tints and shades, pressure blends, stippling, scrumbling, sgaffito and blending.

Assessments: A final work of art that resembles a Flower Tree using oil pastels and the following: rule of 3's, tints and shades, pressure blends, stippling, scrumbling, sgaffito and blending.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Activities:

1. Introduction to Clay.

Homework: None.

Objectives: Learn how to form pottery using coil techniques and glaze.

Assessments: Students will create a coil vessel using a variety of texture, pattern, adequate seams, proper use of tools, and glaze the piece.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Activities:

1. How to make a coil vessel video demonstration.

Homework: None.

Objectives: Learn how to form pottery using coil techniques and glaze.

Assessments: Students will create a coil vessel using a variety of texture, pattern, adequate seams, proper use of tools, and glaze the piece.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Activities:

  1. Distribute clay.

2. Practice using the clay tools, roll coils and slabs.

Homework: None.

Objectives: Learn how to form pottery using coil techniques and glaze.

Assessments: Students will create a coil vessel using a variety of texture, pattern, adequate seams, proper use of tools, and glaze the piece.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Days:

Activities:

1. Construct a clay coil vessel.

Objectives: Learn how to form pottery using coil techniques and glaze the piece.

Assessments: Students will create a coil vessel using a variety of texture, pattern, adequate seams, proper use of tools, and glaze the piece.

Standards: Create, Present, Respond, Connect