8th Grade

The 8th graders honed their skills in art class by incorporating their learning in social studies about the Appalachian Trail, their lessons in Advisory about tolerance, their understanding of human anatomy in science and finally, their research about their chosen technology for Exhibition, a culminating research and presentation project.

Students began the year with the study of the Appalachian Trail in social studies, while in art class, students learned to draw landscapes from observation and completed them with watercolor pencil. Students examined the school-wide policy of tolerance and using art to create commentary on social issues as they created tunnel books OR THROUGH PRINTMAKING in the style of the artist and activist, Keith Haring. To improve their scientific observation skills, students recorded the details of their hand as carefully as they could. Then, they added the bones of the hand by working from a print from An Atlas of Anatomy for Artists.