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For this lesson students will look at Ex Libris prints used in the past and present. Students will reflect on their own lives with regards to family, interests, and personality as a way of brainstorming for an Ex Libris design of their own. Students will draft their Ex Libris prints in pencil before transferring their finished design onto a linoleum block for carving and printing. Students print their Ex Libris blocks on paper creating a small edition of prints

Objectives

Students will determine different aspects and characteristics of their lives through brainstorming

Students will draft three thumbnail sketches for review

• Students will refine their best thumbnail sketch into a black and white design
• Students will practice using linoleum cutting tools and creating different kinds of marks

Students will prepare their final linoleum block for printing:

• Students transfer their designs onto their linoleum block for carving
• Students carve their linoleum blocks with different tools making different kinds of marks

Students will print their linoleum blocks in a variety of different ways

• Students print their blocks in one flat color Ex: black ink on white paper
• Students print their blocks with a lighter background color printed first
• Students print their blocks on top of another classmates print

Students reflect upon their artistic choices in written form

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IStudents will express their personality through the creation of their own personal logos. Students brainstorm ideas and record aspects of their personality and lives through written lists. Written lists will be translated in drawing form and eventually burned onto silkscreen frames for printing. Students will understand the way in which graphic tees and other apparel are printed in the real world

Objectives

Students brainstorm logo ideas

• Through written lists of their personal interests and attributes
• Through discussion about logos and their qualities
• By responding to prompts provided by the teacher to guide the thought process

Students draft logos with thumbnail sketches

• Through converting their lists into ideas for symbols
• Converting their ideas into drawings relative to the size of the linoleum block
• With the capabilities of the silkscreen medium in mind (flat image, strictly black and white shapes and lines)
• By applying previous and newly learned information about logos and their characteristics to their logo designs
• Through application of feedback given by teacher and peers

Students learn about screen preparation and exposure through supplementary videos and demonstrations

• Printing Transparencies
• Coating Screens
• Exposing and Rinsing Screens

Students will learn to create clean silkscreen prints

• By inking, and printing their screens on scrap paper, final draft paper, and on fabric (tee shirts)
• By printing a set of prints identical to one another in registration and overall quality

Students will evaluate their own work as well as the work of their peers

• Through discussion during critique
• Through documenting the feedback of their teacher and their peers
• Through application of feedback from teacher and peers

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Students will create self-portraits that include various elements relating to their personality and interests that they feel define who they are as people. Through engaging in the creative process students will formulate written lists to organize and develop their thoughts in visual form. The critique process will allow students to work together in order to refine and strengthen their narrative elements. Through self-portraiture and symbolism students will be relaying a visual representation of their personal narratives.

Objectives

Students will brainstorm their personal narrative through writing

• Students create organized lists with multiple examples of personal traits and interests for each prompt on their Narrative Brainstorming Sheet

Students will establish their personal narrative through the use of symbolism

• Students utitilize the Narrative Brainstorming Sheet to create symbols of their traits and interests

Students will create a work of art that signifies their life experiences and interests

• Students incorporate eight total visual elements and one setting that describes their life experiences and interests in their Narrative Self-Portraits

Students will portray themselves in a setting of importance to them

Students will draw their self-portraits from direct observation

• Students will utilize a mirror during the drawing process
• Students work shows evidence of measuring lines
• Student draws their own face proportionally according to Resource Material and teacher instruction

Students will have an in process critique in order to assess their own work as well as the work of their peers

• Students use descriptive language to offer constructive feedback to their peers
• Students utilize feedback from the in-process critique to create well rounded final pieces
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Students will create four-panel recycled cardboard cover accordion books. Students will begin by interviewing a partner and collecting information in written lists. Through the creative process, students will develop their writing into visual form. These books will contain aspects and experiences of the students' lives through the artistic expression of their own classmates. Students accordion books will contain symbols representing past events, current interests, and future aspirations as well as captions of their classmates lives created by the students to aid the viewer through their partners personal narrative.

Objectives

Students will formulate lists of questions to ask a classmate in an interview style discussion

• Student utilizes the Pre-Interview Question Planner to formulate ten questions for a peer to answer during an interview

Students draft their books through interviews and written accounts of events and interests of their classmates

• Student possesses a manuscript of an interview(s) with one of their classmates
• Students works together with classmate to determine which events and interests to include in their books

Students will create mock drafts of their final products

• Students utilizes measuring and folding techniques to create a layout identical to that of the final draft
• Students draw and write on their identical layouts as a way of planning for their final drafts

Students will collaborate to describe chosen events and aspirations in writing

• Students summarize scenes and symbols in written form
• Students write captions below their classmates symbolized moments and aspirations

Students will model understanding of symbolism through artistic 2D and 3D representations of stories

• Students utilize their interview manuscripts to determine events and significant moments and interests in their classmates lives
• Students collaborate to determine how their chosen events and moments are represented symbolically
• Students render their classmates significant moments in drawn symbolic form

Students will create a short, decorative, accordion book, containing a timeline of their classmates personal events

• Students accordion book contains four snapshots or significant events and aspirations relating to their classmates lives
• Students measure and fold a 4x18" strip of paper into six equal sections
• Students final draft utilizes the four inner panels with the first and last panels being blank end sheets
• Students covers are proportionate to one another

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