Fine Arts Curriculum Map

High School Art

Draft

 

ESSENTIAL QUESTION (optional)

CONTENT

SKILLS

ASSESSMENT

RESOURCE

August         

Establish a starting point

Pre-instruction Drawings

Identify skills and learning objectives

Complete project

 

September

1. Explore the expressive qualities of line: thick, thin, light, dark, geometric, organic, quick, slow, and implied.                              

2. Subjective vs. objective drawing. Using line to describe contours, edges, and overlaps                        

3. Using shape to define form and space.

1. Expressive Line Drawing                

2. Exercised, Blind Contour, Modified Contour, Continuous line, Quick and Slow Contours, StillLife                                           3. Upside down drawings.

Still Life

1. Develop sensitivity to line quality.                                      

2. Develop observation skills. Develop hand to eye coordination. Experience varied drawing processes.                                                     3. Proportion and composition.                               

1. Drawing use 3 or more expressive qualities of line.         

2. Sensitivity is evident in line quality. Objective concentration is evident.                                      3. Relationships of shapes and spaces.

Pencil, crayon, charcoal, felt pen   Document camera

October

Value: the range of light to dark in a drawing.   Subjective: Value used to express mood or feeling.                        Objective: Value used to define form in space           

Expressive Drawing                    Value scale/shading exercise      Still Life Drawing

Expressive effects, manipulating media                                       Observational skills.                  

Additive and subtractive skills.    

Process: Plan, revise, layout, mass in, develop drawing (Designed to help students see the drawing process as working with relationships- holistic)

Uses 3 or more expressive effects

Objective concentration is evident.     

Self Assessment Critique

Charcoal, graphite

November

Value continued

 

 

 

 

December

Portraits

Proportions                                

Point of view                                Working with process                Monochromatic-Intro color-while maintaining value's importance

Reinforce process.                   

Objective and subjective.           

Introduce color.                         

Explore difference between the function of color and value.

Group Assessment Critique

 

January

Color Theory                             

Using Color Subjective and Objective                                        

 Self Portraits

 

February

Ceramics Working with 3-D form and surface

Form and surface                       Texture, Polished

Hue, Saturation, value                

Color mixing                              

Using art elements for expressive qualities

Explore color combinations         

March

Ceramics

 

Working with hand building techniques: Pinch, coil, slab

 

April

Block Print

 

 

 

 

May

Painting

 

 

 

 

June

Collage