18 Week Middle School Curriculum Lesson Matrix: 6th Grade

. Foundations Media, Technique, Product Theme, Diversity Visual Culture Aesthetics, Art History, Art Criticism Special Needs Journal

Line

Pencil, Contour Line Portraits

Portraiture, Partner Activity

Online Profile Pictures

Egon Schiele Drawings

ADHD: Multiple Partners LD: Partner Explanation Gifted: Multiple Portraits

Compose poem to accompany portrait

Shading

Charcoal,Tonal Paper Drawings

Basic Shapes, Household Objects Individual (Campbell's Soup Household Can Cylinder, etc.) Objects

Renaissance Chiaroscuro, Carvaggio

ADHD: Variety of Shapes Create list of shapes LD: Example that can be found in Projects household objects Gifted: Combined Shapes

3 ADHD: Various Perspectives LD: Help Immigrant Research Heritage Research and write Artists, Gorky Gifted: Journal about own heritage Still-Lifes Extension: and family history Meaning of Objects in StillLife

Light

Oil Pastels, Light Study Oil Pastel Drawings

Still-Life, Heritage and Family History

Modern Day Immigration

Color Wheel

Paint Mixing, Activity

Color Themes and Palettes, Non-Western Art

Online Color Mixing Palette

ADHD: Color Mixing Predictions Identify Paletts LD: Additional in Non-Western Online Paint Paintings Mixing Practice Gifted: Tertiary Colors

Keep chart of color combinations and outcomes

Color Harmony

ADHD: Help Photography as Others Mix Colors Photo Realist Source of LD: Examples of Reflect upon wheter Paint, Reference Influence of Digital Artists, Does Art Painting, Realist Artists art has to be realistic Image Paintings Cameras in Art Need to Look American Gifted: Use to be admired "Real"? Culture Digital Camera to Take Own Images

8 9 ADHD: Calming Effect of Working with Clay Choose a piece from Contemporary Is Functional Art LD: Example own kitchen and Kitchen Ceramics Fine Art? Projects defend whether it is Gifted: Glaze art or not Related to Shape of Piece

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Shape Variety

Clay and Glaze, Slab Mugs

Organic and Geometric Shapes

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Texture

Clay and Glaze, Textured Sculptures

Nature as Inspiration

Outdoor Sculptures

Impressionist Sculpture

ADHD: Calming Effect of Working Explain tools and with Clay techniques used to LD: Feel Tactile create specific Textures textures in piece and Gifted: Harmony why these textures of Multiple were chosen Textures

13 14 ADHD: Pick Poses for Photographs Human Form, Human Form in LD: Example Optical Illusions, Discsuss what makes Various Body Art History, Artworks Utilizing Negative Space in negative space Types, Group Franz Kline Negative Space Logos important in art Project Negative Space Gifted: Negative Space Study from Masterpiece

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Negative Space

Ink, Negative Space Drawings from Student Models

16 ADHD: Search for Specific Elements Discuss how piece LD: Scale Balance incoroprates balance Demonstration and other elements Gifted: Journal and princibles of Extension: Is design Collage Fine Art?

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Balance

Collage, Assembled Posters

Recycled Magazines

Magazine Ads

Dada Art, Is Collage Fine Art?

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18 Week Middle School Curriculum Lesson Matrix: 7th Grade

. Foundations Media, Technique, Product Theme, Diversity Visual Culture Aesthetics, Art History, Art Criticism Special Needs Journal

Two-Point Perspective

Charcoal, Perspective Drawings

Contemporary Architecture, Buildings Effects Urban Contrasted with Development Nature

Architectural Design, Wright, Gaudi

ADHD: Description of Interior of Building LD: Further Demonstration Gifted: Style of Wright or Gaudi

Choose a building seen on route to school and discuss its architecture and effect on the surrounding land

2 ADHD: Minimum of Three Jornal Studies and Two Final Paintings Landscape and LD: Watercolor by Watercolor, Seascape, Watercolor by History of Landscape and Numbers Practice Spatial Paintings Observation Numbers Seascape Painting Gifted: Journal and Patience Extension: Importance of Landscape and Seascape Art

Pictorial Depth and Space

Minimum of five watercolor studies before beginning final painting

Focal Point

Nature, Linoleum Importance of Printmaking, Ink Decreasing our Prints Carbon Footprint

Recycled Products

Do Prints Lose Value if Designed by Artist and Printed by Assistant?

ADHD: Assist in School Recycling Program LD: Help Choose Focal Point Gifted: Student Proposal of School Recycling Program

Discuss who is the artist, the designer or the printer?

6 ADHD: Team Leader to Discuss Group Discuss the Progress importance of LD: Group Assist Picasso and the Selecting Paints mood that his Gifted: Help Critique Blue Period Group Members' paintings convey Palette

Limited Palettes

Paint, Group Master Copy Paintings

Picasso, Spanish Artists

Picasso Merchandise

Picasso's Blue Period

8 9 ADHD: Assist Others in Mask Making LD: Assistance Choosing Final Mask Design Gifted: Incorporate Symbols into Design

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Design

Paris Craft, Paint, African Masks Designed Masks

Halloween Masks

African Culture

Discuss the Importance of masks in African Culture

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Illusion of Movement

Clay and Glaze, Action Sculptures

Animals

Discovery Channel and Animal Planet Programs

Antoine-Louis Barye

ADHD: Various Angles of Sketches LD: Assist in Choosing Sketch Gifted: Incorporate Elements of Barye's Work

Sketch ideas for sculpture while watching television programs

14 ADHD: Multiple Chose an artist Partners who has LD: Watch Other overcome a Groups handicap and Gifted: Create List of write why (s)he is Handicapped Artists inspirational

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Developing Senses

Ink, Limited Handicaps, Senses Drawings Partner Project

Handicapped Figures in Media

Artists with Handicaps, Chuck Close, etc.

16 ADHD: Chose Short and Engaging Article Rauschenberg, Can Discuss whether LD: YouTube Sculpture from Non-Art newspaper can be Oragami Step-by-Step Materials be Considered used as a material Video Fine Art? in fine art Gifted: Complex Article

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Abstract Forms

Newspaper, Origami Sculptures

Current Events

Newspaper Headlines

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18 Week Middle School Curriculum Lesson Matrix: 8th Grade

. Foundations Media, Technique, Product Theme, Diversity Visual Culture Aesthetics, Art History, Art Criticism Special Needs Journal

Identity, Multiple Oil Pastels, Cubist Picasso Group Work, Perspectives Classmate Portraits Painting Satires Cubism

Cubism, Picasso and Braque

ADHD: Multiple Describe what Partners elements of your LD: Cut Drawings classmate are Gifted: Study conveyed through Additonal Cubist your portrait of them Portraits

2 Conveying Action without Objects, Students as Models ADHD: Model Various Poses Complete at least LD: Watch five figure drawing Classmates Sketch sketches outside of Gifted: Refine class Gesture Drawings

Figure Drawing

Conte Crayon, Action Gestures

Optical Motion Capture

Artistic Beauty of Everyday Actions

Information and Imagery Recall

Watercolors and Gauche, Recall Paintings

Childhood Memory, Then Me Now Various Me Pictures Backgrounds

Does Painting from Memory Produce Legitimate Works of Art?

ADHD: Record Various Memories in Journal Describe the LD: Look Through childhood memory in Family Photos to your painting and Choose Memory why it has left such a Gifted: Journal lasting impression on Extension: If you you could recreate the memory, would you and why?

6 ADHD: Journal List of Personal Interests LD: Partner Still Life Arrangement Gifted: Incorporat e Symbolic Objects

Observation Skills

Personal Oil Paints, Still-Life ContemporaryInterest StillPaintings Still-Life.com Life

Dutch Master Still Lifes, Northern Renaissance

Explain how the objects in your still life are relevant to you and modern culture

8 9 Influence of Chinese Products on American Market ADHD: Help Prepare Tea Explain what you LD: Utilize Own Ancient Chinese Tea have learned about Tea Set in Class Sets, Can Ceremonies values within Chinese Ceremony be Considered Art? culture while creating Gifted: Lead Class your tea set in Chinese Tea Ceremony

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Form

Chinese Tea Clay and Glaze, Tea Ceremony, Sets Interdisciplina ry Lesson

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Material Manipula-tion

Paperclips, Sculptures

Norway, Holocaust Rememberan ce

Whitwell Holocaust Memorial

14 15 ADHD: Produce in Class Doodles LD: Produce only Produce at least ten eight doodles doodles in your Gifted: Journal journal outside of Extension: Write a class Short Story to Accompany Your Print

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CrossHatching

Plexiglas and Ink, Etched Prints

Doodles, Original Narratives

Mike Cressy's Book of Doodles

Ethching, Daumier

17 Historical Emergence Etched Prints and Progression of Identify of Monotypes, Value Ink, Monotype Individual Etchings within of Series Versus Prints Artwork Magazine Ads Monotype ADHD: Offer Various Colors LD: Group Feedback Gifted: Group Feedback Discuss whether you like your orignal etching or monotype better and why

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Re-Working Past Projects