LOGAN-ROGERSVILLE R-VIII ART CURRICULUM

6TH GRADE

 

COURSE RATIONALE

Class discussions, visual materials, and creative assignments will aid in the development of visual and tactile awareness and perception.  Through the creation of personal art, students will learn to use a variety of media effectively for practical and expressive communication.  Students will demonstrate an understanding of and apply basic art concepts while creating original art.  Art and cultural history correlated with creative assignments are designed to assist in the understanding and appreciation of America’s rich artistic heritage, of cultural differences and tolerance of those differences, and the role of art and design in everyday life and society in general.

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

A two-semester course focused on the experience of creating original artworks while developing a broader understanding of the elements and principles of art/design through the study of America’s rich cultural and artistic heritage.  Students will be exposed to a variety of art media and techniques with emphasis on personal creative expression.

 

COURSE COMPETENCIES

1.      Demonstrate proper use, control and maintenance, of tools and media using the following skills

  1. Demonstrate how to load paint, apply paint, and clean and store paintbrushes.
  2. Apply knowledge of media in the construction of a color wheel and color theory painting
  3. Demonstrate watercolor/tempera processes

2.      Recognize and successfully employ the elements and principles of design using the following skills

  1. Recall and define the elements and principles of design
  2. Demonstrate and understanding of the difference between shapes and forms
  3. Develop a work of art from a two-dimensional drawing into a three-dimensional work of art

3.      Initiate, invent, and create in a variety of art media using the following skills

a.       Define media

b.      Discuss the relationships among art media, subject matter, and what is expressed in the art work

c.       List several two- and three-dimensional media

d.      List major categories of two- and three-dimensional media

e.       List examples of media for categories of two- and three-dimensional media

4.      Create the illusion of depth and distance by using the concepts of perspective using the following skills

a.       Identify and discuss simple (perspective) devices used to suggest space and depth (foreshortening), diminishing size, overlapping, high and low placement, linear and aerial perspective in artworks

b.      Demonstrate an awareness of how three-dimensional space is created in sculptures

5.      Identify and describe the possible meaning of imagery used in our culture using the following skills

a.       Define contemporary, imagery and culture and artifacts

b.      Recognize that art today includes a wide variety of forms produced with many different materials

c.       Identify the people and  visual images of society that contribute to our concepts of art

6.      Recognize or describe “art” as a visual record of humankind

7.      Understand and recognize how artists from different cultures use visual qualities for expression using the following skills

a.       Develop an appreciation that art can be a primary source of information about past civilization and non-Western cultures

b.      Understand the difference between a technical and non-technical community or culture and how the difference effects/serves the arts

c.       Demonstrate an appreciation of the contributions of  non-Western cultures to world culture

8.      Apply different criteria for judging works of art using the following skills

a.       Identify some conditions used to determine that an object is art

b.      Understand criticism is not a negative act but rather a process for learning shat something is about, what it means and how significant it is

c.       List and simply describe the four stages of critique: description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation

9.      Know that the perception of the viewer brings meaning to the symbols, values, feelings, and ideas embodied in a work of art

10.  Adapt ideas for expression to media and technique

11.  Develop an awareness and sensitivity through seeing and feeling

12.  Discuss visual relationships between art styles using appropriate art vocabulary using the following skills

a.       Understand that a style refers to the identifying characteristics of the artwork of an individual, a group of artists, a period of time, or an entire society

b.      Understand that changes in society (religion, politics, inventions, social issues, economics, and other areas of the social sciences) relate directly to changes in the style of an individual artist, group of artists, period of artistic style, or a society’s art

c.       Understand that art styles develop as reactions to, or extensions of existing and past styles

13.  Recognize and name artists of different cultures and times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grade or Class: Art 6th grade

Last Revision:  1999-2000

Writer:  Livy Stevens

 

By the end of grade 6 students will be able to

District Competency 1: Demonstrate proper use, control and maintenance, of tools and media.

Sub-competencies

A. Demonstrate how to load paint, apply paint, and clean and store paintbrushes.

B. Apply knowledge of media in the construction of a color wheel and color theory painting

C. Demonstrate watercolor/tempera processes

Graduate Goals

Content Standards

Performance

Standards

Activities

Assessments

8.5

FA 5

MO1.2, MO1.9, MO2.4, MO2.5

-         Construct a color wheel from Native American images by mixing primary, secondary, tertiary, and neutral colors using only red, yellow, blue and black watercolors.

-         Create a chart demonstrating how to use and care for a natural bristle (water-based media) brush.

-         Develop two paintings of Art Noveau imagery, one demonstrating knowledge of a monochromatic color scheme and a second painting demonstrating knowledge of neutral colors mixed from complementary colors.

-         Develop tempera painting reflecting a story quilt in the style of Faith Ringold.

-         Create a collage in the style of Romare Bearden.  Use painted sections of paper demonstrating the following processes; spatter painting, wash, blending, opaque, transparent, hard-edged, and wet on wet, in your collage.

 

Teacher generated checklist of visual criteria (70%)

Teacher observation and analyzing during class work (70%)

Objective Test (70%)

Informal test (70%)

Rubric of completed work (70%) 

 

 


COMPETENCY 1 RESOURCES:

Teacher demonstration

Teacher generated handout

Student textbook

Brommer, G. F. and Klinne, N. Exploring Painting. Rev. ed. Worchester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Teacher Reference textbooks

Chapman, L. H., A World of Images.  Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1994.

Hobbs, J. and Salome, R., The Visual Experience, 2nd ed. Worcester MA: Davis Publications, 1995.

Ragans, R. Ph.D., Art Talk.  New York, NY:  Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Audio/Visuals

Video:  Faith Ringold   Romare Bearden

Visual Arts Large Reproductions

Visual Arts Slides

Audio Compact Disc

Computer Compact Disc

Laser Disc                                                                                           

 

 


By the end of grade 6 students will be able to

District Competency 2: Recognize and successfully employ the elements and principles of design.

Sub-competencies

A. Recall and define the elements and principles of design.

B. Demonstrate and understanding of the difference between shapes and forms.

 

C. Develop a work of art from a two-dimensional drawing into a three-dimensional work of art.

Graduate Goals

Content Standards

Performance

Standards

Activities

Assessments

8.1

FA 2, 3

MO1.9, MO2.4, MO2.5

-         Create 3 drawings in a rectangular format to represent a picture frame in the style of the Art Deco period. 

-         Use repeated geometric lines and shapes to create a pattern.

-         Select one of the designs to create a picture frame from cardboard and aluminum foil. 

-         Study and analyze the portraits of Chuck Close. Discuss the elements and principles of color, pattern, repetition, proportion and value. Create a tempera painting in the style of Chuck Close. Use a grid to develop proportion, and for color patterning.

-         During a class discussion of famous portraits of American artists, use traditional color terms to explain the works.

-         Study the work of Alexander Caulder in his wire “Circus”, images. Create a work of art in colored wire, emphasizing line, movement, and space.

 

Teacher generated checklist of visual criteria (70%)  

Teacher  observation and analyzing during class work (70%)

Informal test (70%) 

Class discussion     (70%)

                                                                                               

 

 


COMPETENCY 2 RESOURCES:     

Teacher demonstration

Teacher generated handout

Student textbook

Brommer, G. F., Exploring Drawing.  Worchester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Rose, T., Discovering Drawing. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Brommer, G. F. and Klinne, N. Exploring ­Painting. Rev. ed. Worchester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Teacher Reference textbooks

Chapman, L. H., A World of Images.  Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1994.

Edwards, B., Drawing on the Right-side of the Brain. LA CA: 1979.

Hobbs, J. and Salome, R., The Visual Experience, 2nd ed.. Worcester MA: Davis Publications, 1995. 

Kragen, J.L., Decade Days.  Torrance, CA: Good Apple, 2000.

Ragans, R. Ph.D., Art Talk.  New York, NY:  Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Audio/Visuals

Video:  Chuck Close, A Portrait in Progress. Home Vision    Arts.  57 minutes, Closed Caption.

Alexander Caulder’s Universe.  Kultur.  30 minutes.

Visual Arts Large Reproductions Take 5 Art Prints. 

Crystal Productions Visual Arts Slides Hume, H.  American Art Appreciation.  1992.

Audio Compact Disc

Computer Compact Disc

Laser Disc                                                                                           

                                   

 


By the end of grade 6 students will be able to

District Competency 3: Initiate, invent, and create in a variety of art media.

Sub-competencies

A. Define media

B. Discuss the relationships among art media, subject matter, and what is expressed in the artwork.

C. List several two- and three-dimensional media.

C. List major categories of two- and three-dimensional media.                                                                                               media.

 

E. List examples of media for categories of two- and three-dimensional media

Graduate Goals

Content Standards

Performance

Standards

Activities

Assessments

8.2, 8.3 

 

FA 1   

MO1.6, MO2.4

-         Divide the class into teams, in a group, have the students first define media and then list two- and three-dimensional categories and then list possible media in each category.

-         In a class discussion, look at famous American two-and three- dimensional works of art.  Have the students describe how each work would or could have been different if produced in a different media.  Have students give examples.

-         Develop a mixed media painting from a study of Thomas Hart Benton.         

-    Create a sculpture using scraps of wood, metal, and other easily manipulated/glued together building materials.

-         Using dry and wet media create a work of art in the style of Elizabeth Catlett.          

 

Teacher  generated checklist of visual criteria (70%)

Teacher observation and analyzing during class work (70%)

Teacher oral critique (70%)

Student/class/peer oral critique (70%)

Informal test (70%)

Class discussion (70%)

Rubric of completed work (70%)    

 


COMPETENCY 3 RESOURCES:

Teacher demonstration

Teacher generated handout

Student textbook

Brommer, G. F., Exploring Drawing.  Worchester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Rose, T., Discovering Drawing. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Brommer, G. F. and Klinne, N. Exploring Painting. Rev. ed. Worchester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Teacher Reference textbooks

Chapman, L. H., A World of Images.  Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1994.

Edwards, B., Drawing on the Right-side of the Brain. LA. CA: 1979.

Hobbs, J. and Salome, R., The Visual Experience, 2nd ed. Worcester MA: Davis Publications, 1995.

Kragen, J.L.,  Decade Days.  Torrance, CA: Good Apple, 2000.

Ragans, R. Ph.D., Art Talk.  New York, NY:  Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Audio/Visuals

Video: Thomas Hart Benton.  PBS Home Video. 86 minutes.

Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpting the Truth.  Crizmac. 30 minutes.

Visual Arts Large Reproductions

African American Artists Poster Series. Crizmac Take 5 Art Prints. Crystal Productions

                                                                                   

 


By the end of grade 6 students will be able to

District Competency 4: Create the illusion of depth and distance by using the concepts of perspective.           

Sub-competencies

A. Identify and discuss simple (perspective) devices used to suggest space and depth (foreshortening), diminishing size, overlapping, high and low placement, linear and aerial perspective in artworks.

B. Demonstrate an awareness of how three-dimensional space is created in sculptures.

                                               

 

Graduate Goals

Content Standards

Performance

Standards

Activities

Assessments

8.1

 

FA 1, 2

MO1.9, MO1.10, MO2.4, MO2.5

 

-         Divide the class into groups, each one is to have one visual of a famous American painting.  Students are to appoint one or two students to record responses. Each group is to identify the simple rules of perspective used by the artist in each painting.  One student in each group is to read responses of the group and then the class will discuss.

-         Watch a video on public sculptures, (Oldenburg, Caulder, Ming).  Discuss three-dimensional space in sculpture.

Design a sculpture from cardboard, either a site-specific public place or an environmental piece.  Create a watercolor to be used as a marquette on 3 sides of the sculpture.

Teacher observation and analyzing during class work (70%)

Student/class/peer oral critique (70%)

Student written critique of visual criteria (70%)

 


COMPETENCY 4 RESOURCES:

Teacher demonstration

Student textbook

Brommer, G. F., Exploring Drawing. Worchester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Teacher Reference textbooks

Chapman, L. H., A World of Images.  Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1994.

Edwards, B., Drawing on the Right-side of the Brain. L.A. CA: 1979.

Hobbs, J. and Salome, R., The Visual Experience, 2nd ed. Worcester MA: Davis Publications, 1995.

Ragans, R. Ph.D., Art Talk.  New York, NY:  Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Audio/Visuals

Video: Claes Oldenburg. RM Arts. 54 minutes

Public Sculptures: America’s Legacy.  Crystal Productions. 28 minutes. 

Visual Arts Large Reproductions

20th Century Art:  1950-1990’s.  (12 Prints)

Three-dimensional Art Prints.  (12 Prints)

Take 5 Art Prints. Sculpture. (5 Prints)

 

           


By the end of grade 6 students will be able to

District Competency 5: Identify and describe the possible meaning of imagery used in our culture.

Sub-competencies

A. Define contemporary, imagery and culture and artifacts.

B. Recognize that art today includes a wide variety of forms produced with many different materials.

C. Identify the people and visual images of society that contribute to our concepts of art. 

Graduate Goals

Content Standards

Performance

Standards

Activities

Assessments

8.5

FA 4, 5   

 

MO1.10, MO2.4

 

-         In a class discussion, define contemporary, imagery, culture and artifacts.  Discuss how design is developed; seeking a solution, intuitively, or conscious efforts of functional or aesthetic design.  Working in a team of 2-3 students, create a poster of contemporary imagery found in our American culture which, one day might be an artifact discovered on an archeological dig in 5,000 years.

-         Discuss color symbolism of our culture.  As a class, using the 12 colors of the color wheel create a list of reverse symbolism (red = stop).  Each student is to find a symbol/image that is easily recognized in our American culture, draw the symbol on a sheet of 12”x12” paper.  Using colored pencil, recolor the symbol. 

 

Teacher generated checklist of visual criteria (70%)  

Teacher observation and analyzing during class work (70%)

Student/class/peer oral critique (70%)

Class discussion (70%)

COMPETENCY 5 RESOURCES:

Teacher generated handout                                                      

Teacher Reference textbooks

Hobbs, J. and Salome, R., The Visual Experience, 2nd ed.Worcester MA: Davis Publications, 1995.

Kragen, J.L.,  Decade Days.  Torrance, CA: Good Apple, 2000.

Ragans, R.Ph.D., Art Talk.  New York, NY:  Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Stoops, J. and Samuelson, J., Design Dialogue.  Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1983.

                       

 


By the end of grade 6 students will be able to

District Competency 6: Recognize or describe “art” as a visual record of humankind.

Graduate Goals

Content Standards

Performance

Standards

Activities

Assessments

8.5

FA 5

MO1.6,  MO2.4,

 

-         In a class discussion, compare and contrast the patterns and relationships between early Native American Mainland Indians, Alaskan Eskimo Indians, and graffiti images of today.

-         Compose a collage from the trash you would personally discard during a one-week period of time.

-     Discuss how artist have drawn ideas for the future. Explore in a drawing, ways in which humankind strives to reach        beyond to new boundaries, (inventions, outer space, medical science, etc).

-         Listen to an audiotape of a famous 20th century event.        

-         Record your ideas or impressions in a painting.

Teacher  observation during class work (70%)

Class discussion (70%)

Rubric of completed work (70%) 

                                               

 

COMPETENCY 6 RESOURCES:

Teacher demonstration/examples

Teacher generated handout

Student Magazine

Scholastic Art

Student textbook

Brommer, G. F., Exploring Drawing.  Worchester,MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Rose, T., Discovering Drawing. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Brommer, G. F. and Klinne, N. Exploring ­Painting. Rev. ed. Worchester, MA: Davis Publications 1994.

Teacher Reference textbooks

Chapman, L. H., A World of Images.  Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1994.

Hobbs, J. and Salome, R., The Visual Experience, 2nd ed. Worcester MA: Davis Publications, 1995.

Kragen, J.L., Decade Days.  Torrance, CA: Good Apple, 2000.

Ragans, R. Ph.D., Art Talk.  New York, NY: Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Stoops, J. and Samuelson, J., Design Dialogue.  Worcester, MA:  Davis Publications, 1983.

 

 

By the end of grade 6 students will be able to

District Competency 7: Understand and recognize how artists from different cultures use visual qualities for expression.

Sub-competencies

A. Develop an appreciation that art can be a primary source of information about past civilization and non-Western cultures.