Last updated: 6/11/2024

Introduction to Art - Grade 9-12 - Quater 1

Quarter 1 (9 Weeks)

Chapter 1 and 12 will be weeks 1-4

*Progress Report

Chapter 2 and 11 will be weeks 5-9

*End of 1st Quarter

ELEMENTS AND PRINCILPES OF VISUAL DESIGN

Unit 1: Line, Movement and Rhythm

Chapter 1: Line

Chapter 12: Movement and Rhythm

Unit 2: Shape, Form, and Pattern

Chapter 2: Shape and Form

Chapter 11: Pattern

(1)	ARTS.VA.C.1	Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) and participate in various roles in the arts.
(1)	ARTS.VA.C.2	Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.
(1)	ARTS.VA.C.3	Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.
(1)	ARTS.VA.C.4	Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society.

1. What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creative risk taking and innovative thinking?

2. How do artists work?

3. What responsibilitites come with freedom to create and share artistic work?

4. How do personal reflection and group critique help us to develop more effective artistic work?

5. How are artwoks cared for and by whom?

6. How do life experiences influence the way we relate to art?

7. How does creating art enrich people's lives?

Students will learn how to recognize, identify, understand, and demonstrate the following types of information from each chapter and combine them together into works of art. Chapter 1 and 12 are together. Chapter 2 and 11 are together.

Chapter 1: Lines Types, Line Personality, Line Quality, Line Texture and Patterns, Line Combinations

Chapter 12: Movement and Rhythm, Actual Movement, Recorded Action, Compositional Movement, and Types of Rhythm

Chapter 2: Categories of Shape, Qualities of Shapes, Form and Light

Chapter 11: Patterns in Nature, Patterns in Manufactured Design, Types of Planned Patterns

Chapter 1: Structural Lines, Outline, Contour Line, Gesture Line, Sketch Line, Calligraphy, Line Personality, Implied Line, Line of sight.

Chapter 12: Visual Rhythm, Kinetic Art, Compostional Movement, Progressive Rhythm

Chapter 2: Shape, Form, Geometric Shape, Organic Shape, Static, Dynamic

Chapter 11: Pattern, Motif, Planned Pattern, Half-Drop design, Random Pattern

1. Students will develop creative and innovative thinking.

2. Students will break with or follow traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.

3. Students will experiment with various artmaking approaches.

4. Students will balance experimentation with freedom and safety in creating artwork.

5. Students will practice, develop, critique, reflect, revise, and refine their work over time.

6. Students will appreciate, develop, and communicate meaning and function as a record of their experiences resulting from their understanding of their work and cultural upbringing.

7. Students will use aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art to understand and appreciate themselves, others, and the world.

Text: Exploring Visual Design: The Elements and Principles, Third Edition

By: Gatto, Porter, Selleck

Publisher: 2000, Davis publishing

Diagnostic:

*Teacher Observation

*Discussion and Analyze examples

*Pre-Instruction teacher examples

Formative:

*Progress Critiques

*Worksheets to complete

*Reflection/Review Questions

*Self-Evaluation/Skill Improvement

*Individual and Group Critiques

Summative:

*Project Rubric

*Comparison to finished examples

*Quiz on knowledge and terminology