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JUNIOR HIGH ART
GRADE 7:

Major Concepts

Minimum Skills

Elements of Design

List, define, illustrate and implement the elements of design: Line, value, texture, color, space.

Artist/artwork awareness.

Recognize major artists introduced.
Identify major periods in art history.

Art in our culture/art careers.

Design and illustrate various commercially related art problems as used in business, industry and our society in general.

Aesthetic awareness/self-evaluation

Identify the processes used in artprojects created, summarize creative path and planning procedure, evaluate specific aspects of personal creative process, assign grade, assess project's success and teacher effectiveness.

Design (black and white)

Organize and arrange in an objective or non-objective style the elements of black and white, consciously using the elements of design in the creation of this project. Media: cut paper, pen and ink, markers.

Drawing

Create a pencil drawing, modeling with tonal value,illustrating shadow, cast shadow, highlight, and texture. Media: various types of pencils, erasers.

Painting (hard edge)

Draw from still-life sources in realistic manner, painting with local or expressive color in pre-determined color palettes. Media: tempera paint.

Painting (soft edge)

Create simplified, abstracted subject matter from file photo sources or still-life. Use of blended color to show value changes. Media: watercolor paint.

Printmaking/collage

Create relief prints using simple printmaking plates. Organize anddemonstrate knowledge of printmaking steps. Compose 3-4 color designs using prints created. Media: plates, print ink, construction paper.

Sculpture

Create 3-dimensional project using slab and modeling techniques, demonstrating use of proper joining and construction techniques.

Multicultural/Mixed Media

Illustrate understanding of ancient Egyptian culture through the creation of an Egyptian portrait, creating an authentic image with personality and identifiable place in the society. Experiment with,choose appropriately, and use effectively whatever media seems appropriate to the task. Media: mixed, various.

JUNIOR HIGH ART
GRADE 8:

Major Concepts

Minimum Skills

Principles of Design

List, define, illustrate and implement the principles of design: Repetition, contrast, balance, emphasis, rhythm, economy.

Artist/artwork awareness

Recognize major artists introduced. Identify major periods in art history introduced.

Art in our culture/art careers

Create and illustrate various commercially related art designs as are used in business, industry and our society in general.

Aesthetic awareness/self-evaluation

Identify the processes used in art projects created, summarize creative path and planning procedure, evaluate specific aspects of personal creative process, assign grade, assess project's success and teacher effectiveness.

Design (color)

Illustrate knowledge of principlesand elements of design by creating a color design. Media: as desired.

Drawing

Draw from photo or still-life sources realistic scenes or images. Illustrate understanding of spatial composition. Compose on picture plane with recognition of negative space. Using tonal technique, illustrate the changes in value that reflect shadow, cast shadow, highlight, and texture.

Printmaking

Demonstrate a knowledge of relief printmaking processes using linoleum plates, choosing color schemes that fulfill predetermined printing requirements.

Multicultural/Sculpture

Create a 3-dimensional mask with simple sculptural media using various cultures from around the world as resources. Solve 3-D construction problems from predetermined requirements. Choose effective color scheme, color application method, and effective embellishments. Media: mixed.

Pastel Drawing

Create an image from still-life in a realistic style. Use local color or expressive use of color. Media: oil or chalk pastel.

Painting (hard edge)

Draw from still-life sources in realistic manner, painting with local or expressive color in predetermined color palettes. Media: tempera paint.

Textile Design

Create design using fabrics/textiles.

SENIOR HIGH ART
ART I, II, III, IV

Major Concepts

Minimum Skills

Art History

Compose and write artist reports on assigned artists and/or art periods. Identify major art periods and movements, works of art, individual artists, styles of art, media, subject matter, and correlate with world history.

Aesthetic awareness/self-evaluation

Identify the processes used in art projects created, summarize creative path and planning procedure, evaluate specific aspects of personal creative process, assign grade, assess project's success and teacher effectiveness. Keep a process notebook/journal of artistic process followed during art projects and evaluate steps and choices made in those processes, their outcome, the overall degree of success, other options that could have been tried, final evaluation.

Design (black and white)

Demonstrate with an increasing level of skill and competence from year to year the ability to manipulate the elements of black and white, con- sciously incorporating the elements and principles of design including: repetition, contrast, emphasis, balance, rhythm, and economy. Demonstrate this skill and competence in design in realistic, expressive, stylistic, abstract, and non-objective styles; demonstrate this skill and competence in both 2-D and 3-D modes; demonstrate this skill and competence in various media including pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, cut paper collage, paint, sculpture, felt-tipped pens.

Design (color)

Demonstrate an increasing level of skill and competence from year to year the ability to manipulate the elements of color, consciously incorporating the elements and principles of design including: repetition, contrast, emphasis, balance, rhythm, and economy; demonstrate this skill and competence in design in realistic, expressive, stylistic, abstract, and non- objective styles; demonstrate ability to use monochromatic, complementary, other various color schemes, limited to full palette schemes. Demonstrate this skill and competence in both 2-D and 3-D modes; demonstrate this skill and competence in various media including pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, cut paper collage, paint, sculpture, felt-tipped pens.

Drawing

Demonstrate an increasing level of skill and competence from year to year in the ability to draw realistically, expressively, stylistically, abstractly; ability to draw with contour line, gestures, value (tonal, hatch/cross- hatch, stippling, wash, scribble, cross- contour lines); ability to draw with various media (pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, ink line and/or wash, chalk pastel, oil pastel, magic marker, etc.) ability to draw from various sources including still-life, photographs, magazine file photos, imagination; ability to draw various subject matter including portraits, landscapes, still- life, models, objects from nature, animals, pure design (abstract and non-objective), mechanical objects, etc.

Printmaking

Demonstrate an increasing level of competence and skill in the following printmaking processes: relief printing, intaglio, screen printing, collographs, Create print plates mindful of negative space, value, and graphic design elements. Pull prints using both standard and experimental techniques, demonstrating effective use of color, in and off-register techniques, collage, hand-coloring. Show ability to print on different surfaces including fabric, paper, wood.

Painting

Demonstrate an increasing level of painting competence and skill in the following areas: ability to paint realistically, expressively, stylistically, abstractly, non-objectively; ability to paint using monochromatic, complementary, other limited palettes, local color, expressive color; ability to paint and show the effects of light and shadow in hard-edge, painterly, tonal, impressionistic, styles; ability to paint on different surfaces including wood, paper, cardboard, and stretched canvas; ability to paint with a variety of paints including tempera, watercolor, and acrylics; ability to create textural surfaces through brushwork, both impasto and flat; ability to paint various subject matter from still-life, photographs, magazine photos, imagination.

Claywork

Demonstrate an increasing level of skill and competence in the creation of clay vessels and sculpture. Create clayworks with the following methods; slab and coil construction, modeling and carving, throwing pots on potter's wheel, using clay molds. Identify the developmental stages of the clay and assess which techniques are most appropriate when working with the form. Identify proper tools and techniques for creating desired sculptural effects. Recognize appropriate media for desired surface treatment, using paints, glazes, and stains, and using these media in proper, effective manner.

Textiles

Create artwork in a variety of different processes and media on a rotational basis, including paper making, weaving, batik, stitchery, fabric constructions.

Graphics/Illustration/Commercial Art

Compose commercially oriented projects, such as packaging, logos, illustrations, brochures, cartoons.

JUNIOR HIGH ART GRADE 7:
Major Concepts	Minimum Skills
Elements of Design	List, define, illustrate and implement the elements of design: Line, value, texture, color, space.
Artist/artwork awareness.	Recognize major artists introduced. Identify major periods in art history.
Art in our culture/art careers.	Design and illustrate various commercially related art problems as used in business, industry and our society in general.
Aesthetic awareness/self-evaluation	Identify the processes used in artprojects created, summarize creative path and planning procedure, evaluate specific aspects of personal creative process, assign grade, assess project's success and teacher effectiveness.
Design (black and white)	Organize and arrange in an objective or non-objective style the elements of black and white, consciously using the elements of design in the creation of this project. Media: cut paper, pen and ink, markers.
Drawing	Create a pencil drawing, modeling with tonal value,illustrating shadow, cast shadow, highlight, and texture. Media: various types of pencils, erasers.
Painting (hard edge)	Draw from still-life sources in realistic manner, painting with local or expressive color in pre-determined color palettes. Media: tempera paint.
Painting (soft edge)	Create simplified, abstracted subject matter from file photo sources or still-life. Use of blended color to show value changes. Media: watercolor paint.
Printmaking/collage	Create relief prints using simple printmaking plates. Organize anddemonstrate knowledge of printmaking steps. Compose 3-4 color designs using prints created. Media: plates, print ink, construction paper.
Sculpture	Create 3-dimensional project using slab and modeling techniques, demonstrating use of proper joining and construction techniques.
Multicultural/Mixed Media	Illustrate understanding of ancient Egyptian culture through the creation of an Egyptian portrait, creating an authentic image with personality and identifiable place in the society. Experiment with,choose appropriately, and use effectively whatever media seems appropriate to the task. Media: mixed, various.

JUNIOR HIGH ART GRADE 8:
Major Concepts	Minimum Skills
Principles of Design	List, define, illustrate and implement the principles of design: Repetition, contrast, balance, emphasis, rhythm, economy.
Artist/artwork awareness	Recognize major artists introduced. Identify major periods in art history introduced.
Art in our culture/art careers	Create and illustrate various commercially related art designs as are used in business, industry and our society in general.
Aesthetic awareness/self-evaluation	Identify the processes used in art projects created, summarize creative path and planning procedure, evaluate specific aspects of personal creative process, assign grade, assess project's success and teacher effectiveness.
Design (color)	Illustrate knowledge of principlesand elements of design by creating a color design. Media: as desired.
Drawing	Draw from photo or still-life sources realistic scenes or images. Illustrate understanding of spatial composition. Compose on picture plane with recognition of negative space. Using tonal technique, illustrate the changes in value that reflect shadow, cast shadow, highlight, and texture.
Printmaking	Demonstrate a knowledge of relief printmaking processes using linoleum plates, choosing color schemes that fulfill predetermined printing requirements.
Multicultural/Sculpture	Create a 3-dimensional mask with simple sculptural media using various cultures from around the world as resources. Solve 3-D construction problems from predetermined requirements. Choose effective color scheme, color application method, and effective embellishments. Media: mixed.
Pastel Drawing	Create an image from still-life in a realistic style. Use local color or expressive use of color. Media: oil or chalk pastel.
Painting (hard edge)	Draw from still-life sources in realistic manner, painting with local or expressive color in predetermined color palettes. Media: tempera paint.
Textile Design	Create design using fabrics/textiles.

SENIOR HIGH ART ART I, II, III, IV
Major Concepts	Minimum Skills
Art History	Compose and write artist reports on assigned artists and/or art periods. Identify major art periods and movements, works of art, individual artists, styles of art, media, subject matter, and correlate with world history.
Aesthetic awareness/self-evaluation	Identify the processes used in art projects created, summarize creative path and planning procedure, evaluate specific aspects of personal creative process, assign grade, assess project's success and teacher effectiveness. Keep a process notebook/journal of artistic process followed during art projects and evaluate steps and choices made in those processes, their outcome, the overall degree of success, other options that could have been tried, final evaluation.
Design (black and white)	Demonstrate with an increasing level of skill and competence from year to year the ability to manipulate the elements of black and white, con- sciously incorporating the elements and principles of design including: repetition, contrast, emphasis, balance, rhythm, and economy. Demonstrate this skill and competence in design in realistic, expressive, stylistic, abstract, and non-objective styles; demonstrate this skill and competence in both 2-D and 3-D modes; demonstrate this skill and competence in various media including pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, cut paper collage, paint, sculpture, felt-tipped pens.
Design (color)	Demonstrate an increasing level of skill and competence from year to year the ability to manipulate the elements of color, consciously incorporating the elements and principles of design including: repetition, contrast, emphasis, balance, rhythm, and economy; demonstrate this skill and competence in design in realistic, expressive, stylistic, abstract, and non- objective styles; demonstrate ability to use monochromatic, complementary, other various color schemes, limited to full palette schemes. Demonstrate this skill and competence in both 2-D and 3-D modes; demonstrate this skill and competence in various media including pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, cut paper collage, paint, sculpture, felt-tipped pens.
Drawing	Demonstrate an increasing level of skill and competence from year to year in the ability to draw realistically, expressively, stylistically, abstractly; ability to draw with contour line, gestures, value (tonal, hatch/cross- hatch, stippling, wash, scribble, cross- contour lines); ability to draw with various media (pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, ink line and/or wash, chalk pastel, oil pastel, magic marker, etc.) ability to draw from various sources including still-life, photographs, magazine file photos, imagination; ability to draw various subject matter including portraits, landscapes, still- life, models, objects from nature, animals, pure design (abstract and non-objective), mechanical objects, etc.
Printmaking	Demonstrate an increasing level of competence and skill in the following printmaking processes: relief printing, intaglio, screen printing, collographs, Create print plates mindful of negative space, value, and graphic design elements. Pull prints using both standard and experimental techniques, demonstrating effective use of color, in and off-register techniques, collage, hand-coloring. Show ability to print on different surfaces including fabric, paper, wood.
Painting	Demonstrate an increasing level of painting competence and skill in the following areas: ability to paint realistically, expressively, stylistically, abstractly, non-objectively; ability to paint using monochromatic, complementary, other limited palettes, local color, expressive color; ability to paint and show the effects of light and shadow in hard-edge, painterly, tonal, impressionistic, styles; ability to paint on different surfaces including wood, paper, cardboard, and stretched canvas; ability to paint with a variety of paints including tempera, watercolor, and acrylics; ability to create textural surfaces through brushwork, both impasto and flat; ability to paint various subject matter from still-life, photographs, magazine photos, imagination.
Claywork	Demonstrate an increasing level of skill and competence in the creation of clay vessels and sculpture. Create clayworks with the following methods; slab and coil construction, modeling and carving, throwing pots on potter's wheel, using clay molds. Identify the developmental stages of the clay and assess which techniques are most appropriate when working with the form. Identify proper tools and techniques for creating desired sculptural effects. Recognize appropriate media for desired surface treatment, using paints, glazes, and stains, and using these media in proper, effective manner.
Textiles	Create artwork in a variety of different processes and media on a rotational basis, including paper making, weaving, batik, stitchery, fabric constructions.
Graphics/Illustration/Commercial Art	Compose commercially oriented projects, such as packaging, logos, illustrations, brochures, cartoons.