Unit Standards, Goals, and Objectives
Unit Goal
Students will gain a deeper understanding of themselves through a series of self-reflections. Students will use techniques and media such as the use of view finders, cross hatching, gridded drawings, charcoal, pen and ink, watercolor, and needle felting to produce still life drawings, graphic novels and portraits; all of which will be focused on taking a closer look at what makes them an individual. Students will learn that everyday objects can have symbolic significance, using a story line helps to develop a visual narrative, specific traits within a portrait express different emotion, and that characteristics that students find in their heroes can also be found within themselves. Historical connections will include ceramic pieces from Greek and Chinese cultures and artists such as Jan van Eyck and Roy Lichtenstein.
Goal for Lesson One: A Still Life Self-Portrait
Students will see that everyday objects depicted in works of art often have deeper symbolic significance attached to them. Students will be asked to identify what is personal and unique about them and then they will have to pick objects that represent those parts of their personality.
Goal for Lesson Two: The Heroic Self
Students will see that the characteristics they consider to be heroic can also be applied to themselves. Students will use a plot line to visualize themselves overcoming their obstacles by giving themselves super hero powers within their heroic graphic novels.
Goal for Lesson Three: Eyes are a Window to the Self
Students will explore how they view the world by taking a closer look at what is most important to them and what makes them unique. Students will create a multimedia assignment using charcoal, watercolor, pen and ink to create an enlarged eye which shows viewers the world through their own eyes.
Goal for Lesson Four: Strong Bonds: What are you attached to?
You are who you associate with. It is my goal that from this assignment students will take a closer look at the things that they associate with so they can reflect if they are surrounding themselves with positive influences or harmful influences.
State Standards
1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend:
Use the visual arts to express, communicate, and make meaning. To perceive art involves studying art; scrutinizing and examining art; recognizing, noticing, and seeing art; distinguishing art forms and subtleties; identifying and detecting art; becoming skilled in and gaining knowledge of art; grasping and realizing art; figuring out art; and sensing and feeling art.
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect:
Articulate and implement critical thinking in the visual arts by synthesizing, evaluating, and analyzing visual information. To value art involves visualizing, articulating, and
conveying art; thinking about, pondering, and contemplating art; wondering about, assessing, and questioning art concepts and contexts; expressing art; defining the relevance, significance of, and importance of art; and experiencing, interpreting, and justifying the aesthetics of art.
3. Invent and Discover to Create:
Generate works of art that employ unique ideas, feelings, and values using different media, technologies, styles and forms of expression. To make art involves creating, inventing, conceiving, formulating, and imagining art; communicating, ascertaining, and learning about art; building, crafting, and generating art; assembling and
manufacturing art; discovering, fashioning, and producing art; and causing art to exist.
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer:
Recognize, articulate, and validate the value of the visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience. To respond to art involves relating to art; connecting to art;
personally linking to art; moving toward art sensibilities; shifting to art orientations; thinking about art; attaching meaning to art; replying art; reacting to art; internalizing art; personalizing art; and relating art to diverse cultures.
Use the visual arts to express, communicate, and make meaning. To perceive art involves studying art; scrutinizing and examining art; recognizing, noticing, and seeing art; distinguishing art forms and subtleties; identifying and detecting art; becoming skilled in and gaining knowledge of art; grasping and realizing art; figuring out art; and sensing and feeling art.
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect:
Articulate and implement critical thinking in the visual arts by synthesizing, evaluating, and analyzing visual information. To value art involves visualizing, articulating, and
conveying art; thinking about, pondering, and contemplating art; wondering about, assessing, and questioning art concepts and contexts; expressing art; defining the relevance, significance of, and importance of art; and experiencing, interpreting, and justifying the aesthetics of art.
3. Invent and Discover to Create:
Generate works of art that employ unique ideas, feelings, and values using different media, technologies, styles and forms of expression. To make art involves creating, inventing, conceiving, formulating, and imagining art; communicating, ascertaining, and learning about art; building, crafting, and generating art; assembling and
manufacturing art; discovering, fashioning, and producing art; and causing art to exist.
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer:
Recognize, articulate, and validate the value of the visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience. To respond to art involves relating to art; connecting to art;
personally linking to art; moving toward art sensibilities; shifting to art orientations; thinking about art; attaching meaning to art; replying art; reacting to art; internalizing art; personalizing art; and relating art to diverse cultures.
Objectives that Address the Comprehend Standard
-Students will be able to explain how the object they choose to draw represents their individual personality in their developmental workbooks. (Lesson 1)
-Students will be able identify work from the Yuan dynasty as well as by artists from the Northern Renaissance; Jan van Eyck and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
(Lesson 1)
-Students will be able to distinguish the five parts of a story line within the work of their peers graphic novels.
(Lesson 2) LITERACY
-Students will be able to identify the work of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. (Lesson 2)
-Students will be able to discuss materials used and artistic intent within the work of their peers. (Lesson 3)
-Students will be able to describe the needle felting process. (Lesson 4)
-Students will be able identify work from the Yuan dynasty as well as by artists from the Northern Renaissance; Jan van Eyck and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
(Lesson 1)
-Students will be able to distinguish the five parts of a story line within the work of their peers graphic novels.
(Lesson 2) LITERACY
-Students will be able to identify the work of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. (Lesson 2)
-Students will be able to discuss materials used and artistic intent within the work of their peers. (Lesson 3)
-Students will be able to describe the needle felting process. (Lesson 4)
Objectives that Address the Reflect Standard
-Students will be able to develop their heroic story with the aid of a plot line. (Lesson 2) LITERACY
-Students will be able to support their use of material, color, and imagery within their work of art. (Lesson 3)
-Students will be able to distinguish examples of student work that possess characteristics that exemplify good needle felting techniques and portray a clear message related to the lesson’s theme of bonds. (Lesson 4)
-Students will be able to support their use of material, color, and imagery within their work of art. (Lesson 3)
-Students will be able to distinguish examples of student work that possess characteristics that exemplify good needle felting techniques and portray a clear message related to the lesson’s theme of bonds. (Lesson 4)
Objectives that Address the Create Standard
-Students will be able to use view finders in order to create a composition which emphasizes their intended meaning. (Lesson 1)
-Students will be able to demonstrate the use of cross hatching in order to accurately represent value shifts within their still life. (Lesson 1)
-Students will be able to demonstrate proportionate facial features within their heroic graphic novels. (Lesson 2)
-Students will be able to demonstrate the use of stippling within their graphic novels. (Lesson 2)
-Students will be able to accurately measure and use a grid to enlarge an image at a 1:3 ratio. (Lesson 3) NUMERACY
-Students will be able to operate a digital camera and computer in order to print an image of their eye. (Lesson 3) TECHNOLOGY
-Students will be able to demonstrate skill with several mediums such as charcoal, pen and ink, and watercolor within their multimedia projects. (Lesson 3)
-Students will be able to demonstrate needle felting techniques in order to illustrate their intended visual narrative. (Lesson 4)
-Students will be able to demonstrate the use of cross hatching in order to accurately represent value shifts within their still life. (Lesson 1)
-Students will be able to demonstrate proportionate facial features within their heroic graphic novels. (Lesson 2)
-Students will be able to demonstrate the use of stippling within their graphic novels. (Lesson 2)
-Students will be able to accurately measure and use a grid to enlarge an image at a 1:3 ratio. (Lesson 3) NUMERACY
-Students will be able to operate a digital camera and computer in order to print an image of their eye. (Lesson 3) TECHNOLOGY
-Students will be able to demonstrate skill with several mediums such as charcoal, pen and ink, and watercolor within their multimedia projects. (Lesson 3)
-Students will be able to demonstrate needle felting techniques in order to illustrate their intended visual narrative. (Lesson 4)
Objectives that Address the Transfer Standard
Students will be able to defend why they think Lichtenstein’s comic book pop art should or should not be considered fine art. (Lesson 2)
Grade Level Expectations Met
Lesson 1
Visual art has inherent characteristics and expressive features.
Demonstrate technical proficiency and craftsmanship when planning.
Achieve artistic purpose to communicate intent.
The history of art, world cultures, and artistic styles influence contemporary art concerns.
Lesson 2
Demonstrate technical proficiency and craftsmanship when planning.
Visual literacy skills help to establish personal meaning and artistic intent in works of art.
The history of art, world cultures, and artistic styles influence contemporary art concerns.
Cultural traditions and events impact visual arts within a community.
Art criticism strategies are used to analyze, interpret, and make informed judgments about works of art.
Lesson 3
Demonstrate technical proficiency and craftsmanship when planning.
Utilize current and available technology to refine an idea, and create original and imaginative works of art.
Visual literacy skills help to establish personal meaning and artistic intent in works of art.
Art criticism strategies are used to analyze, interpret, and make informed judgments about works of art.
Lesson 4
Conceptual art theories explain how works of art are created.
Achieve artistic purpose to communicate intent.
Visual literacy skills help to establish personal meaning and artistic intent in works of art.
Visual art has inherent characteristics and expressive features.
Demonstrate technical proficiency and craftsmanship when planning.
Achieve artistic purpose to communicate intent.
The history of art, world cultures, and artistic styles influence contemporary art concerns.
Lesson 2
Demonstrate technical proficiency and craftsmanship when planning.
Visual literacy skills help to establish personal meaning and artistic intent in works of art.
The history of art, world cultures, and artistic styles influence contemporary art concerns.
Cultural traditions and events impact visual arts within a community.
Art criticism strategies are used to analyze, interpret, and make informed judgments about works of art.
Lesson 3
Demonstrate technical proficiency and craftsmanship when planning.
Utilize current and available technology to refine an idea, and create original and imaginative works of art.
Visual literacy skills help to establish personal meaning and artistic intent in works of art.
Art criticism strategies are used to analyze, interpret, and make informed judgments about works of art.
Lesson 4
Conceptual art theories explain how works of art are created.
Achieve artistic purpose to communicate intent.
Visual literacy skills help to establish personal meaning and artistic intent in works of art.
Prepared Graduate Competencies Met
Lesson 1
Recognize, articulate, and debate that the visual arts are ameans for expression.
Analyze, interpret, and make meaning of art and design critically using oral and written discourse.
Identify, compare, and interpret works of art derived from historical and cultural settings, time periods, and cultural contexts
Create works of art that articulate more sophisticated ideas, feelings, emotions, and points of view about art and design through an expanded
use of media and technologies
Lesson 2
Identify, compare and justify that the visual arts are a way to acknowledge, exhibit and learn about the diversity of peoples, cultures, and ideas.
Create works of art that articulate more sophisticated ideas, feelings, emotions and points of view about art and design through an expanded
use of media and technologies.
Recognize, interpret, and validate that the creative process builds on the development of ideas through a process of inquiry, discovery, and research
Transfer the value of visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience.
Lesson 3
Develop and build appropriate mastery in art-making skills, using traditional and new technologies and an understanding of the characteristics and
expressive features of art and design.
Create works of art that articulate more sophisticated ideas, feelings, emotions, and points of view about art and design through an expanded
use of media and technologies
Recognize, articulate, and debate that the visual arts are a means for expression
Lesson 4
Recognize, compare, and affirm that the making and study of art and design can be approached from a variety of viewpoints, intelligences, and
perspectives.
Identify, compare and justify that the visual arts are a way to acknowledge, exhibit, and learn about the diversity of peoples, cultures and ideas.
Analyze, interpret, and make meaning of art and design critically using oral and written discourse.
Recognize, articulate, and debate that the visual arts are ameans for expression.
Analyze, interpret, and make meaning of art and design critically using oral and written discourse.
Identify, compare, and interpret works of art derived from historical and cultural settings, time periods, and cultural contexts
Create works of art that articulate more sophisticated ideas, feelings, emotions, and points of view about art and design through an expanded
use of media and technologies
Lesson 2
Identify, compare and justify that the visual arts are a way to acknowledge, exhibit and learn about the diversity of peoples, cultures, and ideas.
Create works of art that articulate more sophisticated ideas, feelings, emotions and points of view about art and design through an expanded
use of media and technologies.
Recognize, interpret, and validate that the creative process builds on the development of ideas through a process of inquiry, discovery, and research
Transfer the value of visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience.
Lesson 3
Develop and build appropriate mastery in art-making skills, using traditional and new technologies and an understanding of the characteristics and
expressive features of art and design.
Create works of art that articulate more sophisticated ideas, feelings, emotions, and points of view about art and design through an expanded
use of media and technologies
Recognize, articulate, and debate that the visual arts are a means for expression
Lesson 4
Recognize, compare, and affirm that the making and study of art and design can be approached from a variety of viewpoints, intelligences, and
perspectives.
Identify, compare and justify that the visual arts are a way to acknowledge, exhibit, and learn about the diversity of peoples, cultures and ideas.
Analyze, interpret, and make meaning of art and design critically using oral and written discourse.