Week 1
Everyone must have a duotang and a sketchbook by week 2 -- be ready to hunt for sketchbooks on Dollar Stores :)
Class 1:
- Show the syllabus
- Discuss rules and expectations for the rotation.
- Everyone needs to have a duotang for art, as well as a sketchbook, by next week.
- Check out together the page "Introduction to Art"
- If there is time: Students create a cover (regular 8.5"x11" printer paper)for their Exploratory folder
-This can be continued at home or when they have extra time.
Materials:
- Regular printer paper (can be found in the printer room near office)
- Pencil, coloured pencils, etc
- Show the syllabus
- Discuss rules and expectations for the rotation.
- Everyone needs to have a duotang for art, as well as a sketchbook, by next week.
- Check out together the page "Introduction to Art"
- If there is time: Students create a cover (regular 8.5"x11" printer paper)for their Exploratory folder
-This can be continued at home or when they have extra time.
Materials:
- Regular printer paper (can be found in the printer room near office)
- Pencil, coloured pencils, etc
Class 2:
- Follow this link: Hurray for the doodle.
Materials:
- Sharpies and Poster Board (under counter).
- Follow this link: Hurray for the doodle.
Materials:
- Sharpies and Poster Board (under counter).
Class 3:
- Continue Doodle work on their Poster Boards (keep them in the boom on piles separated by class)
- Continue Doodle work on their Poster Boards (keep them in the boom on piles separated by class)
Week 2
Class 4:
- Follow this link: Bypass your catalogue intro. It has all the videos.
- Gesture drawings on large tabloid paper, with pencils but NO erasers.
You pose, they copy you! Keep poses short at first, 15 seconds, and change often. Make a couple 30 second poses, and one final 3 minute pose (get comfortable).
They will scream when you change poses and that is part of the fun.
- Negative drawing of a chair on 8.5"x11"- show video first.
- Blind contour drawing of their hand on tabloid paper- show video first.
Materials:
- Pencils
- Paper: 8.5"x11" and tabloid-sized
- Follow this link: Bypass your catalogue intro. It has all the videos.
- Gesture drawings on large tabloid paper, with pencils but NO erasers.
You pose, they copy you! Keep poses short at first, 15 seconds, and change often. Make a couple 30 second poses, and one final 3 minute pose (get comfortable).
They will scream when you change poses and that is part of the fun.
- Negative drawing of a chair on 8.5"x11"- show video first.
- Blind contour drawing of their hand on tabloid paper- show video first.
Materials:
- Pencils
- Paper: 8.5"x11" and tabloid-sized
Class 5:
- Take them outside sometime this week weather permitting -- pick a day. Cold is fine, torrential rain is of course not, ha ha
Materials:
- Pencils
- Paper: 8.5"x11" (3 or 4 per)
- Clipboards
- Take them outside sometime this week weather permitting -- pick a day. Cold is fine, torrential rain is of course not, ha ha
Materials:
- Pencils
- Paper: 8.5"x11" (3 or 4 per)
- Clipboards
Class 6: Value and Shading
- Follow this page.
Materials:
- Pencils
- Let's get shady handouts (please print prior)
- Follow this page.
Materials:
- Pencils
- Let's get shady handouts (please print prior)
Week 3
Class 7:
- More gesture drawings. You pose. :) (10 minutes)
- Bring different candies and get the kids to create a composition and draw it, showing the video from the page Bypass your catalogue first. They can keep the candy after but they have to make sure not to drop papers on ground. (20 minutes)
- Draw from observation. Pass the box with props around and let every table get three or four things from it. They need to set up a still life in the center of the table; the thing they picked does NOT stay only in front of them.
After the still life is set, they can't touch it.
- Draw and shade it for 20 minutes (until it is clean-up time)
Materials:
- Pencils
- Paper: 8.5"x11" and tabloid-sized
- More gesture drawings. You pose. :) (10 minutes)
- Bring different candies and get the kids to create a composition and draw it, showing the video from the page Bypass your catalogue first. They can keep the candy after but they have to make sure not to drop papers on ground. (20 minutes)
- Draw from observation. Pass the box with props around and let every table get three or four things from it. They need to set up a still life in the center of the table; the thing they picked does NOT stay only in front of them.
After the still life is set, they can't touch it.
- Draw and shade it for 20 minutes (until it is clean-up time)
Materials:
- Pencils
- Paper: 8.5"x11" and tabloid-sized
Class 8: Start project -- Perspective in Watercolours
- Say you will be introducing the project of drawing a one-point perspective, so everyone knows what is coming.
- Watch together this video on Colour Theory. It may make it easier to explain all the colour concepts.
- Follow the Cityscape Project Page.
- Say you will be introducing the project of drawing a one-point perspective, so everyone knows what is coming.
- Watch together this video on Colour Theory. It may make it easier to explain all the colour concepts.
- Follow the Cityscape Project Page.
Class 9: Working on Cityscape project.
- Each student should be in different stages. It's OK. Just work with everyone where they are and try to get all of them working. If they are not done by the time the drama section comes along, their grade will be low until they provide the finished product. They have until mark cut-off (but tell them they have until the end of rotation, ha ha)
- Each student should be in different stages. It's OK. Just work with everyone where they are and try to get all of them working. If they are not done by the time the drama section comes along, their grade will be low until they provide the finished product. They have until mark cut-off (but tell them they have until the end of rotation, ha ha)
Week 4
Class 10-12: Working on Cityscape project.
Week 5
Class 13-15: Working on Cityscape project. Maybe shift to drama sometime here if most people are done.
Week 6 until the end of rotation
Class 16: Shift from Cityscape to Drama.
Following classes:
Following classes:
This will be really lose. Play some improv games with them as found on the performance arts pages. The grade 7s and 8s know a lot about this!
After a week or so of improv, you can start shifting into other things, such as a final project.
I am thinking the dance unit is really big, so you may want to shrink it.
If you prefer, you can also shrink some of the art and do more on the dance unit.
Something to do Instead of the dance unit:
As a final project, they could write a dialogue about the current coronavirus situation.
They could take any angle: family life, school life, social inequity, how it correlates with other world problems, even small dramas and how people became affected in small but meaningful ways.
I bet they will have a lot to say.
These mini-plays are great. Usually I ask them to keep it no shorter than 3 minutes and no longer than 5. They have to time themselves as they write it.
The dialogue can be written in two days, rehearsed on the third day and performed on the last -- plan the last four classes to be your drama writing and performance and you should be good to go. Watch out for the rotation switch and any holidays.
After a week or so of improv, you can start shifting into other things, such as a final project.
I am thinking the dance unit is really big, so you may want to shrink it.
If you prefer, you can also shrink some of the art and do more on the dance unit.
Something to do Instead of the dance unit:
As a final project, they could write a dialogue about the current coronavirus situation.
They could take any angle: family life, school life, social inequity, how it correlates with other world problems, even small dramas and how people became affected in small but meaningful ways.
I bet they will have a lot to say.
These mini-plays are great. Usually I ask them to keep it no shorter than 3 minutes and no longer than 5. They have to time themselves as they write it.
The dialogue can be written in two days, rehearsed on the third day and performed on the last -- plan the last four classes to be your drama writing and performance and you should be good to go. Watch out for the rotation switch and any holidays.