EIGHTH GRADE ART- Week of 8/25-29

MON 8/25

• Read, Discuss pp. 4-5
• Notes on Elements of Design
• Begin Hexagonal Selfies

TUE 8/26
"Studio Time" to work on Hexagonal Selfies


WED 8/27

Finish Hexagonal Selfies

Homework:

DUE: "Check Your Understanding Questions" 1-5 on page 5

THUR 8/28

• Quick Quiz on Elements of Design
• Self-Critique/Discuss Hexagonal Selfies

Seventh & Eighth Grade Art

• Due Mon 8/25- Get for just this class either a spiral notebook or a sketchbook, whichever- which you will be able to use as an Art Journal or "Smashbook" (combined notes, sketches & scrapbook). 
• Due Fri 8/22 for 7th and Mon 8/25 for 8th- "Four Questions," either in your Art Journal, or on your own paper, answer the following (include doodles or illustrations):

1. What's the most powerful aroma you've ever been exposed to?
2. What's your favorite noun to look at?
3. What do you care most about?
4. What can you do well?

• Due Mon 8/25 (Just 7th Grade)- Notes/Diagram on/of the Four Art Disciplines discussed on Wed 8/20

Remember to turn Art assignments in to the yellow-box on the island, & don't forget to put your name on it! Thanks

ALL ART CLASSES; Get to know your 4FOURS!

Sub Plans Mon 9/9/13

PER 7- 8th Grade Art, Mr. Mallory will need to leave by 2:00pm

Student should finish work on their painting assignments or begin cleaning up. Students who are finished may begin working on Chapter Review Questions 1-20 on page 15 which will be due this Wednesday, Sept. 11. Students should expect a test over the elements and principles of design (Chapter 1) on Wednesday.

PER 8- Yearbook, Mr. Mallory will not be here at all for this class today.

Working in groups of 2-3, Students should complete Activity 22.3 in their Module 22 packets. They should use page 138 in their books to help them. Activities 1-4 will all be due this Thursday. The Module 22 test will also be this Thursday, not Friday- because we will not have class Friday due to Homecoming Decoration Day.

If/when they are finished with Activity 3, Students may use the lab computers or checkout laptops to work on the "On Deadline" Layout & Ad assignments. I recommend using either Photoshop or InDesign, but they may use MS Word, Corell Draw or any computer program or app they feel most comfortable with. They may ask more experienced students to help them if they need it.The revised due date for this assignment is now Monday, September 16.

Please hand back the Module 23 Tests to students (on the island counter). Thank You.

8thGradeArt; Elements & Principles of Design

• Read pages 1-11 in our textbook.
• Mon 8/26- in class, look for examples of ways you can demonstrate each of the elements of design in magazines and glue & label them in your "SmashBooks."
• Due Tues 8/27- Check Your Understanding Questions 1-5 on page 5
• Tues & Wed Read/Discuss/Notes on the Principles of Design (PP.8-11)
• Due Thurs 8/29- Check for Understanding Questions 1-5 p.11

8th Grade Art HMWK

DUE Monday, December 17- Review Questions 1-5 on page 229!
Don't Forget! (But have a great weekend too).
Please bring your books to class on Monday for the direction for the painting we'll work on Mon-Wed next week. Thanks.

8th Grade ART; American Gothic

After studying about Iowa artist Grant Wood, 8th Graders are creating their own parodies of Wood's 'American Gothic.' Above is mine. This was the cross-curriculum perfect storm. In Civics we are wrapping up our unit on Iowa History and in Art we just learned about the Social Realists and Regionalists.

8th Grade Art this week

This week, we'll begin learning about Early 20th Century Art.
BUT, EXPECT A "POP" QUIZ OVER THE ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN THIS WEEK, AT ANY TIME...

When in doubt, see what we're doing and if/what is due & when at http://planbook.com/student?t=928417&k=maldog

• Mon.-Examining Your Work p.13,
• Early 20th Century- pp.241-245
• Tues- Finish discussing 241-245,
• Read Directions (pp.246-247)/Begin Cubist Chalk Drawing
• Wed-Thur- Continue working on Cubist Chalk Drawing
• DUE THURS!- Check Your Understanding questions 1-6 p.245

Elements & Principles of Design

8th Grade Art students are learning about these in Chapter 1 of their textbook (pages 1-16). Use these graphics to study for your quiz. 7th Grade Art, Painting, Ceramics & Photography students would do well to learn these and use them in their artworks. Even Yearbook students would benefit from knowing the Principles for the sake of designing page layouts. Theoretically, if Drawing & Seeing students are learning their 5 core perceptual skills, these will automatically/intuitively fall into place without learning about them.

About the Principles, remember "Form follows function," and good design should 1) Capture attention 2) Hold attention and 3) Direct Attention and your compositions will have impact and be effective.

The Fantastic Fours of Art

The 3 'Okes!

Paintings should try to do this. Great Photos should try to do this too. Probably not a bad goal for writing too.

1. When you look at an artwork of any kind, what mood do they invoke by how they used the elements? 
2. What things to they evoke for you? 
3. Was it meant to be provocative? If so, how does it challenge you? Does it make you uncomfortable? Why?

Social Activist Art

8th graders- Juxtapose image(s) & text together in order to make a statement or comment that makes people think- like American artist Barbara Kruger.

Consider what associations you can evoke and/or what thought, discussion or debate you can provoke.

Good Design...

Applies to Photography, Layout, Painting, Drawing, Posters, Logos, Interior Design, Architecture, Landscaping- you name it! Come to think of it- it also applies to good writing. Headline = Right JAB, Lead Paragraph = Left HOOK, Story Body = UPPERCUT.

MS8- Surrealism

What we'll be doing this week in Eighth Grade Art and what's due when:

• MON- Finish Surrealist Notes/Slide Show- Khalo & Dali
• TUES & WED- Surrealist Painting (directions pp.262-263)
• THURS- Lesson 3 American Art Today (pp.264-267)
• DUE TUES 9/4: CYU questions 1-4 p.267

NOTES Taking Forms

I'm excited about these new notes forms I made up today. They should help kids keep track of things that we learn about in my classes.These are based on the Cornell notes taking system which is pretty renown for being very effective. I usually have chapter-specific notes outlines that I use in Civics, but highly motivated and college-bound or TAG students may want to try these as an alternative. Making them available might also be a useful option for when you're absent.

• Notes Worksheet for Civics Class
• Art History Worksheet for MS8 Art, Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, & Photography

MS8 ART Aug 20-24

Chapt 17, Art of Today pp.257-273
Dadaism, Synectics & Automatic Drawing
Check your Understanding 1-5 p.261 due Wed 8/22