Charles Boswell Visual Art Unit Plan High School

Class: Big Idea: Topics:

Intro to Art A. Memory
B. Community
9th Grade Trasformation C. Nature
D. Time
E. Emotion

Week Artifact or Studio/Objective Vocabulary Materials Connections Assessment

Artist (cross curricular or world)

Pablo Picasso Contour Line Contour drawing Pencil

Create a series of Line Paper
1 (A) contour line Eraser
drawings with a
partner.

Auguste Rodin Create gesture Gestural line Conte Crayon World: Media
drawings from Proportion Colored paper
2 (A) photographs of a Representational
celebrity or famous Foreshortening
person from a full Contrapposto
body resource.

Rembrandt Shading Contrast Charcoal ELA Written artist

Additive/Subtractive Value Paper statement
3 (A) Use highlights and Balance Eraser describing practice
shadows to create a and rationale.
still life drawing
from objects
brought from home.
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Week Artifact Studio/Objective Vocabulary Materials Connections

(cross curricular or world)

Edvard Munch Self Portrait Expressionism Colored Paper

Line Oil Pastel
4 (A) Experiment with Value
different forms of
line to create an
expressive self
portrait
Raphael Perspective Perspective Pencil
Create perspective Line Paper
5 (A) drawings using one Pen
point and 2-point Ruler
perspective. Sighting stick

Salvador Dali Combine figures and Composition Pencil ELA Written Reflection
objects used in Perspective Paper
6 (A) previous lessons to Line Colored Pencil
create an imagined Value Ruler
environment. Balance
Students will Surrealism
present their final
work and write a
reflection on
practice.
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Week Artifact Studio/Objective Vocabulary Materials Connections

(cross curricular or world)

Sonia Romero Printmaking Linocut Linoleum block

Use Linocut Printmaking Carving tools
7 (B) printmaking to Narrative Ink Roller
depict how Ink
community action
can transform a
space

Wangechi Mutu Collagraph Collagraph Board Group discussion and

Use Collagraph Printmaking Paper for Collage critique.
8 (B) printmaking to Collage Ink Roller
transform self- Ink
image based on
community beliefs.
Mark Rothko Color Theory Analogous Acrylic Paint
Transforming colors. Monochromatic Paper
9 (C) Triad Pencil
Tint Eraser
Tone
Shade

Andy Warhol Color Mixing and Analogous Acrylic Paint Multiple choice quiz
transforming Monochromatic Paper on vocabulary
10 (C) photographs from Triad Pencil related to color
their natural colors. Tint Eraser theory.
Tone
Shade
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Week Artifact Studio/Objective Vocabulary Materials Connections

(cross curricular or world)

Brienne M Transform an Wash Watercolor paint Science

Brown environment from a Wet-on-wet Water
11 (D) photograph of a Saturate Paint Brush
developed area Watercolor paper
based on its
geography to what
it would have
looked like in the
past.
Adam Miller Transform an Wash Watercolor paint Science Artist Statement.
environment from a Wet-on-wet Water ELA
12 (D) photograph to what Saturate Paint Brush
it might look like in Resist Watercolor paper
the future. Students Salt
will write an artist Crayon
statement about Alcohol
both paintings.
Louise Coil Building Clay Clay
Goodman Create a coil pot and Coils Clay tools
13 (E) connect sculpted Firing Water
pieces to create an Wedging Kiln
expressive design. Scoring
Slip
Ruth King Slab Building Clay Clay
Slab construction Clay tools
14 (E) Create a slab pot Firing Water
and add or subtract Wedging Kiln
to create an Scoring
expressive design. Slip
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Week Artifact Studio/Objective Vocabulary Materials Connections

(cross curricular or world)

Johnson Tsang Sculpture Sculpture ELA Artist Statement and

Firing critique.
15 (E) Create a self- Wedging
portrait expressing Scoring
an emotion. Slip
Students will
complete an artist
statement about
their work and
present it with their
work for critique.