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Students in sixth grade become firmly grounded in the Elements of Art and get the opportunity to explore them all in their final project and they explore transitions of media and must use critical thinking skills as they determine for themselves the "next creative" steps to blending a variety of media within one composition. These students will also be writing stories that fit with their pictorial compositions. Their common theme will surround the story of Scheherazade as they create "new" stories for her to tell her Sultan husband.
Students in sixth grade become firmly grounded in the Elements of Art and get the opportunity to explore them all in their final project and they explore transitions of media and must use critical thinking skills as they determine for themselves the "next creative" steps to blending a variety of media within one composition. These students will also be writing stories that fit with their pictorial compositions. Their common theme will surround the story of Scheherazade as they create "new" stories for her to tell her Sultan husband.
Seventh Grade students learn the important skills of collaboration - sharing ideas for the accomplishment of the goal of the collective. Their medium is a wire canvas. The seventh graders will start with individual themes and then work towards common connections and present them as one idea. Throughout the process students are encouraged to collaborate - sharing ideas, suggestions and their analysis of what they see unfolding that affects the collective.
The second project for the seventh grader is also a collaborative project where students carve out designs from balsa wood and connect their pieces as if they were puzzle pieces. Students will have to think critically, apply executive functioning, and even engineering skills - aka (STEAM skills) as they again work individually to come together for the shared creation of the collective.
The second project for the seventh grader is also a collaborative project where students carve out designs from balsa wood and connect their pieces as if they were puzzle pieces. Students will have to think critically, apply executive functioning, and even engineering skills - aka (STEAM skills) as they again work individually to come together for the shared creation of the collective.
Students in their final year of middle school art - EIGHT GRADE - will be prepped for high school art course. This is the first year that our eight graders were given a choice in the selection of their artist direction. Students had the opportunity to "elect" to take ceramics - rotation one, three dimensional art, (sculpture) - rotation two, mixed media - rotation three, and two dimensional art rotation four. Students do not move from class to class as a group rather their classes are determined by the interest of their classmates, so that they are with like-minded students.
Students in ceramics participated in a response to our author visit of Matt De la Pena who wrote Last Stop on Market Street, which tells of a boy going to a soup kitchen with his grandmother as servers. Initially, the boy complains of his circumstances, but through the eyes of his grandmother sees how blessed they are. The student response was making bowls and small plates for one of Evanston's soup kitchens. Students also will make triptychs to learn about hand building - building a composition from clay.
For rotation two students will make sculptures that emulate an imaginary friend, using Sonny Angel as our artist of study. During rotation three students will create their own sitting room/personal space as they explore architecture. Lastly, rotation three will find us using glass to create mosaic portraits.
Students in ceramics participated in a response to our author visit of Matt De la Pena who wrote Last Stop on Market Street, which tells of a boy going to a soup kitchen with his grandmother as servers. Initially, the boy complains of his circumstances, but through the eyes of his grandmother sees how blessed they are. The student response was making bowls and small plates for one of Evanston's soup kitchens. Students also will make triptychs to learn about hand building - building a composition from clay.
For rotation two students will make sculptures that emulate an imaginary friend, using Sonny Angel as our artist of study. During rotation three students will create their own sitting room/personal space as they explore architecture. Lastly, rotation three will find us using glass to create mosaic portraits.