DYERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM

 

Subject:               ART I                                                                                                                                                                   _____   Semester            

Grade:                                                                                                                                                                                                    _____   Year

 

 

TOPIC

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

AUGUST

 

 

 

 

Perspective measurement

Lines

 

(The last week is used the cover all topics.)

What is perspective?

How do lines contribute to emotional life?

How is perspective technique used?

What do different lines express?

How are lines used in mathematical terms?

What are specific line types?

SEPTEMBER

 

 

 

Gesture drawing

Contour drawing

Contour

Practice

What is inner and outer form?

What is contour?

What is gesture movement?

What is a figure?

What gives feeling or movement?

OCTOBER

 

 

 

Gesture

Contour

Skills

Shapes and Forms

Color

What is not seen?

What is space and its relationship to shape and form?

How do you perceive shape, form, and space?

NOVEMBER

 

 

Color

How to you create shapes and forms?

How do we see color?

What is a color scheme?

What is pigment?

DECEMBER

Color

How do we and artists use color?

What effect does color have in your life?

JANUARY

 

Mosaic Project.

Value

What is a mosaic?

In history, how can you develop your life?

FEBRUARY

 

 

Pop art.

What new art movements were made by  “pop art”?

What is “pop art”?

MARCH

 

 

 

 

 

4 step process.

Value.

Exam composition.

Color.

Pencil.

How is value a step to learning?

How to write a critique of the painting.

What is description?

What is analysis?

What is interpretation?

What is judgment?

APRIL

 

Value

Exam composition.

What are the differences in periods of art?

MAY

Exam.

Composition.

What is aesthetic experience?

How can you judge expressive qualities?