Semester Overview

Abu Dhabi City Campus

Jennifer Hutchinson MYP Year: 3 Grade:8
# Unit Significant Concept Area of Interaction

2011 2012
Subject Group: Arts
Content
Students tend to think that images, painting, and drawings are considered admirable if they look naturalistic. This unit studies how artists in the early 1900s wanted to depict more than just one view of an object within a single composition. The unit therefore steers students towards a complex composition where more than one angle of a figure, innate or human can be designed on a two dimensional surface.

Subject: Visual Arts

Extension Activities

Human Ingenuity Reflection on: Lets Smash It Up! How can we portray multiple viewpoints? Different angles equal different views. The impact of innovation and creation on individuals, communities, societies and the world. The products of innovation, creation and development in context.

In this unit, students will complete: Colour theory exercises. Construction line drawing techniques. Lessons on compositional layout. Observational Drawings of musical instruments: Guitars, drums, percussion, violins, flutes, recorders, etc. Tonal rendering exercises in lead pencil and coloured pencil and acrylic paint. Students research the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and assess their use of figures, compositions, forms and fractured spaces. On-going verbal dialogue in lessons between teacher and student critiquing the developmental process. Summative tasksThe Developmental Process found within their Developmental Workbook. The final presentation of a framed artwork. Reflection and Evaluation document. A synopsis of their finished artwork. A descriptive easy on a Cubist paintings of their choice.

In School: Display of Work when complete in reception

Time Line

8 weeks

Learner Profile: Communicators/Risk-takers

Approaches to Learning: Communication - Information Literacy Reflection - Thinking

MYP Year 3: Grade 8 Subject Group: Art Subject: Visual Arts Semester Overview 2012 - 2013

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Interdisciplinary Links

Unit

Significant Concept

Area of Interaction

Content
In this unit, students will: Keep records of research, plans and progress in their Developmental Workbooks Research patterns of the world and the history of print. Various ethnic prints are examined as examples. Examine the use and purpose of printing and will be encouraged to think, create and solve problems for creating lino prints with a balance between positive and negative space, as well as motifs. Create at least 6 lino prints in various colors for their repeat pattern. Submit a final reflection on the project and critique peers.

Extension Activities
In School: Exhibition Fieldtrip:Complimentary workshops:Mono-print making: A mixture of printmaking and painting, mono-print making techniques are used by artists from Edgar Degas to Tracey Emin. The workshop examines and explores this fascinating, fun and versatile medium, and is open to all ages and abilities. 4 & 6 November 11.30-13.00, 18.30-20.00

Press Repeat! Why do we use pattern in the world around us?

Positive and Negative space can be used to create patterns, motifs and prints.

Human IngenuityAwareness and Understanding of The processes involved in innovation, creation, development and change. The individual desire to create, develop or change things.

Time Line
Interdisciplinary Links

4 weeks
UAE studies and Islamic Art (National Day)

Learner Profile: Thinker

Approaches to Learning:
Organization - Reflection Thinking -Information Literacy

Unit

Significant Concept

Area of Interaction

Content
Knowledge At the end of this unit, students will understand: Proportions of the body How to capture movement through gestural drawing Keep records of research, plans and progress in their Developmental Workbooks Skill At the end of this unit, students will be able to: Create correct proportions through the medium of wire and clay Research Sculpture Create a 3D piece of work that shows correct form and movement. Submit a final reflection on the project and critique peers Learner Profile: Balanced and Reflective

Extension Activities

Bend and Move to Get your Groove! How does observing the body help us understand movement?

Observational skills help us see changes and make choices.

Health and Social Education Making choices in terms ofLooking after ourselves including diet and exercise.

In school- Exhibition

Time Line Interdisciplinary Links

3 weeks Science and PE

Approaches to Learning: Organization -Reflection Thinking -Collaboration

MYP Year 3: Grade 8 Subject Group: Art Subject: Visual Arts Semester Overview 2012 - 2013