Rendering Right

Author: Dana Twigg  12/19/2001 08:05:00 PM EDT		 TaskStream - Advancing Educational Excellence

VITAL INFORMATION
Subject(s):
Art
 
Topic or Unit of Study:
Composition study
 
Grade/Level:
9
 
Objective:
To build on drawing fundementals. Understanding of theme, spacial relationships and flow within a composition
 
Summary:
The students will select related objects and arrange them, through a series of teacher assisted reviews,into a aesthetic arrangement based on a main object and elements to lead the viewer throughout the composition.
 
IMPLEMENTATION
Learning Context:
The lesson picks up on the skills shown in 7th grade art in the areas of aerial and linear perspective. Specific skills should be evident in their work at this level. These skills carry over into the contour line drawing unit also covered during this grade level.
 
Procedure:
The students will be shown the concepts of composition in classroom discussion with students interacting with the teacher as the concepts are shown on the board. After the discussion the students will be directed to find examples of a main object, a foreground element, a middleground element, and a background element from magazines of other sources. The students will then draw a picture using all of the elements to the best of their abilities. These drawings are then compared to the Pa. Assessment Drawing skills chart to see "where their skill level appears". The students drawings are then critiqued by the instructor and suggestions are given to arrange the objects spacially and compositionally to make the drawings more aesthetically pleasing. This process is repeated until the works are developed to a point that they may be tranferred as final drafts to be applied to associated media to finish.
 
Sample Student Products:
In this series of examples, the sketch created by the student is reviewed through several steps as explained earlier into a developed composition.
Attachments
  1. Step One The student selects their objects and arranges them into a scene
  2. Step Two The teacher and student discuss the possibilities of the composition and suggestions are added to the sketck (blue lines)
  3. Step Three The student then "re-draws" his composition using composition rules, teacher suggestions and their own insights.
  4. Step Four The student then presents developed composition for review and creates final draft to be applied to media for completion.
 
Collaboration:
Students will work individually.
 
Time Allotment:
3 class periods. 40 Min. per class.
 
Author's Comments & Reflections:
Demonstrating the concept first to the entire class at a blackboard is the easiest way to explain the process. Using magazines, web-sites, or fine art to support the concept of composition is suggested.
 
MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
Instructional Materials:
Not needed at this time
 
Resources:
  • Materials and resources:
    Pencil
    paper
    eraser
    pen
  • Technology resources:
    Internet Explorer, Netscape
  • The number of computers required is 1.
  • Students Familiarity with Software Tool:
    very good
  • Computers are available in the learning area
 
STANDARDS & ASSESSMENT
Standards:
PA- Pennsylvania Academic Standards
• Subject : Arts and Humanities
• Area 9.1: Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts
• Grade : Grade 8
 Standard A.: Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities.
 Standard B.: Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts.
 Standard C.: Identify and use comprehensive vocabulary within each of the arts forms.
 Standard E.: Communicate a unifying theme or point of view through the production of works in the arts.
 Standard F.: Explain works of others within each art form through performance or exhibition.
 Standard J.: Incorporate specific uses of traditional and contemporary technologies within the design for producing, performing and exhibiting works in the arts or the works of others.
• Area 9.3: Critical Response
• Grade : Grade 8
 Standard A.: Know and use the critical process of the examination of works in the arts and humanities.
 Standard D.: Evaluate works in the arts and humanities using a complex vocabulary of critical response.
 Standard E.: Interpret and use various types of critical analysis in the arts and humanities.
• Area 9.4: Aesthetic Response
• Grade : Grade 8
 Standard A.: Compare and contrast examples of group and individual philosophical meanings of works in the arts and humanities.
 
Assessment Plan:
The students work is both evaluated by the instructor and self-evaluated using the attached form.
 
Assessment/Rubrics:
Rubrics
  1. Art Class