Course: Art I

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Grade Level: Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grades

Credit Hours:

Length: One year

Prerequisite: The student is required to have talent and drive.

Fee: Undecided

Considerations: The student who is considering taking this class should know that the teacher will expect the student to learn how to draw, paint, create sculpture, and work with clay. This is an introductory course and the student will work with all the major materials used by professional artists. This course will also cover studio art, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics.

Course Description: The student will be, throughout the year, developing skills is the Fine Arts area, as well as, skills relating to the Fine Arts are (such as creative writing). The projects assigned to the student will challenge the student's mental abilities and creativity. These projects will cover studio art, art history, aesthetics, and art criticism. Students will be required to take a weekly vocabulary test of seven or more words. Students will be required to create a weekly sketch that will show the student's progress in their developing drawing skill. The students will also be required to create a Power Point Presentation covering art history and art styles. The first quarter is concerned with drawing, second quarter is concerned with ceramics, third quarter is concerned with painting, and fourth quarter is concerned with sculpture (three-dimensional design including architecture). Students are required to journal and choose a word of the day every day in art class.

Skills Needed to be Successful: The students who take this class should have a good solid work ethic, a desire to create without destroying, a passion to use new materials in new ways, an advanced understanding of the elements and principles of art, an advanced ability of drawing, and the fortitude to finish what has been started.

Expectations: The teacher will expect nothing, but the best. The student is expected to bring all required materials to class every day that class is held (Required materials include: Drawing and Shading pencil, journal, art folder, and sketchbook). Students are expected to finish all projects. Any project that is not finished will result in the student earning a zero on that project. All students are expected to be in the art room ready to begin working by the time the tardy bell (second bell) rings.

Career Pathway(s) Related to Content: Graphic Designer, Art Librarian, Art Historian, Art Gallery Owner, Art Detective, Art Critic, Art Benefit Coordinator, Woodworker, Art Auctioneer, Animation Artist, Toy Designer, Scientific Illustrator, Printer, Police Sketch Artist, Photographer, Painter, Museum Educator, Sculptor, Set Designer, Museum Director, Museum Curator, Makeup Artist, Jewelry Designer, Interior Decorator, Industrial Designer, Greeting Card Artist, Art Materials Manufacturer, Art Magazine Publisher, Glass Blower, Furniture Designer, Fashion Designer, Drafter, Editorial Cartoonist, Courtroom Artist, Conservator, Comic Strip Cartoonist, Children's Book Illustrator, Ceramicist, Cartographer, Calligrapher, Cake Decorator, Art Therapist, Art Teacher, Art Supply Retailer, Arts Council Director, and Photo Stylist.