Thursday, April 30, 2015

Foundation Art Final Color Project Requirements

Foundation Art Final Color Project Requirements

Final Project: Color

There are things you will need to consider when looking for a final project. Look in magazines, books, calendars, novelty magazines, etc.  The list can go on you need only look. It must be in color. Pick something that will challenge but not so had you get frustrated.

  1. You will need to think of the subject matter:
*no cartoons/ or coloring book style
            *no logos/ numbers/ letters/ silhouettes, etc. no exceptions.
            *it must be realistic, not fantasy
            *nature, landscape, inanimate, portrait, etc. are a few examples.

2.      You will need to think of the Composition. It must be a good composition, filling 3/4‘s of the paper. Must be 3/d the whole picture needs to be looked at, the positive / negative space, asymmetrical or symmetrical balance and more will need to be considered, outlines should be the start only I should not see pencil by the end of your composition. 
3.      Values; these are the most important part of your final. They will help you make your composition 3/d. You will be using colored pencils, because of this you will need to consider your values in a different way. Changing the intensity of the colors going from a deeper color to lighter in the same pencil, or each section outlined, these are not values. Values in color are used with white, black, and even a gray pencil. Another way would be using the direct complement and even the opposite of what you are using for example if using a red using green as the complement or the cool colors as the values.  It is not always better to use black or gray for a darker value.

4.      Proportions, Texture, Craftsmanship will also be considered. You need to remember how an overall effect will look. This makes a difference to how I think you feel about the final. If it looks sloppy, ripped, folded, wrinkled, not finished or even looks like a rushed job, you could care less about your grade.

5.      You will be using large thick paper, and may have a 1” border. If you are going to use your own colored pencils, look for a large enough set (more than 12). If you are planning to purchase your set and are looking at a really good set consider the prismacolor brand.  These are more expensive but they are the better quality for your money.  (We sell then here at the school, or you may spend more at other stores).

6.      Parents I would like you to keep track of how much time your student spends on their assignment and the amount of effort they put into it.  How well they do their values.  I would also like you to give your student a rating between 1-25 with 1 being no effort or time spent and 25 being many hours and a high effort spent.  (what would you give them for a score) Thanks for your help.  Ms. Ewell


Due: ________________________________ Late work will only receive ½ credit.


PARENT SCORING SHEET
Final Color Parent Scoring Sheet

Student Name: __________________________________             Hour: ______
Comments:
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Score (1 - 25): _______________
Signed by: ______________________________________ Date: __________

Relationship to Student: ______________________________

8th grade art Mythical Creature requirements

8th grade art
        MYTHICAL CREATURE

Final Requirements: Mythical Creature Sculpture
¨  *Skeletal/ armature must be constructed from cardboard, measuring no smaller than 1 foot in diameter, but may be larger and fit through all doors. This armature is much like the skeletal of your own body it is the basic mold for the inside of the creature. The Animal must be a full animal not just a head but with the full body as well. This will be a 3/d creature no flat objects. It must stand or be stable in position you have chosen. If there should be legs make them as part of the armature.
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¨  *Construction: must hold together, you will be coming from home to school.  Using glue, tape, wire, thread, yard, etc. Some things work out better than others, experiment to find out which one for your creature. (hot glue gun is not always the best)
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¨  *Cover: you must cover the outer with what will complete you creature i.e. fur, wrapping paper, paint, feathers, bling, fabric, yarn, please no lined, or construction paper this will just fall apart and not help with a final look, just remember the original cardboard must not be showing, etc.
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¨  *No drawing on creature with marker, pencil etc. you must make or paint your eyes, mouth or any physical features and body parts, etc. to complete your creation. Go the extra mile.
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¨   *Tag: This is your information; you must include a tag with your creatures name and your name along with the date and hour.  Use yarn or string to tie the tag onto the creature it looks better than just a scrap piece of paper scribbled on with information with tape holding it in place.
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¨  *Creativity: this means background knowledge and using your imagination along with items that are common and turning them into uncommon ways, this will play a huge part in the project.  Take time to come up with an original mythical creature.
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*Elements: color (any that will enhance the beauty of the creature), texture (feathers, bling, cloth, etc.), form (every angle must be considered 3/d) these are the most predominant found on your project.

*Principles: balance (symmetrical, must be able to stand on its own), unity (everything that comes together and works with it), proportions (the head, legs, body work with each other not against having the creature fall) are the most predominant.

¨  *Take the time to create, don’t wait till the night before. You have time to create but only if you don’t wait.
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¨ *Parents I would like you to rate you student between 1-25 on effort, time spent, creativity, construction, and overall completion on this project.  I would like you to consider all aspects of this project. Read the instructions for what is to be the finished product. A parent form has been attached for you to fill out, and your students is to return. Make sure they are finished before being sent.  Thanks for your help comments are welcome. If you lose the form another one may be found on my blog.
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¨  *Due date: __________________________, No late work will be accepted for full credit second day only ½ points given. This will be due at the end of the trimester. Do your best to be on time. **** Parent please 


PARENT SCORING SHEET

Mythical Creature Sculpture Parent Scoring Sheet

Student Name: __________________________________             Hour: ______
Comments:
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Score (1 - 25): _______________
Signed by: ______________________________________ Date: __________

Relationship to Student: ______________________________

April 22

April 22 Wednesday

LANGUAGE ART
   
Starter:  In a paragraph (8-9 sentences) explain how Tom Sawyer changes over the course of the story.  Use specific evidence.

Video: Tom and Huck

Assignment:  Compare and Contrast (RL 8.5) - Make a list of 20 differences between the movie and the text.


DRAWING
 

April 30

LANGUAGE ART

Thursday, 4/30

Starter:  Write a bio-poem about yourself, it needs to be 8 lines, having two to three things about yourself per line. 

Discuss:  Summative test scores and narrative elements (again)!

Assignment:  Close Read Poetry Handout (Strange Fruit) 

***cannot copy text to blog - get handout from me

Whiteboard - verbs


DRAWING

Assignments: Line Animal w/sketch book
                    Fair Book cover due May 21
                    Final Project Due May 29th
                    Oil Pastel Landscape 


FOUNDATION ART

Assignments:  Space Word due today
                     Fair Book Cover due May 21
                     Final Project Due June 1st
                     Perspective 1 pt. building
                                       1 pt. house
                                       2 pt. building
                                       2 pt. house


8TH GRADE ART

Assignments:  Final Project Due June 2nd
                    Fair Book Cover Due May 21
                    Stain Glass due May 1st
                    Mask due May 7th
                    Printmaking












Wednesday, April 29, 2015

April 29th

LANGUAGE ART

Wed. 4/29

Starter:  Make a list of everything you know about Narrative Elements (YES AGAIN)

Score/share:  Narrative Element handout 
                      Review through the handout then review for the test


Summative:  Narrative Elements

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

April 28th - May 1st

DRAWING

Assignments: Line Animal  along with 5 roughs in sketch book
                     Fair Book Cover along with 4 roughs (due Thursday, May 21st)
                     Final Project with three or more references


FOUNDATION ART

Assignments: Fair Book Cover along with 4 roughs (due Thursday, May 21st)
                       Symmetrical Balance with roughs were due yesterday 27th
                       Space with 10 roughs (due Thursday 30th)
                       Final Project Introduced on Thursday 30th Due on Tuesday, June 2nd
                       Perspective 1 point and 2 points will start on Friday May 1st


8TH GRADE ART

Assignments: Fair Book Cover along with 4 roughs (due Thursday, May 21st)
                       Stain Glass with roughs (due May 1st Friday)
                       Intro to Final Project on Thursday 30th of April
                       Mask with roughs due May 8th Friday
                       Intro to Rhythm and Motion 7th of May Thursday


LANGUAGE ART

Tuesday, 4/28

Starter:  Make a list of everything you know about Narrative Elements.

Assignment:  FINISH Narrative Element Handout - Review for Summative

***For those who finished yesterday, when I had a substitute, arrangements were made to have free time in the library.        

***Things to focus on when completing the handout:  
-Diary entry writing should have details and be written in the first person - using pronoun "I."  Read the note in the handout about length expectation.
-Bio poems need to be 7-8 sentences long.  
-captions/news headlines on pictures need to be representative of the plot, not just telling what the picture is of.  
-events listed on setting section need to be representative of what happened specifically at that setting.

Upcoming:  Narrative Element Summative 

Monday, April 27, 2015

April 27th

LANGUAGE ARTS

Monday, 4/27

Starter:  Theme is an over-all idea of what you think the author wanted you to gain from having read his work.  Create a picture of the scene that you think best represents what a theme for the novel would be.  Write the theme is a complete sentence.

Assignment:  Complete Narrative Element Handout from Friday, 4/24
Student will have one more day on the handout. 


Upcoming:  Review for Summative on novel and elements   

8TH GRADE ART

Assignment: students will continue to work on Stain Glass,  today we will spray our masks to bet the base coat.  Students are also working on the Fair Book Cover. 

FOUNDATION ART

Assignment: Students are critiquing the Symmetrical Balance assignment, They are working on the Fair Book Cover and they are also working on Space/ positive and negative word.  

DRAWING

Assignment: Students have all started on their Final Projects and have at least a base to get thinking of what they are wanting and how to go about doing it.  Students are working on Fair Book Cover, and they are also doing the Line Animal with the sketch book for them as well.  The Monochromatic eye should be in and will be graded shortly.  

Thursday, April 23, 2015

April 23 AND 24 compare and contrast



LANGUAGE ART

Thursday, 4/23

Starter:  Trace Tom’s courtship with Becky.  In two columns make a list showing ways their relationship is childish, and ways it is adult-like. 
             Childish                                   Adult-like



Video:  Continue Tom and Huck with list of differences between the movie and the text.

Friday, 4/24

Starter: Mark Twain presents a picture of the townspeople of St. Petersburg, Missouri, their values and their social system,  Imagine that you are spending the summer there.  Write a letter to a friend describing the town, its ways of life, and its most interesting residents. 

Video:  Finish,  we ended with Huck back in town and the picnic about to commence. 

Turn in: list of twenty differences you found between the movie and the novel. 

If time permits we will start on the Biography poems.



FOUNDATION ART 

Assignment: Space, introduction of space and yesterday introduce Fair Book Cover Contest.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

April 21 ch 35 summary

8TH GRADE ART
     Students are continuing to work on their stain glass pictures.

FOUNDATION ART
     Students were introduced to Balance they will be doing a symmetrical balance design.  There is a specific process they will need to use in order to accomplish this assignment. They will also be doing a critique on their Portraits the importance of proportions and values on this assignment is vital for better result of a human person.



LANGUAGE ART

Tuesday, 4/21

Starter:  Choose a character from the novelwhich you believe you are most alike.  Write an 8-9 sentence letter to the character telling them ways you are alike.  Things you might include - ideas, interests, behaviors, relationships you have in common.     

Audio:  Chapter 35 and conclusion - end of novel

Review:  Chapters 33-35

Summative:  Chapters 33-35  (Notes can be used)

Turn in:  Notes - chapters 33-35 (will not be accepted late)

Upcoming:  Tom and Huck video (Disney) - The showing of the movie, and the work that will be involved from watching it, will meet the standard RL 8.7, analyzing how filmed  production departs from text.  We should be starting this on Wednesday (hopefully)

Chapter 35 Summary

  • Tom and Huck's big haul is the talk of the town, and soon everyone around is digging under trees and searching haunted houses for buried treasure.
  • Tom and Huck's money is put in the bank, so that each boy has an income of one dollar each weekday, and a quarter every other Sunday – enough to pretty much cover any and all expenses they might have.
  • Judge Thatcher is left with a high opinion of Tom.
  • Huck is miserable. He hates being kept clean by the Widow's servants.  He hates eating with a knife and fork, going to church and reading and talking "properly" and basically not getting to do anything thing that he wants to do.
  • After three weeks of suffering, Huck slips away. Three days later Tom finds him sleeping in a barrel, just like the old days.
  • Tom talks Huck into going back to the Widow Douglas's; when Huck protests and says that he doesn't like his new life, Tom tells him that "everybody does it that way."
  • Tom attempts to use reason to change Huck's mind.  He tells Huck, “You need to be respectable to be in Tom Sawyer's Gang.”
  • Huck goes back to the Widow Douglas's.
  • The boys decide that the initiation ceremony for Tom's gang will take place that night, at midnight, and include all the usual oaths and blood.
  • Huck can't wait to see what happens.

Monday, April 20, 2015

all classes chp. 33-34 summarys

8TH GRADE ART
     Students are working on the STAIN GLASS.  They should be finished with the roughs and starting on the cutting out part of the assignment

FOUNDATION ART
     Students will be introduced to BALANCE this project is a process so they better understand the difference in the types of balance that is out there to gain a better cohesive composition. Students portraits with values should be getting closer to being done they are due on the 22nd, Wednesday. 

DRAWING
     Students are working on and finishing up the monochromatic eye as well as the line animal.  Students in this class should be working to perfect their values and drawing skills, not seeing if they can rush and be the first one done on any project. 

LANGUAGE ARTS

Monday, 4/20

Starter:  Write a paragraph explaining how you would spend $12,000, which in our day is more like $300,000.  

Audio:  Chapters 33 and 34 with notes

Upcoming:  Finish novel (ch. 35) tomorrow.  Summative on Chapters 33-35

Chapter 33 summary
  • Everyone rushes back to the cave.  Injun Joe is found dead at the door.
  • There is evidence that he tried to burrow under the door with his knife; he ate candles and bats for sustenance, and collected water dripping from a stalagmite by using a cup made out of stone.
  • Injun Joe is buried near the cave.
  • Huck tells Tom about the whole Widow Douglas thing.
  • Tom tells Huck that the treasure is not at the tavern – it is in the cave.
  • Tom and Huck head back to the hole where Tom and Becky escaped from the cave.
  • In the cave, Tom stumbles upon the piece of useless candle he and Becky left stuck to the cave wall. They go to where Tom saw Injun Joe in the cave, where there is a cross drawn in smoke on a big rock nearby.
  • Huck is rather spooked by the whole thing, but Tom helps him keep it together.
  • The boys stumble upon an area in the cave strewn with blankets and old pieces of meat –there's no treasure chest in sight.
  • They find a strange spot near the base of the rock with the cross.
  • Tom digs with his knife and uncovers a secret passage that had been covered up with boards. 
  • They boys follow it to the end, where they find the treasure chest, along with some guns and stuff.
  • The put the treasure into individual bags, and leave the other things for future criminal activities.
  • The boys hurry back to town, to hide the treasure in the Widow Douglas's woodshed, but they run into the Welshman and he takes them to the widow's house.
  • When they get there all the village big wigs are there, along with Aunt Polly, Sid, and Mary.
  • Tom and Huck are made to go upstairs, wash, and put on suits.

Chapter 34 Summary
  • When the boys get upstairs, Huck asks Tom for help escaping the house. Tom tells him to calm down.
  • Sid shows up and tells Tom that the party is for the Welshman and his sons, in order to congratulate them for helping her out.
  • Sid also mentions that the Widow Douglas has some kind of secret she is going to share -  the story about Huck tracking Joe and his accomplice.
  • Sid tells Tom and Huck that maybe he was the one responsible for letting everyone know about Huck's involvement.
  • Tom hits Sid and sends him running.
  • When everyone is downstairs, the Welshman, otherwise known as Mr. Jones, tells Huck's story and thanks him for his help.
  • The widow tells everyone that she intends to take care of Huck and have him educated.
  • At this point, Tom yells out, "Huck don't need it. Huck's rich!"
  • Tom tells them all to wait a minute, then runs outside.
  • He comes back with the sacks of gold and pours the money out on the table.
  • Tom explains that half of the money is his, and the other half is Huck's, before telling everyone about their search for the treasure.
  • Tom and Huck have found more than $12,000 dollars. (Assuming the setting is around 1850, that’s nearly $300,000 today). 

Thursday, April 16, 2015

April 17 Language Arts Predict and Illustrate

Friday, April 17


Starter:  Think about an eyewitness news account that has been in the news.  Write a paragraph (8-9 sentences), or use a Venn diagram to show a contrast and comparison to an event that has happened in the novel.

Score Starters:  3/23-4/3  (5 pts. each – total:  /45)
                *outrageous thing you or someone you know has done
                *Being an ethical person
                *good voice/bad voice
                *connecting to the story
    *Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting Tom and Huck
                *role of alcohol and drunkenness in the story/theme
                *talked into doing something
                *”It’s “only” Huck Finn…
                *eye witness account

Summative:  Chapters 29-32


Assignment:  Predict and Illustrate Handout – Injun Joe, Where Did You Go?  

Predict and Illustrate - Injun Joe, Where Did You Go? (follows end of Ch. 32 – pg. 197)

Objective:  Students will use contextual evidence and clues throughout the story to make a prediction  on what will become of Injun Joe (RL 8.1 ), demonstrating how dialogue or incidents propel action and provoke a decision (RL 8.3). 

Directions:  Consider everything you have learned about Injun Joe – how his behaviors have impacted the other characters in the novel.  Follow the information provided.    

Situation:  Injun Joe is hiding out in the cave in which Tom and Becky were trapped.

Dialogue of Mr. Thatcher to Tom:  “To prevent anyone else getting lost in the cave, I had the place sealed up and triple locked two weeks ago.”

PREDICT what you think has happened to Injun Joe:  Include WHAT your prediction is based on. (2-3 sentences)
I think that Injun Joe ________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

because  _________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________.   
ILLUSTRATE your prediction in the space below.  Color your illustration.

Language Arts 4/16 study guide chp. 29-32 32 summary

Thursday, 4/16

Starter:  When Huck first knocks on the Welshman’s door, and identifies himself as Huck Finn, he is told, “It ain’t a name to open many doors, I judge!  The next time he knocks on the Welshman’s door he says, “It’s only Huck Finn!”  The Welshman’s response – “It’s a name that can open this door night or day, lad! – and welcome!”   Write a paragraph (8-9 sentences), explaining what the word “only” implies when Huck says, “It is only Huck Finn!”  Include in your response how cause and effect plays into this – (cause is what happens, effect is the result).

Reading:  Finish novel Chapters 31 and 32

Assignment:  Study Guide Handout - Chapters 29-32 

Upcoming:  Summative - Chapters 29-32 tomorrow

                                                         
                                              Name:  ______________________  Hour:  ____     Date:  ___________

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Study Guide Chapters 29-32

Objective:  Students will compare and contrast chapters 29-31 (RL 8.5), showing how dialogue and character motivations drive plot (RL 8.3), and how details support central ideas (RL 8.2).     

Directions:  Think about the following chapters as an outline for a short story.  Use your notes to fill in the details that would make up each paragraph.  At the end draw a Venn Diagram that compare and contrast Tom and Becky, Huck, and the townspeople in all four chapters.      

Chapters 29, 31 and 32:    Becky and Tom

Paragraph 1 – Becky comes back to town and her and Tom plan how they will spend time together
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Paragraph 2 -  Tom and Becky explore the cave, and get separated from the rest of the party.
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Paragraph 3 - Tom and Becky realize they are lost, and try to find their way back.
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Paragraph 4 - Tom meets Injun Joe as he tries to find a way out of the cave.
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Paragraph 5 - Tom’s final attempt to find a way out of the cave is successful. *
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Chapters 29, 30 and 32 – Huck Finn

Paragraph 1 -  Huck is out on his “watch” when two men brush by him, carrying something under their arm.
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Paragraph 2 -  Huck listens to the two men talk about revenge.
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Paragraph 3 – Huck sped down the hill to the Welshman’s.
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Paragraph 4 – Huck returns to the Welshman’s the next morning.
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Paragraph 5 – Huck becomes ill.
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Chapters 30, 31 and 32  – the towns people

Paragraph 1 – At church Becky’s mom says to Mrs. Harper, “Is my Becky going to sleep all day?
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Paragraph 2 – Aunt Polly says to Mrs. Harper, “I’ve got a boy that’s turned up missing.  I reckon my Tom stayed at your house last night. 
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Paragraph 3 – The kids all said they had not noticed whether Tom and Becky were on board the
Ferry boat on the homeward trip.
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Paragraph 4 – The alarm swept from lip to lip…and before the horror was half an hour old, two hundred men were pouring down toward the cave…Early in the forenoon parties of jaded men began to straggle into the village, but the strongest of the citizens continued searching…
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Paragraph 5 – …n a moment the streets were swarming with frantic half-clad people, who shouted, “Turn out! Turn out!  They’re found! They’re found!”
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• Draw a Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts Tom and Becky, Huck and the townspeople in chapters 29-32. 

 Chapter 32 Summary

  • It's Tuesday night and everyone's sad and tired. Mrs. Thatcher and Aunt Polly are overwhelmed by anxiety.
  • In the middle of the night the bells start ringing: the kids have been found. Everyone runs out to meet them.
  • Tom is the center of attention again.  He tells everyone how he stumbled upon a passage that led outside of the cave – how he and Becky escaped, hitched a ride on a passing boat, and made their way home.
  • All the searchers are called back and given the good news.  Tom and Becky are given a few days to recuperate.
  • When Tom feels better, he attempts to visit Huck, but Huck's laid up too.  There will be no Treasure hunting for a while.
  • Injun Joe's companion has been found floating in the river.
  • When Tom hears that Huck is feeling better, he checks on Becky before heading over to see Huck.
  • When he gets to the Thatcher house he finds out from Judge Thatcher that the entrance to the cave was locked up with a big metal door.
  • Tom tells Judge Thatcher that Injun Joe is in the cave.