Grade 8 Curriculum


ART
Concept: Juxtaposed Shapes, Color Harmony
Skill Objectives: To chip, break glass following a pattern create a design utilizing color value and balance of color
Experience: Mosaics-Background history of mosaics
Media Tools: Scrap glass. glass breakers, glue, grout, sponge,
squeegee, plexiglass

Concept: Abstract Art, Blending Colors
Skill Objectives: To create new colors and use of tints and shades utilizing volume with an abstract design
Experience: Painting with acrylics, introduction to modern art
Media Tools: Acrylics, brushes canvas board

Concept: 3 D Design/Color Value
Skill Objectives: To use color in relationship to the order of the spectrum to achieve 3D visual effects
Experience: Designing graphic designs split into three parts with one part to have volume design
Media Tools: Pencils rulers, markers 3 D glasses

Concept: Book Cover Design/Reinforce Summer Reading
Skill Objectives: To design a book cover utilizing the art library as a resource
Experience: Graphic design plus various type fonts
Media Tools: Pencils, markers, rulers, colored pencils

Concept: Scratch board/ Use of Negative Shapes for a Drawing
Skill Objectives: To learn to use scratch board tools to incise lines into scratch board
Experience: Use of positive and negative design
Media Tools: Scratch board stylus and use of wooded stick, pencil

Concept : Observation
Skill Objectives: To learn how to enlarge and show volume
Experience: Drawing old masters drawings and animals on gray paper with white highlights
Media Tools: Gray paper, ebony pencil, white carbon pencils