Mrs. Minniear
North Hills Preparatory
2014-2015
Art 1
Course Description: Fine Arts (Art) MYP - Year 4/ Art I
Art I introduces the student to the importance of recognizing, understanding,
appreciating and using the elements of art and the principles of design in
composition. Students will explore the use of a variety of media including pencil,
ink, pastels, watercolor, acrylics, charcoal, clay, and mixed media. Students will
study the works of famous artists from different periods and cultures. Students will
also explore calligraphy, marbling, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and jewelry.
Students in this class will be required to purchase some personal art supplies.
AIMS
The aims of the teaching and study of MYP arts are for students to:
• Understand how the arts play a role in developing and expressing personal and
cultural identities
• Appreciate how the arts innovate and communicate across time and culture
• Become informed and reflective practitioners of the arts
• Experience the process of making art in a variety of situations
• Explore, express and communicate ideas
• Become more effective learners, inquirers and thinkers
• Develop self confidence and self-awareness through art experiences
• Appreciate lifelong learning in and enjoyment of the arts.
OBJECTIVES
A. Knowing and understanding
Through the study of theorists and practitioners of the arts, students
discover the aesthetics of art forms and are able to analyze and communicate in
specialized language. Using explicit and tacit knowledge alongside an
understanding of the role of the arts in a global context, students inform their
work and artistic perspectives.
In order to reach the aims of arts, students should be able to:
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Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the art form studied,
including concepts, processes, and the use of subject-specific terminology
Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the art form in original or
displaced contexts
Use acquired knowledge to purposefully inform artistic decisions in the
process of creating artwork.
B. Developing skills
The acquisition and development of skills provide the opportunity for active
participation in the art form and in the process of creating art. Skill application
allows students to develop their artistic ideas to a point of realization. The point of
realization could take many forms. However, it is recognized as the moment when
the student makes a final commitment to his or her artwork by presenting it to an
audience. Skills are evident in both process and product.
In order to reach the aims of arts, students should be able to:
demonstrate the acquisition and development of the skills and techniques of the art
form studied demonstrate the application of skills and techniques to create, perform
and/or present art.
B. Thinking creatively
The arts motivate students to develop curiosity and purposefully explore and
challenge boundaries. Thinking creatively encourages students to explore the
unfamiliar and experiment in innovative ways to develop their artistic intentions,
their processes and their work. Thinking creatively enables students to discover
their personal signature and realize their artistic identity.
In order to reach the aims of arts, students should be able to:
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Develop a feasible, clear, imaginative and coherent artistic intention
Demonstrate a range and depth of creative-thinking behaviors
Demonstrate the exploration of ideas to shape artistic intention
through to a point of realization.
D. Responding
Students should have the opportunity to respond to their world, to their own
art and to the art of others. A response can come in many forms; creating art as a
response encourages students to make connections and transfer their learning to
new settings. Through reflecting on their artistic intention and the impact of their
work on an audience and on themselves, students become more aware of their own
artistic development and the role that arts play in their lives and in the world.
Students learn that the arts may initiate change as well as being a response to
change.
In order to reach the aims of arts, students should be able to:
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Construct meaning and transfer learning to new settings
create an
artistic response that intends to reflect or impact on the world around
them critique the artwork of self and others.
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
o Elements of Art
o Principles of design
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Media and techniques
o Painting and Drawings
Grades
60% - Studio productions, tests and essays.
40% - Arts journal, class participation and quizzes.
Academic Honesty Policy
At Uplift North Hills Preparatory, we expect our scholars to be honest in all of their
academic work. By enrolling at UNHP, scholars agree to adhere to high standards of
academic honesty and integrity through the scholar compact. Failure to comply with this
compact and the school’s code of conduct may result in academic and disciplinary
action, up to and including expulsion from the school. As members of our community,
scholars also have the ethical obligation to report violations of the academic honesty
policies they witness to the school administration. All scholars have an ethical obligation
to abide by the following Academic Honesty Policies:
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Each scholar is required to subscribe to the policies upon registration
each year by signing the scholar compact.
Each scholar is required to upload all documents (where required by the
teacher) to Turnitin.com and cite all used sources.
Scholars adjudged to have committed a violation of the academic
honesty policy or a violation of the code of conduct shall receive a “0” for
the assignment with no opportunity to retake/make up the grade and be
subject to discipline up to expulsion.
Legitimate collaboration between a scholar and a tutor and/or peer shall
not be considered a violation. However, it is the responsibility of the
scholar to ensure that the work submitted is his own.
Violations of the policy include but are not limited to the following:
Cheating: Improper taking or tendering of any information or material which shall be
used to determine academic credit. Examples include but are not limited to the
following:
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Copying from another scholar’s test, homework, or assignments of any
kind;
Allowing another scholar to copy from a test, homework, or any other
assignment of any kind;
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Using unauthorized materials during a test, such as notes, a book,
formula lists, including stored data in a calculator;
Collaborating during an in-class or take-home test or assignment with any
other person by giving or receiving information without authority;
and/or
Having another individual write or plan a paper.
Plagiarism: The attempt to represent the work of another as one’s own work. This
relates to written and oral works, computer based work, and/or music and media.
Examples include:
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Quoting another person’s actual words;
Failing to accurately document information or obtained on the World
Wide Web and/or
Submitting someone else’s paper as one’s own.
Academic Misconduct: The intentional violation of the academic policy by tampering
with grades or distributing any part of a test or test answers. Examples include:
 Continuing to work on an exam or project after the specified time has elapsed;
 Asking any other scholar to obtain a test or test information;
 Selling or giving away all or part of a test and test answers;
 Sharing or using a calculator or computer that has answers displayed or stored in
the memory; and/or
 Being in possession of an electronic device not authorized during a test. Student’s Name
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