High School of Art & Design
Eric Strauss, Principal
Elma Reingold, AP Art & Architecture
DATE:
February. 2014
Michael Andrew Klein
TECHNOLOGY
LESSON PLAN
UNIT:
AIM: What is Adobe Illustrator? How do we use it?
LESSON
VOCABULARY
PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE
Selection Tool
Fill & Stroke
Biomorphic
Direct Selection Tool
Rectilinear
Freshman Design Foundation. Basic computer and
internet competency. Proficient typing ability.
DO NOW: 5 minutes
OBJECTIVES: Students will…
1. Personal login to class portal.
2. Take out notebooks.
3. Setup new Illustrator document.
1. Use their Adobe Illustrator skills.
2. Create a coloring book page.
INSTRUCTIONAL MOTIVATION: 5 minutes
HOMEWORK
There are many careers in various aspects of graphic
design & publication, particularly in the New York area.
Several of the biggest textbook publishers in the
WORLD have their corporate headquarters right here
in beautiful NYC. Take 4 minutes top look on the
Internet. How does Illustrator fit in to publishing?
1. Define anchor point
2. Define line segment
3. Explain the difference between an open and
closed path.
DEMONSTRATION 5 minutes
MATERIALS
Teacher reviews the PPT’s.
CLASS: PCs with internet connection and browser.
Adobe Photoshop CS6,
HOME: PCs with internet connection and browser.
ACTIVITY: 25 minutes
DIFFERENTIATION
Students will review the PPTs and follow the link:
http://professorklein.com/production/media/states_boo
k.pdf Students will design two pages of a new booklet,
to be made ready for publication at the end of the unit.
Notes will be displayed both on the Smartboard and at
students’ individual workstations. Students will
paraphrase teaching guide into their own notebooks.
Simultaneous verbal explanation. Student Smartboard
demonstration. Individual instruction as needed.
Quantity of work will scaffold for underdeveloped,
developing and proficient students.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: 5 minutes
ASSESSMENT
1. Who is the audience?
✔ Summary response
2. How many “How To” PPT’s did you need to review
✔ Homework response
before being able to launch the assignment?
✔ Written exam
✔ Project rubric
✔ Class critique
✔ File review
NYS ART STANDARDS
✔ 1. Creating art Indicators A-D
✔ 2. Materials Indicators A-C
3. Analysis Indicators A-C
4. Personal & Cultural Communication
Indicators A-C
NYC BLUEPRINT
✔ 1. Art Making
Media Technology
2D Applied Design
Awareness of Careers Goals and Plans
✔ 2. Art Literacy
✔ 3. Making Connections
✔✔ 4. Community & Cultural
5. Life-Long Learning
CCSS ELA LITERACY CCRA.W
Text Types and Purposes
1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of
substantive topics or texts using valid reasoning
and relevant and sufficient evidence.
2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and
convey complex ideas and information clearly and
accurately through the effective selection,
organization, and analysis of content.
✔ 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined
experiences or events using effective technique,
well-chosen details and well-structured event
sequences.
Production and Distribution of Writing
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the
development, organization, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
✔ 5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by
planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a
new approach.
✔✔ 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to
CDOS
✔ 1: Career Development
✔ 2: Integrated Learning
3a: Universal Foundation Skills
✔ 3b: Career Majors
CCSS MATH
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving
them.
✔ 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
✔ 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others.
✔ 4. Model with mathematics.
✔ 5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
✔ 6. Attend to precision.
✔ 7. Look for and make use of structure.
✔ 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated
reasoning.
produce and publish writing and to interact and
collaborate with others.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
✔ 7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research
projects based on focused questions,
demonstrating understanding of the subject under
investigation.
✔ 8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and
digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy
of each source, and integrate the information while
avoiding plagiarism.
✔ 9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts
to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Range of Writing
✔ 10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for
research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time
frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range
of tasks, purposes, and audiences.