Week of November 17th: Studio in Art

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MONDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Today we began working with the clay and practicing sculpting techniques.

Objectives

  • Understand the properties of clay.
  • Begin to experiment with clay techniques and practice scoring, slipping and modeling.

Essential Question

  • How can we be successful sculptors?
    • Texture
    • Looking at whole sculpture
    • Craftsmanship

Focusing Task (5 min)

  • What’s-up Warm-up:  Tell me about one positive thing that happened to you this weekend.

Guided Practice (15 min)

  • Teacher will review the objectives for the entire project.
  • Teacher will give rubric for the sculpting portion of the project.
  • Teacher will go over clean up procedure.
  • Teacher will demonstrate scoring and slipping.

Learning Activity (20 min)

  • Teacher will administer supplies.
  • Teacher will demonstrate some basic sculpting techniques. 
  • Students will follow along, experiment and practice sculpting the beginning of a face.
    • Students will sculpt the head and eyes.

Closure (3 min)

  • Ask students to think about what the most challenging thing about working with clay was and share with group.
  • Group will determine which of the ideas was most important to address and share with class.
  • Teacher will try to answer as best as possible.

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Snow Day!

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Snow Day!

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Snow Day!

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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Snow Day!

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