Semester

Learning

All

Understand
(Big Ideas)

• Understand the purpose of a critique and choose when to apply suggestions
• Describe and analyze, using the language of visual art, how artists use materials, technologies, processes, and environments
• Apply thinking skills in the exploration, design, creation, and refinement of images
• Apply knowledge and skills from other areas of learning in the planning, creating, interpreting, and analyzing of images
• Develop personal answers to aesthetic questions
• Art provides opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of differing peoples
• We have collective social responsibilities, due to shared laws and environment.

Do

(Competencies)

• Create photographic images collaboratively and as an individual using imagination, observation, and inquiry
• Demonstrate creative thinking by using ideas inspired by exploratory play
• Intentionally select and combine materials, processes, and technologies to convey an idea
• Engage in appropriate risk taking to express thoughts and emotions
• Investigate and identify ways that photography reflects concern for, or responds to, social and environmental issues
• Apply problem-solving skills
• Experiment with a wide range of materials, processes, and technologies to create photographic images
• Demonstrate active and disciplined engagement in creating photographic images and resolving creative challenges
• Investigate and identify ways that photography reflects concern for, or responds to, social and environmental issues

Core competencies:

Working within an Art studio demands that students demonstrate the full range of core competencies. All students are expected to contribute to the running of the studio and in doing this they learn to be responsible, humble and empathetic. No jobs are too menial and all need to be done in order to function effectively.

The process itself is challenging and it demands resilience and humility. The material and the community, the tools and mentorship.

Know

(Content)

• Apply problem-solving skills to facilitate innovation
• Create artistic works to reflect personal voice, story, and values in connection with a specific place, time, and context
• Create personally meaningful photographic works that demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, environmental, and historical contexts
• Make connections through photography among individuals in a learning community and on a local, regional, and global scale

• Demonstrate safe use, care, and maintenance of tools, equipment, materials, and work space
• Demonstrate an understanding of the chemistry and chemical properties of developer, stop, fix, and other chemicals if using film
• Expand photographic skills, processes, and inquiries in connection with family members, community, and the world
• Explore the work habits of professional photographers and other people in related career
• Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application of the elements and principles of photography, image development strategies, processes, and technologies
• Adapt learned photographic skills or processes for use in new contexts

Grade C. This is the baseline expectation and students MUST: -demonstrate competence in

Grade B. To produce work of a good standard students SHOULD: -demonstrate proficiency in

Grade A. To go beyond expectations and produce excellent work students SHOULD: - have demonstrated expertise in

• Expressing quality of form, line, shape and structure.
• Understanding clearly space and spatial relationships.
• Showing grasp of technique in the use of materials.
• Understanding surface qualities and the use of colour and tone.
• Communicating a personal response.
• Investigating both original and secondary sources.
• Demonstrating aesthetic judgment
• Providing interesting solutions.

• Expressing quality of form, line, shape and structure well, with some sensitivity.
• Understanding clearly space and spatial relationships.
• Showing mastery of technique in the use of material.
• Understanding surface qualities and the use of colour and tone.
• Communicating a sensitive and individual response.
• Investigating in some depth original and secondary sources.
• Demonstrating an informed aesthetic judgment.
• Providing well thought out solutions.

• Expressing quality of form, line, shape and structure skilfully and with sensitivity.
• Understanding clearly space and spatial relationships.
• Showing complete mastery of technique in the use of materials.
• Understanding fully surface qualities and the use of colour and tone.
• Communicating a sensitive and highly individual personal response.
• Investigating in depth original and secondary sources.
• Demonstrating a well-informed aesthetic judgement.
• Providing elegant solutions.