Advanced Unit: I Spy Objective: Students will choose one topic to show variation in distance/angle/composition & visual concept display within their current Camera skills. Steps: Choose a topic, form idea possibilities (sketch/list), & shoot topic in Camera. Requirements: 20 photos correctly placed & labeled in slide layout. Identify each of the distance/angle/composition with its dominating element & principle per image. All images clearly identifiable as part of the topic. Each shot must be significantly different (distance, angles, composition, lighting). Images should be free from distractions & adjusted when necessary (color, sharpness, lighting/exposure, etc). !Unit: Rubber Ducky Objective: Students will demonstrate current skills in Illustrator by tracing a rubber duck with the Pen tool & then exercise their creativity in applying a theme to the duck & appropriate compositional context. Steps: Bezier game for Ai Pen practice, theme sketch for ducks, trace duck, & apply theme in Illustrator. Requirements: all colors sampled from swatches, gradients adjusted, all font created into outlines, pathfinder applied not faked, shapes are closed, lighting is consistent in highlights/midtones/shadows, proper alignment/distribution, masking used when applicable, organized layers, & depth/perspective have been checked for accuracy. !Unit: Mash Up Objective: Students will demonstrate current skills in Photoshop by choosing multiple subjects of juxtaposition to be blended seamlessly together in a dynamic composition. Steps: Butterfly Selection Ps practice, mashup sketches, find/cite images, & select/blend in Photoshop. Requirements: Selections & blending are photorealistic, lighting is consistent in

highlights/midtones/shadows without loss of detail, color adjusted appropriately, distractions have been corrected, organized layers, nondestructive only techniques, & focus/filters/depth of field have been checked for realism. !

Unit: Gestalt Objective: Students will learn how the brain makes associations with visual information. Steps: gestalt examples doc, original gestalt Requirements: Visually clear aspect of Gestalt identified in an original work. !Unit: Art History Objective: Students will research their favorite period/movement in Art History, discover what makes it distinctive and then add their personal modern spin. Steps: review art history examples from VOA, choose their 2 favorites, sketch 4 ideas for each (8 sketches total), apply approved sketch in C/Ai/Ps of their choice. Requirements: Visually clear art history reference with modern twist. Correct size & submission. Students also evaluated on criteria from Advanced/AP rubric. !!

Unit: Triptychs Objective: Students will design 3 distinctive images that a visually clear in their association. Steps: research additional examples in chosen medium, sketch 4 ideas for each (12 images total), apply approved sketch in C/Ai/Ps of their choice. Requirements: 3 distinctive images with visually clear association. Correct size & submission. Students also evaluated on criteria from Advanced/AP rubric. !Unit: Multimedia Objective: Students will apply skills learned in Camera, Illustrator & Photoshop to create an image that combines them. The topic will be chosen from one of the Class Projects proposed by students. Steps: research, sketch 4 ideas indicating which components will be C/Ai/Ps by color coding, apply approved sketch in each C/Ai/Ps.

Requirements: TBA (Requirements based on projects chosen by the class at the beginning of each semester.) Students also evaluated on criteria from Advanced/AP rubric. !Unit: Class Projects Objective: TBA (Students create project ideas for final outcomes at the beginning of each semester. I develop these ideas to be applicable to Camera/Illustrator/Photoshop with goals achievable within all mediums.) Steps: TBA (Each unit is begun with a lecture of requirements & examples. Demos in skills for Camera/Illustrator/Photoshop happen at the beginning of each week on rotation. Students will plan for their final outcomes with lists/sketches. Students will have 5 or more class periods plus 1-2 weekends to complete each project. If more time is needed, Students may come in after school most days or lunch on Thursdays.) Requirements: TBA (Requirements based on projects chosen by the class at the beginning of each semester. Please see I Spy/Rubber Ducky/Mash Up for more specific technical criteria requirements for C/Ai/Ps used in all unit projects. Examples from previous semesters located at the end of this document.) Students also evaluated on criteria from Advanced/AP rubric. !Unit: Competitions Objective: Students will enter 3 competitions to gain knowledge of following professional requirements & timelines, and to possibly gain notoriety/prizes/self esteem boost. Steps: Find a completion of their personal preference or choose from one of the suggested (State Fair, National Geographic, Nikon, Adobe, etc). Youth Art Month & Crocker Kingsley are mandatory to enter. Follow requirements & submit completed work before their deadline & class deadline (end of May). Requirements: Students must get competition approved. Students must get work that follows all competition specific requirements approved before submission. Students must show proof of completed submission. !!

Unit: Venture Show Objective: Students will choose one aspect of putting together a basic gallery show in order to collectively produce the event. Steps: Students will divide up & follow through with the following aspects of a show: find & schedule a Second Saturday location that will house at least one piece for every student in class (date/time/location); research affordable means of displaying everyone’s work (matte/frame/printing/attachment/size/purchase/receiving/etc); design & distribute flyers for the event to appropriate venues (design appropriate sized flyers for large & small, print flyers, distribute, collect after the show); set up & tear down of the show (put images in frames, hang frames date/time, buy/arrange/clean up refreshments, remove frames date/time); labels (print/title/medium/artist statement/proof/size/design); other necessary jobs specific to students’ theme. Requirements: Fulfill their chosen aspect of the show, show at least one piece (including cost of presentation: matte/frame/printing/etc usually $10-20), as well as attend the show in one hour shifts to help act as knowledgeable curators. !Unit: Portfolio Objective: Students will develop a body of work that clearly displays their purpose & process in an organized professional manor. Steps: Finish work applied to layout & complete informational section. Requirements: All components are accurately placed & aligned. Academic vocabulary is utilized in explanation/justification. All required slides are filled out completely. !Prior Unit Projects: !

Title: Scary Robots Objective: Student were asked to use robots to create a sense of fear/danger both within the environment & the robot. ! !

Title: Reflections Objective: Students were asked to apply this term literally (glass, metal, liquid, mirror, etc) or figuratively (inner self, thoughts, surreal, etc) to their image. ! !

Title: 6 Word Stories Objective: Students were asked to take on the literary challenge of creating a story only using 6 words propose to Hemingway (For sale: baby shoes, never worn.), & adding a visual representation. !!

Title: Children’s Books Objective: Students were asked to create a children’s story using 13 words comprised of commonly misspelled words in elementary school & commonly missed SAT vocabulary. They then would choose groups based on the best written stories for lower elementary aged children that were able to give age appropriate contextual clues to the 13 words. Students would then divide up responsibilities to create their books (covers, layouts, illustrations). !

Title: Timelapse Objective: Students were to either use Camera/Photoshop manipulation to show the passage of time or Illustrator/Photoshop to create an environment that could exist in the future that is significantly different than our current experience.

Title: Superhero Objective: Students were to create their own superhero complete with unique super power, background story & logical vulnerability, then represent it visually. !Title: Mood Objective: Students were to take inanimate objects & alter the environment to create a mood not commonly found in association with that object. All students began by practicing altering light on one subject to get various moods (joy, sadness, anger, fear & disgust). !Title: Covers Objective: Students were challenged in a variety of ways for this project: Redesign a book cover to be more reflective of the story without spoilers & with the correct dimensions of the book; Create a new album based on student’s favorite song, so that it displays commonalities found in previous discography & titles based on lyrical excerpts from that song. Front, back & spine were required for both.

!!!!!!!!!!!!Purple framed images are from the internet