Ross Valley School District Art Curriculum

 Please note: This document is a working draft. 

Middle School Curriculum below. To see the Elementary curriculum click on the webpage link to your left.

Note: This curriculum document begins with the elementary years. For each year subsequent to Kindergarten students will continue to use varied media in addition to others listed for each year. Students will build on these concepts, skills and techniques, and year-end expectations in art. For the purpose of this document there is an understanding that all items in each category repeat (develop) each year. Only newly introduced medium, concepts, skills & techniques, and year-end expectations will be added per grade level.

Middle School Curriculum by Grade: 6th Grade
Concepts: Mixed media Multicultural Emphasis Movement Harmony Space Composition Art as self-expression and personal narrative. Art professions	Skills & Techniques: Embossing Exacto blades: complex cutting and safety. Tool and medium control Set-up and clean-up (students’ responsibility) Material management.
Medium: Fiber art: Adinkra Mixed Media Bookbinding Sculpture: additive & subtractive Metal tooling foil	Year End Expectations: Balance: formal & informal, radial balance. Unity: Space: Negative & positive, silhouette. Composition: emphasis/focal point. Art History: concept of folk art, exposure to art movements. Texture: real, implied.

Examples of 6^th Grade projects:

Adinkra printmaking- soft-cut carving, printing on fabric.

Mexican tin art- tooling foil, texture, embossing.

Aboriginal painting- oil pastel, tempera paint, pattern, emphasis.

Mandalas- radial symmetry, color theory, colored pencils.

Abstract Expressionist painting and collage- expressive line, shape, color, composition.

Box Collage/assemblage- personal expression through sculpture: form, shape, space.

Real and Implied Texture- line quality, texture.

Expressive face mugs- coil building, face proportion, glazing.

House Book-personal expression through bookmaking: texture, line, color, shape

7th Grade
Concepts: All art elements & principles of design. VALUE Art movement Perspective Color Theory Self- portraiture Art as self-expression Drawing from nature/landscape.	Skills & Techniques: Set-up & clean-up Material management.
Medium: All of the above.	Year End Expectations: Perspective: 1-point & 2-point, linear. Color Theory: Explore all color schemes and relationships.

Examples of 7^th Grade projects:

Linear Perspective drawing: one and two point perspective: line, shape, space, texture

Patterned self-portrait: face proportions, line, pattern, texture, color

Volumetric Still life: line, shape, space

Color theory painting, color, shape, pattern

Woven Organic line print: line, color, contrast, movement fiber arts, printmaking

Favorite Color Painting: Expressionistic painting exploring line, shape, color, contrast, movement and composition

8th Grade
Concepts: All art elements & principles of design. Abstract metamorphosis Space	Skills & Techniques: Vocabulary (more advanced)
Medium: Sculpture: additive & subtractive. Ceramics: additive & subtractive Drawing: contour, value Printmaking: subtractive Fiber arts	Year End Expectations: Space: positive & negative Abstract: representational, non-representational.

Examples of 8^th Grade projects:

2-D Art:

Metamorphosis drawing: line, value, shape, space, contrast.

Romare Beardon collage: composition, texture, space, shape, color, line, emphasis, unity.

Quilt square print: pattern, color, line, shape, space

Sneaker Watercolor Painting: line, shape, color, composition, emphasis, unity, balance, movement.

Sculpture:

Wire sculpture: line, shape, form, space, balance, movement, emphasis

Papier-mâché sculpture: shape, color, form, space, balance, unity, harmony, emphasis

Cardboard box sculpture: shape, form, line, texture, pattern, composition

Ceramics:

Handbuilding Techniques: Pinch, Coil, Slab, Sculptural and Functional, Additive and Subtractive Sculpture

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