Williamsfield School District #210

Curriculum Map 2007-2008

Ren, Cathy / Art / Sixth Grade / Middle School

Month

Content

September

Still-life, pencil-gray scale and line weight.  Learn about object relationship in drawing.
Still-life using crayon, color pencil and watercolor.

October

Leaf structure study, in pencil finish in watercolor.
Perspective drawings using pencil and tempera paint.
Landscape using perspective crayon.

November

Printing, linoleum block 2 colors.
Name design, water markers.

December

Winter landscape design, crayons.
Semester test.

January

Color wheel design, mixing tempera colors
Drawing greeting card enlargements on grid-lined  paper

February

Painting the greeting card enlargements using tempera and learning to blend and mix

March

Design and construction of clay shoes
Name design with metal tooling

April

Painting clay projects
Designing masks in paper mache

May

Additions to masks and painting them using tempera
Finish incomplete projects
Semester test