APPOQUINIMINK HIGH SCHOOL



APPOQUINIMINK HIGH SCHOOL

1080 Bunker Hill Road Middletown, DE 19709

AP Studio Art Course Syllabus

Teacher Contact information: Ms. Jessica Davis

(302) 449-3840 EXT 4119

Jessica.Davis@appo.k12.de.us

Room D119

Course: AP Studio Art (Drawing and 2D Portfolios)

Class location: D119

Time: Period 2- Yearlong 2014-2015

(held with Drawing and Painting II)

Course Description:

The AP Studio Art Portfolio course is designed for students who are seriously interested in the practical experience of art and wish to master a develop mastery in the concept, composition and execution of their ideas. AP Studio Art is not based on a written exam; instead, students submit portfolios or evaluation at the end of the school year. In building the portfolio, students experience a variety of concepts, techniques, and approaches designed to help them demonstrate their abilities as well as their versatility with techniques, problem solving, and ideation. Students also develop a body of work for the Concentration section of the portfolio that investigates an idea of personal interest to them. ($10 materials fee) Friday, September 26th, 2014

Instructional Resources

Various Art History/Technique Texts, PowerPoint and other visual aids, handouts and examples

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Course Objectives:

The goals of the AP Studio Art courses are:

• To encourage creativity as well as systematic investigation of formal and concept issues in the Quality, Concentration, and the Breadth sections of the portfolio.

• To emphasize making art as an ongoing process that involves the student in informed and critical decision making to develop ideation.

• To develop technical versatility and skills while using the visual elements and principals in compositional forms.

• To encourage students to become independent thinkers who will contribute invectively and critically to their culture through the making of art.

The AP Studio Art course addresses three major concerns that are a constant in teaching art: (1) a sense of quality in a student’s work; (2) the student’s concentration on a particular visual interest or problem; (3) the student’s need for breadth of experience in formal, technical, and expressive means of the student’s art. AP work should reflect these three areas of concern: quality, concentration and breadth.

1.) AP Students have a choice of creating a 2-D Design Portfolio or a Drawing Portfolio. This choice does not have to be made right away. The teacher and student have a meeting about what would be best around the end of October.

2-D Design Portfolio requires students to produce a minimum of 24 works of art that reflect issues to 2-d designs. These works may include traditional as well as experimental approaches to 2-D design. Drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media and collage are all appropriate means for expressing design principals.

Drawing Portfolio requires students to produce a minimum of 24 works of art that showcases the technical quality of the students’ artistic skills. It is intended to address a wide range of approaches in media. Instead of the judges focusing on your use of elements and principles they are going to pay more attention to line quality, light and shade, rendering of form, composition, surface manipulations, and the illusion of depth.

2.) In the Concentration section, students develop a body of work that is derived from a planned investigation of an idea that is of personal interest to them. Ideation may be developed in any media or process. Students will use informed decision-making and problem-solving skills in an ongoing process to develop and select the 12 pieces of work for their concentration.

3.) In the Breadth section, students will experience a variety of concepts and approaches to demonstrate their ability and versatility with techniques, ideation, and problem solving. Students will use a variety of techniques and media, along with problem-solving skills in an ongoing process to develop and select the 12 pieces of work for their breadth.

Delaware Art Education Standards

1. Students will select and use form, media, techniques and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.

1. Students will incorporate visual, spatial and temporal concepts in creating works of art

2. Students will invent, select, evaluate and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art

3. Students will understand visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times and places

4. Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate works of art

5. Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.

Appoquinimink High School’s Vision

Appoquinimink High School is a school committed to fostering personal growth through positive character development and the use of the state of the art tools and practices to enable students to make a positive impact on today’s global society.

Homework

As in any college-level course, it is expected that students will spend a considerable amount of time outside the classroom working on completion of assignments. Ideas for projects or solutions to the problems should be worked out in a sketchbook both in and out of class. The sketchbook is an essential tool in recording ideas, capturing visual information, working on compositional issues and just fooling around. Sketchbooks are frequently checked for progress and grade.

Open Studio

One night a week students are expected to meet in Mrs. Davis’ room for an open studio. The meeting will be held right after school and students will be able to ride the activity bus home if necessary. A schedule of meeting dates will be posted. These meetings will be open for students to work independently on projects and gain individual instruction from Mrs. Davis. One night a month there will be a structured figure drawing sessions for three hours with a model. It is important that students arrive on time and be prepared to work during these meetings.

Exhibitions/Competitions

AP Studio Art students are expected to participate in exhibitions and competitions. At the end of the school year, students will organize an exhibition of their work in the commons. Since this will be an AHS first we will plan this together and discuss during our open studio nights.

Assignments/Evaluation

Assignments that are open-ended in nature and that explore a variety of approaches to design are made during the first semester. Assignments have due dates. Students should make every effort to complete work by this date, however, there may be circumstances that cause the assignment to be delayed. It is important that the students have discussion with the instructor if work is going to be turned in late or they will miss a critique.

Work is evaluated in progress and in the finished state through critiques with teacher and peers. The AP Studio Art rubric, which is distributed separately, provides the grading criteria.

Plagiarism

It is against Appoquinimink School District’s Code of Conduct and CollegeBoard’s rules to copy or steal works of art and pass them off as your own. It is unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates copyright law simply to copy an image (even in another medium) that was made by someone else and represent it as one’s own.” Any work that makes use of (appropriates) photographs, published images and/or other artists’ work must show substantial and significant development beyond duplication. This is demonstrated through manipulation of the formal qualities, design and/or concept of the source. The student’s individual “voice” should be clearly evident.

Field Trips

It is important for art students to see art through real world experiences through trips to museums and art exhibitions. AP Studio and higher level AHS art students will be invited to go on at least one trip to a local museum. It is encouraged for AP Art students to attend local museums and art exhibitions outside of school. The instructor will provide you a list of upcoming events and great places to go to see works of art.

Supplies

As with all other high school art classes in Appoquinimink School District, there is a $10 fee to help with the offset of supplies. You are expected to work with a wide variety of media and most will be provided. Some materials, such as oil paints, will be at the expense of the students.

The following supplies should be purchased and brought to class:

1. Pencil: Ticonderoga preferred

2. Sketchbook: Provided by Teacher

3. Binder-1” preferred

4. Eraser: white “plastic” eraser (no pink erasers)

5. Class Fee - $10 (cash or check to AHS)

Due: Friday, September 26th, 2014 (obligations entered after this date)

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AP Studio Art Course Outline and Timelines:

(5 pieces already completed/ 19 pieces mapped out)

INTR= Introduction to assignment

THB= Thumbnails due

CRIT= Critique day

DUE- Due Date for final Assignment

|Assignment: |Dates: |

|#1: |INTR- summer |

|Nature_____ |THB- 9/5 |

| |CRIT- 9/17 |

| |DUE- 9/19 |

|#2: ______________ |INTR- 9/13 (Fri) |

| |THB- 9/19 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 10/1 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 10/3 (Thurs) |

|#3: |INTR- 9/27 (Fri) |

|______________ |THB- 10/3 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 10/15 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 10/17 (Thurs) |

|#4: |INTR- 10/9 (Wed) |

|______________ |THB- 10/17 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 10/29 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 10/31 (Thurs) |

|#5: |INTR- 10/25 (Fri) |

|______________ |THB- 10/31 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 11/13 (Wed) |

| |DUE- 11/15 (Fri) |

|#6: |INTR- 11/8 (Fri) |

|_______________ |THB- 11/13 (Wed) |

| |CRIT- 11/19 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 11/21 (Thurs) |

|#7: |INTR- 11/15 (Fri) |

|______________ |THB- 11/21 (Thurs) ***THANKSGIVING BREAK*** |

| |CRIT- 12/2 (Mon) |

| |DUE- 12/4 (Wed) |

|#8: |INTR- 11/25 (Mon) |

|_______________ |THB- 12/2 (Mon) |

| |CRIT- 12/10 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 12/12 (Thurs) |

|#9: |INTR- 12/6 (Fri) |

|_______________ |THB- 12/12 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 12/18 (Wed) |

| |DUE- 12/20 (Fri) |

|#10: |INTR- 12/16 (Mon) |

|_______________ |THB- 12/20 (Fri) ***WINTER BREAK**** |

| |CRIT- 1/7/14 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 1/9/14 (Thurs) |

|#11: ______________ |INTR- 1/3 (Fri) |

| |THB- 1/9 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 1/21 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 1/21 (Thurs) |

|#12: |INTR- 1/15 (Wed) |

|______________ |THB- 1/23 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 2/4 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 2/6 (Thurs) |

|#13: |INTR- 1/31 (Fri) |

|______________ |THB- 2/6 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 2/18 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 2/20 (Thurs) |

|#14: |INTR- 2/12 (Wed) |

|______________ |THB- 2/20 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 3/4 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 3/6 (Thurs) |

|#15: |INTR- 2/28 (Fri) |

|_______________ |THB- 3/6 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 3/17 (Mon) |

| |DUE- 3/19 (Wed) |

|#16: |INTR- 3/12 (Wed) |

|______________ |THB- 3/19 (Wed) |

| |CRIT- 3/27 (Thurs) |

| |DUE- 3/31 (Mon) |

|#17: |INTR- 3/21 (Fri) |

|_______________ |THB- 3/31 (Mon) |

| |CRIT- 4/8 (Tues) |

| |DUE- 4/10 (Thurs) |

|#18: |INTR- 4/4 (Fri) |

|_______________ |THB- 4/10 (Thurs) |

| |CRIT- 4/16 (Wed) ****SPRING BREAK**** |

| |DUE- 4/28 (Mon) |

|#19: |INTR- 4/10 (Thurs) |

|_______________ |THB- 4/16 (Wed) |

| |CRIT- 4/28 (Mon) |

| |DUE- 4/30 (Wed) |

|5/1-5/9 |Photographing |

| |Matting |

| |Uploading pictures |

| |Mailing Quality portfolios |

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| |****** Final PORTFOLIO uploading date MAY 9th ****** |

AP Studio Art Portfolio Exam/Fees:

The last day to upload images for portfolio submission is MAY 9th, 2014. By this time it is also important to have the 5 quality pieces that need to be mailed out matted and packed for shipment. It is $89 to submit your portfolio to CollegeBoard. This is the student’s expense but if you have significant financial need, you may be eligible for a College Board fee reduction, depending on the state in which you live.

Student Expectations:

• Complete all assignments by the due date.

• Attend all critique prepared to participate.

• Work in your sketchbook every week

• Finish all thumbnails complete with color scheme, artist reference, and color drop

• You are expected to abide by the Appoquinimink School District Code of Conduct at all times.

• Be respectful to all- this allows to build a sense of security

• Give teacher full attention when she is speaking. No disruptions will be tolerated.

• Be responsible-attend class every day, be punctual: 3 Tardy = referral; more than 15 minutes late for class = class cut

• Complete projects by the due date. (5 points for every day late, up to 50 points off)

• Please keep electronics in book bags and turned off; first time seen they will be confiscated

• Do not wear hats or coats in class- paint/etc. may spill on it, please leave them in your locker.

• You may have water in the classroom, but no food.

• Please avoid lining up at the door, like in elementary school. Stay at your seat until the bell rings.

• You may sign out art supplies to finish your work at home. Removal of supplies without

permission will result in a referral.

Expectations for Teacher:

You can expect that I will:

• Engage you in the lesson and give you feed back

• Answer any questions asked (no question is a stupid question)

• Grade assignments in a timely manner

• Push you to succeed by setting high standards

Procedures:

• Be prepared with necessary materials each day.

• Read the board to see the agenda for the day.

• Each week, you will have an art DEMO- you must attend.

• If we are in the middle of a project, come into the class and get right to work. You should not wait for me to tell you to do so.

• Fire Drill - Exit to the left and out the doors, and meet in your Pd. 1 designated bus lot.

• Other Emergencies - Listen carefully for directions and safety.

• Substitute - Act appropriately, continue to work, and follow directions. Any notes left about student behavior will result in a call home without exceptions.

Grading Policy:

• Students’ grades will be based on their performance on projects, classwork, notebook checks, tests, quizzes, homework, etc.

• Most projects are out of 100 points, however there are class work grades that range from 5 points to 75 points. Sketchbook check points vary based on the amount of work done in a period of time. Marking period and semester grades will be calculated according to the Appoquinimink School District Grading Policy. “Product” grades (tests, essays, rubric scored projects) are weighted at 70%, and “Process” grades (homework, class work, preliminary work, participation, quizzes, notebook checks) are weighted at 30%. This policy is available on the website, and hard copies are available in the main office.

A+ 100-97 Superior, assignment exceeds expectation

A 96-93 Excellent, assignment needs no improvement

A- 92-90 Excellent, assignment needs minor improvement

B+ 89-87 Very Good, needs some improvement

B 86-83 Good, meets expectation

B- 82-80 Good, needs more improvement

C+ 79-77 Fair, needs much improvement

C 76-73 Okay, average

C- 72-70 Okay, passable

D+ 69-67 Poor, needs major improvement

D 66-63 Poor, unfinished assignment

D- 62-60 Very Poor, unfinished assignment and turned in late

F 59-50 Unacceptable, assignment not turned in

In order to make grading less subjective all major projects are graded using rubrics. The objectives to each project found on the final rubric are given to you and posted on the board before and during the lesson so you know exactly what to expect. I tell students that if you follow the directions and fulfill the objectives you will pass the course. You do not have to have talent to achieve an “A” in this class.

APPOQUINIMINK HIGH SCHOOL

AP Studio Art

Terms of Agreement

As a teacher of this course, I am committed to abiding by this syllabus. The dates and timelines are subject to change based on students’ assimilation of the material. Any changes will be communicated to the class by the teacher. By signing this “Terms of Agreement,” you are affirming that you have read and agree to abide by the guidelines, policies, and agreements stated in this syllabus.

As a student of this course, I have read and agree to abide by the guidelines, policies and agreements stated in this syllabus.

_____________________________________ _____________________

Student Signature Date

As the parent/guardian, I have read and agree to support this student in an effort to follow the guidelines, policies and agreements stated in this syllabus.

_____________________________________ _____________________

Parent/Guardian Signature Date

**Please check the box that applies to the payment of the $10 class fee.**

CASH

CHECK (ck #___________)

This document should be signed by the student and parent and returned to the teacher by the end of class on Friday, September 13th,, 2013.

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