Art+level+2-3+Essential+Learnings

= Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success =

== **EL 1: Students will recognize and apply the visual arts as a tool for communication** ==
 * 1) Illustrate or create artwork inspired by spoken or written word
 * 2) Create real and fantasy images
 * 3) Interpret a sensory experience

== **EL 2: Students will know and apply elements and principles of art and design with sensory and expressive features of the visual arts** ==
 * 1) combine and vary different types of lines
 * 2) render an object in contour line
 * 3) compose a landscape using a horizon line
 * 4) create a design with parallel lines
 * 5) produce organic and free-form shapes
 * 6) recognize shape families, positive and negative shapes
 * 7) identify the 3D forms (cone, cylinder, sphere, and cube)
 * 8) distinguish between pattern and texture
 * 9) generate a composition with foreground, middleground and background
 * 10) classify colors by primary, secondary, tertiary, or compementary
 * 11) differentiate between value and color

== **EL 3: Students will know and apply the visual art material, tools, techniques and processes** ==
 * 1) create a collage and/or relief sculpture
 * 2) construct a 3D form
 * 3) build a container with clay
 * 4) create a print and/or monoprint
 * 5) create a weaving
 * 6) demonstrate appropriate use of tools and materials
 * 7) follow safety procedures
 * 8) wear protective clothing

== **EL 4: Students will relate the visual arts to various historical and cultural traditions** == > == **EL 5: Students will analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art** ==
 * 1) Compare and contrast different artworks from different time periods
 * 2) discuss artists and styles from various cultures
 * 3) discuss how art is an historical record
 * 1) identify the elements and principles of selected artwork
 * 2) describe artwork as abstract or realistic
 * 3) compare and contrast selected artwork (student and/or historical)
 * 4) describe the mood or feeling in a work of art
 * 5) defend an opinion about a selected work of art

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