Higher Level Art (HL)
Course Description:
Advanced Placement (AP) is currently offered and will be taught in the same class. The focus of both will be on studio art. The students will develop their own curriculum which will include production, cultural investigation, and quality artwork. Students will locate their own voices through their research work books (RWB’s) finding historical and contemporary forms while investigating other cultures through guided learning one on one and in a group. This journey will be a focus throughout the RWB.
Assessment
This will happen weekly based on time spent on task, outside of class time working, and quality of the artwork. Themes will be explored and integrated with the TOK program. IB and AP programs will be explained by comparing likenesses and differences. Students will be given separate timelines and expectations for each.
Assessment will be both internal and external. Internally self assessment will be done by students a) using the IBO visual rubrics by critical oral critiquing in a group setting b) critical examination in RWB’s comparing and contrasting work against goals, work against work, work against time, effort, and their own and historical aesthetics. This will also be assessed using the same rubric so the student can compare their opinion with the teachers’. Students will be given information so they will be knowledgeable of their expectations of 20% RWB and 70% studio (2008) or 40% RWB and 60% studio (2009 proposed.) There will be no set number of students in the class and IB criteria will be used to modify grades. Internal assessment by the visual arts teacher will be done by or before April 10th sending the IB grade with Candidate Record Books to Cardiff via our curriculum leader (Shelly Wilfong.)
Topics:
In our school IB and AP art will be offered as a class that will encourage topics such as reflections: past or metaphorical, socio cultural conscience, constitutions, restrictions, peace, and values. Students will then become problem solvers by working with questions, experimentations, and answers they develop. This will be explored in their RWB’s.
Resources:
We will refer to but not exclusively use the following resources:
A. Currently class resources at GHS: 1) Art Talk. Roslind Ragans. Glencoe Publishing Company. 2) The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts. Dennis Sporre. Prentice Hall. 3) The IBO Online Gallery 4) Art in Focus. Gene A. Mitter. Glencoe Publishing Company.
To be purchased: 1) The World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art 2) Ways of Seeing by John Berger. Penguin Books. 7) Art Resources on the Web. Christopher, L.C.E. Whitcombe. 8) A History of Far Eastern Art. Sherman E. Lee. Harry W. Abrams, Inc. 9) A History of Art in Africa. Monica Blackmun. Prentice Hall. 10) Pre-Columbian Art of South America. H. Abrams. 11) Islam: Art and Architecture: Markus Hattstein. Publisher Kenomann. 12) The Art of Being Kuna: Marilyn Salvador. Publisher UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. 13) Art of the Middle East: A Web Directory. 14) Flash of Spirit: African and a Fro-American Art and Philosophy. Robert Far Thompson. Publisher Vintage Books. 15) Australian Art (Oxford History of Art). Andrew Sayers. Publisher Oxford University Press. 16) American Folk. Gerald W.R.Ward Publisher MFA Publications. 17)Modern Mexican Art. Lawrence E. Schmeckbier. University of Minnesota. 18) The Art and Architecture of Ancient Mexican, Maya, and Andean Peoples. George Kubler. Penguin Books. 19) American Art: History and Culture. Wayne Craven. McGraw-Hill. 20) Art History. Marilyn Stokstad. McGraw-Hill.
C. In addition, students will interview local artists, attend the Chicago Art Institute, local college and gallery shows.
D. Goshen College provides our school with their library of art resources for our student use.
Teaching Environment:
Our main classroom is generally set up as a ceramic studio with some changes. For instance: students may need to use the drawing classroom, the dark room, the painting room, the computer room, the wood shop, the media arts room, or the art office to do work as needed. The drawing and ceramics classrooms are set up with sinks. At least 240 hours will be spent teaching HLA.