In 6th grade, students attend their arts course every day for one trimester. This allows us to dig deeper into each assignment, and focus on larger units. The three major units in 6th grade deal with creating a room in perspective, developing a clay mask that reflects our own cultural identity, and learning about the Navajo art traditions while creating a weaving of our own.
Lessons and art concepts:
"Abstract Art" - artist Joan Miro, blending, review of shapes and lines,
"Interior X-Ray" - one-point perspective, interior vs. exterior design
"Cultural Identity Mask Unit" - cultural identity, symbolism, cultural heritage and history, material/non-material things, function of masks from different parts of the world, repetition, clay vocabulary (addition and subtractive elements, crosshatch and slip, slab)
"Weaving" - traditions and culture of the Navajo people, weaving vocabulary (loom, warp, weft), pictorial weaving