Middle School Benchmark

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Grade 8

1.  Analyze personal, family and community connections that involve work by visual artists.

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2.  Describe and compare skills involved in arts related and visual arts careers.

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3.  Compare the characteristics of work in two or  more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context.

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4.  Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are inter-related with the visual arts.

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I - M – Create an Ancient Greek Vase out of clay and be able to identify the difference between red figure vases and black figure vases as well as identify time periods.

I - M – Create a metamorphosis drawing from a non-living object to a living creature, and be able to identify with the process of metamorphosis using prior knowledge.

5.  Describe how personal experiences influence the development of specific artworks

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M – Create  reproduction  paintings  of Georgia O’Keeffe and be able to describe her influences behind it.

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1.  Select materials, techniques, and processes to effectively communicate ideas.

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2.  Employ organizational principals and analyze what makes them effective or not in the communication of ideas.

I – M – Use only geometric shapes and complimentary colors to create an animal.

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1.  Form and defend judgment about characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal or other purposes of art.

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2.  Observe and compare works of art that were created for different purposes.

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3.  Describe how materials, techniques, technology and processes cause responses.

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4.  Describe and compare.

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1.  Select materials, techniques, media technology and processes to achieve desired effects.

I – M – Select materials and be able to demonstrate their use in a piece of artwork.

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I – M – Using a variety of painting  techniques the students create a landscape.  Selecting appropriate materials and problem solving on how to mix paint.

2.  Use art materials and tolls safely and responsibly to communicate experiences and ideas. 

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3.  Select and use the visual characteristics and organizational principles of art to communicate

I – M – Create a bookmark using a variety of shapes, colors, and patterns to promote reading.

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4.  Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit.

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1.  Know and compare the characteristics of art works in various eras and cultures.

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2.  Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts.

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3.  Analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as:  climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.

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3.  Integrate the visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in artworks.

I – M  - Design an advertisement for a product using only shapes, colors & symbols no workds.

I – M – Create a futuristic city perspective drawing, after going through practice worksheets and a rough draft.

M – R – Create a mask out of paper  mache and paint.

4.Use subjects, themes and symbols that communicate intended meaning in artworks.

I – M – Create a family flag with a coat of arms representing things the family likes or does together,

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5.  Integrate organizational structures and characteristics to create art for different purposes.

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6. Organize information and ideas for media productions.

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