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Complete all unfinished work. Seniors should collect all work and take home.

Room cleanup when done.

Continue pottery construction and decoration. Plan to complete by end of class Tuesday.

Watch a demonstration of pottery construction techniques: pinch, coil, slab, drape mold, and press mold. Learn how to make lids with flanges. Review wheel-throwing. Look at examples.

Continue painting using Baroque and/or Romantic interests.
When done, research clay pottery in books and on the internet or do a second painting.

Continue painting using Baroque and/or Romantic interests. Plan to complete by approx. April 18.

Continue painting using Baroque and/or Romantic interests. Plan to complete by approx. April 14.

Continue painting techniques practice pages: clean edges, blending on painting, creation of a 3-D effect, stippling, and dry brush.
When accomplished, plan a painting using Baroque and/or Romantic interests. Plan to complete in approx. two weeks.
Research a Baroque or Romantic artist and write a report about at least three of his works. Due Wednesday.

Look at all Poverty artworks and discuss.
Review history of art from cave through northern European Renaissance. Introduce Baroque, Rococo, and Romanticism and the advancements in capturing movement, effects of light and shadow. Notice the shift away from realism to capturing illusions and effects; from religious scenes to everyday life, landscape, and emotionally charged scenes.
Write about the sensory, formal, technical, and expressive qualities of one artwork.
Plan a painting using Baroque or Romantic themes.

Review "This is the Real World: Poverty in the USA" assignment. Brainstorm forms and effects of poverty. Think beyond pencil and paper to consider any possibilities for art media.

Continue projects. Due Friday.

Review "This is the Real World: Poverty in the USA" assignment. Brainstorm forms and effects of poverty. Think beyond pencil and paper to consider any possibilities for art media. Make sketches and begin creating work when done with batik, or while waiting for fabrics to dry.

Review batik procedures; continue waxing and dying.

Introduce/review color theory: practice creating a color wheel by mixing primaries, learn terms, color experiments and trivia.

Review and continue designs in either scratchboard or lino block printing. Complete clay heads with acrylic or glaze. Prepare a base for the bust.
Prepare work for the Dacotah Prairie Exhibit by matting and labeling.

Review and continue designs in either scratchboard or lino block printing.

Introduce/review art and artists of the Northern European Renaissance: Jan Van Eyck, Pieter Breughel, Albrect Durer, and H. Bosch. Note invention of oil paints, introduction of symbols into art, and focus on surfaces rather than structure.

Introduce scratchboard drawing and linoleum block printmaking processes; look at examples. Students will complete an artwork using simulated textures in their choice of those two media.

Practice simulating textures.

3rd period: Review and continue The Agony and The Ecstacy.

8th period: Continue clay heads. Potters' wheel for those who are done after a demonstration.

*Week of: May 19, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M	Review and continue scratchboard using shape, space, value, and texture.		Glaze pottery.						Continue surreal work.
T	Continue scratchboards.		Glaze pottery. Research Impressionism. Look at the work of Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, and Cassatt. Practice using chalk pastel. Practice with oil pastel. Using choice of chalk or oil pastels, draw a still life or landscape after a review of composition, space, value, texture, and color. Use color to create highlights, shadows, and the illusion of three dimensions, and the impression of weather and light in a given moment.						Continue.
W	Continue glazing.		Continue	Religion dept. mtg.					Continue.
Th	Continue, complete, and look at all scratchboards.		Continue, complete, and look at impressionist pastel drawings. Final room cleanup.						Continue, complete, and look at.
F

*Week of: May 12, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
						RELIGION 1V
M	Review and continue scratchboard using shape, space, value, and texture. Complete all glazing.		Complete all unfinished work. Seniors should collect all work and take home. Room cleanup when done.			Theology of the Body: quiz on dating. Dating Game Theory. Review the unit. Create a bumper sticker using TOB concepts or write a letter to an underclassman explaining at least one concept.			Continue glass painting. Collect all work to take home.
T	Continue scratchboards.		Complete room cleanup.			Look at bumper stickers and letters. Clean desks and room. Evaluation.			Look at all work from last assignment.
W	Continue glazing.		Research Impressionism. Look at the work of Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, and Cassatt. Select one work to describe the use of art elements, principles of design, technical and expressive qualities.	Religion dept. mtg.					Look at Surrealism: Dali, Magritte, Chagal, de Chirico, Klee, Mirro, and Kahlo. Begin planning a surreal artwork in any media. Plan to finish before last day.
Th	Continue.		Practice using chalk pastel. Practice with oil pastel. Using choice of chalk or oil pastels, draw a still life after a review of composition, space, value, texture, and color. Use color to create highlights, shadows, and the illusion of three dimensions.						Continue.
F	No class		Continue still life.						Continue.

*Week of: May 5, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M	Review and continue glazing textured slab pottery.		Continue pottery construction and decoration. Plan to complete by end of class Tuesday.			Theology of the Body: Choosing your vocation. Review chapter 7 in Catholicism and Society. Begin Dating with Purity and Purpose if time.			Continue assignment in choice of media based on the ideas of expressionism, cubism, and futurism.
T	Glaze autobiographical mugs.		Continue and complete pottery. Be sure to have strong, smooth seams, two or more methods of construction and three methods of decoration.			Complete lesson on dating. Review lessons on marriage, celibacy, vocation, and marriage. Test on Thursday. Turn in text books. Social Justice assignment due.			Complete assignment. Look at all.
W	Continue glazing.		Research Impressionism. Look at the work of Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, and Cassatt. Select one work to describe the use of art elements, principles of design, technical and expressive qualities.	Religion dept. mtg.		Senior Retreat Day.			Look at Surrealism: Dali, Magritte, Chagal, de Chirico, Klee, Mirro, and Kahlo. Begin planning a surreal artwork in any media. Plan to finish before by May 12.
Th	Complete glazing.		Practice using chalk pastel. Practice with oil pastel. Using choice of chalk or oil pastels, draw a still life after a review of composition, space, value, texture, and color. Use color to create highlights, shadows, and the illusion of three dimensions.			Test on marriage, celibacy, vocation, and dating. Begin wrap-up lesson of living the good and free life. Service hours and reflection due.			Continue.
F	Review art elements and principles of design. Introduce photography-framing a composition. Select an element or principle to emphasize in a photograph.		Continue still life.			Complete Theology of the Body. Review test on Monday.			Continue.

*Week of: April 28, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
						RELIGION 1V
M	Review watercolor; watch and practice glazing, dry brush, stippling, rolling, blotting, salt, plastic.		Watch a demonstration of pottery construction techniques: pinch, coil, slab, drape mold, and press mold. Learn how to make lids with flanges. Review wheel-throwing. Look at examples.			Theology of the Body: Marriage. Continue from Friday and complete lesson. Begin "Celibacy and Religious Life" if time. Assignment: Read Chapter 4 in Catholicism and Life for Thursday.			Continue assignment in choice of media based on the ideas of expressionism, cubism, and futurism.
T	Look at watercolor paintings and identify at 10 of the techniques practiced. Look at the difference between realistic, abstract, and non-objective art. Create an abstract or non-objective design using shape, space, repetition, and variety. Paint using at least seven watercolor techniques correctly.		Complete demonstration from yesterday if necessary. Demonstrate and show examples of decoration techniques: impressed, carved, mishma, slip application, slip trailing, cloissone, scrafitto, wax resist, modeled, and inlay. Research pottery in books and internet. Form an idea for creating a ceramic form from more than one method of construction and using at least three methods of decoration.			Complete lesson on Celibacy and Religious Life. Assignment: Read ch. 4 in Catholicism and Society for Thursday.			Complete assignment. Look at all. Look at work of Piet Mondrian and Constructivism. Paint a tree using his ideas of pure plasticism, and based on his early work.
W	Continue watercolor paintings. When done, do a painting of tulips using any of the practiced techniques. Look at local and reflected colors; review color complements and how to use them in this painting.		Begin pottery construction.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Complete trees and look at.
Th	Complete and look at all watercolor paintings.		Continue pottery.			Discuss chapter 4. Theo. of the Body lesson on Choosing Your Vocation .			Look at Surrealism: Dali, Magritte, Chagal, de Chirico, Klee, Mirro, and Kahlo. Begin planning a surreal artwork in any media. Plan to finish before by May 12.
F	Glazing instruction; glaze textured pottery.		Continue.			Complete Choosing Your Vocation. Begin Dating with Purpose and Purity.			Continue.

*Week of: April 21, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
						RELIGION 1V
M	Review color game. Watch a demonstration of the four basic watercolor methods and create a practice page using them.		Continue painting using Baroque and/or Romantic interests. When done, research clay pottery in books and on the internet or do a second painting.			Quiz on ch. 3 of Catholicism and Society and "free, total, faithful, and fruitful". Discuss. Review for test Tuesday.			Continue assignment in choice of media based on the ideas of expressionism, cubism, and futurism.
T	Learn how to tape watercolor paper. Create a landscape painting using the four basic methods of watercolor painting.		Watch a demonstration of pottery construction techniques: pinch, coil, slab, drape mold, and press mold. Learn how to make lids with flanges. Review wheelthrowing.			Test on "Hope and Redemption", "Truth and Freedom", "Language of the Body", and "Free, Total, Faithful, and Fruitful". Assignment: Read ch. 4 in Catholicism and Society for Thursday.			Complete assignment. Look at all. Look at work of Piet Mondrian and Constructivism. Paint a tree using his ideas of pure plasticism, and based on his early work.
W	Begin learning 12-15 watercolor techniques by watching a demonstration and practicing.		Watch a demonstration on decorating clay forms: impressed, carved, mishma, slip application, slip trailing, cloissone, scrafitto, wax resist, modeled, and inlay. Assignment for when done with painting: research pottery forms. Plan an original design of using at least two methods of construction and three methods of decoration.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Complete trees and look at.
Th	Tape watercolor paper to board and create a painting using methods practiced yesterday.		Continue painting if necessary. Begin construction of clay form. Nine students attending the Granary All-Dakota HS Fine Arts Day.			Assignment choices from past four topics. Time for reading chapter 5 in Catholicism and Society for Friday.			the Granary All-Dakota HS Fine Arts Day.
F	Look at work from yesterday. Complete a practice page of remaining techniques.		Continue painting and clay form.			Discuss ch. 5. Theology of the Body: Marriage.			Look at Surrealism: Dali, Magritte, Chagal, de Chirico, Klee, Mirro, and Kahlo. Begin planning a surreal artwork in any media. Plan to finish before by May 12.

*Week of: April 7, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M	Review color wheel and create a neutral by combining the three primaries. Take notes on color theory. Hear interesting studies on the psychology of color.		Continue painting using Baroque and/or Romantic interests. Plan to complete by approx. April 18.			Free-to-Read Review Theology of the Body; discuss today's presentation by the Bensons. Introduce the language of the body: examine the call to "speak the truth" and ways the body can tell truths or lies.			Look at Expressionist sculptures by Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel. Watch "A Show of Hands" video and notice how it echoes the theme "a part expresses the whole being". Look at cubist work by Picasso, Braque, Leger; study Cubist photos by David Hockney. Watch video of him at work on a cubist chair. Look at Futurist works by Boccioni and Duchamp. Watch video about Alexander Calder, paying particular attention to his mobiles.
T	Color experiments. Review color theory and symbolism with the game of Colingo.		Continue painting.			Language of the Body: ethos of image and ethos of seeing. Read chapter 3 in Catholicism and Society for Thursday.			Continue study of Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism.
W	Color trivia game.		Continue paintings.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Complete study of Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism. Plan an artwork in choice of media that reflects one of the ideas studied: "a part expresses the whole being", "reality lies in multiple yet simultaneous views of the same object", or "everything moves, everything changes".
Th	Complete color trivia. Watch a demonstration of the four basic watercolor methods and create a practice page using them.		Continue painting.			Discuss chapter 3. Assign chapter 4 for Friday. Review the four marks of loving relationships: free, total, faithful, fruitful and examine each one in light of God's love for us and how we can love others.			Begin artwork.
F	Begin learning 12-15 watercolor techniques by watching a demonstration and practicing.		Continue and possibly complete painting.			Discuss chapter 4. Assign chapter 5 for Monday. Review Theology of the Body for a for quiz on Monday.			Continue.

Week of: April 7, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M	Complete mugs with three methods of decoration. Be sure all joined edges are strong and smooth and handles will support weight of mug with fluid.		Continue painting using Baroque and/or Romantic interests. Plan to complete by approx. April 14.			Free-to-Read Review Theology of the Body, hope and redemption. Turn in assignments from Friday. Introduce objective truth and the connection between truth and freedom.			Continue Batiks for the Ball.
T	Using only the primary colors, create a color wheel of primary, secondary, tertiary, and neutral colors. Take notes on color terminology.		Field trip to Dacotah Prairie Museum.			How does truth bring about freedom? Examine the ways that choosing the good frees us and allows for authentic love.			Field trip to Dacotah Prairie
W	Color experiments.		Continue paintings.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Continue batiks.
Th	Review color theory with the game of Colingo.		Continue painting.			Study John Paul II's "language of the body"; examine ways we can speak truth or lies through our actions.			Complete all batiks.
F

Week of: March 31, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
						RELIGION 1V
M	Review wedging, slab construction, slip. Introduce, demonstrate, and show examples of methods of decorating and making cup/mug handles. Students will plan and create a strong and smooth cup/mug that tells about themselves through a minimum of three decoration techniques.		Continue painting techniques practice pages: clean edges, blending on painting, creation of a 3-D effect, stippling, and dry brush. When accomplished, plan a painting using Baroque and/or Romantic interests. Plan to complete in approx. two weeks. Research a Baroque or Romantic artist and write a report about at least three of his works. Due Wednesday.			Free-to-Read Review Theology of the Body. Quiz. Continue with redemption from original sin and what that means to the body in eternity.			Continue Batiks for the Ball.
T	Continue mug construction and decoration.		Continue.			How does truth bring about freedom? Examine the ways that choosing the good frees us and allows for authentic love.			Continue.
W	Continue mugs.		Continue. Turn in reports on artists.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.
Th	Continue and complete clay mugs.		Continue painting.			Study John Paul II's "language of the body"; examine ways we can speak truth or lies through our actions.
F	Using only the primary colors, create a color wheel of primary, secondary, tertiary, and neutral colors. Take notes on color terminology.		Continue painting.			Continue and complete study of the language of the body --review this weeks material for a quiz on Monday.			Complete all batiks.

Week of: March 25, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie Museum. Youth Art Month Show featuring Roncalli students at the ARCC month of March. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M						Free-to-Read
T	Review line, shape, space, and value. Introduce texture. Trace hand and rub real textures. Trace hand again and simulate the textures.		Look at all Poverty artworks and discuss. Review history of art from cave through northern European Renaissance. Introduce Baroque, Rococo, and Romanticism and the advancements in capturing movement, effects of light and shadow. Notice the shift away from realism to capturing illusions and effects; from religious scenes to everyday life, landscape, and emotionally charged scenes. Write about the sensory, formal, technical, and expressive qualities of one artwork. Plan a painting using Baroque or Romantic themes.			Chapter 2: Chastity as the will to choose good and freedom.			Continue Batiks for the Ball.
W	Complete and look at hands with real and simulated textures.		Continue and complete work from yesterday.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.
Th	Demonstrate clay slab construction and texturing of slabs. Terms: slab, wedge, needle tool, slip.		Watch demonstration and practice painting techniques.			Chapter 3: Study of original and historical man and the effects of original sin in relationships.
F	Roll out slabs and cut into shapes. Wrap in damp paper towels and seal in plastic bags for Monday.		Plan and sketch composition for acrylic painting. Transfer to canvas.			Quiz on Theology of the Body. Continue with truth and freedom and the language of the body, chapters 5 and 6.			Complete all batiks.

Week of: March 17, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie Museum. Youth Art Month Show featuring Roncalli students at the ARCC month of March. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M	Review line, shape, negative space and space in the distance. Look at all sighted drawings of boxes. Introduce value. Create a range of at least 12 values from white to as dark as possible.		Look at all Poverty artworks and discuss. Review history of art from cave through northern European Renaissance. Introduce Baroque, Rococo, and Romanticism and the advancements in capturing movement, effects of light and shadow. Notice the shift away from realism to capturing illusions and effects; from religious scenes to everyday life, landscape, and emotionally charged scenes. Write about the sensory, formal, technical, and expressive qualities of one artwork. Plan a painting using Baroque or Romantic themes.			Free-to-Read Review terms from Theology of the Body and complete chapter 1, Created for Love.			Continue working on 'Batiks for the Ball".
T	Using value scale, study boxes and add value to the sighted drawing to create the illusion of light and shadow. Look at all when done.		Complete study from yesterday.			Chapter 2: Love Defined.			Continue.
W				Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.
Th
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Week of: March 10, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie Museum. Youth Art Month Show featuring Roncalli students at the ARCC month of March. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
						RELIGION 1V
M	Review line, shape, and negative space. Introduce space in the distance. Watch demonstration on one-point perspective. Using handouts, create a scene using one vanishing point.		Review "This is the Real World: Poverty in the USA" assignment. Brainstorm forms and effects of poverty. Think beyond pencil and paper to consider any possibilities for art media. Continue projects. Due Friday.			Free-to-Read Test on prayer. Turn in prayer portfolios. Review The Creed and Prayer: What we believe and our relationship with God. Introduce Social Justice and Friendship, Dating, and Marriage: How we live what we believe and act on our relationship with God. "Actions are words incarnate". Hand out books if time and assign preface and chapter 1.			Continue working on 'Batiks for the Ball".
T	Continue, complete, and look at perspective drawings. Introduce 2-point perspective with a demonstration if time.		Continue poverty artwork.			In small groups, discuss the meaning of the beatitudes for high school seniors. Make a list of actions for assigned beatitude and share/discuss with the class. Discuss the Christian call to holiness. Review the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. Assign chapter 2: Every life is a vocation.			Continue.
W	Review two-point perspective. Use handouts to create a scene with two vanishing points.		Continue.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Continue.
Th	Continue two-point perspective drawing.		Continue.			Written reflection on vocation. Discuss chapter 2: single, religious, priesthood, and married states. Assign chapter 3 for Friday.			Continue.
F	Look at all two-point perspective drawings. Introduce value. Create a value scale of at least 12 tones.		Continue.			Review and discuss chapter 3: the future of Christian marriage. Theology of the Body homily by Fr. Brian Schieber.			Continue batiks.

Week of: March 3, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie Museum. Youth Art Month Show featuring Roncalli students at the ARCC month of March. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
						RELIGION 1V
M	Review line, shape, collage, and Henri Matisse. Plan and create a collage using shapes formed by changes in value, color, texture, and by outline. Use the principle of unity for a sense of all shapes belonging to the whole design.		Review "This is the Real World: Poverty in the USA" assignment. Brainstorm forms and effects of poverty. Think beyond pencil and paper to consider any possibilities for art media. Make sketches and begin creating work when done with batik, or while waiting for fabrics to dry.			Free-to-Read Review The Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary. Introduce and discuss guides for prayer and favorable places to pray.			Continue working on 'Batiks for the Ball".
T	Review and continue shape collage.		Continue batik and poverty artwork.			Chart the major expressions of prayer and forms that are part of each. Give and review forms not presented previously in each class. Introduce the battle of prayer.			Continue.
W	Review and continue shape collages.		Continue batik and poverty artwork.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Continue.
Th	Complete and look at collages. Notice other elements and principles besides shape and unity.		Complete all batiks and write a critique on it's originality, composition, care in planning color sequence for best results (knowledge of color theory), quality of craftsmanship, overall appearance. Continue poverty artwork.			Review and continue the battle of prayer. Review all prayer material.			Continue.
F	Introduce space and the concept of negative space. Watch a demonstration and practice drawing the negative space around tools.		Continue batiks.			Test on second part of prayer unit.			Continue batiks.

Week of: February 25, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie Museum. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M	Class overview and procedures. Look at Cave art and learn its history. Identify lines that indicate direction and suggest shape in "Yellow Horse". Watch demonstration on blind contour drawing. Do a blind contour of own hand.		Review batik procedures; continue waxing and dying.			Free-to-Read Review notes for a quiz Tues.			Continue working on 'Batiks for the Ball".
T	Review blind contour drawing. Watch demo of modified contour drawing. Draw hand, shoe, baseball glove using modified contour.		Continue batik.			Discuss ways that Mary prayed and how she exemplifies the Christian at prayer. Examine her feast days and the "Hail Mary".			Continue.
W	Review and complete all modified contour drawings. Review line. Introduce Alexander Calder and watch film about his mobiles and wire sculptures. Brainstorm ideas for wire sculptures--people or animals.		Continue batik.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Continue.
Th	Continue wire sculptures--3-D line.		Watch demo on removing wax from fabric; begin when done with last color in design. If done, begin making designs and scenes suitable for watercolor painting.			Examine guides for prayer. Review prayer types from presentations and learn about those not presented.			Continue.
F	Continue and complete wire sculptures. Look at all.		Continue batiks.			Examine how and when Jesus prayed. Examine "The Lord's Prayer".			Continue batiks.

Week of: February 19, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie Museum. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M						Free-to-Read			Continue working on 'Batiks for the Ball".
T	Continue and complete mug.		Review batik. Begin drawing designs. Transfer to fabric when done. (8th period complete color trivia game first.)			Review prayer types from presentations and learn about those not presented.			Continue.
W	Glaze mug.		Plan sequence of waxing and dying batik using color theory knowledge. Trace design onto fabric. Watch demonstration on waxing fabric, painting dyes on fabric, dipping dyes, and drying fabric.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Continue.
Th	Complete glazing.		Begin waxing and dying batik designs.			Examine how and when Jesus prayed. Examine "The Lord's Prayer".			Continue.
F	Review the trimester: art elements and principles of design. Collect all work to take home.		Continue batiks.			Discuss ways that Mary prayed and how she exemplifies the Christian at prayer. Examine the "Hail Mary".

Week of: February 11, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie Museum. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
						RELIGION 1V
M	Continue and complete glazing tiles for mural. Look at examples of autobiographical mugs and begin planning one when done glazing.		Introduce/review color theory: practice creating a color wheel by mixing primaries, learn terms, color experiments and trivia.			Free-to-Read Information on Lourdes and Litany to Our Lady of Lourdes. Prayer Portfolio assign for this week: practice prayer methods learned in class and keep a prayer log recording when, where, what type, and reaction. Prayer presentations.			Continue working on 'Batiks for the Ball".
T	Watch demonstration on slab construction of clay; review decoration techniques and begin autobiographical mug.		Continue color theory.			Continue prayer presentations.			Continue.
W	Continue.		Continue and complete color theory.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Continue.
Th	Continue and complete if possible.		Introduce the art of batik. Look at examples and watch demonstration. Discuss original ideas vs. copyrighted material. Plan an original design for a batik, using at least four colors plus white. Write out sequence for dying using knowledge of color theory.			Continue prayer presentations.			Continue.
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Week of: February 4, 2008 Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Expanding Our Vision", an exhibit by Roncalli K-12 art students opens February 20 at the Dacotah Prairie Museum. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M	Prepare work for Dacotah Prairie Exhibit: matt and label.		Review and continue designs in either scratchboard or lino block printing. Complete clay heads with acrylic or glaze. Prepare a base for the bust. Prepare work for the Dacotah Prairie Exhibit by matting and labeling.			Free-to-Read Prayer presentations.			Continue working on 'Batiks for the Ball" and preparing work for the Dacotah Prairie Exhibit.
T	Continue and complete matting and labeling work for exhibit.		Continue.			Continue prayer presentations. Discuss lent.			Continue.
W	Instruction on glazes and glazing. Glaze tiles for mural.		Continue.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Continue.
Th	Continue glazing tiles.		Continue.			Lent reading and project assignment. Continue prayer presentations.			Continue.
F	Retreat		Continue and complete. Look at all work and discuss texture. Written evaluation of linoleum block prints and scratchboards. Complete all matting and labeling for exhibit.			Continue.			Continue. Complete all preparations of work for the Dacotah Prairie.

*Week of: January 28, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
						RELIGION 1V
M	Continue color trivia--review answers to round one and do round two. Total points and bet on categories. Complete game. Color experiments with spinning disks.		Review and continue designs in either scratchboard or lino block printing.			Free-to-Read Adoration Discussion on prayer and formation of groups. Begin researching prayer types for class presentation.			Continue working on 'Batiks for the Ball".
T	Look at the work of Andy Warhol and his use of color expressively in portraits. Introduce framing in photography. Each student will take a portrait photo of a partner.		Continue.			Continue prayer research and presentation			Continue.
W	Using b/wh prints of portrait, color with oil pastels using color expressively. Experiment with complements, analagous, and monochromatic; warm and cool. Be ready to explain color scheme.		Continue.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Continue.
Th	Continue portraits.		Continue.			Continue research and prep for class presentation on prayer types. Have handouts ready for printing by end of class Friday.			Continue.
F	Complete and look at all portraits. Glaze tiles for mural.		Continue and complete. Look at all work and discuss texture. Prepare work for Dacotah Prairie Museum Exhibit.			Finalize power point presentations on prayer types.			Continue.

*Week of: January 22, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M						Free-to-Read
T	Look at all cars. Review line, shape, space, texture. Introduce color. Create a color wheel using only the primary to create the secondaries and tertiaries. Take notes on color terms.		Review and continue designs in either scratchboard or lino block printing.			Joyful Mysteries; Rosary For Life.			Continue working on 'Batiks for the Ball".
W	Color experiments. Play color trivia.		Continue scratchboard or printmaking (editions of 12 plus proofs).	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Continue.
Th	Complete color trivia.		Continue.			Discuss prayer and how it is viewed. Define prayer. List and discuss different types of prayer. Continue researching forms of prayer. Due Friday.			Continue.
F	Look at the work of Andy Warhol and his use of color expressively in portraits. Introduce framing in photography. Each student will take a portrait photo of a partner.		Continue.			Compare and contrast various forms of prayer: blessing, adoration, intercession, thanksgiving, and praise. Distinguish the difference between meditation and contemplation. Form groups of 2-3 to further research one form of prayer to present to the class in power point form.			Continue.

*Week of: January 14, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M	Continue textured slabs, building up areas, carving and impressing textures in others. Be sure all details remain.		Introduce/review art and artists of the Northern European Renaissance: Jan Van Eyck, Pieter Breughel, Albrect Durer, and H. Bosch. Note invention of oil paints, introduction of symbols into art, and focus on surfaces rather than structure. Introduce scratchboard drawing and linoleum block printmaking processes; look at examples. Students will complete an artwork using simulated textures in their choice of those two media. Practice simulating textures.			Free-to-Read Discuss The Five People You Meet in Heaven through page 146. Read through page 178 for Tuesday. Discuss prayer and how it is viewed. Define prayer. List and discuss different types of prayer. Assignment: Prayer portfolio including a prayer log, prayers of significant saint/s, examples of types of prayers, prayers of Jesus and Mary. Due 1-25.			Complete "art in a box" and look at all. Discuss.
T	Complete tiles and assemble together to check that all details match up from tile to tile.		Review use of space and plan composition for scratchboard or lino block print. Watch demonstration on transferring drawing and use of gouges and scratch tools. Transfer drawing when done.			Compare and contrast various forms of prayer: blessing, adoration, intercession, thanksgiving, and praise. Distinguish the difference between meditation and contemplation. Discuss pages from The Five People... Finish book for Thursday.			Introduce Cubism and Futurism, and the artists Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, and Calder. Watch film on Calder. Look at the work of David Hockney
W	Complete all tiles. Set aside to dry. Paint clay cars--work carefully and make as life-like as possible.		Begin scratchboard or printmaking (editions of 12 plus proofs).	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.			Look at the work of David Hockney and watch video of him creating a cubist painting. Plan and create an artwork in choice of media reflecting cubist or futurist ideas. Media may be photography, painting, collage, or 3-D materials to create stationary or moving sculpture.
Th	Continue and complete painting cars. Look at all.		Continue.			Discuss The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Follow up questions.			Continue cubist or futurist work.
F	Introduce color. Using only the primary colors, create a full color wheel. Color terms and definitions.		Continue.			Meditate on a parable of Jesus. Examine significant times in Jesus' life when he prayed and what types of prayers he used.			Continue.

*Week of: January 7, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M	Continue and complete all sighted perspective drawings of boxes with pencil shaded value. Introduce texture. Trace hand and rub at least six different rea textures onto the shape. Trace hand again and simulate at least six different textures.		3rd period: Review and continue The Agony and The Ecstacy. 8th period: Continue clay heads. Potters' wheel for those who are done after a demonstration.			Free-to-Read Discuss The Five People You Meet in Heaven through page 79. Read pages 82-103 for Tuesday. Look up and discuss John 11:25-26 and Eccl 3:1-2. Research information and definitions for: particular and general judgement, parousia, resurection of the body, heaven, hell, purgatory, beautific vision, and the word 'amen'.			Review and continue "art in a box" assignment. Complete by end of class Friday.
T	Complete textured hands. Look at and identify the textures. Discuss the difference between real and simulated texture. Demonstrate slab rolling and construction. Give directions for storage of clay in progress and cleanup of area.		Complete movie; write a resume for Michelangelo following the given form. Scan one artwork from the Renaissance. Continue clay heads and potters' wheel.			Discuss terms researched on Monday. Discuss pages from The Five People... Read through page 145 for Thursday.
W	Roll slabs; store between damp paper towels in closed bags. Clean up clay area.		3rd period: Demonstrate finishing clay heads with acrylic and bootwax. Students should finish theirs. 8th period: Continue clay heads.	Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.
Th	Press slab onto found textures and restore between damp paper towels in closed bags. Clean all areas used.		Complete clay heads. Clean painting tables and clay area thoroughly. Introduce Northern European Renaissance. Note differences between Italy and Northern Europe: structure as opposed to surfaces. Look at introduction of symbols into art in Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride by Jan Van Eyck.			Complete discussion on human destiny. Review the Creed. Discuss assignment from The Five People You Meet in Heaven through page 145. Read through page 178 for Thursday.
F	Assemble textured slabs into functional pottery forms. Sign and date the underside.		Continue and complete info on N. E. Renaissance. Scan one work. Introduce texture, real and simulated. Look at examples of scratchboard drawings and linoleum block prints using texture.			Test on human destiny. Discuss reading from The Five... Complete the book.			Complete "art in a box" and look at.

*Week of: January 3, 2008* Plans may change due to progress or schedules. Scroll down for past assignments. "Instilling Catholic values and promoting academic excellence."**
	8:00-8:48 7th ART	8:51-9:39 PREP	9:42-10:30 ART I 2:24-3:12 ART I	10:33-11:21 PREP	11:24-11:48 LUNCH	11:51-12:39	12:42-1:30	1:33-2:21	22:24-3:12 ART II
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M						Free-to-Read
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W				Religion dept. mtg.		Service release day.