Sketchbooks
For Art 1 sketchbooks, we use them for bell work. Students are issued a sketchbook for the class formatted with pages that are half blank and half lined. Every day is designated to either be a drawing day or a writing day. And for the first 5 minutes of class, students are expected to be silently working on that day's assignment.
Drawing days: For drawing days, students will draw from observation, either a still life that has been set up in the room, or objects around the room. They must draw for the entire 5 minutes, no erasing. As we go over units in class these drawings improve, at first however, I only emphasize that they fill the space and draw exactly what they see, where they see it. Writing days: For writing days I have an artwork hanging on the wall and questions about it on the board. The questions are designed to be opinion questions and to encourage critical thinking. The students are expected to write for the entire 5 minutes, or fill the designated area (1/2 a page). In their writing they are instructed to use examples from the artwork to back up their answers, they are not only just answering the questions but defending their reasoning and citing the artwork in question. Examples
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First semester
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2nd Semester
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