Art in eighth grade centers on mediums and how each student sees the world around them.
During first quarter students have a homework project. For this project they will focus on 6 photography categories such as landscapes or portraits. They take 18 pictures in 6 categories and professionally put together a portfolio for their photographs. This is due right before the end of the quarter. They have been given an introduction, required directions, and grading sheet. Students bring in their cameras to learn photography settings and how their cameras work, from shutter speed to ISO setting.
Other projects 8th graders will be doing in art are learning how to draw the features of a face; they then will do their own self-portrait. Behind this self-portrait they will create a multi-medium collage of a social issue (more specifically the Works of Mercy) that impacts them. Another experience they will have is to carve a linoleum plate of themselves and print it multiple time. In Middle School our projects are more in-depth and detailed, so the students may only be working on and graded on one to two projects a quarter.
Projects
Photography at Home Project
Facial Elements
Mercy and Me
Andy and I
