Below you will find a Scope and Sequence for this school year.  This is just a tentative schedule of activities and can change as needed. 

6th Grade
First Six Weeks
Introduction to: Line, Value, Form, Texture
1.  Still Life Drawing in Pencil
2.  Progressive Rhythm drawing in Pencil
3.  Grid Enlargement Drwing in Pencil

Second Six Weeks
Introduction to: Line, Value, Color, Balance
1.  Pinata sculpture
2.  Art History Research Paper
3.  Radial Design Ceiling posters in tempera paint
4.  Fall Drawings for dispaly at nursing home

Third Six Weeks
Introduction to: Line, Space, Perspective, Color, Clay
1.  Create a Perspective Journal
2.  One point Railroad Track Drawing in pencil
3.  your name in two point perspective using colored pencil
4.  One point city scene in colored pencil
5.  Carious handbuilding techniquest in clay
7.  Semester Test

Fourth Six Weeks
Intorduction to: Color, Shape, Space, Value, Rhythm, Form
1.  Georgia O'Keefe style watercolor paintings
2.  Abstract art pantyhose sculptures: style of Moore and Arp
3.  Sea creature sandcasting sculpture
4.  Human skeleton drawing in pencil
5.  Self portrait from photo in pencil

Fifth Six Weeks
Introduction to: Form, Texture, Balance, Color, Shape, Harmony, Proportion
1.  Slab box made out of clay
2.  Shoe made out of clay
3.  Mimbres Coil pot in clay
4.  Pop Art style pointilism in colored markers
5.  Natural found object journal/printmaking
6.  Panama Molas
7.  Weaving created on a loom

Sixth Six Weeks
Introduction to: Color, Line
1.  Spanish Yarn Paintings.
2.  Art How
3.  Art program Cover contest
4.  Semester Test
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7th Grade
First Six Weeks
Introduction: Line, Value, Form, Texture
1.  Still life drawing in pencil
2.  progressive rhythm drawing in pencil
3.  Grid enlargement drawing in pencil

Second Six Weeks
Introduction to: Form, Texture, Color, Balance
1.  Plate of fauxe food in clay
2.  Amphorea Urn (Greece) in clay
3.  Tempera paint Spanish mural in the style of Diego Rivera

Third Six Weeks
Introduction to: Art Careers, Perspective, Rhythm, Color
1.  Design posters for "Fall" to hang in the nursing home
2.  One point perspective Rail Road scene in pencil
3.  City scene in one point perspective in pencil
4.  Tesselations
5.  Two point perspective using your name in colored pecnil
6. Semester Test

Fourth Six Weeks
Introduction to:  Color, Balance, Proportion, Value, Sculpture, Rhythm, Weaving
1.  oil pastel art masterpice extension
2.  Pencil sketch on a form of currency you create using a celebrity of your choice
3.  Clay bust of yourself in the style of the Surrealists
4.  Self portrait in pencil
5.  Loom weaving (fiber)

Fifth Six Weeks
Introduction to: Color, Line, Shape, Balance, Texture, Mixed media, Sculpture, Space
1.  "shadow box" in the style of Louise Nevelson
2.  Pointillism in the style of Seurat and Impressionists of a junk food wrapper
3.  Sandcasting
4.  Paper mache gourd bowl (Puerto Rico)

Sixth Six Weeks
Introduction to: Fomr, Color
1.  Watercolor Painting
2.  Art show
3.  Semester Test
4.  Wax Hands
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8th Grade
First Six Weeks
Introduction to: Line, Space, Value, Shape
1.  Metamorphisis Line Drawing
2.  Still life contour drawing in pencil
3.  Tin can and drapery value study in pencil
4.  Grid enlargement value drawing in pencil

Second Six Weeks
Introduction to: Form, Space, Balance, Sculpture, Texture, Line, Clay, Art Careers
1.  Henry Moore and J. Arp Positive and Negative shape plaster sand casting
2.  African mask line drawing in pencil
3.  African mask in clay
4.  "Fall" poster designs to hang in the nursing home

Third Six Weeks
Introduction to: Line, Space, Perspective, Color, Rhythm
1.  Perspective Journal
2.  One point perspective car in pencil
3.  Two point perspctive building
4.  Name repeated 13 times showing variation using colored pencils
5.  Semester Test

Fourth Six Weeks
Introduction to:  Color, Balance, Value, Harmony, Fiber
1.  oil pastel masterpiece showing "something new"
2.  Watercolor painting of still life object (crushed can)
3.  String Art
4.  Self portrait in pencil from photo

Fifth Six Weeks
Introduction to: Proportion, Clay, Art History, Texture, Color
1.  Self portrait bust in clay in the comical style of Arnesson
Recreating a masterpiece into a functional clay vessel
3.  Paper Mache "Screamers"
4.  impressionism pointillism black and white sea creatures

Sixth Six Weeks
Introduction to: Line, Proportion, Color, Mixed Media
1.  Greek Mythological creature print
2.  self collage
3.  art show
4.  semester test
5.  Wax Hands