4750 UNIT PLAN GUIDELINES for ART EDUCATION Alison Caselman

1. UNIT TITLE –Caught 2. ENDURING IDEAS - Throughout time and across cultures artists have been making art work from unique perspectives to change how people see the world. 3. COURSE - Advanced Placement Art (college level expectations). 4. ELO - Essential Learning Objectives (list provided)

• Expressively manipulate the art elements and principals to create compositions that exhibit a compelling division of space

• Develop personal responses to art problems exhibiting the ability to generate multiple and rich ideas that inform content rich work

• Demonstrate an understanding of ways to assess development and to defend one’s personal aesthetic

• Demonstrate creative problem solving through the production of art that investigates formal and conceptual art problems

• Describe, analyze and evaluate to show an awareness of multiple and diverse interpretations of art in relation to culture

• Show the ability to integrate conceptual and technical approaches in choosing appropriate media and techniques

• Maintain a cumulative portfolio demonstrating the independent pursuit of art-making, investigation, and the development of a personal aesthetic

5. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS –

• What does it mean to be caught? • When do you consider yourself caught instead of just watched? • Is being caught a good thing or bad thing? • What does it mean to be secure? • Are security cameras helpful or hurtful? • How offended do you think your picture is being taken?

6. EXEMPLAR ARTISTS –

• Aleksandr Rodchenko • Ai Weiwei

7. OBJECTIVES - Artists will be able to:

• Define what being caught means

• Defend if there is a difference between being caught and just watched • Argue if being caught is a good or bad thing • Define what secure is • Debate if it is better to have more or less security cameras • Become aware of how often they are on camera

8. MATERIALS –

• Photograph at an angle of a security camera (camera, ladder, and partner) • Graphite pencils • Rulers • Paper •

9. PROCEDURES - Artists will....explore, play, relate, choose, reflect.....

• I would introduce the essential question to the students and ask them to discuss the questions individually.

• After that I am going to show them a YouTube video about fun and exciting things that have been caught on camera of joyful events

• Next I would introduce the exemplar artists o First I would talk about Aleksandr Rodchenko and how he had a

revolutionary take with photography. o Then I would talk about Ai Weiwei and his marble surveillance cameras

and how he states the purpose of a surveillance camera and after they are in marble they do not have a function and are now the ones being watched.

• The students will then start sketching and thinking of places around the school where they are going to want to take their photos. And lighting if needed and then take their photos with a partner

• AP1 class should use academic technique • There drawings should be detailed enough so the other students can tell where the

students can tell where this shot is taken from 10. ASSESSMENT/ CULMINATING ACTIVITY -

• When the artists are ¾ ways done with this perspective drawing they will trade with another artist and each will do a short writing about the work. Writing about what they really enjoy on the work, what the other artist can do to push the work farther, what type of technical skills the artist is using, and if the composition is strong. After the artists have finished that they will trade the art works and also

the writings back and all artist will have about another week to complete their artworks.

• After all artworks are done the students will have a scavenger hunt as to where these drawings are depicting. If the artist is successful with their drawings the other artists in the class should be able to figure out where this camera would be at.

11. EVIDENCE of Prior Knowledge – Similar to what is written on page 22 in BraveArt, written by Patterson, I will be bringing in real-world events and contemporary artist into our discussions about this lesson; by using Ai Weiwei’s and also local events which lead to more security cameras downtown Columbia. I will also be using student’s input (by their success on our scavenger hunt) during the grading process.