To discuss the sport of cross-country running and the warm-up exercises used by runners in preparing for a race

To use a "posing puppet" to study certain actions and emotions and to demonstrate the relative positions of body parts in warm-up exercises

To review definitions of focal point and contrast

To examine poses and the use of repetition in creating emphasis in a painting by Winslow Homer

To use a painting by Morisot to examine the use of contrast in creating emphasis, and to review some of the principles of near and far

To review the techniques for creating a strong focal point and to evaluate the effectiveness of the focal points in the students' sketches

To observe the use of balance, movement, and unity in van Gogh's The Starry Night

To evaluate one's own composition with respect to principles of design such as unity, movement, repetition, and balance

To do a critical analysis of Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of Grande Jatte

To compare van Gogh's The Starry Night with Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon."

To define pointillism

To practice contour drawing skills and apply them to a finished drawing.

To practice critical analysis skills by doing an evaluation of a student composition from The Big Race

To draw an accurate representation

To do a "walking mural," with each student completing a "knee-down" portrait

To become familiar with the two main elements of a poster: image and lettering

To become familiar with the term graphic artist

To reinforce the meaning and application of the term unity

To look at a number of European posters from the early 1900s

To define calligraphy and compare serif to sans serif lettering

To understand the terms upright, italic, outline, and script as they apply to letter styles

To encourage the use of an enlarged partial image

To plan and create a large poster advertising an event such as a sporting event, a musical, or a bake sale

To define relief sculpture

To understand the term high relief and freestanding as applied to sculpture

To understand the difference between high relief and low relief, and to define bas relief

To study some of the accomplishments of Michelangelo and to take a brief look at his background and training

To look at a few examples of Michelangelo's sculptures

To review the relative positions of features on a face

To review the process of mixing slip and joining two pieces of clay by the slip and score method

To use a modeling compound to create an action figure, either freestanding or in high relief

To complete a drawing exercise while experiencing the awkwardness of drawing on a "ceiling" surface, thus identifying with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel project

To model a self-portrait head in low relief

To read a brief account of certain aspects of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work, with emphasis on his seemingly limitless abilities and diverse interests

To study two of Leonardo's most revered paintings

To understand the process of fresco painting

To practice drawing skills with particular reference to an accurate sketch

To recognize the Renaissance as a period in history when man glorified himself for his success, and God was not acknowledged

To refer to several of Leonardo's inventions.

To present the commuter designs in class and to obtain student feedback regarding strengths and weaknesses of each design

To learn the identities as Leonardo intended in his painting, The Last Supper

To invent and draw a commuter vehicle to solve certain problems outlined in the assignment

To invent and draw the design for a unique student desk

To make dishes for the table for the dramatization of The Last Supper

To paint the background for The Last Supper on a wall, thus identifying with Leonardo's task

To create an adaptation of the scene from The Last Supper using the students in the class, dressed to play the part of Jesus and the disciples and dramatizing the feeling of disbelief felt by the disciples when Christ announced that He would be betrayed by one of them

To examine the effects of direct lighting on an object as it relates to shadows and values of gray

To refer to Leonardo's method of building up tones rather than outlining and filling in with color

To define modeling as another name for shading

To have students share their ideas and drawings for student desk designs.

To understand the term tooth as it applies to paper

To recognize how a society's values are reflected in its art

To practice the technique of applying and blending colors using soft pastel.

To become acquainted with the process of printmaking through the German artist, Albrecht Durer

To understand the difference between a woodcut and an engraving and to define incising as cutting grooves into the surface of a material

To understand the most fundamental difference between the Renaissance and the Reformation

To define plate as the inked surface from which to take a print

To draw a cylinder, attempting to use shading to represent the values of dark and light

To draw using a grid

To create a 3-dimensional appearance by representing darks and lights on the surface of a colored object

To use patterning to prepare a drawing for printmaking

To make a number of prints from the styrofoam "plate."

To begun familiar with The Group of Seven

To do a critical analysis of Lawren Harris's Untitled mountain landscape

To understand the term diorama

To study the principle of movement

To understand the meaning of creating an interpretation

To recognize that the eagle is sometimes used as a symbol to represent strength and freedom

To recognize the eagle as the national symbol of the United States

To apply knowledge of the eagle's habitat to create a diorama based on the painting Untitled

To apply knowledge of the eagle's physical characteristics to mold the figure of an eagle from a modeling compound such as plasticene