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Unit Title: Intrepid Masks
Enduring Ideas: Throughout time and across cultures mask making artists used their creations for teaching tools or as symbols of courage. Why can’t we do that today?
Course: Intermediate level
ELO:
• Work from observation to represent three dimensional form with technical authority, accuracy of proportion, and Depicting the illusion of volume in responsive ways.
• Demonstrate an understanding and ways to assess development and to defend one’s personal aesthetic.
• Develop personal responses to art problems exhibiting the ability to generate multiple and rich ideas that inform content rich work.
Essential Questions:
• What makes you feel brave? • How do you make yourself fearless? • What is a mask and how is/was it used?
Exemplar Artists:
Jeff Semmerling http://youtu.be/oJRzlkox_GI
Objectives: Artists will be able to …
• Develop a mask out of mostly found objects that symbolize their fearlessness and bravery.
• Learn proper techniques in molding plaster and cardboard to safely mold a mask.
• Explore their own abilities as an imaginative artist and what their since of intrepidness is to them.
Materials: Plaster, cardboard, saran wrap and found objects that are safe with in the school limits.
Procedures:
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1. A quick history lesson/slide show on the importance of masks in current times and in history and a drawing assignment on what students masks will look like to be presented to the teacher.
2. The teacher will demonstrate each how to safely applied plaster or make a mold for plaster so the students will not in any way injure themselves or others.
3. Collected found objects will be presented and approved by the teacher before work may progress on the masks.
Assessment:
• Student will articulate to a camera the skills and work that went into making his/her mask, as well as why it represents how they feel intrepid.
• The class will hold a semi-‐sort of Mardi Gras in the class room to display their masks (no beads or alcohol allowed this isn’t the real Mardi Gras).
Evidence of Prior Knowledge: