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Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Ms. Howell
Subject: Visual Arts
Title of Lesson: Charcoal Utensil Drawing

Date: 9/9/16
Grade Level: 9-12
Lesson Length: 40 minutes

Overview of the Lesson

Lesson Summary:
The students will choose at least two metal utensils to compose a drawing that
covers their whole paper which explores the value scale, highlights and
shadows, composition, and contrast.
Massachusetts Framework Standards:
1.9 Demonstrate the ability to create 2D and 3D work that show knowledge of
unique characteristics of articular media, materials, and tools. 1.13 make
reasonable choices of 2D and 3D media, materials, tools and techniques to
achieve desired effects in specific projects. 3.8 Create representations 2D
work from direct observation and memory that convincingly portrays 3D space
and objects within that space.
Lesson Objectives: The students will be able to..
Create a well-proportioned drawing from observation with an interesting
composition that includes 2 or more objects. Product will be well-crafted with
neat shading, include highlights, crest shadow, reflected light, cast shadow,
and strong contrast. The media will be covering the texture of the paper.
Materials/Equipment to be Used in Teaching the Lesson:
Textured tag board, paper, metal utensils, lamps, charcoal, cont crayon,
charcoal pencils, chalk, vine charcoal, kneaded erasers
Enduring Understandings:
Big Ideas: The students will understand that
Different media benefit the artist to achieve different techniques, and to
acquire a complete range of value scale.
Opposite intense values alongside each other create strong contrast.
The strongest composition entails attentions to balance, emphasis,
enlargement, and layers.
Concepts:
Value
Balance
Emphasis
Enlargement
Layers
Composition
Essential Questions:
How does light affect the values on an object?
What is value?

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Content
Factual Content: Out of the supplied media, charcoal can give you the
darkest dark, and chalk the whitest white. Starting with thumbnails will allow
the artist to choose a strong composition. Blocking out the shadows and
highlights and starting with the lightest highlight and move to the darkest
shadow will allow the artist to smoothly portray the value scale.
Vocabulary:
Value, Balance, Emphasis, Enlargement, Layers, Composition
Tier 1:
Layers, Enlargement, Emphasis
Tier 2:
Value, Balance,
Tier 3:
Composition
Critical Thinking Skills (Reading, Writing, Speech, Listening)
The students will design their drawings in their thumbnail sketches to produce
an original piece of work; distinguish and select proper media to represent the
desired value; execute their use of prior drawing to represent their objects in a
proportional manner.
Assessments (Performance Tasks/Tests/Quizzes Formative/Summative,
Informal/Formal)
Performance:
Completed piece; texture covered with media, neat product, interesting
composition, high contrast, proportional, includes highlight, crest shadow,
reflected light, and cast shadow, full range of value scale.

Action/Instructional Procedures
Procedures:

Anticipatory Set: (hook) Check out all these metal tools! Choose a couple

Step One: Teacher Demo:

-Exploration of media
-thumbnail sketch for composition (BEEL)
-sketch lightly
-explore highlights
-explore shadow
-fine tune
Encourage artistic exaggeration ex: swirly handle, altered shape/size

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Step Two:
Studio Time!
1. Students adjust objects and select composition through at least 3 thumbnail
sketches.
2. Students select preferred media.
3. Begin preliminary sketch: a bit gestural/contour like
4. Block out highlights
5. Block out shadows
6. Blend!
7. Make neat. [use KNEA(t)ded erasers.]
^^^ haha get it?
Step Three:
Teacher check in. Time check in.
Closure:
Clean up/ spray finished pieces with fixative or hairspray, continue working next class

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Reflection on Lesson
a. The Lesson Plan:

b. Teaching Skills:

c. The Students: