Shane Koyczan – TED Talk “To This Day”… for the Bullied and Beautiful… “If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there’s something inside you that makes you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.”
Drawing: MUSIC and ART!

Goals:
- 4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context and 4.4.3 meanings showing understanding.
- What were the similarities and differences in your ideas and Kandinsky’s.
Reflection: How does your art compare with the work of “professionals” and how can you work to create a better understanding of your approach / intent / ideas?)
Studio Art 360: TEXTURE – Let’s Make Some

Goals:
- 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
- What TEXTURES do you think will be INTERESTING to make? Frottage, Grattage, or Decalocomania? WHY?
Reflection: What was your favorite way of gathering textures today? How did you use them today in the abstracted landscape COLLAGE experience based on MAX ERNST’s works.
AP Studio Art: Pencils…
Pencil Story on FREAKONOMICS – LISTEN HERE: http://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/freakonomics/#file=json/576159
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Goals:
- 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
- Are you beginning a SECOND DRAWING? Do you have to focus on making TODAY’S HOUR particularly SHARP FOCUSED? What ELEMENTS or PRINCIPLES are you planning on working towards today? Color? Contrast? Balance? Something entirely different?
Reflection: Explain and ELABORATE on the drawing you have created today – creating today… EXPLAIN YOUR THOUGHTS and FOCUS. Are you looking at something in PARTICULAR here?
Advanced Drawing: 50 Sheets of Paper!

Goals:
- 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
- Two Plus weeks on this drawing – What have you learned about the idea of having ALL THE FREEDOM to do WHAT YOU WANT with a drawing?