Rhetoric level Art

[AmyA]

I was wanting to do a credit for art for rhetoric level. I don't see any discussion questions or anything listed in the student pages about arts. I know there are books for this level to read so do they just read the books and they get credit? Or do I need to come up with some questions for them? This sounds like such a great year to do a study on art. Any help is appreciated!


thanks so much.

[Pat]

I think you'll need to require some level of work to give a credit for art history and I think unless you really increase the work level, that you shouldn't plan on giving more than 1 credit of art history for all four years of Tapestry.

If you are less than sure about art history yourself, you may find asking some simple questions each week they read may be enough: "Tell me about the artists you study this week, what were their major works, tell me about those works, are they part of a movement of artists, what were their goals for their art" can get you both going. Then I'd consider assigning at least one 5 page paper per year that asked them to either talk about a specific work or the evolution of a certain style or compare two artists. Finally, I'd do a simple matching test where the student would need to match up some works to artists and maybe some artists to period of art.

[Marcia]

Pat gives great ideas! Remember, in many schools, there is very little student-generated product for certain courses. Two of my children took Art History classes at college. Class after class, the professor's lecture was to flash pictures of art work up on the screen and, basically, annotate what the students had already read in the text. Then, they were given a mid-term and a final.

Since this is an elective, I believe that no real discussion is NECESSARY, and simple evaluations (open the book, pick a painting at random, see what the student knows about it, its artist, and why it's important) or papers (pick an artist and genre and do one 5-page biography/expository paper per quarter) would be very sufficient.

[Pat]

Pat gives great ideas! Remember, in many schools, there is very little student-generated product for certain courses. Two of my children took Art History classes at college. Class after class, the professor's lecture was to flash pictures of art work up on the screen and, basically, annotate what the students had already read in the text. Then, they were given a mid-term and a final.

Since this is an elective, I believe that no real discussion is NECESSARY, and simple evaluations (open the book, pick a painting at random, see what the student knows about it, its artist, and why it's important) or papers (pick an artist and genre and do one 5-page biography/expository paper per quarter) would be very sufficient.

Whew, this sounds even easier! I'm glad YOU posted Marcia.

[AmyA]

Thank you both so much for taking time to help me. This helps a lot!

[goofymom]

I took a Humanities course in college and our final was basically being able to recognize pieces of art and music that he would put up on the screen for a limited amount of time or play a snippet of, and I took an art history course where the grade was basically based on attendance and a report on 1 piece of art. If your children are artistic, you could have them draw or otherwise reproduce some of their favorite art, which combined with a report or some sort of test, could definitely make at least a half credit. Harmony Art Mom http://harmonyartmom.blogspot.com/ , who uses TOG, is also a great resource for beefing up the art.