Feb. 25-26

Utah studies: students chose to draw a Mormon pioneer town or mining town. The directions are in the packet. Here is a video explaining the project: http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/mormon-and-mining-towns/12184571/?ref=app

Drawing: students worked on their cartoon or comic drawing. They should have started on their final.

February 19-20

Utah Studies:
Today we worked on step 7 of the road trip.  It will be due on February 25th!  This is the last week to retake the test for unit 3.

Drawing:
Students did this sketchbook evaluation and peer evaluation.  They had today to catch up on their sketchbook.

February 14, 18

Utah Studies: A Day worked on book work with their new economics packet.  B day finished the mining video while "mining" the chocolate chips out of cookies.

Drawing: They finished their brainstorming and front/side views of their cartoon characters.  When finished they started on their practice comic book cover or comic.  The book cover will need the title, character sketch, and background.  The comic needs at least 3 squares, dialogue, and the character in every box.

Feb. 12-13

Utah Studies: the counselor a gave a presentation on college.

Drawing: we started our next project on cartooning. We discussed favorite cartoons or superheroes-- their personality, plot and characteristics. Students practiced drawing Popeye with this video clip.  Then students came up with their original cartoon. They should consider the name, personality, looks, circumstances, props, and sidekicks. They started making thumbnail sketches.  I have characature examples in class. If students want an animal cartoon rather than a human here is a link for how to draw different cartoon animals:

http://www.how-to-draw-cartoons-online.com/cartoon-animals.html

February 10-11

Utah Studies:
We watched part of "Treasure House," a video on Utah mining.  Students filled out a movie guide with it.

Drawing:
We had a sketchbook day where students worked on a collage piece.  Here is the powerpoint we looked at.

February 5-6

Utah Studies:
They worked on step 7 of their road trip.  We had labtops so most of them did it in drive on their Indian Hills google accounts (first.last@indianhillsmiddle.com).  We will have one more class day to work on this.  But if they did not get a lot done they should start working on it at home.  Here is a copy of an example journal entry.

Drawing:
We had guest speakers come and discuss artist careers. Here is a powerpoint they used.

February 3-4

Utah Studies:
We took the unit 3 test.

Drawing:
It was the last day to work on perspective drawings.  Students who finished had the chance to try forced perspective photography.