Art 2 – Tech 1 – Drawing and Writing about Animals – Now Online

PDF Syllabus, plus Book, and online Typing Club.

Teaches Drawing, Typing, and Story Writing.

Scope:
This course covers drawing caricatures of animals both by tracing and freehand using basic shapes as guides. It also involves writing stories about the caricatures drawn.

Objectives:
• To learn how to trace.
• To learn how to see basic shapes in a shape you wish to draw.
• To learn how to draw bit by bit can create a finished picture.
• To have fun using one’s own caricatures of animals to tell a story.
• To increase small motor agility and skill.
• To create ‘families’ of pictures and tell their stories.
• To review the color wheel, tint and hue, etc.

Materials List:
• Drawing Animals Shape by Shape: Create Cartoon Animals with Circles,
Squares, Rectangles & Triangles by Christopher Hart. $14.95 @ amazon.
• Pad of tracing paper
• Pencils
• Erasers
• Colored Pencils – minimum of 12 pack
• Pack of Copy paper – a Ream – 500 sheets.
• Scissors
• Black Marker
• Paste or glue stick
• Stapler
• Typing Club enrollment and daily practice to be able to type your stories. Club Address: typingclub.com
• Course download.

Course Format:
As children of this age like art and like to be creative, both in artistic expression and in storytelling, we have expanded the usual art time to four lessons a week. This includes the typing club portion.
• 4 Introductory Lessons with 10 minutes of typing club practice.
• 53 Drawing practices with 10 minutes of typing club practice.
• 87 Story Creation Lessons

Lesson Formats:

• Introductory Lessons
◦ Become familiar with the course and practice drawing the basic shapes.
◦ Spend 10 minutes minimum in typing club practice.

• Drawing Practices – Averages two animals per lesson.
◦ Practice stage drawing the animals assigned. Color as you like and draw
freehand variations.
◦ Practice 10 minutes minimum on typingclub.

• Story Creation Lessons –
◦ Nine, 8 lesson units; one final project 15 lesson unit.
◦ Plan out your story using at least two animals from the designated unit.
◦ Type your story.
◦ Make the necessary drawing for your story.
◦ Color your drawings.
◦ Cut and paste your drawings and story into a storybook.
◦ Be sure to include a cover page with a typed title and a cover illustration.