SAR #1

Please follow these steps:

1. Find our conversation in Gmail.
2. Hit "Reply."
3. In the Subject Area, please put "SAR #1" and your name.
4. Please answer the questions below. You can answer directly in the email, or you can attach a document.
5. Submit your SAR before class starts on Monday. SARs that do not authentically address the questions will need to be resubmitted.

Participation

• What are the expectations for participation in this class?
• Are you meeting the expectations in and out of class?
• If you are meeting or exceeding expectations, how has this impacted your learning?
• If you are not meeting the expectations, how is this impeding your learning?
• What can/will you do next?

Progress

• What have you done over the past three weeks to ensure your success? Reflect on successes and challenges.
• How has your understanding of Why Artists Create, Typography, and the elements (line, color, texture) shifted?
• What will you do next?

SAR #5

Steps: Please find our last email convo in your inbox. Respond using the following questions (attach or add the questions directly to the convo).
Due Monday morning, before school starts.

Participation
✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)

* State where you think you’re at as an artist and how you participate in art class (CLAIM).

* Support your claim with EVIDENCE from in-class and out-of-class participation.

* Discuss why the REASONS your EVIDENCE addresses expectations about the class.

Progress
✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)

* State where you’re at in your understanding of 3D space, ceramics, and postmodernism (CLAIM). (For 8th period students: Make a claim about your current understanding of elements and principles)

* Support your claim with EVIDENCE.

* Discuss the REASONS your evidence demonstrates progress.

Performance
✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)

* State where you’re at with performance, specifically with mask progress, family tree, sketchbook, and your independent project (CLAIM).

* Support your CLAIM with EVIDENCE.

* Discuss the reasons why your evidence is in-line with your assessment (REASONING).

Midterm SARs

I will be emailing you with directions and the format for the SAR. If you do not receive an SAR by this afternoon, please let me know.

Please submit your SARs through email by 8 am Monday morning. All students should be ready to conference Monday.

SAR #7, Periods 3,4,6,7

Participation
✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)

How has your attitude helped (or harmed) the classroom environment?
In what ways have you participated?
What is working? What isn't?

Progress
✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)
What have you learned?
What have you gotten better at?

Why do you think it was important to learn about Michelangelo and Chuck Close? What did you gain? How do you think about creativity differently?

Performance
✔+, ✔, ✔- (Please, add an assessment mark)
What evidence do you have for your creative growth?
Is your sketchbook complete? How is your sketchbook enhancing your learning?

Are the following artworks completed? How do you feel about each activity?

• Mixed Media Skeleton
• Profiles: Front-facing and side view
  
• Value Scales and Spheres
  
• Shadow Shape Activity
• Photoshop posterized portrait
  

SAR #6, Periods 3,4,6,7

Participation
✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)

How has your attitude helped (or harmed) the classroom environment?
In what ways have you participated?
How have in-class activities enhanced your learning?

Progress
✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)
How do your Right-Mode drawings compare to the artworks you created at the beginning of the year?
What have you learned?
What have you gotten better at?

How did learning about pure/blind and modified contour, in addition to Right/Left Mode Drawing change the way you create?

Performance
✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)
What evidence do you have for your creative growth?
Is your sketchbook complete? How is your sketchbook enhancing your learning?

Are the following artworks completed? How do you feel about each activity?

• Pre-Instruction Drawings of shoes, skull, and self
• Vases and Monster Faces
• Two Upside-Down Drawings
• Pure and Modified Skeleton
• Mixed-Media Skeleton Drawings
  

SAR 5

Remember that your reflection is your voice in the assessment process, and therefore your (timely) response is critical.

Find our continuing email conversation in Gmail and reply, adding your response as an attachment.

Participation
✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)
How has your attitude helped (or harmed) the classroom environment?
In what ways have you participated?
Describe your work habits.

Progress
✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)
How do your flip book and sketchbook compare to the artworks you created at the beginning of the year?
What have you learned?
What have you gotten better at?

How did learning about line, movement, shape, and pattern change your perspective?

Performance
✔+, ✔, ✔- (In addition to answering the questions, add an assessment mark)
What evidence do you have for your creative growth?
Is your sketchbook complete? How is your sketchbook enhancing your learning?
Is your flip book complete and recorded?
How is your Op Art project coming along?

Alrighty, It's Friday!

All students should have received an email from me with the 9-weeks SAR attached. Please follow the instructions carefully and email me.

The Drawing of the Week prompts are:

• Rivalry
• Patterned Fabric Study
• Reflective Surfaces
  

SAR Questions

There are only three more weeks in the term!

1. What were your goals these last two weeks? Did you meet them? How? Please be specific and provide evidence.
   
2. What are your upcoming goals? How would you assess your progress?
3. In what ways are you participating in art class? Here are some of the ways you are expected to participate:
   

• Sketching grow box imagery
  
• Primer painting the grow box
• Painting the grow box
• Classroom clean-up
• Blog postings
• Sketchbook (performance)
  

List each one and tell me whether you are meeting, exceeding, or not meeting
expectations, along with a description.

4. Provide an overall assessment of your participation thus far: Exceeding, meeting, or not
meeting expectations.

• 8th period Art: Answer the same questions, however your expected participation elements include: Sketchbook, human-animal hybrid, wheel project, japanese lantern, face jug sketch, blog posting, and clean-up.