Unit Plan
Day 1: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator and Vector-Based Graphics
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Objectives
Students will discover how to create and manipulate shapes using Adobe Illustrator.
Due by the end of class
Quiz (10 points)
3 Designs (10 points each)
Students will discover how to create and manipulate shapes using Adobe Illustrator.
Due by the end of class
Quiz (10 points)
3 Designs (10 points each)
Day 2: 3D Shapes with Transparency and Gradient
![Picture](/uploads/2/1/0/4/21043640/1371011605.jpg)
Objectives
Students will create 3D Shapes and learn how to make any shape different colors, transparent, and have gradients in Adobe Illustrator.
Due by the end of class
3D shapes in different colors design (10 points)
3D shapes in different transparencies design (10 points)
3D shapes in different gradients design (10 points)
Students will create 3D Shapes and learn how to make any shape different colors, transparent, and have gradients in Adobe Illustrator.
Due by the end of class
3D shapes in different colors design (10 points)
3D shapes in different transparencies design (10 points)
3D shapes in different gradients design (10 points)
Day 3: Paintbrush Tool and Text
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Objectives
Students will discover how to make brush strokes and explore different approaches to entering text.
Due by the end of class
Paintbrush Design (15 points)
Text Design (15 points)
Students will discover how to make brush strokes and explore different approaches to entering text.
Due by the end of class
Paintbrush Design (15 points)
Text Design (15 points)
Day 4: Culminating Project: Postcard
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Objectives
Students will create a postcard using all the tools and techniques covered in the previous lessons.
Due at the beginning of class
5 postcard sketches (25 points total)
Quiz (10 points)
Students will create a postcard using all the tools and techniques covered in the previous lessons.
Due at the beginning of class
5 postcard sketches (25 points total)
Quiz (10 points)
Day 5: Culminating Project: Postcard and Online Critique
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Objectives
Students will finish a culminating project and learn how to critique artwork online.
Due at the end of class
Postcard design (50 points)
Grading rubric
Students will finish a culminating project and learn how to critique artwork online.
Due at the end of class
Postcard design (50 points)
Grading rubric
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Connection to National Standards1. Content Standard: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
Achievement Standard, Proficient: a. apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks b. conceive and *create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use 2. Content Standard: Using knowledge of *structures and functions Achievement Standard, Proficient: a. demonstrate the ability to form and defend judgments about the characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art b. evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions c. create artworks that use *organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems |
Connection to Illinois State Standards26. A.4e Visual Arts: Analyze and evaluate how tools/technologies and processes combine to convey meaning.
26. A.5 Common for all four arts: Analyze and evaluate how the choice of media, tools, technologies and processes support and influence the communication of ideas. 26. B.4d Visual Arts: Demonstrate knowledge and skills that communicate clear and focused ideas based on planning, research and problem solving. 26. B.5 Common for all four arts: Create and perform a complex work of art using a variety of techniques, technologies and resources and independent decision making. 27. A.4b Analyze how the arts are used to inform and persuade through traditional and contemporary art forms. 27. B.4b Understand how the arts change in response to changes in society. |