6th - 7th

Visual Arts
Grading Criteria
Knowing + Understanding
Developing skills
Thinking Creatively
Responding

8-1
8-1
8-1
8-1

Awards
MYP students will receive grades 8-1
on a variety of visual arts responses
to prompts in journals and completed
art projects.
Well above
standard
Above standard
Just Above
standard
Met standard
Just Below
standard
Below standard
Well below
standard

8
7-6
5
4
3
2
1

Essential Agreement
I have read and agree with the
information described in the syllabus
and will support my child in meeting
the courses expectations.

Phone #: 678.904.9137
theartstudioatwesley.weebly.com
McCalla.Hill@WesleyAcademy.org

Overview
This class will explore drawing materials, skills, and concepts.
Students will learn a variety of drawing methods and drawing tools.
Students will complete theme based projects and learn to analyze
the formal qualities of their drawings utilizing the elements and
principles of art.

Course Objectives
Students will discover the aesthetics of art forms and are able to
analyze and communicate in specialized language.
Students will engage in skill application that allows students to
develop their artistic ideas to a point of realization.
Students will think creatively to explore the unfamiliar and
experiment in innovative ways to develop their artistic intentions,
their processes and their work.
Students will have the opportunity to respond to their world, to their
own art and to the art of others.

Classroom Policies:
Our Classroom policies mirror the Wesley Way:
1. We act with integrity.
2. We practice compassion.
3. We reflect on our actions.
4. We embrace the diversity of our global community
**Additionally, students are expected to bring their Process
Journals to class EVERYDAY. **
We will also be viewing work on the SeeSaw digital portfolio app.

Parent Signature

Student Signature

Date