7 sessions; 75 minutes per session

1. SWBAT build a large slab formed ceramic vessel
2. SWBAT understand the historical influence of sgraffito
3. SWBAT create a contrasting design using the sgraffito technique

1. Clay
2. Underglaze
3. Carving tools
4. Rollng Pin
5. Water contatiners

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1. Teacher demonstrates how to do a modified coil built pot using strips of rolled slabs instead of coils to build form.
2. Students draw out several different ceramic forms, deciding on the form that they want to build
3. Students draw half of the form of their choice on a piece of tagboard and cut away the positive space, leaving only the negative space behind
4. Students roll slabs of clay and cut into strips
5. Students build form using modified coil method and use negative tagboard form to hold against the side of their vessel as they build it to make sure they are matching their idealized form.
6. After vessel is built, students paint over greenware clay with a black underglaze
7. Students plan out several design options of what they want to put onto their vessel.
8. Students carve away the underglaze to expose the bare clay underneath, creating the design that they had chosen
9. Teacher bisque fires the vessels.
10. Students can either take vessel home at this point (if they like the matte finish) or apply a coat of clear glaze and have it refired.

Did students build a modified coil built form a minimum of 12" tall?

Did students use their negative form as a guide to make their vessel?

Do students understand the historical and cultural history of sgraffito?

Did students create an 'all-around' pattern/design by using the sgraffito technique?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgraffito
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cflJuKnNFQo

[9-12 Proficient] Students 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

[9-12 Proficient] Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks

[9-12 Advanced] Students initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation

[9-12 Advanced] Students communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium

[9-12 Proficient] Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions

[9-12 Proficient] Students demonstrate the ability to form and defend judgments about the characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art

[9-12 Proficient] Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems

[9-12 Advanced] Students demonstrate the ability to compare two or more perspectives about the use of organizational principles and functions in artwork and to defend personal evaluations of these perspectives

[9-12 Advanced] Students create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions

[9-12 Proficient] Students reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally, and describe how these are related to history and culture

[9-12 Proficient] Students apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in their artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life

[9-12 Advanced] Students evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used in the students' works and in significant works by others

[9-12 Advanced] Students describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others

[9-12 Proficient] Students describe the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places

[9-12 Proficient] Students analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using such conclusions to inform their own art making

[9-12 Proficient] Students reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art

[9-12 Proficient] Students compare the materials, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creation and types of analysis

[9-12 Proficient] Students compare characteristics of visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities or sciences

[9-12 Advanced] Students synthesize the creative and analytical principles and techniques of the visual arts and selected other arts disciplines, the humanities, or the sciences

Art Nouveau, Renaissance

Contrast, Emphasis, Rhythm/Pattern, Space, Texture, Unity/Harmony

Ceramics