Curriculum Pacing Plan, Spring

 

Grade: 10th                                            Department:  New Media Academy—Digital Imaging 1

 

Month: January   Unit Topic or Theme: Flash MX                             Month: February             Unit Topic or Theme:  Flash MX

Essential Questions:

1. What is Flash used for?

Essential Questions:

1. What do buttons do?

 

2. What is tween motion?

 

2. What does the frame rate represent?

Week1

 

Content Standards: Art 2.1 Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their feelings and points of view.

2.2 Plan and create works of art that reflect complex ideas, such as distortion, color theory, arbitrary color, scale, expressive content, and real versus virtual.

3.1 Identify contemporary styles and discuss the diverse social, economic, and political developments reflected in the works of art examined.

3.2 Identify contemporary artists worldwide who have achieved regional, national, or international recognition and discuss ways in which their work reflects, plays a role in, and influences present-day culture.

Reading

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency,

and Systematic Vocabulary

Development

2.0 Reading Comprehension

(Focus on Informational Materials)

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

Choose and research an artist for website

 

Week 5

 

Content Standards: Art 2.1 Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their feelings and points of view.

2.2 Plan and create works of art that reflect complex ideas, such as distortion, color theory, arbitrary color, scale, expressive content, and real versus virtual.

3.1 Identify contemporary styles and discuss the diverse social, economic, and political developments reflected in the works of art examined.

3.2 Identify contemporary artists worldwide who have achieved regional, national, or international recognition and discuss ways in which their work reflects, plays a role in, and influences present-day culture.

Reading

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency,

and Systematic Vocabulary

Development

2.0 Reading Comprehension

(Focus on Informational Materials)

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

Flash #3 pgs 11.12-11.13

Flash #4 pgs 11.14

Week 2

 

 

 

Content Standards: Same

Read and discuss Flash basics pgs 11.1-11.8

toolbox, frames, symbols, frame properties, tweening

Week 6

 

 

Content Standards: Same

Create buttons for a website about a famous artist

Week 3

 

 

Content Standards: Same

Flash #1 pgs 11.8-11.10

Week 7

 

 

Content Standards: Same

Create an original 30-second flash animation

 

Week 4

 

 

Content Standards: Same

Flash #2 pgs 11.11-11.12

Week 8

 

 

Content Standards: Same

Create a multiple scene animation

 

Culminating Project:   Create buttons and animation that tell about the life of a famous artist


Curriculum Pacing Plan, Spring

 

Grade: 10th                                            Department: New Media Academy—Digital Imaging 1

 

Month: March   Unit Topic or Theme:             Dreamweaver                                     Month: April      Unit Topic or Theme:  Page layout

Essential Questions:

1. What is the purpose of a website?

Essential Questions:

1. What are some possible uses of page layout applications?

 

2.

 

2.

Week 9

 

Content Standards: Art 2.1 Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their feelings and points of view.

2.2 Plan and create works of art that reflect complex ideas, such as distortion, color theory, arbitrary color, scale, expressive content, and real versus virtual.

3.1 Identify contemporary styles and discuss the diverse social, economic, and political developments reflected in the works of art examined.

3.2 Identify contemporary artists worldwide who have achieved regional, national, or international recognition and discuss ways in which their work reflects, plays a role in, and influences present-day culture.

Reading

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency,

and Systematic Vocabulary

Development

2.0 Reading Comprehension

(Focus on Informational Materials)

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

Web design and web basics12.1-12.4

Week 13

 

Content Standards: Art 2.1 Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their feelings and points of view.

2.2 Plan and create works of art that reflect complex ideas, such as distortion, color theory, arbitrary color, scale, expressive content, and real versus virtual.

3.1 Identify contemporary styles and discuss the diverse social, economic, and political developments reflected in the works of art examined.

3.2 Identify contemporary artists worldwide who have achieved regional, national, or international recognition and discuss ways in which their work reflects, plays a role in, and influences present-day culture.

Reading

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency,

and Systematic Vocabulary

Development

2.0 Reading Comprehension

(Focus on Informational Materials)

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

Design and build a webpage about a famous artist

Week 10

 

 

 

Content Standards: same

Setting up your website

Week 14

 

 

Content Standards: same

Graphic design and page layout 10.1-10.7

Week 11

 

 

Content Standards: same

Dream #1

Week 15

 

 

Content Standards: same

Page #1

Week 12

 

 

Content Standards: same

Dream #2

Week 16

 

 

Content Standards: same

Page #2

 

 

Culminating Project:   Design a newsletter about the life of a famous artist