Creating an Impression

Yeah look, it’s another pun, this topic is about impressionism #sorry,Notsorry Any way, achievement standards and all that… Achievement Standards:Yr 7 / 8: students identify and analyse how other artists use visual conventions and viewpoints to communicate ideas and apply this knowledge in their art making. They evaluate how they and others are influenced by artworks from different cultures, times and places.Continue reading “Creating an Impression”

The Identity Onion

Welcome to Friday y’all. Here’s an achievement standard…  HPE Achievement Standard: students critically analyse contextual factors that influence identities, relationships, decisions and behaviours. Great, good stuff. So, identity is like an onion…so are ogres, they have layers #SorryNotSorry Discussion – The identity onion: What do we think about this? What does it mean? Our MindContinue reading “The Identity Onion”

Express…ionism Yourself

Sorry – that’s a truly terrible title, I know. It’s 9:20pm and it’s time for dad jokes, so bear with me here and I assure you we’ll get somewhere: Steak jokes…a medium rarely well done Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I’m reading a book about anti-gravity.Continue reading “Express…ionism Yourself”

HPE – Your Brain, unpacked

Welcome to Friday y’all – congrats on getting through the first week back in these strange and challenging COVID-19 times. As part of our HPE work this semester, and given quite a few of you are interested in how our minds work I thought we could begin by spending some time focusing on the brain.Continue reading “HPE – Your Brain, unpacked”

Graffiti Art

Achievement Standard: Students evaluate how representations communicate artistic intentions in artworks they make and view. They evaluate artworks and displays from different cultures, times and places. Students manipulate materials, techniques and processes to develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter in their artworks. Aight, so, lets look at some Graffiti hey,Continue reading “Graffiti Art”

Motives and Actions

Achievement Standard: Year 9: They explain the motives and actions of people at the time Year 10: They explain the context for people’s actions in the past Ok – so what does this even mean? What is a motive and what is an action…and what even is context? Lets define these hey: Context: the circumstancesContinue reading “Motives and Actions”

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