(2) Independent Practice and Check for Understanding: Teacher approves students’ pencil drawings that demonstrate correct use of perspective. Students add finishing details in Sargent Liquid Metal Markers to highlight brightest areas.Students lay out Citysearch design in white construction paper colored pencil on construction paper in one-point perspective.Students draw simple boxes in one-point perspective.Students reflect upon images provided by teacher.Teacher organizes the classroom to facilitate students’ easy, orderly access to materials. Teacher introduces the concepts of one-point perspective, horizon line, and vanishing point. Teacher presents and discusses exemplars. Students will view exemplars of cityscapes including works by Hopper and Sheeler. This lesson may be modified to last from two to four hours, depending upon size and complexity expectations. Straightedges, historical art prints Time: #22-1506 Metallic Medium Point Peggable Carton Perspective, horizon line, vanishing point Materials: Students will exercise their creative thinking in imagining a city. Students will view and examine important works from the history of art. Students will use one-point perspective as a device to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat surface. Visual Arts Grades 5-8 Content Standard 5: Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others Purpose: Visual Arts Grades 5-8 Content Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures Visual Arts Grades 5-8 Content Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject Visual Arts Grades 5-8 Content Standard 2: Using knowledge of structures and functions

Visual Arts Grades 5-8 Content Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes Students will design and draw a scene of a city at night in one-point perspective. Students will create works of art demonstrating their understanding of one-point perspective. Acrylic Mediums, Varnish, Glaze and Gesso.Sculpt-It! TM Air – Hardening Sculpting Material.Colored Pencils, Graphite Pencils, Erasers, & Sharpeners.Watercolor Magic® Washable Liquid Watercolors.

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