Capstone Portfolio: Five Best Pieces: Art Unit 4, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Capstone Portfolio: Five Best Pieces is Unit 4 of Seeing and Making: An Introduction to Visual Art (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Art course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 56 pages.

• Portfolio selection criteria applied to a personal body of work
• The vocabulary names attached to the four selection-criteria categories
• A specific element or composition concept applied to a student’s own prior work
• Proportion and value-shading technique in observational drawing
• Growth in proportion accuracy and value control between two of the student’s own drawings
• The describe-analyze-interpret-judge structure applied to a student’s own artwork
• Specific, vocabulary-grounded peer feedback on a portfolio
• Selection standard inferred from an unfamiliar portfolio’s contents
• A defensible aesthetic judgment with a named standard and its potential counter-evidence

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.