2015 CERAMICS UNIT Visual Arts Standards •Content Standard 1: All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts. • ART.I.VA.HS.1 Apply materials, techniques, media technology, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks. • ART.I.VA.HS.2 Intentionally use art material and tools effectively to communicate ideas. •ART.I.VA.HS.3 Apply organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems. • ART.I.VA.HS.4 Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit. • Content Standard 2: All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts. • ART.II.VA.HS.1 Apply materials, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks. • ART.II.VA.HS.2 Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems. •ART.II.VA.HS.3 Describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others. • ART.II.VA.HS.4 Apply and adapt subjects, symbols, and creative ideas in artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life. • ART.II.VA.HS.6 Create media productions that demonstrate knowledge, contexts, values, and aesthetics. •Content Standard 3: All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art. • ART.III.VA.HS.1 Analyze the effectiveness of selections in communicating ideas and reflect upon the effectiveness of choices. • ART.III.VA.HS.2 Identify intentions of artists, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify analyses of purposes in particular works. •ART.III.VA.HS.3 Describe how expressive features and organizational principles cause responses. • ART.III.VA.HS.4 Reflect upon the characteristics and assess the merits of one’s personal artwork. • ART.III.VA.HS.5 Reflect and analyze the personal experiences that influence the development ofpersonal artwork. •Content Standard 4: All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts. • ART.IV.VA.HS.1 Reflect on how the subjects, ideas, and symbols of artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally with respect to history and culture. • ART.IV.VA.HS.2 Describe the functions and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places. • ART.IV.VA.HS.3 Analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using conclusions to inform personal artwork.

Common Core Standards-ELA CCSS.ELA LITERACY.CCRA.R 1 Read closely to determine waht the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it. Cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.R2 Determine central ideas or these of a text and analyze development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.R7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and and quantitatively and in words. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.R9 Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches an author takes. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.R10 Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.W2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well structured event sequences. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.W.5 Develop and strengthen writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.W.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate info, avoid plagiarism. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. CCSS.ELA.Literacy.CCRA.SL.2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats including visually, quantitatively, and orally. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.3 Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5 Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. Common Core Standards-ELA CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.6 Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression. Common Core Standards-Math CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-MG.A.1 Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects (e.g., modeling a tree trunk or a human torso as a cylinder).★ CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-MG.A.2 Apply concepts of density based on area and volume in modeling situations (e.g., persons per square mile, BTUs per cubic foot).★ CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-MG.A.3 Apply geometric methods to solve design problems (e.g., designing an object or structure to satisfy physical constraints or minimize cost; working with typographic grid systems based on ratios).★ CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-Q.A.1 Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multi-step problems; choose and interpret units consistently in formulas; choose and interpret the scale and the origin in graphs and data displays. CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-Q.A.2 Define appropriate quantities for the purpose of descriptive modeling. CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-Q.A.3 Choose a level of accuracy appropriate to limitations on measurement when reporting quantities.