How You Are Graded
This is a one-year, one-credit Introduction to Studio Art Course. Your grade for this course is averaged into your GPA. (It counts!)
Averages and grades will be posted on Jupiter Grades 4 times per semester. .
This course is about making art, so 85% of your marking period grade will be based on classwork.
We will work on approximately three major project per semester. I will give you a goal for the end of each marking period, and you will be responsible for completing the work required to meet that goal. Your marking period grade is based upon the work that you have completed as of the end of the marking period.
I do NOT accept work for the marking period after it is over. Because I grade by doing individual portfolio assessments for each one of you, I am strict about classroom work being completed and homework handed in by 2:48 on the last day of the marking period. Unless you have a valid medical excuse, which has been corroborated through communication with your parents/guardians, work cannot be made up after the marking pe
Your classroom projects will be graded according to a rubric based on the instructions that you were given. Additionally, I will grade you on your effort, creativity, craft (neatness), and class participation.
Class Work
Class work is graded on the work you do (80% project rubric) and how well you work in here (20% class participation).
Grade based upon Portfolio (reviewing the work itself) (80%)
Follows Directions (50%): I need to see that you have met the requirements for each step of each project we engage in. The Visual Arts involve disciplined problem solving. Show me how well you use your imagination and intelligence to bear doing that.
Creativity (25%): How do your own imagination, tastes and ideas show up in your interpretation of each assignment?
Be specific, and respect your own ideas. “Being creative” is not synonymous with reckless or poorly executed work. Accessing your creativity should be joyful, absorbing and challenging.
Craft (25%): You will be using your hands to make things. Make sure that you understand and follow technical/craft directions.
Pay attention to how you work. Try your best to be neat and thorough. Your work will reflect your efforts.
Grade based on Classroom Participation (20%)
Show up on time. Listen when I speak, without interruption. Be respectful of your classmates. Get to work promptly. Use tools responsibly. Clean up and leave your workspace ready for the next person. Be helpful. If you are absent, find out what you have missed, and make up the work. Participate in class discussions. Share your thoughts and opinions respectfully.
Interim Reports
You will receive an interim grade and report midway through the marking period. This grade will help you to understand how you well you are doing, and what you can do to ensure that your marking period grade is one that you are happy with. It will not appear on your report card. Your interim grade is based on classroom work only.
Scheduling issues
The HSAS school calendar is filled with special events, such as field trips, tests, and the like, that interrupt regular class sessions. Inevitably, this results in some students having less scheduled art class-time than others. I keep close track of attendance, and prorate your grade if you have missed classes because of school scheduling issues.
Absences & Latenesses
Studio art requires class time, which is hard to make up. Absences/lateness will make it hard for you to meet deadlines. No absence or lateness will be accepted without a note, and I will expect you to find time to make up the work you have missed.
if you miss a class due to absences, you must make up the time. I make the art room available during most lunch periods, and after school one day a week for Art Tutoring. Additionally, Open Studio, 8th period on Friday (schedule permitting) is available anyone. Please speak to me when you return from an absence to find out what you have missed and schedule time to make it up. Please confirm that I will be in the Art Room at the time you plan to come.
If you are late because of extended time on a test/quiz in another class, you must bring a note from that teacher. If you are late to class, please enter quietly, so as not to disrupt any presentations I may be making. If you have three or more unexcused latenesses or an unexcused absence based upon the daily attendance list, I will file a disciplinary report with Mr. Olivieri.
Quizes and Homework
• In the last weeks of each marking period, you will be given a self-assessment/vocabulary quiz. (5% of your grade.) This also must be completed by the end of the marking period.
• You will be given two homework assignments per marking period.
Homework must be handed in to me in the Art Room by 2:48 on friday of the week it is due.
Each of homework assignment will count as 5% of your marking period grade.
Homework grades will be marked down 10% per week late.
•••Never leave HOMEWORK IN MY MAILBOX!!!! Only homework handed in to the art room will be credited•••••
Marking period grades will consist of the following:
Class work: 85%
Homework assignment 1 5%
Homework assignment 2 5%
Self assessment/quiz 5%
Art History Research Paper
Each semester, you will be assigned a research paper, which will involve visiting a museum gallery, or a public work of art, or researching an artist or art movement. You will be provided with an assignment and a worksheet, and will be expected to hand in original written research, along with the worksheet. All papers must be typed with proper notation and bibliography. The HSAS honor code will be observed, and plagiarism met with a failing grade, and referral to the administration for disciplinary action. Students may not submit work that has been written collaboratively.
Research paper will constitute 10% of your semester grade. Papers are marked down 10% per day they are late.
Semester grades will consist of the following:
1st marking period 45%
2nd marking period 45%
Research paper 10%
Hopefully, we will take one field trip to a museum in New York City during the year. I strongly encourage you to come. We are privileged to live in the Art Capital of the world.
Averages and grades will be posted on Jupiter Grades 4 times per semester. .
This course is about making art, so 85% of your marking period grade will be based on classwork.
We will work on approximately three major project per semester. I will give you a goal for the end of each marking period, and you will be responsible for completing the work required to meet that goal. Your marking period grade is based upon the work that you have completed as of the end of the marking period.
I do NOT accept work for the marking period after it is over. Because I grade by doing individual portfolio assessments for each one of you, I am strict about classroom work being completed and homework handed in by 2:48 on the last day of the marking period. Unless you have a valid medical excuse, which has been corroborated through communication with your parents/guardians, work cannot be made up after the marking pe
Your classroom projects will be graded according to a rubric based on the instructions that you were given. Additionally, I will grade you on your effort, creativity, craft (neatness), and class participation.
Class Work
Class work is graded on the work you do (80% project rubric) and how well you work in here (20% class participation).
Grade based upon Portfolio (reviewing the work itself) (80%)
Follows Directions (50%): I need to see that you have met the requirements for each step of each project we engage in. The Visual Arts involve disciplined problem solving. Show me how well you use your imagination and intelligence to bear doing that.
Creativity (25%): How do your own imagination, tastes and ideas show up in your interpretation of each assignment?
Be specific, and respect your own ideas. “Being creative” is not synonymous with reckless or poorly executed work. Accessing your creativity should be joyful, absorbing and challenging.
Craft (25%): You will be using your hands to make things. Make sure that you understand and follow technical/craft directions.
Pay attention to how you work. Try your best to be neat and thorough. Your work will reflect your efforts.
Grade based on Classroom Participation (20%)
Show up on time. Listen when I speak, without interruption. Be respectful of your classmates. Get to work promptly. Use tools responsibly. Clean up and leave your workspace ready for the next person. Be helpful. If you are absent, find out what you have missed, and make up the work. Participate in class discussions. Share your thoughts and opinions respectfully.
Interim Reports
You will receive an interim grade and report midway through the marking period. This grade will help you to understand how you well you are doing, and what you can do to ensure that your marking period grade is one that you are happy with. It will not appear on your report card. Your interim grade is based on classroom work only.
Scheduling issues
The HSAS school calendar is filled with special events, such as field trips, tests, and the like, that interrupt regular class sessions. Inevitably, this results in some students having less scheduled art class-time than others. I keep close track of attendance, and prorate your grade if you have missed classes because of school scheduling issues.
Absences & Latenesses
Studio art requires class time, which is hard to make up. Absences/lateness will make it hard for you to meet deadlines. No absence or lateness will be accepted without a note, and I will expect you to find time to make up the work you have missed.
if you miss a class due to absences, you must make up the time. I make the art room available during most lunch periods, and after school one day a week for Art Tutoring. Additionally, Open Studio, 8th period on Friday (schedule permitting) is available anyone. Please speak to me when you return from an absence to find out what you have missed and schedule time to make it up. Please confirm that I will be in the Art Room at the time you plan to come.
If you are late because of extended time on a test/quiz in another class, you must bring a note from that teacher. If you are late to class, please enter quietly, so as not to disrupt any presentations I may be making. If you have three or more unexcused latenesses or an unexcused absence based upon the daily attendance list, I will file a disciplinary report with Mr. Olivieri.
Quizes and Homework
• In the last weeks of each marking period, you will be given a self-assessment/vocabulary quiz. (5% of your grade.) This also must be completed by the end of the marking period.
• You will be given two homework assignments per marking period.
Homework must be handed in to me in the Art Room by 2:48 on friday of the week it is due.
Each of homework assignment will count as 5% of your marking period grade.
Homework grades will be marked down 10% per week late.
•••Never leave HOMEWORK IN MY MAILBOX!!!! Only homework handed in to the art room will be credited•••••
Marking period grades will consist of the following:
Class work: 85%
Homework assignment 1 5%
Homework assignment 2 5%
Self assessment/quiz 5%
Art History Research Paper
Each semester, you will be assigned a research paper, which will involve visiting a museum gallery, or a public work of art, or researching an artist or art movement. You will be provided with an assignment and a worksheet, and will be expected to hand in original written research, along with the worksheet. All papers must be typed with proper notation and bibliography. The HSAS honor code will be observed, and plagiarism met with a failing grade, and referral to the administration for disciplinary action. Students may not submit work that has been written collaboratively.
Research paper will constitute 10% of your semester grade. Papers are marked down 10% per day they are late.
Semester grades will consist of the following:
1st marking period 45%
2nd marking period 45%
Research paper 10%
Hopefully, we will take one field trip to a museum in New York City during the year. I strongly encourage you to come. We are privileged to live in the Art Capital of the world.
Rules of Conduct
Art classes may seem more informal than academic classes because you will be sharing tables and supplies. But the decorum of a class must still be maintained. Instruction will be going on, and you are expected to engage in productive work while in the art room. Stay focused!
You will meet with me two days a week. I will refer to your first class as Day One, and your second class as Day Two. Each week you will find overall directions for the week posted on the black board, divided into Day One and Day Two instructions. Please look at those as you come in, so that you can understand what is expected of you during the week. Some of you may a class in which Day One and Day Two students overlap. Because I will have give each group different aspects of the lesson in the same period, I will expect students in these classes to consult the blackboard, and to take extra care to be quiet while I address whichever group needs instruction. Quiet conversation is allowed WHEN I AM NOT TALKING, but if this privilege is abused, I will impose silence and/or assigned seats. All cell phones will be confiscated and turned into School Administrators if they are used during class. (I make an exception when you use your cell phone to photograph your work, but you must ask permission to do so first.) The essence of behavior in the art room revolves around respect. • Respect for me: meaning you will listen quietly when I speak, and will approach the creative work you do in here with enthusiasm. • Respect for your own creative ideas and work: meaning that you will engage in the projects assigned to the best of your ability, with a positive attitude, and will treat your own work with respect. • Respect for your classmates: meaning that you will respect their ideas and their work. Comments about creative ideas and work must be constructive and positive. Another student’s work may only be touched with his/her permission. Conversation in the art room may be casual but may not distract from work, or be, in anyway, demeaning of another person, whether present or not. If conversation becomes overly negative or distracting, teacher-enforced seating plans and silence will be imposed. • Respect for your work materials: supplies must be used in a constructive manner for the project assigned. Supplied that are misused will be taken away. Supplies must be cleaned up and put away before anyone leaves the room at the end of class. • Respect for the workspace. Approximately 100 students will be using this room twice a week this year. In order for all of us to work optimally, the room needs to be left clean after each class. Students will not be allowed to leave the room until it is clean. |