• Grades will be given for attendance, participation, and completed work turned in on time.
• Students will receive 7 points per day for every class period and 14 points for block days. If a student misses any class the points will be deducted from the current project. The student can make up the class in the art department during his/her free periods or during tutor time if the absence is excused.  The points will be added back to the project.
• 3 points will be deducted from tardy students.
• During class time if the student fails to participate they will lose daily points. These points can be made up.
• When a project is due the student must turn it in completed and on time for full credit. For each day the project is late the work drops a letter grade.
• In introductory classes the requirements for an A are simply attendance, participation, and completion at the due date. In advanced classes more attention is given to project requirements.
• Students are not graded on talent.
• Students may petition the instructor for extensions, which may be granted depending on extenuating circumstances and extraordinary situations. The student must take the initiative for the extension in advance of the due date.

• Calificaciones o grados seran manejados en asistencia, participacion y trabajos completos entregados a tiempo.
• Estudiantes reciviran 7 puntos en clases de un periodo y 14 puntos en clases de dos periodos.  Si el estudiante falta a clases los puntos seran reducidos del proyecto en el que se encuentra trabajando.  El estudiante puede recuperar los puntos al venir durante "tutor time" si la falta fue arreglada en la oficina.  Los puntos se regresaran al trabajo.
• 3 puntos se reduciran por cada ves que el estudiante llegue tarde.
• Si el estudiante no participa durante la clase perdera puntos por ese dia.  Estos puntos pueden ser recuperados.
• Cuando un trabajo deva de ser entragado, el estudiante tiene que entregarlo completo y a tiempo para credito completo.  Por cada dia que pase y no lo entregue el trabajo bajara de calificacion.
• En clases de introduccion los requerimientos para una "A" es simplemente asistencia, participacion y trabajos completos a tiempo.  En clases avansadas mas atencion es requerida en los trabajos.
• Los estudiantes no son calificados por talento.
• Estudiantes pueden solicitar al profesor por mas tiempo que pueden ser cansedidas dependiendo en circunstancias rotundas y situaciones extraordinarias.  El estudiante deve de tomar iniciativa para estas extenciones antes de la fecha de entrega.

Standard 1.  Communication
As a class project, have the group design and execute a mural about  saving the rain forests.  This project includes a public relations component where students  verbally and visually defend the themes and ideas of the politically charged topic.  Students gather information from the Internet and other resources pertaining to the subject.. Students devise the images, gather the materials, and paint the project.  A written report evaluating results identifies intended meanings and what is being communicated.

Standard 2.  Basic Components of Art
In a series of projects in a drawing class produce separate works illustrating each element and principle of art.  An example is the study of texture where the student draws his hand and applies a different texture to each finger.  Use Meret Oppenheim’s  “Object” as a model and  have the students create a situation where the juxtaposition of elements and principles present a problem to solve visually. Emphasize the relationship unusual texture has on ordinary objects.  Describe how these odd artistic anomalies make you feel.

Standard 3.  Materials, Techniques, Process.
In a pottery class throw a cylindrical vessel on the wheel. Identify technical ceramic vocabulary, become familiar with the necessary tools, observe and imitate ceramic wheel throwing technique, and with guided practice,  produce the work. Understand and undertake glazing and firing to finish the vessel.

Standard 4.  History, Culture and Social Context
Study and produce a work in the style of the Mexican  Amaté bark paintings.  Research the history, culture, society, and people who make this art form.  Understand why these artists create.   Analyze the significance of repeated themes in these paintings such as the “tree of life”  in the original Amaté work.  Understand why the Otomie Indians use images and symbols to enhance their lives and protect themselves from evil spirits.

Standard 5.  Appreciation and Criticism
Use Feldmans’ model in “Mastering the Techniques of Art Criticism”  Have students in a painting class choose another students’ finished work of art to analyze.  In writing,  start by making an inventory of the painting: objects, colors, spaces.  Describe what you see. Note relationships of colors, spaces, lines, textures, etc. Interpret what the painting means, use visual clues, feelings, etc.  Formalize a judgment addressing a philosophy of art. Place all of the paintings around the room and have the students read their analysis. Elicit responses about each work from the group.