1. TEKS : 117.54 c2

Objective: • Create a self-portrait face card design• Solve visual problems and develop multiple

solutions for designing ideas

2. Big Understandings

• Express ideas through original artworks

3. Assessment Evidence:The s’s will create a an original face card design based on playing cards on 14x20 inch poster board. The s’s will be required to develop complex patterns in their clothing.

4. Opening Hook:Ask students to recall what face cards look like in a traditional deck of cards. Ask what colors they recall from a traditional deck of cards(i.e. red,yellow,black, white, blue)Show s’s face cards from a traditional deck of cardsDiscuss the features of each of the face cards. Ask what observations they can make from the details of each card.

5. Instructional Strategies/Student Activities:• Class measuring activity involving proportions playing cards• The s’s will be challenged to draw themselves as a face card (King, Queen, or Jack)• The s’s will be required to develop complex patterns in their clothing and their palette will be limited to the colors

found on the face cards they have studied (red, yellow, white, blue, black)• After determining their “suit”, “pose” (3/4 view or profile) and the object(s) they would be holding, photos will be

taken of them, in which the s’s can use for reference. • The s’s may draw from observation or grid the photo in order to enlarge it

6. Materials/Resources:SketchbookPencilColor pencilsMarkersTracing paper14x20 inch poster board7. Grouping Patterns:Heterogeneous groups

8. Ending, Summary/ReflectionThe s’s will be randomly assigned a poster to describe (no judgment allowed!) in a written paragraph or two and they must also complete a self-assessment of their own poster. They must slow down, look, think and write This will help them gain appreciation for their own skills, as well as for those of their peers.

Art III – Drawing“It’s All in the Cards”