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12th, High School Grades  Project 5 weeks

Crafty Chronicles: A Journey in Multimedia Magic

Charlie B
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MA:Pr5.1.i.a
MA:Pr5.1.ii.a
MA:Cr2.1.iii
MA:Pr5.1.ii.c
MA:Pr5.1.iii.a
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Purpose

Throughout your senior project, focus on cultivating and showcasing your artistic and technical growth through a digital portfolio. Document your journey as you acquire new skills in sewing, photography, music, ceramics, and mosaics, reflecting on your progress and creativity. Highlight your ability to combine these skills in innovative media artworks, emphasizing effective communication, collaboration, and self-directed learning. This project is an opportunity to engage in meaningful real-world work, demonstrating your expertise and readiness for future endeavors.

Learning goals

Your learning goals include mastering the artistic, design, and technical skills needed to create your digital portfolio, showcasing proficiency in sewing, photography, keyboard playing, ceramics, and mosaics. You aim to cultivate effective communication by presenting and reflecting on your work with empathy. Enhance your critical thinking by experimenting with diverse approaches to problem-solving, and build self-directed learning by consistently incorporating feedback to refine your projects. Finally, strengthen collaboration skills through cooperative project planning and leadership within your creative journey.

Standards
  • [National Core Arts Standards] MA:Pr5.1.i.a - HS Proficient: Demonstrate progression in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, as a result of selecting and fulfilling specified roles in the production of a variety of media artworks.
  • [National Core Arts Standards] MA:Pr5.1.ii.a - HS Accomplished: Demonstrate effective command of artistic, design, technical and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks. b. c.
  • [National Core Arts Standards] MA:Cr2.1.iii - HS Advanced: Integrate a sophisticated personal aesthetic and knowledge of systems processes in forming, testing, and proposing original artistic ideas, prototypes, and production frameworks, considering complex constraints of goals, time, resources, and personal limitations.
  • [National Core Arts Standards] MA:Pr5.1.ii.c - HS Accomplished: Demonstrate the skillful adaptation and combination of tools, styles, techniques, and interactivity to achieve specific expressive goals in the production of a variety of media artworks.
  • [National Core Arts Standards] MA:Pr5.1.iii.a - HS Advanced: Employ mastered artistic, design, technical, and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks. b. c.
  • [National Core Arts Standards] MA:Pr6.1.i.a - HS Proficient: Design the presentation and distribution of collections of media artworks, considering combinations of artworks, formats, and audiences.
Competencies
  • Collaboration - Students co-design projects with peers, exercise shared-decision making, strengthen relational agency, resolve conflict, and assume leadership roles.
  • Content Expertise - Students develop key competencies, skills, and dispositions with ample opportunities to apply knowledge and engage in work that matters to them.
  • Effective Communication - Students practice listening to understand, communicating with empathy, and share their learning through exhibiting, presenting and reflecting on their work.
  • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving - Students consider a variety of innovative approaches to address and understand complex questions that are authentic and important to their communities.
  • Self Directed Learning - Students use teacher and peer feedback and self-reflection to monitor and direct their own learning while building self knowledge both in and out of the classroom.

Products

Throughout your learning journey, you will create individual projects in sewing, photography, keyboard playing, ceramics, and mosaics, capturing your progress with photos and written reflections. Each completed project will be incorporated into a cohesive digital portfolio website showcasing your creative skills. This website will serve as an exhibition space for your final products and the development process of each skill, highlighting your artistic achievements and technical prowess.

Launch

Kick off your digital portfolio project with a Vision Board Brainstorm to map out creative skills, design elements, and personal goals you aim to showcase. Share experiences of creative skills learned at school and celebrate identifiable projects completed by peers to inspire your journey. Engage in dynamic discussions and collaborative ideation to frame your initial steps in designing your personalized website.

Exhibition

At the exhibition event where you present your digital portfolio, showcase your progress on the creative skills you've developed. Include detailed photo galleries, written reflections, and completed projects that highlight your artistic journey. Facilitate a gallery walk where peers and teachers can view your work, provide feedback, and engage in dialogue about the project's impact on your learning.