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 * =Course Overview=

The year's work will be a ongoing investigation of subject matter, ideas, imagery and techniques that is workbook and research based. This will take place over three terms and result in submission of a body of work in the form of a portfolio (two A1 panels) for external assessment in Term 4 (1.4, FOLIO, 12 credits). This will be referred to during the year as the 'major assignment'. Students will have the opportunity to document and submit aspects of their ongoing investigations as evidence for particular internal assessments. These will be referred to as 'minor assignments'. All students will be required to hand in work in progress as evidence for 1.3 (6 credits) at the end of Term 1. Students will have the opportunity in Term 2, 3 and 4 to have further selected work assessed as evidence for internal standards. Standard 1.3 requires students to show development of ideas using conventions in __two__ FIELDS. The course is designed so that at the end of Term 1, students should be able to present evidence of having studied and learned field specific skills in Photography and either Painting or Printmaking. Opportunities for developing ideas using other field conventions may be offered to individual students depending on aptitude, effort and the nature of the investigation. The body of work that is selected for the FOLIO must show //range// of media (ie more than one). There is an opportunity for a major finished artwork to be assessed for internal standard 1.5 (4 credits). Students who completed work in Year 10 for internal standard 1.2 (4 credits) will have that work assessed at the start of Term 1. It is also possible to have a selection of relevant work which is produced during the year assessed for this standard in Term 2, 3 or 4. Examples and exemplars of work for each standard are available in class. Resources to help students understand their artist models and to develop a better understanding of assessment criteria are available in class and online. The type of work that students produce during this year must reference 'established practice' in appropriate fields. ||  ||

Major Assignment
Starts Day 1 & ends in Term 4 with completion of the FOLIO [with milestones for formative and summative internal assessment during the year]
 * 1) Students will have a CORE theme explained and will be encouraged to explore personal responses
 * 2) Students will need to create a personal collection of visual things & ideas for exploration - options will be provided
 * 3) Students will be encouraged to keep collecting inspiring images as an ongoing practice
 * 4) An essential element of the investigation will be using relevant artist models - examples will be provided and methods of study explained.
 * 5) Students will be shown photographic conventions to collect and explore personal imagery and ideas. The imagery and ideas collected in this way will form the source materials for 7, below.
 * 6) Students will be required to make a personal drawing study in a chosen field using a selected principle artist model. The purpose of this study is to learn particular field related skills and conventions and to develop these to a point of mastery in relation to the investigation journey.
 * 7) Work and investigation goals will be reviewed, discussed and re-surveyed with a view to deciding a way forward in another field with new ideas.
 * 8) Students will be required to explore and develop new ideas in a second field.
 * 9) A resolution of ideas is required in the form of a sequence or series of individual related works by the end of Term 1. These works and selected supporting documentation are expected to form the body of evidence for internal standard 1.3.
 * 10) Ongoing cycles of investigation are expected to be repeated several times in order for students to generate, analyse, clarify, develop and regenerate ideas for their FOLIO. At mid year and end of year practice exams, students will be able to confirm submissions for internal assessments || == ==

How to collect and present evidence of your investigation:

 * workbook -12-15 facing pages recording cycles of the investigation (Post-its and blutak used to reorganise imagery and notation as ideas are generated, analysed, clarified and developed)
 * ringbinder - sections for course info handouts, critical reflection cycles, established practice research, 'grazing'
 * clearfile - begin analysing - sorting, editing, ordering PRACTICAL WORK - ideas, experiments (blu-tak, post-its)
 * polywallet/box - material resources (accumulate & keep things you could recycle)
 * folio panel(s) - arranging selected work to show technical, conceptual and compositional //development// of connected ideas (ongoing)
 * PDF file(s) - milestone photographic documentation of work in progress for selected internal assessments ||  ||
 * ==Minor Assignment(s)==
 * ==Minor Assignment(s)==

Tuesday 15 April 2014 - 11am
 * 1.3 - 90915 - progress

Mid Year Assessment Week
 * 1.3 - 90915 - progress (aim to complete for first formal assessment)
 * 1.2 - 90914 - formal assessment (can be work from Y10 Spheres Assignment)
 * Folio proposition interview

End of Year Assessment Week - details to come

Term Four - details to come || ==Useful Links== [|NZQA L1 Standards] [|NZQA Clarification of Internal Standards] [|NZQA Best Practice Advice for Visual Arts] [|NZQA Field Conventions for Visual Arts Standards] [|NZQA Annotated Exemplars] [|NZQA Reports on Past Years' Achievement in Visual Arts Standards (dos & dont's)] ||