Elgin Public Schools
School Year 2008-2009
*Plans change and are revised due to student understanding, schedule changes, etc. 	
Teacher    Rita Heithoff                     	Course:   Art 1 
6th Period 1:07-1:57	
Week of November 17th-21st	Semester-First	
Week of the Year: Fourteenth		
LESSON PLAN
A. Objective of Lesson—Learning Goals--*	
To create a paper mache sculpture	
B. Materials Needed for Class*	
Newsprint, H pencil, newspaper, glue and water, buckets, paint, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, feathers, colored sand, gel glue, beads and anything else the students can think of to decorate with	
C. Instructional Plan/Procedures/Interventions--Optional	
Students will apply several layers of newspaper strips dipped in a glue/water mix to an armature.  They may use a mask form or create their own armature from boxes and/or balls of newspaper.  The armature forms the skeleton of the sculpture.  Students will then cover the armature with ball of wadded up newspaper to form the muscle structure of the sculpture.  The paper mache will form the skin.   The sculptures should have 3-5 layers.  Let dry.  If creating a face, roll up tissues and tape to face with masking tape to form features.  Apply several more layers of paper mache over the form.  Let dry.  Gesso.  Patch any holes or cracks with tissue paper and gesso.  Brush gesso over crack, lay tissue on it and apply more gesso.  Let dry.  Begin decorating!  Paint a solid color using the acrylic paint or may cover by paper maching tissue paper over the sculpture.  May decorate like the 8th grade masks by brushing glue over mask and sprinkle colored sand on mask.  May mix colors and/or create designs with the sand.  Let dry.  May use colored glue to decorate.  Make colored glue by mixing glue and tempera paint.  Glue will dry several shades darker than the color in the bottle.  Use the colored glue to create patterns and designs with stripes and dots.  Let dry	
D. Assignments/Assessment Notice*	
Day of Week	Assignment	
Monday	Continue on and finish paper mache.	
Tuesday	Apply a coat of gesso when dry. Apply tissue pieces with gesso to fill in any gaps.  Let dry.	
Wednesday	Begin decorating!  May paint or paper mache tissue paper on sculpture to color.	
Thursday	 Continue decorating.  May use buttons, pipe cleaners, feathers, beads, tissue paper strips anything a student can think of to attach.	
Friday	Choice Day Friday-Sketching in sketchbook.  May utilize the drawing books on the shelves, bring in sketches from home or work from photos taken on their own.  May also use this time to catch up on class assignments they may be behind on.	
E. Elements of Art and Principles of Design Emphasized
Line, form, texture, pattern, shape and color	
F. Resources/Internet Links/Web Sites--Optional