Glenwood City High Day Six

My fifth day at Glenwood City High School was dominated by the second part of my one-point perspective lesson for the eighth graders, though I was at the school several periods prior. The first period the painting class was still working on there main project at various stages. In particular, I helped one student who struggled to find the courage to finish his painting. One problem with long term projects is they can become precious to students and then they don't want to keep working on them, for fear they deface their prior work. This was the case with this particular student, who had worked hard on a finessed background and was nervous to incorporate some elk into the foreground. Both Mrs. Jones and myself encouraged and helped him and He began to build up the figures.
In advanced studio class I primarily aided one student who was working in Adobe Illustrator. This was because I had encouraged him to expand his skill set and utilize that program and Mrs. Jones had limited knowledge in using it. He was using the pen tool to create an outline of a city skyline and had a window pattern that He was transforming into the buildings. The project was coming along well and the period was quickly over.
In the final period the eighth graders were finishing their one-point perspective hallway drawings. Naturally they were all at different places in the project, some were completely done, others had considerable studio production left. I decided to start the period with an critique where the students talk about their projects and what they learned. The students that had already completed their projects were some of the more advanced students and they were confident when they presented their projects. I went around to all the different students and helped them with some of the issues that were present in their drawings. Some of the students went back into the hallways, others had enough visual information to complete the rest of their drawings in the classroom. Overall, I was very pleased with the results of the students, who's drawings were very advanced for eighth graders. This coupled with the fact that all of the students seemed to understand the basic concepts of the assignment led me to believe the project was a success. Below are four examples of the students drawings.