Ceramics 2 Course Summary Department: Visual Arts Semester 2

Ceramics 2 Course Summary
Department: Visual Arts

Semester 2

Learning Objective #1
Reintroduce ceramics, room, rules to students.

Target(s) to Meet Learning Objective #1
 Target 1: Review expectation form
 Target 2: Review ceramic vocabulary
 Target 3: Review fee
 Target 4: Capture cubby and introduce student activities.

Timeline
Week 1

Learning Objective #2
Reintroduce how to work in clay and tools.

Target(s) to Meet Learning Objective #2
 Target 1: Introduce 1st project which uses the slab roller.
 Target 2: Demonstrate how to use the slab roller, how to score, slip and seal pieces f clay together.
 Target 3: Work on project and discuss glazes properties.
 Target 4: Demonstrate how to blend using under glazes.
 Target 5: Critique
 Target 6: Introduce this semester’s ongoing project.

Timeline
Week 2- 4

Learning Objective #3
To introduce Sculpture

Target(s) to Meet Learning Objective #3
 Target 1: Show slides Sculpture of professional artists and student work.
 Target 2: Demonstrate how to make a form from paper and how to use the large hand extruder
using high fire clay.
 Target 3: Show how to store large work.
 Target 4: Discuss the properties of high fire glazes and glaze sculpture.
 Target 5: Critique

Timeline
Week 5-7

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Learning Objective #4

Introduce how to make a teapot…. One part of this piece must be made on the potter’s wheel

Target(s) to Meet Learning Objective #4
 Target 1: Discuss uses of a teapot, different components needed to make the teapot functional.
Discuss the various historical and cultural traditions.
 Target 2: Show a set of digital student work discussing the positive and negative aspects of some of
the pieces.
 Target 3: Demonstrate how to make a teapot using different techniques… review how to use the
potter’s wheel.
 Target 4: Have students research and draw out their pieces. Have them describe how they are to
construct their work.
 Target 5: Demonstrate and discuss how to glaze their piece.
 Target 6: Critique pieces with demonstrating the work’s ability to be functional and have a tea
party.

Timeline
Weeks 8-10

Learning Objective #5
Have students learn how to use a slump mold and work with large pieces.

Target(s) to Meet Learning Objective #5
 Target 1: Students will watch a set of digital slides which portrays student work.
 Target 2: Demonstrate how to use a slump or hump mold.
 Target 3: Have students design a project that can use used to hold food items.
 Target 4: Remind students of how to handle large work and not leave clay draped over plaster
molds.
 Target 5: Discuss needs for type of surfaces needed when wanting the piece to come in contact
with food.
 Target 6: Glaze pieces with the correct type of clay they used.

Timeline
Weeks 11-13

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Learning Objective #6
Students will create a project that uses positive and negative space, analogous colors, has added and
subtractive properties with textures.

Target(s) to Meet Learning Objective #6
 Target 1: Show students examples of a lantern shape.
 Target 2: Demonstrate how to wrap clay around a cylinder shape to begin the form. Show how to
remove cylinder and maintain shape. Remind students to allow the clay to stiffen. They can work
on their ongoing project.
 Target 3: Allow students time to create positive and negative spaces, add and remove clay as
needed.
 Target 4: Glaze with low fire glazes.
 Target 5: Critique

Timeline
Weeks 14-16

Learning Objective #7
Create a printmaking plate and prepare the room for end of the semester.

Target(s) to Meet Learning Objective #7
 Target 1: Show students a set of slides of student work and have them create a design for their
own piece.
 Target 2: Etch image into plate and prepare to fire.
 Target 3: Demonstrate how to print plate with printer’s ink a several surfaces.
 Target 4: Print edition.
 Target 5: Collect all work and take home.
 Target 6: Clean out cubby and do assigned chore to prepare the room for the end of the semester.

Timeline
Weeks 17-18

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