Grade 12 marking memo

For my Grade 12s .........
The 'unseens' that you did for this June exam will now become researched artworks which you can use for your Trials and Finals. 

If you did well in your 'unseen' essays, then make a copy of these to add to your infographics. Your question paper will have all the coloured images - cut this up and use it as a resource.

Please look at the marking memo to get suggestions on answering the questions. The QR code to this will be on your question paper as well.

Grade 10 Visual Literacy paper

2 hours for 80 marks 

Question1 
1.1 Poster - handy tips [10]
1.2 Poster - handy tips [10]
1.2 Paragraph on practical  [6]
[26 marks]

Question2 
2.1 Essay - 1 page on DVD [10]
2.2 Short essay on DVD [5]
2.3 Definitions & Explanations from presentation [12]
2.4 Definitions & Explanations from presentation [8]
[35]

Question3 [12]
Unseen sculpture- 3 questions @ 4 marks

Question 4 [7]
Unseen painting- 2 questions @ 4 & 3 marks

Grade 9 revision

For my Grade 9s ........

Here is a revision presentation by Mrs Sturgess.

Grade 10 Visual Literacy - memo

This memo is from your activity (10th May)
From Willendorf to Amsterdam .... illusionism in art

 INTRODUCTION: (...THINK OF A CATCHY SENTENCE LATER ..... a 'teaser')
Step 1: Summarize 'the Peak Shift principle' in no more than THREE sentences.

CONTENT:
Step 2: Explain how this works in the Venus of Willendorf. What is the survival factor here?

Step 3: Now explain how it changes for the Egyptians - show this in a sculpture. What is now the survival factor?

CONCLUSION:
Step 4: Do you think this principle still works for us in the 20th and 21st centuries? You could write a few sentences about the distortion in Alexander's Butcher Boys? (Or other real life examples you have seen in the media?)

Now go back and put in your 'teaser' - your catchy introduction.........
Spellcheck and share the doc with studio@dghs.co.za (make sure you have made the doc PUBLIC)

Lower order - memorize knowledge - 4
Middle order - apply knowledge - 4
Higher order - synthesize a new connection - 2

Some common comments!

Confused! What is the Peak Shift Principle?

But why?

How does it help our survival?

Think more deeply ….

Where are some facts - 'data'?

Date? Size/function? Material/method? Situation/place?

Please use paragraphs.

Please use spaces between sentences.

Please check your spelling.

Please use capital letters = 'upper case'.

Well written!

This is an excellent article!

Summarize concisely please.

 Please write more about the art.

This is too much for a 1 page article!

No examples given - you were asked for a sculpture.

Discuss specific examples.

Egyptians exaggerated and distorted the human body according to a formula = 'stylization'

e.g. all fingers were the same length; eye elongated and enlarged - seen from the side.

Order was a divine rule. If you disobeyed you were doomed!

Your conclusion is very unclear. Please try and express this more coherently.

 NO - not a disease!

Not asked for in this article…

Could we be like the Egyptians? If we don't fit in to our media norms we will be ostracized and 'exiled'?

Grade 11: 6 hour practical exam - self-evaluation

Please evaluate your 6 hour practical exam HERE ...

Student painting - Jessica Alcock

Fizzpops

For my Grade 10s .......

You have tried out water-colours and oil pastels so far this term.

Now try a Fizzpop in other coloured media. Here are some suggestions:

• Pencil crayons
• Gouache
• Acrylics
• Oil paints
• Torn paper collage
• other brands of oil pastels
• other brands of water-colour

Hint:

You may need to re-draw the Fizzpop on  a small rectangle of specialized paper and glue it onto the sheet. 

You MUST put colour in both the figure and the ground. 

If you finish this then there is Photoshop extension activity on Fizzpops.

Grade 11 Visual Literacy paper

For my Grade 11s ....
Here is the layout of your 'theory' paper.You will have 2 hours to write for a total of 80 marks, so if you plan now, you can achieve perfection! 40 marks of the paper are 'unseen' application questions, and 40 marks are based

Question 1 [15 marks]
Short questions..
1.1 (4) - 12 lines
1.2 (6) - 18 lines
1.3 (5) - 15 lines

Question 2 [40 marks]
Essays - each 1 page - 30 lines
2.1 (10)
2.2 (10)
2.3 (10)
2.4 (10)

Question 3 [10 marks]
Essay on the DVD - 1 page

Question 4 [15 marks]
Short questions..
4.1 (3) - 9 lines
4.2 (6) - 18 lines
4.3 (6) - 18 lines

Some mystery images??

Grade 10 June exam - self-evaluation

Here is a LINK to your self-evaluation ....

Grade 12 Visual Literacy Paper - June 2014

For my Grade12s...........

Theme 2: (30 marks)
South African artists influenced by African and/or indigenous art forms

2.1

  2.1.1.......  unseen - 5 marks

  2.1.2........ unseen - 5 marks

2.2........... own examples - 2 page essay - 20 marks

Theme 3: (25 marks)
Socio-political art - including Resistance art of the 1970s and 1980s in South Africa

3.1

  3.1.1.......  unseen - 5 marks

  3.1.2........ unseen - 5 marks

3.2........... own examples - 1 1/2  page essay - 15 marks

Theme 5: (25 marks)
Multimedia and New Media - alternative contemporary and popular art forms in South Africa

5.1 (12 marks)

  5.1.1..........unseen - 4 marks

  5.1.2..........unseen - 4 marks
  5.1.3..........unseen - 4 marks

5.2 (13 marks)

  5.2.1..........unseen - 2 marks

  5.2.2..........unseen - 4 marks
  5.2.3..........unseen - 5 marks

  5.2.4..........unseen - 2 marks

Theme 6: (20 marks)
Post-democratic identity in South Africa (including issues of language, ethnicity, globalisation, urbanisation in the new South Africa)

6.1

  6.2.1..........unseen - 2 marks

  6.2.2..........unseen - 2 marks
  6.2.3..........unseen - 6 marks

6.2........... own example - 1 page essay - 10 marks

Why you should listen to your teacher .........

For all my classes ....

This is WHY you shouldn't take the plastic sleeve off the wire rolls (like I told you not to!)