This course will contextualize artistic study throughout other high school content areas including language, science, history, and elective credits or may be offered as a standalone class. Artistic expression and study may range from visual design, creative writing, textile, and natural product, performing arts or digital design as necessary for high school graduation. Independent study may be approved by instructor to include classes, specialized training or hobbies demonstrating artistic aptitude. High school completion credit only. Open Doors students can earn 0.25-2.0 high school credits. This course may be repeated.
Prerequisites
Students must be referred from participating school district and registered in a Basic Skills Open Doors class.
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:
1. Analyze how art reflects changing genre, style, times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses
2. Understand and explain how the arts influence and reflect culture/civilization, place, and time
3. Recognize and identify various types of artistic expression
4. Apply a creative process to the arts including presentation or publication of work
Projects contextualized within other courses may include, but are not limited to
Art Appreciation
- Artists and artistic style
- Periods in art history
- Theatre or music
- Conceptual art, expressionism, impressionism, surrealism, pop art
- Architecture, sculpture
Performing Arts
- Music, dance, theatre, puppetry, drama, acting
- Monologue or other performance
Art Projects
- Models, 3-D design, blueprints, or design
- Paintings, drawings and other visual
- Crafts, creations, building, welding, or fabrication
- Compose and/or perform on a musical instrument, poetry, and/or theatric performance
- Digital or technology enhanced creation
Creating Writing
- Poetry
- Fictional literature
This course will satisfy up to two high school Fine Art credits for Open Doors (OPD) students. Independent study may be approved by instructor on a topic related to design, visual, or performing arts. Art credit may be earned contextualized within other high school content areas or offered as a standalone credit option. OPD students will demonstrate progression by the number of credits earned during the quarter. This course may be repeated.
BBCC Open Doors instruction is aligned to the following College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS)
C-D in Reading based on the CCRS Anchors:
• Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
• Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
• Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text [e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza] relate to each other and the whole.
• Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
• Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
C-D in Writing based on the CCRS Anchors:
• Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
• Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
• Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
C-D in Speaking and Listening based on the CCRS Anchors:
• Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
• Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
• Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
•Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
•Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.