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What is
Illustration Anyway?
A Webquest
for the Eighth Grade
Designed by
Lotte Petricone
lpetrico@ccsd.edu
Introduction
Becoming an
Illustrator!
You
are here to begin the new project in Art: a journey into the world of
commercial art. You will be an illustrator/author for this last
project, creating a sentence which will then be illustrated using any
medium you choose: watercolor, pastels, crayons, scratchboard, ink…
Enjoy the
ride as you enter the world of illustration!
The Task
For
this project, you will be creating an illustration of your own, after
writing a sentence in class later in the project. We are launching the
project during this quest for information on two illustrators – one whom
we will use as a starting point for our own illustrations, and the other
who will be visiting us at school to help us understand how an
illustrator works. Here in the Computer Lab you will complete a
worksheet with answers that can be found here on the Web.
The Process
1.
You are going to visit websites about illustrators connected with
our project. While visiting these sites, you must find the answers to
the questions in the worksheets.
2.
All of your information must be neatly written on the sheet and
handed in to be graded.
3.
Any work not completed in the Computer lab must be finished for
HW and handed in tomorrow.
What
You Want to Know About Grades!
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A =
11-12 |
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B =
9-10 |
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C =
6-8 |
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D =
3-5 |
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F =
0-2 (or not completed) |
Your rubric for this project is
attached to the worksheet.
Resources
WEBSITES
Use these websites to find the answer for the questions on the
information sheet. HINT: a few of the questions may need more than
one site OR more than one part of the site!
Read about Chris van Allsburg
Website for the Betsy Franco Feeney, illustrator for Amoeba Hop - Go to
"About the Illustrator"
Look up the dictionary meaning of ILLUSTRATION here at wordsmyth.com
What is a Caldecott Medal?
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