Curriculum Night  2024

What to expect tonight

  • Go to Home Room Location
    • Receive Student's Schedule (Yellow-everyone)
    • Military-connected Letter Home (Green- who needs one)
    • Letter to access PowerSchool (Blue - Only people who have don't have record of setting up an account)
  • Go Through Schedule starting at 5:45

How to Contact Ms. Schmit

I do my best to get back to you within a business day; however, I do get behind on email frequently so feel free to follow up with me if I don't get back to you within 2 business days. 
Email: [email protected]
Google Voice Number: 704-621-4915

"Big Picture" and Resources

8th Grade Art, Ceramics IPA, Sculpture IPA
All content features both the National Art Education Standards as well as the North Carolina Visual Arts Standards. Each course  we dig deeper into concepts. Students are expected to demonstrate higher and higher levels of understanding both through the creation of their artwork but also how they articulate their process through writing and class discussions.
Connect: explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.
  • CN.1 Relate visual arts ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life
    contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.
  • CN.2 Explore advancements in the field of visual arts.
Create: create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively. 
  • CR.1 Create original visual arts ideas and 2-D and 3-D artworks, including drawing, painting,
    printmaking, fibers, sculpture, ceramics, and digital media, using tools safely and appropriately, independently or collaboratively.
  • CR.2 Adapt original visual arts ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.
​Present: present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works. 
  • PR.1 Present visual artworks.
  • PR.2 Develop visual arts presentations.
Respond: present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works. 
  • RE.1 Analyze visual artworks from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres using content-specific vocabulary.
  • RE.2 Evaluate visual artworks using content-specific vocabulary.
AP Art History
All content is derived from the College Boards Curriculum Standards. Note: all students who have completed the "Cards" have successfully earned a 3 or better on their AP Exam. 
Big Ideas
  1. Culture
  2. Interaction with Other Cultures
  3. Theories and Interpretations
  4. Materials, Processes, and Techniques
  5. Purpose and Audience
Skills
  • Visual Analysis 
  • Contextual Analysis 
  • Comparison of Works of Art
  • Artistic Traditions
  • Visual Analysis of Unknown Works of Art
  • Attribution of Unknown Works
  • Art Historical Interpretations
  • ​Argumentation

Academic and Behavior Expectations

1. Mutual Respect to everyone and everything in the room with words and actions. If it's not yours, don't touch it. Use kind words with each other and yourself.
2. Do YOUR Best! everything is based on individual growth. Keep in mind sometimes what your best might be different from day to day, and as long as you are showing that growth over time and really lean into challenges- that is the key to being successful in this class.
3. Show up, both mentally and physically! be ready with materials needed and an open mind ready to learn and challenge the way you think. Some days may be more challenging than others and that's ok- again, just do your best!
Note When anyone gets overwhelmed, behind, confused- say something! I'm happy to help you come up with a plan or an alternative way of tackling those challenges but can only do so if you tell me- I can't always see it.

Assignments & Grading

My goal is to update grades for all classes once a week. The reality is sometimes jugelling department chair requirements, department event planning, and other school requirements make that very challenging to meet that goal. If you are ever worried about grades feel free to email me anytime. 
  • CreativeSchmit.com - where content is for ALL Ms. Schmit's Classes
  • Canvas - where all work is collected and evaluated
  • PowerSchool - where acurate "Overall Grade" is calculated; however cores for individual assignments should match between Canvas and PowerSchool.
Prepare 20 % Overall Grade
  • Evaluating how well are students completing daily task lists- general overall quality.
  • Daily Work Assignment tracks daily progress
  • Weekly Perform Assignments track average progress for the week, and is what actually syncs to PowerSchool
Rehearse 30% Overall Grade
  • Collecting and evaluating the content of all work done to prepare for a main project in a unit (Notes, practice projects, brainstorming, etct)
  • AP Art History Cards and Progress Checks via AP Classroom
Perform 50% Overall Grade
  • Evaluating overall growth and mastery of skills, knowledge, and techniques presented in a Unit.
  • Final Unit Projects, Exams, Critiques

What Individual Scores Usually mean

Attendance
​& Improving Scores

"Late" is just a word for my classes and doesn't affect scores. Everything can be improved until the assignments lock.
When Absent make up the tasks you missed and submit images of them before the Daily Work you missed locks. 
  • Prepare Assignment lock the Friday after they were due.
  • Perform/Rehearse Assignments Lock ​3 days before the last Friday before the end of each quarter

Tutoring and Seat-Time Makeup

If students need extra time, would like 1-on-1 help, or need to make up seat time for missing 10+ days of school here are times available during school. If these times can't work, then email Ms. Schmit to schedule a time.
  • Before School 6:45-7:10
  • During Homeroom/Enrichment - just need to see me before school starts to sign their planner to show their enrichment/homeroom teacher.
  • During Art or Photo Club meetings (for making up seat only) - These are only on Thursdays but not always every Thursday- need to email Ms. Schmit in advanced whether you are planning on being in-person or virtual.