Unit 1: Keep It 900

Assignments:

Google Classroom
Class Remind
Class Routines
Comfort Quick Write
Class Codes Poster
Syllabus/Professionalism Scripts
Syllabus/Professionalism Skits 
Pen Trick
Scavenger Hunt
Snowball Fight
Letter to the Teacher
Family Groups
Personality Test
​Syllabus/Student Handbook Signature
Syllabus Quiz

Unit 2: The Basics

Assignments:

Uploading photos to Google Drive
Turning in work to Google Classroom (link, file, etc)
Elements of Art: Photo Scavenger Hunt/Photo Chart
Principles of Design: Group presentation
Elements & Principles Quiz
(?) Concepts of Photography
Elements, Principles, & Concepts Test
Ideas:
  • Do equipment before Basics so they can use cameras sooner?
  • Pick one elements/principle/concept photo to critique and submit for project grade?
  • Need to balance photography & fun with actually learning content
  • Zoom in on certain concepts (line: implied, s curve, leading, etc)

Unit 3: Equipment / Craftsmanship

Assignments:

Camera Use Rules (hand written)
Equipment Liability Form (signed)
​Exposure Triangle / Light Meter Worksheet
​Camera Simulator
Camera Demo
Uploading DSLR photos to computer, Drive
AV/TV Mode
Photo Orientation (portrait, landscape)
Focal Length/Zoom
Bracketing
Depth of Field
Motion (action  shots)
Camera Review (Kahoot)
Camera Test 
Ideas:
  • Quicker whole class demo, time to experiment. Group "performance test" to show responsible camera use
  • Streamline AV/TV and photo workbook (DOF, Action, etc)

Unit 4: Composition

Assignments:

Faces in Unlikely Places
Abstract Photographer Research
Abstract Composition Practice
Abstract Project (plant, architecture, body, experimental, choice)
Abstract Game Outline
Abstract Game
Ideas:
  • 2018/19 Concepts came after abstract game

Unit 5: Ethics

Assignments:

Photo Ethics Group Presentation
Photo Ethics Notes/Packet?
​Photo Ethics Quiz
Ideas:​
  • Collaboration with Culinary for food photography?

Unit 6: Photoshop Intro

Assignments:

PS Scavenger Hunt
PS Definitions Match (paper strips?)
PS Vocab Packet
PS Basics Quiz
PS Experiment (file type, file naming convention)
Grime Art (layer naming / organization, painting tools)
Ideas:​
  • Exploded diagram photo project for advanced??

Unit 7: Lossless Editing

Assignments:

Selections & Masking (some practice assignment)
Sandwich Project (layers, selections, masking)
​Levels
Hue / Saturation
​Blending Modes
Retouching
Masking Adjustment Layers
Project (use blending mode techniques)
Ideas:​
  • 2018/19 Sandwich was before Grime; is it better in this unit?
  • Add a quick photo project in for hue/saturation
  • Color wheel project using blending modes, solid color, masking etc to make a photographic color wheel?

Unit 8: Portraits & Retouching

Assignments:

Portraiture, Lighting patterns
Retouching old photos
​Retouching blemishes
Turtle Woman
​Couple / Tattoos
Ideas:​
  • Water bucket/droplet project; retouch excess droplets away?

Unit 9: Photo Manipulation / Creativity

Assignments:

Shadows
Tommy Ingberg
Erik Johansson; TED talk, think/pair/share, worksheet
Surrealism Research
Distort & Liquify
Resolution
Levitation Photography (assignment or project?)
Refine Edge
Surrealism Sketches/thumbnails
Surrealism Project
Ideas:​
  • Find a movie about surrealists, magritte, dhali, etc?

Unit 10(?): Showtime

Assignments:

Del Mar Fair
Student Showcase
Learn how to mount work
Write artist statement
​Learn about art shows, careers in design, etc.

Assignments:

Unit 11(?): Mish Mash

Becoming an Athlete
​Multiplicity
Portrait Photography
Double Exposure Project
(Tiny Planets?)
(Personal Project?)
​(Digital Portfolios?)
Ideas:​
  • Light painting? (winter)
  • Photoshop Battles