Arts Elective Courses Grade 7. Thomas W. Pyle Middle School

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1 Arts Elective Courses Grade 7 Thomas W. Pyle Middle School

2 7 th Grade Arts Courses Semester Courses Digital Photography and Desktop Publishing Family and Consumer Science (FACS) Gateway To Technology: A Specialty Art Studio Art Exploratory Theater TV Production Full Year Courses Band Orchestra Chorus Drama Performance Gateway To Technology:A/B Yearbook

3 7 th Grade Elective Course: Digital Photography and Desktop Publishing Students will use school digital cameras to take pictures around the school, and use their photos to create projects. Students will learn and practice: Effective use of digital camera; Understanding and controlling the use of flash; Downloading and saving photos from camera to computer; Manipulating images Guidelines for effective photography Using their photos to create Word documents

4 What IS Desktop Publishing? Students use computer applications to make documents in all their classes look attractive and professional. Skills learned in this class will help students throughout their school years, and beyond.... and why is it important? Some of the skills taught are: Using a balance of text, graphics and white space Effective use of margins and color Appropriate use of fonts (type, style, and size) Use of text wrap and layers Inserting and manipulating images to enhance documents Formatting text and images for most effective readability Formatting documents to match audience and purpose

5 7 th and 8 th Grade Elective Choice: Yearbook Class Student in this class become a staff, work as a team and publish the yearbook and the school literary magazine. Students will learn basic principals of desktop publishing, layout design and journalism and photojournalism. What makes it so special? It is a lot of fun, students have a very important job to do; their work become a part of Pyle history; it sometimes involves a lot of work. Students in this class must be hard workers, very responsible and very motivated!

6 Yearbook Class Creating the yearbook involves: Choosing a theme, cover, style and color scheme; Taking photos throughout the year; Learning principals of layout design; Designing pages; Selecting photos, captions, headlines and text; Research includes finding out who is who, what is their real name, and matching names with faces; Publicizing the yearbook throughout the year; and Sorting and delivering the books when they arrive in the spring.

7 Family and Consumer Sciences Cooking

8 Family and Consumer Sciences Sewing

9 7 th grade students may select to take Gateway To Technology: A (semester) or Gateway To Technology: A/B (full year) as part of the Pre-Engineering Pathway. Accelerated Pre-Engineering Pathway Introduction to Design & 3-D Modeling: Grade 6 9 weeks Gateway To Technology-A/B: Grade 7 full year Introduction to Engineering Design A/B: Grade 8 full year Principles of Engineering: Grade 9 full year Other HS or AP Credit Courses Pre-Engineering Pathway Introduction to Design & 3-D Modeling: Grade 6 9 weeks Gateway To Technology-A: Grade 7 semester Gateway To Technology-B: Grade 8 semester Introduction to Engineering Design A/B: Grade 9 full year

10 Gateway To Technology: A is divided into 2 Units Magic of Electrons and Science of Technology In Magic of Electrons we Learn about electricity Create a DC motor Design & Fabrication Circuits In Science of Technology we Design, create and race Magnetic levitation vehicles Design, create and race Dragsters cars Design and test Rube Goldberg projects (like Mousetrap Game)

11 Gateway To Technology: B is divided into 2 Units Flight & Space and Automation & Robotics In Flight & Space we Learn principles of flight Make and fly Gliders Design and create motorized airplanes In Automation & Robotics we Create mechanisms using Fisher Technik kits Program machines/robots created to solve problems Complete an Assembly Line using the robotic parts and computer program.

12 7 th Grade Exploratory Theater 1 Semester

13 Theatre Games & Pantomime Puppetry & Final Performance

14 Full Year Class 7 th & 8 th Grade Drama Performance

15 Full Year of Technical Theatre Work and

16 Performance Work

17 Instrumental Music at Pyle

18 7 th Grade Band Continue to develop technical instrumental skills to a higher level. Develop stronger relationships with classmates. Sectionals and clinics with professional musicians. Travel to County and State Adjudication for constructive feedback. Participate in regional music festivals and competitions as well as two public concert performances.

19 Advanced Orchestra Award winning Orchestra in county, state and regional competitions. Challenging musical repertoire to improve string ensemble technique. Sectionals and clinics with professional musicians. Travel to County and State Adjudication for constructive feedback. Travel to New York City for an exciting Music Festival and Competition. Ultimate Middle School 3 year team relationship with classmates.

20 Audition only full Jazz Ensemble. Jazz Band Perform a variety of jazz styles and standards including swing, funk, latin and rock. Learn improvisation skills and techniques. Instruments include all saxes, trumpet, trombone, guitar, bass, piano and drums. Extracurricular outreach performance opportunities. Professional clinics with renowned Jazz musicians such as Chris Vadala.

21 Award winning choral group in county, state, and regional competitions. All are welcome. No prior experience necessary. 7 th Grade Chorus Exciting course designed to strengthen the voice, sharpen skill in music, and perform with friends and classmates. Perform a wide variety of choral music including classical, pop, musical theatre, folk, rock, and more. Explore the fundamentals of musicianship and choral singing including reading and interpreting the score, vocal health and sound production, singing successfully through the changing voice, and singing within an ensemble. Perform in two major concerts and participate in performance field trips including traveling to a music competition and festival in NYC. Excellent opportunity to make new and lasting friends.

22 Specialty Art Develop 3 dimensional sculptures in a variety of modes and materials.

23 Specialty Art Explore various historical cultures and artists. Explore the manipulation of tools Develop techniques and skills.

24 Studio Art Explore mainly 2D projects. Emphasis on techniques and various mediums.

25 7 th Grade TV Studio Help create Panther TV; Pyle s weekly TV show

26 7 th Grade TV Studio Learn the Ken Burns Effect in imovie with the Wiesner Project Get your license to film and create video projects in groups

27 7 th Grade Arts Courses Semester Courses Digital Photography and Desktop Publishing Family and Consumer Science (FACS) Gateway To Technology: A Specialty Art Studio Art Exploratory Theater TV Production Full Year Courses Band Orchestra Chorus Drama Performance Gateway To Technology:A/B Yearbook