Eighth Grade Visual Arts
My curriculum as a pdf
The students start with a place... then add a culture, (you know what that means, don't you?)... Then they start building the airships...
After the design ... and the critique... then starts the process of construction... and discussion and...more....
...Construction... and communication and critique and...more...
The construction was stop and go..., (like on our roads)... But hard work and steadfastness reaped grand accomplishments!
...And in the hallways... The air belongs to those who soar...
...Below are the stories associated with the airships, devices, maps and characters...
All the people on Earth were living normal lives. Suddenly everything went black, everything that required electricity was not working. (2 weeks ago, there was a series of bombings that wrecked a lot of buildings.) Since of all the bombings the air became very smoky and hazy. Now that this situation was created, many people didn’t know what to do, but two very famous inventors, their names were Victor and Victoria Ride. They immediately started to figure out how to create power without any electricity since all the power lines were out for an odd reason that no one knew how it happened. The only reason could be weather which destroyed many power lines. When Victor Ride was figuring out a basic way to figure out how to fix the problem, Victoria had thought about using the sun since it's easy to access and everyone could use it. They started to figure out how to store sunlight in a basic structure for everything to work. Once they figured out how to create sunlight into electricity than they made everything out of solar panels. They shared this with everyone, they were congratulated. Everything was being used with solar panels, this created better health for the earth. The air becoming safer for everyone to breath in. Nothing was being used as pure materials. There was less pollution. There of course was a downside to this, people were to relied on Victor and Victoria Ride that all the problems were being piled on to them. They were being stretched to their limits. Victoria decided that this was not a way to grow a family. If they are only going to be focused on work, so they created a ship that runs on sunlight and can fly to leave everything and everyone. This created a huge disaster in the real world. No one knew what to do, everything started to worn out and become less populated but no one could do anything. When Victor and his family returned they saw how bad the situation had gotten. So they decided that the best decision was to make everyone move up to the skies and have only solar power for everything still since they wanted this world to last longer than the last. With this structure being created Victor and Victoria established rules and laws for this world. No one could use any pure materials from earth, no one could have any food unless Victor goes back to earth to create farm food, including water. No one was allowed even back to earth. It was like a jail being created for everyone. No one know this they just followed what they said, and technology started to grow and most people were happy. Everything was being recreated in a more healthier way than it was before. Once Victor and Victoria were to die than their children would take over and control the world and make it even better than before, this system was like having a queen and king, instead having no higher or lower payment. They wanted to create a system where no one was richer or more poor than others since this would create problems. Later on the years more and more problems were being created since people started to think about the old times when they lived on earth. This made people want to go back and rebel, which most people did. Earth was recreated and all the problems returned. The cycle repeated and will always repeat since this was what humans will be like forever no matter how much we advance. The problems will surely return.
Our Theoretical Past
In the past a planet had appeared in our solar system, a planet that had three major people, each belonged to a nation, the Cloud people, the Star people, and the Moon people, the Star people were taking over the Cloud people's world, and slaughtering the Cloud people due to their weak military, so the German people decided to wage war with the the Star people, because the Cloud people had lots of oil, so it was in their best interest to get the oil. So they(the Germans) created a blimp and started to save the Cloud people from the Star people’s onslaught. But they realized the blimp was vulnerable to Star fighters, so they attached 50 caliber machine guns to the carriage, and a duel wielding avenger gatling guns on a turret. They called the flying citadel, Cloudgate. This blimp, often referred to as the War Hindenburg, was invincible. Star campaign ended quickly when their air force dwindled to a handful of ships. After gaining air superiority the Cloud people could freely attack Star people bases, forts, outposts, and units. The Star people’s army then retreated into neighboring Moon land, the Moon people seek peace, and had an army only strong enough to defend a handful of cities, as the Star people hid, the Cloud people tore through the country, destroying anything in there way, civilian casualties shot up, this lasted about a week, and was called The Rain of Terror. Life would never be the same, and the German people never got their oil, which then led to their takeover of the planet, called Der Zweite Blitzkrieg, or The Second Lightning War. After this war the ship crashed down and all that remains is the preliminary shell and is now in a museum back room. Some devices were found in the crash that our now shown alongside this ship. So far all we know is that there were some people onboard this ship. Among them were Grenadier Cpt. Peter, Gunnery Mistress Belise, Assistant general Katie, Chief Mechanic Sally as well as 1rst mate Adam. There was also Master Chef Matthew. Everyone was found on the ship. The items were found in a cargo crate found on the ruin. Everything we could salvage was here in the museum.
In the past a planet had appeared in our solar system, a planet that had three major people, each belonged to a nation, the Cloud people, the Star people, and the Moon people, the Star people were taking over the Cloud people's world, and slaughtering the Cloud people due to their weak military, so the German people decided to wage war with the the Star people, because the Cloud people had lots of oil, so it was in their best interest to get the oil. So they(the Germans) created a blimp and started to save the Cloud people from the Star people’s onslaught. But they realized the blimp was vulnerable to Star fighters, so they attached 50 caliber machine guns to the carriage, and a duel wielding avenger gatling guns on a turret. They called the flying citadel, Cloudgate. This blimp, often referred to as the War Hindenburg, was invincible. Star campaign ended quickly when their air force dwindled to a handful of ships. After gaining air superiority the Cloud people could freely attack Star people bases, forts, outposts, and units. The Star people’s army then retreated into neighboring Moon land, the Moon people seek peace, and had an army only strong enough to defend a handful of cities, as the Star people hid, the Cloud people tore through the country, destroying anything in there way, civilian casualties shot up, this lasted about a week, and was called The Rain of Terror. Life would never be the same, and the German people never got their oil, which then led to their takeover of the planet, called Der Zweite Blitzkrieg, or The Second Lightning War. After this war the ship crashed down and all that remains is the preliminary shell and is now in a museum back room. Some devices were found in the crash that our now shown alongside this ship. So far all we know is that there were some people onboard this ship. Among them were Grenadier Cpt. Peter, Gunnery Mistress Belise, Assistant general Katie, Chief Mechanic Sally as well as 1rst mate Adam. There was also Master Chef Matthew. Everyone was found on the ship. The items were found in a cargo crate found on the ruin. Everything we could salvage was here in the museum.
Our Story takes place on planet earth, a few years ago there was an explosion that let out a gas that killed many, and only a few survived but those that survived did not stay normal they started turning green. The more the people breathed the air after the explosion... the greener they got and eventually they would die. However, a group of people who were resistant to the strange sickness started to ban together and they made a ship out of used cars. Later these healthy people provided the sick green people with gas masks that purified polluted air and slowed their illness... This brought some time so a vaccine could be developed to one day cure the illness...
Our story takes place in Indiana in the far future. The water levels rise due to climate change, and this causes a flood across the entire east coast. Anticipating this, 2 people living in Indiana at this time have prepared for certain apocalyptic scenarios, including this one. The Doomsday Preppers build an airship that doubles as a water ship, and use it to pick up the few survivors.
Indiana has become only 2 distinctive parts- landfill and factory land. There are many abandoned factories in the factory land, even before the flood takes place. Since bluegrass music has returned to American culture, there is an abandoned banjo factory where the Doomsday Preppers have built the airship.
There are also garbage mutants created by the landfill and the water from the flood, and the airship is protection from them.
The Doomsday Preppers and other survivors use many devices. These include a banjo that is used as a weapon, a steam punk life vest, and a shoe with springs.
The survivors remain on the airship until they can find a way out of the garbage wall that barricade Indiana.
Indiana has become only 2 distinctive parts- landfill and factory land. There are many abandoned factories in the factory land, even before the flood takes place. Since bluegrass music has returned to American culture, there is an abandoned banjo factory where the Doomsday Preppers have built the airship.
There are also garbage mutants created by the landfill and the water from the flood, and the airship is protection from them.
The Doomsday Preppers and other survivors use many devices. These include a banjo that is used as a weapon, a steam punk life vest, and a shoe with springs.
The survivors remain on the airship until they can find a way out of the garbage wall that barricade Indiana.
Earth, the year 1380, the 8th day of the 6th 4th month, the world has been split into 5 sectors across the globe. The Volcanic Sector in the Philippines, the first. The Geocentric Sector in North America, the second. The Shadow Sector in Africa, the third. The Amphibian Sector near the Atlantic Ocean, the fourth. And the Zephyr Sector in Australia, the fifth. The first sector is working towards the destruction of all other sectors, but the run-down buildings and large amount of crime in the area hinders their progress. The second sector is working towards a paradise, with the sector containing a lot of plant matter. Most buildings are made of said materials. The third sector has secret plans, being neutral and more like the monopoly bank than the monopoly player. The fourth sector has plans to take over the other four sectors, as they have the most water and purification plants to make the water drinkable-- this is their method of taking control. The fifth sector has found a hole in the fourth sector, and uses it to retrieve water from the area and distribute it across all other sectors, some getting more than others. They are allies with the second sector and are also working towards paradise. We are looking at the Shadow Sector the most in this culture, so don’t expect too much. The “secret plans” of the Shadow Sector is to gather all the sectors into one, singular area and end up making all of them, including the shadow sector itself, disappear forever. This can only be achieved when all five of the sector’s leaders come together in a single area, this being outside of all the sectors. A good area would be Europe or Asian areas. Iceland and Greenland are good places as well.
The year is 3044 and the people of the planet ‘Cloud Nine’ finally is trying to overthrow the government. Cloud Nine used to be the most beautiful planet- always had perfect weather, beautiful landscape, magical animals, and it was a very peaceful and tranquil place; even though there were a lot of people living on this planet the cities were huge but very safe, no crime whatsoever. Even though the planet was beautiful and pretty much perfect, the people have finally had enough of the government. Why you may be asking, because the government held a yearly fight to the death, all ages are entered once you were born you were entered. The government started this to make sure the residents of the planet Cloud Nine are aware of who runs the planet and to keep everyone in line. The people have started to try and take over the government, but the government wasn’t gonna have it so they started bombing the residents. The residents hijacked one of the government's supply ship and got their hands on nuclear weapons. Now the government retaliated and started bombing with nuclear bombs the planet. The planet is in complete chaos- there’s a nuclear war going on, people don’t know what to do if they should leave the planet or stay, people dying. The government has blocked of certain parts of the city that buildings are falling apart so no one gets crushed by a building. The once most beautiful place is no more. Our ‘ship’ which is shaped like a dragon so the government won’t shoot it down, because they will think it’s one of the dragons living on the planet trying to escape. All the dragons have these different symbols on a different part of the body to show how they are balanced out. (ex. one wing says strong, the other says kind.) But actually the dragon ship is a ship that can help people escape the terrible place until further notice. We have the gas mask as one of the devices, because it is a nuclear war and the people of Cloud Nine can’t intake all the radiation. Our next device is “The Neutralizers” which are a pair of goggles. They are used as an accessory, and as like a sort of sunglasses. Our last device is Spike the dog. Now Spike can smell out the hidden bombs so no one would get hurt. When the nuclear war had started many people had started training animals to be able to smell out the nuclear bombs. The part of the city we are showing you was bombed and the government has blocked it all off. The buildings are falling apart, and people were trapped in the blocked off sections that’s why there are the statues saying “save us.”
Accumulus City
Background Information: Our story is set in the late 1890’s to the early 1900’s and is in an alternate universe of Earth where the technology is the same but the events not quite the same. Our story takes place after a huge War spread out across the world called “The great demise of civilizations” . All of the human race participated in this War for their own survival. There were three sides that formed, The culturists, Intellects, and the Militarists. Each side believed in one main thing shown in their names, The Culturists believed in the Arts and religions of Mankind. Next the Intellects believed in Intelligent thinking and only the smartest would survive. Finally the militaristic believed in War strategy and combat as well as toughness. These three sides fought for 6 long years stretching into the new dawn of an Era, The early 19 hundreds.
After the 6 years of fighting for Humane beliefs no sides had come out victorious and most of the world was in ruins. The Americas were decimated and one group formed by the old militarists and intellects had taken over most land regions. They were searching for people who didn’t join their civilization because they were a threat. So few people that could fled to the west mountain ranges.
Our group of people were mainly made of culturists, but now the groups aren’t a thing anymore. Our group of people went to a mountain and started a new civilization, Accumulus City. They called it Accumulus City because they named the mountain Accumulus since it touches the clouds and Accumulus is a type of cloud. Now they are in hiding from the main government formed.
Our city
Since our city was formed a year ago many different jobs have been assigned to the people of Accumulus City. The main important jobs are The Inventors who think of new innovations for the City so people do not get bored and have more easy everyday lives. The main Inventor of the town who has made many of the town’s greatest inventions is called Dr. Simons. She lives in a house upon a ridge in the mountain and works in the inventor’s workshop above the steel and clothing factory. Three of the town’s most used technologies are the disk phone, robot, and the prosthetic tail(Dr. Simons created the disk phone and Robot, The person who created the Prosthetic tail is a culture fanatic who is obsessed with animals called Dr. Iguana).
The next important jobs in our town are the City Township Council Members (CTCM’s), they make up the rules for the City and listen to the people’s needs as well as try to change/ construct more of the City. Also there are the engineers and their constructors who build all the buildings including the hangar and observation deck above the mountain. Finally some of the last important jobs are the hunters, farmers, and the militaristic leaders. Of course the hunters and farmers get all of the City’s food. The militaristic leaders watch over and protect the town, their H.Q. is on top of the mountain.
Overall the Citizens of the town all work together to live their lives and survive in hiding.
Culture
The people of our City like a very specific culture of wearing Animal body parts to make them look like Animals thus why the prosthetic tail was made for people who want to look like animals. Some people have surgeries to put parts on, others wear clothes or fake parts. Also some of the citizens believe from an aerial view the government won’t be able to recognize them as people and just some animals running around.
People
Some of the characters of our City and Airship are Dr. Simons as said above, and Dr. Amen. The captain of our ship is called Georgia Grey (Grey Fox is her nickname, and the ship name), she led the construction of of the ship with Professor Thomas who’s a professional engineer for the town. Georgia grey pilots her ship the S.S. Grey and many people respect her in the town. Professor Willard is the man who constructed the ship for the town. The president of the committee is called President Pote, he enacts the laws of the town and makes most of the lead decisions for the town.
Airship- S.S. Grey
Our Airship is called the S.S. Grey. The reason for our Airship is that in Accumulus City they townspeople are running out of food nearby and due to the effects of the War it is hard to farm,so they built the Airship to find a new safe place that has bountiful amounts of food and safe to settle in. The Airship was created in the Candon Hangar, it is by far the City’s biggest project and can house 20 people for the exploration to find a new land. On the ship, Georgia Grey is accompanied by Aurora (Who is the M.D. of the town and now ship) and Professor Willard the Engineer.
The ship flies in the Air due to its powerful wings that propel it upward. It can also go underwater, during this the deck is sealed of by a pressure sealed door, so it transforms into a submarine and the sails are pulled down. It is made of a bunch of scraps of metal, driftwood, trees, and cloth. It has a powerful propeller to push it forward and a steering wheel that directs in air and water.
The Map
On our map we have the the main buildings like the steel factory, The Inventor’s workshop, the City council building, and some housing at the base of the mountain. Along the mountain’s ridges there are the rest of the houses and the military headquarters. In the mountain is Candon Hangar. To the left of the mountain is a waterfall that pours water into the creek that runs by the hangar, this is where the town fishes and gets water from. At the top of the mountain there is the observation deck where City officials go to look over the town and discuss major plans for the community.
In the distance there are more mountains with greenery that surround the City hiding it from most aerial views. The clouds on cloudy days cover the top view so the town is not discovered by the crude new formed government. By Accumulus mountain there is not much wildlife besides critters and mountain goats or leopards. There are many plants and berries for the town to eat, thus they are very healthy and none of them are overweight.
Background Information: Our story is set in the late 1890’s to the early 1900’s and is in an alternate universe of Earth where the technology is the same but the events not quite the same. Our story takes place after a huge War spread out across the world called “The great demise of civilizations” . All of the human race participated in this War for their own survival. There were three sides that formed, The culturists, Intellects, and the Militarists. Each side believed in one main thing shown in their names, The Culturists believed in the Arts and religions of Mankind. Next the Intellects believed in Intelligent thinking and only the smartest would survive. Finally the militaristic believed in War strategy and combat as well as toughness. These three sides fought for 6 long years stretching into the new dawn of an Era, The early 19 hundreds.
After the 6 years of fighting for Humane beliefs no sides had come out victorious and most of the world was in ruins. The Americas were decimated and one group formed by the old militarists and intellects had taken over most land regions. They were searching for people who didn’t join their civilization because they were a threat. So few people that could fled to the west mountain ranges.
Our group of people were mainly made of culturists, but now the groups aren’t a thing anymore. Our group of people went to a mountain and started a new civilization, Accumulus City. They called it Accumulus City because they named the mountain Accumulus since it touches the clouds and Accumulus is a type of cloud. Now they are in hiding from the main government formed.
Our city
Since our city was formed a year ago many different jobs have been assigned to the people of Accumulus City. The main important jobs are The Inventors who think of new innovations for the City so people do not get bored and have more easy everyday lives. The main Inventor of the town who has made many of the town’s greatest inventions is called Dr. Simons. She lives in a house upon a ridge in the mountain and works in the inventor’s workshop above the steel and clothing factory. Three of the town’s most used technologies are the disk phone, robot, and the prosthetic tail(Dr. Simons created the disk phone and Robot, The person who created the Prosthetic tail is a culture fanatic who is obsessed with animals called Dr. Iguana).
The next important jobs in our town are the City Township Council Members (CTCM’s), they make up the rules for the City and listen to the people’s needs as well as try to change/ construct more of the City. Also there are the engineers and their constructors who build all the buildings including the hangar and observation deck above the mountain. Finally some of the last important jobs are the hunters, farmers, and the militaristic leaders. Of course the hunters and farmers get all of the City’s food. The militaristic leaders watch over and protect the town, their H.Q. is on top of the mountain.
Overall the Citizens of the town all work together to live their lives and survive in hiding.
Culture
The people of our City like a very specific culture of wearing Animal body parts to make them look like Animals thus why the prosthetic tail was made for people who want to look like animals. Some people have surgeries to put parts on, others wear clothes or fake parts. Also some of the citizens believe from an aerial view the government won’t be able to recognize them as people and just some animals running around.
People
Some of the characters of our City and Airship are Dr. Simons as said above, and Dr. Amen. The captain of our ship is called Georgia Grey (Grey Fox is her nickname, and the ship name), she led the construction of of the ship with Professor Thomas who’s a professional engineer for the town. Georgia grey pilots her ship the S.S. Grey and many people respect her in the town. Professor Willard is the man who constructed the ship for the town. The president of the committee is called President Pote, he enacts the laws of the town and makes most of the lead decisions for the town.
Airship- S.S. Grey
Our Airship is called the S.S. Grey. The reason for our Airship is that in Accumulus City they townspeople are running out of food nearby and due to the effects of the War it is hard to farm,so they built the Airship to find a new safe place that has bountiful amounts of food and safe to settle in. The Airship was created in the Candon Hangar, it is by far the City’s biggest project and can house 20 people for the exploration to find a new land. On the ship, Georgia Grey is accompanied by Aurora (Who is the M.D. of the town and now ship) and Professor Willard the Engineer.
The ship flies in the Air due to its powerful wings that propel it upward. It can also go underwater, during this the deck is sealed of by a pressure sealed door, so it transforms into a submarine and the sails are pulled down. It is made of a bunch of scraps of metal, driftwood, trees, and cloth. It has a powerful propeller to push it forward and a steering wheel that directs in air and water.
The Map
On our map we have the the main buildings like the steel factory, The Inventor’s workshop, the City council building, and some housing at the base of the mountain. Along the mountain’s ridges there are the rest of the houses and the military headquarters. In the mountain is Candon Hangar. To the left of the mountain is a waterfall that pours water into the creek that runs by the hangar, this is where the town fishes and gets water from. At the top of the mountain there is the observation deck where City officials go to look over the town and discuss major plans for the community.
In the distance there are more mountains with greenery that surround the City hiding it from most aerial views. The clouds on cloudy days cover the top view so the town is not discovered by the crude new formed government. By Accumulus mountain there is not much wildlife besides critters and mountain goats or leopards. There are many plants and berries for the town to eat, thus they are very healthy and none of them are overweight.