Unit 6: Making connections: Imagining the future

Learners who are secure will be able to:

• Understand and explain what retrofuturism is.
• Participate in discussions and offer ideas.
• Evaluate images using simple responses, sometimes using formal elements to extend ideas.
• Provide plausible suggestions for how a piece was created.
• Comfortably use different stimuli to draw from.
• Use past knowledge and experience to explore a range of drawing processes.
• Select and place textures to create a collagraph plate, applying an understanding of the material, which may be supported by testing.
• Create a selection of drawings and visual notes that demonstrate their ideas using visual journals.
• Generate a clear composition idea for a final piece that shows how it will be drawn.
• Apply skills to make an effective collagraph print.
• Independently select tools and drawing techniques, with some guidance.
• Demonstrate growing independence, discussing ways to improve work.