Sustained Investigation unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
Evidence of experimentation
Photographing on toned or textured paper
Conté and chalk
Copying a master drawing
Sequencing the fifteen images
Naming the materials, processes and ideas
Graphite grades
Writing about a drawing that failed
Citing a source image
Pastel: soft, hard and oil
Inquiry that can actually generate work
Charcoal: vine, compressed, pencil
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Evidence of revision
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Ink and the irrevocable line
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Frottage and rubbing
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Toned ground and the middle value
3 ptsFree response
7 ptsA Drawing student has produced a Sustained Investigation in which all fifteen works are highly finished graphite renderings on smooth paper at the same size. The student reports spending an average of twenty hours on each.
Explain what this portfolio demonstrates well.
Explain what it is likely to demonstrate poorly, and why.
Explain the difference between investment of time and evidence of inquiry.
Describe TWO specific changes that would introduce experimentation without abandoning the student's strengths.
Explain why holding format and size constant across fifteen works can be either a strength or a weakness, depending on something you should identify.
Explain how a reader would tell whether the uniformity was a decision or a default.
Explain what the written evidence would need to say for this portfolio to read as an investigation.