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The capstone: an 8-week Years 9–10 unit where students make one independent work AND curate a real end-of-year exhibition – labels, roles, opening event, artist talks. Unit plans for both year levels, 8 PowerPoints, assessments and exams included.

Making the work is half the art. Choosing, naming, placing and presenting it is the other half.

The Curated Self is the capstone of the year: a complete, ready-to-teach term of Visual Arts for Year 9 AND Year 10, aligned to the Australian Curriculum: The Arts – Visual Arts (Version 9.0), with Presenting and performing (AC9AVA10P01) as the major focus – the strand most programs never quite get to.

Each student develops one independent work in the medium where their year’s practice is strongest, from signed proposal through documented development to resolution. In parallel, the class mounts a formal end-of-year exhibition they curate and produce themselves.

Two studies anchor the term: Brook Andrew’s NIRIN – curation itself as a creative and political act led by First Nations perspectives – and Yayoi Kusama’s Obliteration Room – the exhibition as an experience the audience completes.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

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Two complete unit plans (Year 9 and Year 10):

  • 8 weeks × 3 lessons, every lesson outlined with learning intentions mapped to ACARA v9.0 codes

Eight editable PowerPoint presentations:

  • Unit introductions for each year level

  • Anchor studies: Brook Andrew (NIRIN), Yayoi Kusama

  • The Curator’s Craft – selection, sequence, placement, labels and didactics

  • Exhibition Production – roles, run sheets, install day, the opening event

  • Documentation & the Folio – photographing work to folio standard

  • Year 10 Researching Exhibitions masterclass

Assessment, fully marked out (per year level):

  • Task 1: Visual Diary / Process Journal (30%) with A–E rubric

  • Task 2: The Curated Self (Y9) / The Solo Show (Y10) (40%) with A–E rubric

  • Exam 1: Reading the Exhibition (Week 4) – unseen installation analysis

  • Exam 2: The Year on the Wall (Week 8) – the year’s summative paper, with marking guide and exemplars

Student resources:

  • Visual Diary Workbook scaffolding the capstone week by week

  • Whole-year revision booklet matched to the summative exam

  • Self-marking interactive revision quiz

THE YEAR 10 DIFFERENCE

The Year 10 capstone, “The Solo Show”, hands each student the curator’s job for their own retrospective: a thesis about their practice, existing works selected to prove it, ONE new work that extends it, a solo show within the shared space with full museum apparatus, a one-page catalogue entry and a three-minute artist talk. Exam 2 is an essay on curation as authorship plus a critical appraisal of their own practice – the written bridge to senior Visual Art.

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Full Year Art Program — 4 Complete Visual Arts Units | Year 9 & 10

A whole year of Visual Arts for Years 9–10: four connected 8-week units, both year levels, 32 PowerPoints, 32 assessments and exams with rubrics and marking guides, student workbooks – ending in a real student-curated exhibition, kit included. One coherent year of Visual Arts – planned, resourced, assessed, and ending on a real gallery wall. The Full Year Art Program bundles four connected terms of Years 9–10 Visual Arts, aligned to the Australian Curriculum: The Arts – Visual Arts (Version 9.0). Every unit ships in a Year 9 AND a differentiated Year 10 version: 32 weeks of teaching per year level, every lesson outlined. THE ARC - Term 1 – Identity & Self (drawing and mixed media): who am I, and how can I say it visually? Kahlo, Warhol, Sherman, Namatjira. Major work: a mixed-media self-portrait series. - Term 2 – Country, Culture & Perspective (painting and printmaking): every place holds more than one story. First Nations art as the major focus – Watson, Albert, Ah Kee – taught with explicit cultural protocols (ICIP), plus Fred Williams. Major work: a Place & Perspective series with an editioned print. - Term 3 – Art as Voice (sculpture and digital media): artists change minds where arguments fail. Ai Weiwei, Piccinini, JR, Scarce – four persuasive strategies. Major work: The Voice Project. - Term 4 – The Curated Self (student-chosen media): the capstone. One independent work plus a formal, student-curated exhibition with real production roles, an opening event and artist talks. Brook Andrew's NIRIN and Kusama anchor the term. Students learn to speak about themselves, about place, to an audience – then take responsibility for the whole conversation. WHAT'S IN THE BUNDLE View more details here: [Full Year Art Program - Preview](https://1drv.ms/b/c/cf531e57342e6492/IQDg973PFigYTI9pYgnNtXUtAVgLr2mGqQGScypS0zZ_FtM?e=XNefzk) - 8 complete unit plans (4 units × 2 year levels) – every lesson mapped to ACARA v9.0 - 32 editable PowerPoints – 14 artist studies from Kahlo to Kusama, technique toolkits for every medium, curation masterclasses, Year 10 research decks - 16 assessment tasks and 16 exams with A–E rubrics, marking guides and exemplar answers – ending in a summative paper - 4 term-by-term visual diary workbooks and revision booklets - 4 self-marking interactive revision quizzes - The complete Exhibition Kit: registrar log (Excel), museum-standard label sheets, catalogue template, photography consent letter, floor plan template, poster and invitation templates – reusable for every show your department runs CURRICULUM Complete coverage of all six Years 9–10 content descriptions (AC9AVA10E01, E02, D01, D02, C01, P01), rubrics written against the achievement standard, and First Nations Australian artists anchoring every term. Codes sit in clearly-marked tables – easy to swap for non-Australian frameworks.

£45.00

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