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=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= Grades 9 - Diploma Students create, express, and communicate through the art discipline.// || Grades 9 - Diploma Students describe analyze, interpret, and evaluate art (visual arts//). ||  ||
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * //Maine Learning Results//: //Visual And Performing Arts - B. Creation, Performance, and Expression
 * //Maine Learning Results//: //Visual And Performing Arts - D: Criticism And Aesthetics

//What understandings are desired?//
•The final product (pattern) created through the combination of materials, colors, techniques, and proportions is more than a combination of individual elements. •Knowledge of techniques and materials is used to create a pattern or modify an existing pattern. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * •There is a distinct link between material selection, correct tying technique, and proportion when creating flys that mimic what exists in the natural world.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•Why use certain materials, colors, techniques, and proportions to create a final product that would be successful? •How is the pattern reflective of your philosophy for fishing and the resources available to you? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How can you utilize a number of materials, both common and exotic, to create a fly that mimics nature and will catch fish?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Techniques: Winding, counter-winding, materials selection, dubbing, soft-hackle, half-hitch, whip-finish, teasing, spinning. •Critical Information: Following a pattern, selecting the materials, utilizing/applying/working with the materials, following proportion, utilizing stylistic techniques for a variety of applications || •Model and contrast traditional and non-traditional examples of patterns •Build a pattern that mimics nature (appearance, movement, and proportions). •Analyze the design and adapt/change the pattern to fit unique circumstances. •Analyze and criticize (through self-assessment) their showcase pattern on appearance, movement, proportion, and performance based on traditional pattern knowledge. • Relate the use of a variety of materials for their performance characteristics in pattern creation. •Recognize a pattern that could/would work and the characteristics that make it functional. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * •Vocabulary Terms: Pattern, proportion, technique, tail, body, thorax, abdomen, head, wing, hackle, spinning, half-hitch, whip-finish, dubbing, wing (materials?)


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**