Art Appreciation — Calendar
Semester 1, September 2026 – January 2027. Solid chips are the graded attainments; outlined chips are class tasks and homework; LB marks participation postings. The tinted band running under the days is the unit you’re in, with each lesson labelled where it begins. Holidays and the exam window are shaded.
A1–A4 / EoTclass task / homeworkLBunitholidayexam window
September 2026
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U1 · Origins and Ancestral MemoryL01 Opening the AtlasFirst teaching day
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L02 What Survives, and WhyCS1 Darkroom reflection, written in t…
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LB1
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L03 The First Board
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A1 Unit 1 board + justification — close lookin…
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L04 Telling It Without Words
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U2 · Narrative, Myth and Allegory
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LB2
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Mid-Autumn Festival
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CS2 Ten-frame storyboard, no captions…
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October 2026
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National Day holiday
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L05 Titian to ManetCS3 Storyboard debrief — where the se…
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A2 Unit 2 comparative essay — one claim about…
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U3 · Food, the Table and EthicsL06 The Table as Moral Space
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LB3
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L07 The Split Weeks
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Mid-term report grades due
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LB4
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November 2026
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L08 Heda and the Image of W…
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LB5
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G11 Juniors Days
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CS4 Heda paragraph — every adjective…
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L09 Food, the Table and Eth…
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A3 Unit 3 essay — food, the table and ethics,…
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U4 · Images, Mediation and ModernityL10 Berger and the Reproduc…
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LB6
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December 2026
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LB7
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G11 Juniors Days
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L11 Aura and the Poor Image
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CS5 Poor-image lab — degrade an image…
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L12 Photography and After
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A4 Unit 4 synthesis — a constellation that arg…
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L13 The Artworld and the Br…
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LB8
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Winter break
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January 2027
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Late-work cutoff
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U5 · Semester Close and RetrospectiveL14 The Retrospective
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EoT Semester-close retrospective — a semester o…
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Last teaching day
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Exam window
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L15 ReturnLB9
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Grades & comments due
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Last school day
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Winter vacation
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Attainments & End of Term
- Fri 2026-09-18 — A1 Unit 1 board + justification — close looking, justified adjacency
- Tue 2026-10-13 — A2 Unit 2 comparative essay — one claim about Titian vs Manet, evidenced from the pictures
- Tue 2026-11-17 — A3 Unit 3 essay — food, the table and ethics, argued from the pictures
- Tue 2026-12-15 — A4 Unit 4 synthesis — a constellation that argues across the whole unit
- Tue 2027-01-05 — EoT Semester-close retrospective — a semester of looking as one argument, in the layout
Class tasks & homework
- Fri 2026-09-04 — CS1 Darkroom reflection, written in the room
- Tue 2026-09-29 — CS2 Ten-frame storyboard, no captions, no dialogue
- Fri 2026-10-09 — CS3 Storyboard debrief — where the sequence stopped being legible
- Fri 2026-11-13 — CS4 Heda paragraph — every adjective earned
- Wed 2026-12-09 — CS5 Poor-image lab — degrade an image and describe exactly what changed