This document outlines a 12 lesson scheme of work for an 8th year group art project on interpreting the horror genre through a collaborative piece inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Students will create miniature spooky houses with layered silhouetted images inside to form a large stacked house. Lessons include revisiting prior drama work on Darkwood Manor, drawing pen and water spooky houses with atmospheric mark making, creating a portrait of Frankenstein's monster from a quote, and a collage of the monster using anatomical and archaeological studies. The project aims to develop students' understanding of translating description and narrative into images through research and applying various materials and techniques.

1. Key Stage 3 • Scheme of Work
Project Title: Horror ( interpreting Darkwood Manor)
Academic Year: 2011-2012 Year Group(s): 8
Term(s): Spring No. of Lessons: 12
⬇ Essential Information
Please refer to Appendix A for statutory curriculum guidelines
Creative Challenge: Students will create a Horror scene with a narrative (inspired by Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’) .They will produce a collaborative piece that illustrates the monster and Frankenstein’s lab.
Knowledge & Students will understand how to translate description and narrative into an image.
Understanding
Research & Wafa Hourami, Richard Hawkins, The last House, Francesca Woodman
Analysis
Materials & Collage / pen / ink / tracing paper/ paint/ cardboard boxes/ lighting materials coloured tissue paper/ sound recording equipment
Techniques
Outcome(s) Miniature houses with layers of silhouetted images inside, these will be stacked together to form a large spooky hoiuse.
⬇ Additional Information
Curriculum Links Drama and Music
Trips & Visits
Collaboration Students work in pairs or independently on their boxes and their images inside the boxes.
Other
⬇ Planning Lessons/Stages
Please refer to Appendix B for research and information linked to planning. You should use the following table to summarise your main lesson activities.
Lessons: Main Activities/Tasks: Success Criteria Resources
1&2 Revisit Darkwood Manor work year 8 students covered in Drama during the Autumn term. Story overview and character sheets/
Students create a drawing of a spooky house using pen and water. Emphasis on using mark Images linked to the idea of Horror.
making to create atmosphere. Mono-printing equipment
Range of mark making.
Thoughtful use of water to blend marks in the most appropriate
places.
Homework Create a portrait of Frankenstein’s monster from the description in Mary Shelley’s Quote for students to work from.
‘Frankenstein’.
3-5 Students create a collage of the monster using anatomical studies by Andreas Vesalius, Students use imagery appropriately. Photocopies on different qualities of paper of
photographs of mummies in the Palermo Crypt, photocopies of fabric and Victorian scientific Figure is still human despite being a monster. ie same number each item.
equipment. and arrangement of limbs.