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BOOKS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Junior high can be a tricky age to teach. Within a three year age
difference, you may have a ten-year maturity difference! Therefore, a
lot of the books in the elementary list and high school list have been
included in this list. Even a single student can act 8 one day and 37
the next. It is definitely a challenging age to teach. Not only do you
have to keep them focused on the lesson at hand rather than the cute boy
(or girl) on the other side of the room, but you have to challenge them
to try new things that may be potentially embarrassing when they do not
achieve perfection. The junior high ego is often more difficult to
overcome than a lack of skill or previous experience. These books should
help in terms of providing a wide range of instruction you the teacher
can pull from depending on the make-up of your class.
- Kids 'N' Clay Ceramics Book by Nierman & Arima
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Great book to use with kids and by kids. Covers all the basics along
with a very creative selection of projects and ideas. Both handbuilding
and throwing are covered. Info on setting up a workspace and tips on
effective teaching methods as well.
- Make it in Clay by Speight & Toki
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A comprehensive textbook style book that has great project ideas as well
as solid informative text on a variety of Ceramic applications
- Wheel Thrown Ceramics by Don Davis
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Before this book, I truly believed that it would be impossible to
actually learn how to throw just from a book. I thought books on
throwing could act as an aide for learning from an experienced potter.
This book changed my mind! It.s great for the beginner to the
well-established potter looking for new ideas. Chapters 1-3 cover tools,
clay bodies, firing and basic throwing techniques. Chapter 4 gives 11
different projects to try once the basics have been mastered. Chapter 5
is a brief discussion of surface treatments. There are also tons of
full-colour examples of each aspect Mr. Davis discusses. Finally, his
appendices include several excellent recipes for clays, slips/engobes,
terra sigillata, and glazes, as well as cone firing ranges and metric
conversions.
- Ceramic Projects by Thomas Sellers, ed
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One of the Ceramics Monthly Handbooks. This one has project ideas with clay
- Ceramics: Two Books in One by Steve Mattison
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A really cool book that is cut in two parts two-thirds down. The top 2/3
has project ideas, the bottom 1/3 shows the techniques necessary for
every project in the book. Very useful and one-of-a-kind.
- Making Ceramic Sculpture by Raul Acero
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A great book on the topic for anyone from beginner to advanced. Covers
basics of clay and surface treatments, includes several projects, and
has an excellent, full-color gallery of work.
- Handbuilt Ceramics by Kathy Triplett
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Kathy takes a straight-forward apporach to the different problems of
handbuilding with clay. Step by step, she guides the reader through her
solutions to these unique factors in a project oriented method. Well
illustrated, many photos
- Surface Decoration for Low-Fire Ceramics by Lynn Peters
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Although "Low-Fire" appears in this book''s title, many of the
techniques can be used at any firing range. This book covers surface
treatment of forms using every technique imaginable, from Terra
Sigillata to Sgraffito and Majolica to Decals & Lustres
- The Magic of Ceramics, by David Richerson
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This book can make for many great lessons from writing a chapter review
for the student that wants extra credit to a cooperative lesson with the
science teacher on how ceramics are used in science-related fields.
There are tons of possibilities!
- Pottery for Life, by Claire Botterill
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This book is intended for special need students. Since junior high and
high school art classrooms can be very demanding of a teacher already,
adding one or more special needs kids can be frightening, particularly
if your college experience in exceptional children consisted of one 1 or
2 credit hour class (as is typical). Although these students are
supposed to be provided with a paraprofessional or aide of some sort,
they often are not. This book should help give you some method, lesson
ideas, and direction on how to deal with this type of situation.
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