Overview and Background: Unit: Art & Culture

 Student directions

Name:  Shawny Montgomery 

Fine Arts : Art

Cheney High : Grades 9-12 : day : Aug. - May.

 

Title:

Art & Culture

Topics:

Masks

Time Frame:

 Three weeks

Start Date:

-

 

Other Designers:

 

Summary:  Students will understand that different cultures have art works that are reflective of their society, history and traditions.

Every country in the world has art work that is specific to their culture and area. (just as language/accents or music is specific to different areas or cultures.)

 

Print Materials Needed: Mask articles, graphic organizer comparing contrasting masks

 

Resources: Mask posters from various cultures, mask video, books, mask folders

 

 Resource Attachments:

Mask web quest geared to a specific culture, Egyptian, native American, African, oriental,

 

Internet Resource Links:

 

 Notes:

 

 

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

 

State:

KS  

Title:

Art

Standard(s):

Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1 identify the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, time, places.

4.4 analyze and interpret how the visual arts reflect history, culture, and aesthetics.

 

Understandings:

Cultures express themselves differently.

Art work is reflective of a society and their culture.

 

Essential Questions:

How does art reflect a culture?

How does art reflect a historical time?

What are the specific characteristics that your chosen “culture” uses in their artwork/mask?

How are these characteristics unique to this culture?

 

Knowledge and Skills:

K

Know the different artistic styles and medias associated with their particular culture.

Understand the relationship between art and culture.

 

S

Identify through a power point presentation the specific characteristics of an “mask/art work” from a particular culture.

Create a mask that uses the essential elements that represent a particular chosen culture or society.

 

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

 

Assessment Summary:
Students will make an oral and visual presentation of their findings on their particular culture

Working in a cooperative group, students will use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast similarities and difference in different cultures.

Students will create a mask that is reflective of their chosen society and make a presentation that introduces their mask and its unique characteristics.

Student Directions:

Congratulations you will be going to be doing an internship as an anthropologist, you are going to given a specific culture to research out and make a presentations of your findings to a group of your colleagues.

Rubric:

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Graphic organizer

Mask/cultural display

Individually create a mask and write a two or three paragraph statement that explains the colors, symbolism, characteristics that connects their mask to the assigned culture/country.

Write a two to three paragraph statement explaining the mask.

 

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

 

Learning Activities:

Mask video, visual presentation using posters or power point, show some actual mask examples if possible.

 

By the end of this unit I expect students to able to explain how works of art reflect a culture or country, through use of materials, symbols, colors, characteristic, shapes.

Introduce the assignment give PowerPoint overview on masks/art work and cultures. Look at Africa, Mexico, Asia, and Native American.