Essential Curriculum

Outcome - Aesthetics: Students will develop through the arts the ability to perceive and respond to ideas, experiences, and the environment.

Indicator: Students will describe artwork in terms of perceived intent. Students will identify universal themes expressed through art and describe how various cultures have used them.

Benchmarks: Identify purpose for creating art, such as art as a form of communication. Describe symbolism in art. Identify subject matter.

Outcome - Historical/Cultural: Students will develop an understanding of the visual arts as a basic aspect of history and human experiences.

Indicators – Students will express understanding of visual artists as recorder of history and ideas and of the influence historical events on their work. Explore how different time periods reflect social conditions, concerns, and the value of the time.

Benchmarks: Using Greek art as example, students will: Identify ways that specific societies have used visual art to express their ideas and beliefs, such as statues of gods and goddesses. Identify ways that artists have responded to specific events and issues in history. Explain how art reflects living conditions, geographical locations, beliefs and values of a culture. Identify ways in which specific art objects reflect factors, such as time, place, beliefs and values.

Understanding

Students will make connection between our culture and that of the ancient Greeks.

Students will familiarize themselves with Greek art and culture

Assessment

Students will complete assignments related to WebQuest

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the similarities between our cultural artifacts and that of the Ancient Greeks.

Instructional Strategy

Induction

Investigation

Comparing

Guided Practice

Lesson Components

Anticipatory Set:

In your journal: Define Anthropologist.

Discuss what an anthropologist does.

Development Activity:

Students groups will be given a paper bag with artifacts in it. (Action figure, Drinking cup with visual from movie or TV)

Students will be given scenario:

You are an anthropologist from the future, an expert on the 20^th-21^st century. Your job is to identify the objects in the bag. Discuss with your group what they are and what their significance was to society. Try to hypothesis if there are any parallels in any other society.

After a few minutes take responses from the groups. After a short discussion say, if act there are some artifacts from other cultures that had the same function. Show images of souvenir figures from Dionysian festivals (Character statues, Vase Images) Take responses, lead discussion to conclusion; they weren’t really all that different than us.

Consolidation: Tell students that we are going to spend a few weeks studying the ancient Greeks and the way we are going to start is with a WebQuest. Lead students through WebQuest process.

Closure: Have students share one thing they have learned on quest, preview upcoming assignments.