Mth. |
Day |
Activity |
Reading to be Discussed That Day |
|
Aug. |
28 M |
Class Rules and
Chronology Game
|
boldface: Western
Perspective; regular type: complete edition |
| |
29 T |
Why is Art? And What is Art
History? (not “What is Art”?)
Schneider-Adams:
Five Values of Art –
Material, Intrinsic, Religious, Nationalistic,
Psychological
(establish 3 groups for tomorrow’s quiz) |
- |
|
30 W |
Art Identification: Style
(Period, Region, Artist), Subject, Patron. |
pp. xix - xxiv pp. 1 – 6 (5) |
|
31 Th |
Techniques and Terms – 10 pt. quiz – not open anything;
Discuss The AP Exam
Format |
pp. xxiv - xxxi pp. 6 – 13 (7) |
|
Sep. |
1 F |
AT SPOTS (and what we will not
Discuss in the Visual Arts)
Artist & Title
Style, Purpose, Origin, Technique,
Subject
“Promenade” from Pictures at an Exhibition – Mussorgsky |
- |
| |
4 M |
**Labor Day - No
School** |
- |
|
5 T |
Paleolithic Art
What is Art? “ AT SPOTS” Quiz |
pp. 1 - 10 + p. 7 & 8
pp. 14 – 24 + p. 21 Paleolithic, + p. 22 Old Stone Age (10) |
|
6 W |
Art Project: Make it
Natural, Make it Personal
Form Groups or Tribes for Project
Class Rules Due |
- |
|
7 Th |
Neolithic Art
“Dolmen Music” – Meredith Monk |
pp. 10 - 15 pp. 24 – 29 (5) |
|
8 F |
Art Project Labor |
- |
|
11
M |
Before The Egyptian Old Kingdom
|
pp. 40 - 47 + 43 & 45 pp. 54 – 61 + p. 57 Gods, p. 59
Mummification (7) |
|
12 T |
Style Established: The
Egyptian
Old Kingdom
“Walk Like an Egyptian” – The Bangles |
pp. 48 - 54 + 49 pp. 62 – 68 + p. 63 Pyramids
(6) - |
|
13
W |
Style Continued: The Middle and
New Kingdom |
pp. 54 - 63 + 57 pp. 68 – 77 + p. 71 Hatshepsut
(9) |
|
14 Th |
Style Interrupted:
Amarna and
After (King
Tut)
“Hymn to the Aten” from Akhenaton – Philip Glass |
pp. 63 - 69 pp. 77 – 83 (6) |
|
15 F |
Sumerian Art (and B's in SAP) |
pp. 16 - 26 + 19
pp. 30 – 40 + p. 33 Writing (10) |
|
18 M |
Akkadians,
Neo-Sumerians, and Hittites |
pp. 26 - 31 + 29 pp. 40 –
45 + p. 43 Hammurabi,
(5) |
|
19 T |
Assyrians,
Chaldeans, and Persians
Poem: Ozymandias - Shelley |
pp. 31 - 39
pp. 45 - 53 (8) |
| |
20 W |
*****
No School: In-Service ***** |
|
21 Th |
Art Project Presentations (10 min. per group)+
Review |
- |
|
22 F |
Unit 1 Exam (Introduction
and Ancient Art) |
