Unit Design

Unit Title: Course Introduction & In the BeginningPrehistoric Art

Course: AP Art History

Unit Length: 3 days

Date Created: 6/13/2015

Learning Objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Unit Overview
Unit Components
Key Artists/Pieces
Course Introduction
Global Prehistory
Global Prehistory
Woman from Willendorf
Camelid Sacrum in the
Shape of a Canine
Apollo 11 Stones
Spotted Horses and
Human Hands
Great Hall of the Bulls
Running Horned
Woman

Stonehenge
Jade Cong
Beaker with Ibex
Motifs
Terra Cotta Fragment
Anthropomorphic Stele
The Ambum Stone
Tlatilco Female
Figurine

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary
Why do we study
the history of Art?
work of art
aesthetic
The Basic
Components
form
composition
design elements
design principles
function
content
subject matter
interpretation/
meaning
iconography
context

medium/materials
technique
painting
graphic arts
drawing
printmaking
photography

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary
technique (cont.)
sculpture
ephemeral arts
architecture
plans
sections
isometric
drawings

style
stylistic analysis
(stylistic terminology)

period style
regional style
representational styles
realism/
naturalism
illusionism
idealization
abstract styles
stylized
nonrepresentational/
nonobjective
expressionism
linear
painterly

Readings and
Assessments

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary

The Stone Age

Paleolithic Period
homo sapiens
sapiens

Mesolithic Period
agriculture

cong
taotie
motif

Sculpture
subtractive
additive
sculpture in the
round
relief sculpture
nomadic
sacrum
camelid
Rock & Cave
Painting
charcoal
ocher
silhouette painting
outlining
composite pose
incising
hierarchical scale/
hieratic scale

Neolithic Period
palimpsest
schists
bush school
Architecture
megalithic
menhirs
alignments
cromlechs
dolmen
capstones
henge
post-and-lintel
mortise-andtenon joints
trilithon
sarsen circle
bluestone circle

bushel
wares
roundel
Lapita
anthropomorphic
stele
mortar and pestle
zoomorphic
echidna
pretty ladies
diprosopus

Use Notes,
Starter Kit,
Introduction
pages XX1-XLI
Reading Guide
1-A
Matrixes with
Images - Unit 1
Chapter 1
pages 1-25
Chapter 13
pages 404-406
Chapter 10
pages 326-328
Elam handout
Chapter 27
pages 860-861
Reading Guide
1-B
Graphic
Organizers and
Worksheets
Writing
Assessment
Completed
Unit 1
Image Matrixes
Unit Test
Matrixes with
Images - Unit 2

Learner/Performance Objectives: The student will . . .

Assessments/Evidence

1. Define and use unit vocabulary.

2. Identify works of art.
3. Differentiate between the basic components of form, function, medium/
materials, technique, content, context, composition and/or style as they
apply to a work of art.
4. Become familiar with how the human behavior and artistic expression of
the people, from the periods of global prehistory, was directly
influenced by the changing environments in which they lived.
5. Distinguish between examples of human expression that existed across
the globe prior to the written record, using visual, contextual, and
comparative analysis.
6. Recognize that artwork from the artists of global prehistory share certain
features, particularly the concern with the natural world and humans
place within it.
7. Identify examples of how prehistoric art shows humans awareness of
fundamental, stable phenomena, from the macrocosmic to the
microcosmic.
8. Become familiar with how modern archaeology has served as a basis for
art historical studies and how the two disciplines are highly
complementary.
9. Compare and contrast the meanings that prehistoric art may have had for
its original audiences to those of audiences today.

Selected response (e.g., multiple choice, matching, true/false)

- unit test
Constructed response (e.g., slide identification, fill-in-the-blank,
short answer, label, graphic)
- unit test
- reading guides
- graphic organizers
Product (e.g., essay, model, project)
- image matrixes
- writing assessment
Process (e.g., observations, discussions)
- observation
- classroom discussions
- pair share
- oral questioning

Unit Resources/Materials:
Textbooks Videos Powerpoint Presentations