Unit Design

Unit Title: The Most Ancient of Us All: The Near East and Egypt
Course: AP Art History

Unit Length: 4 days

Date Created: 6/21/2015

Learning Objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Unit Overview
Unit Components
Key Artists/Pieces
The Ancient Near East

Ancient Egypt

The Ancient Near East

White Temple and its
Ziggurat
Statues of Votive
Figures, from the
Square Temple at
Eshnunna
The Great Lyre with
Bulls Head
Standard of Ur from
The Royal Tombs
Stele of Naram-Sin
The Code of
Hammurabi
Assurnasirpal II
Killing Lions
Lamassu from the
Citadel of Sargon II
Ishtar Gate and
Throne Room Wall
Audience Hall
(apadana) of Darius
and Xerxes
Apadana (stairway)

Ancient Egypt
Palette of King
Narmer (back & front)
Stepped Pyramid of
Djoser
Great Pyramids and
Great Sphinx
Khafra
King Menkaura and
Queen
Seated Scribe
Pectoral of Senusret II
Temple of Amun-Re
and Hypostyle Hall
with plan
Mortuary Temple of
Hatshepsut
Kneeling Statue of
Hatshepsut
Akhenaten, Nefertiti,
and Three Daughters
Tutankhamuns Tomb
Innermost Coffin and
Burial Mask
Last Judgment of
Hu-Nefer, from his
Tomb (Judgment
before Osiris)

Readings and
Assessments

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary

Concepts/Topics/
Unit Vocabulary

The Fertile Crescent

Mesopotamia
temple complex
polytheistic
pantheistic
pessimistic

low relief

Tombs, Temples,
and Timelessness

scribe
naturalistic
faience
inlay
lapis lazuli
cartouche

armature

crenellated/
crenellations

pictographs
stylus
cuneiform
ziggurat
load bearing
construction
mosaic
votive figures
hierarchical scale/
hieratic scale
registers
ground line
stylized
stele
composition

citadel
palace complex
lamassu

grid
apadana
gold leaf

Egyptian art was

created for tombs or
temples and was
meant to last for
eternity.

conventions
canon of
proportions
hedjet
deshret
nemes headdress
wedjat
ankh
scarab
pictographs
papyrus
mastaba
serdab
ka
necropolis
capstone
Khufu
Khafre
Menkaura
diorite

pylon
peristyle court
obelisk
pyramidion
hypostyle hall
clerestory
column
base
shaft
capital
fluting
engaged column
colonnade
rock-cut tomb
portico
axial plan
sunken relief
sarcophagus
last judgment
hieroglyphics

Chapter 2
pages 26-38
pages 39-47
Chapter 3
pages 48-62
pages 62-79
Graphic
Organizers and
Worksheets
Writing
Assessments
Completed
Unit 2 Image
Matrixes
Unit Test
Matrixes with
Images - Unit 3

Learner/Performance Objectives: The student will . . .

Assessments/Evidence

1. Define and use unit vocabulary.

2. Identify works of art.
3. Differentiate between artworks of historic and prehistoric civilizations.
4. Identify basic approaches to art making at the very beginnings of
civilization.
5. Distinguish between how royal figures and divinities were represented
in the artistic traditions of the Ancient Near East and dynastic Egypt.
6. Identify the function of funerary and palatial complexes within the
cultural contexts of the Ancient Near East and dynastic Egypt.
7. Demonstrate awareness of the active exchange of ideas and reception of
artistic styles among the Ancient Near East and dynastic Egypt.
8. Analyze how religion plays a significant role in the art and architecture
of the Ancient Near East.
9. Explain how the art of dynastic Egypt embodies a sense of permanence
and focuses on preserving a cycle of rebirth.

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