Discipline Connections:

• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Language Arts
• Band
• Foreign Language
• Social Skills

Key Concepts:

• Patterns are the framework or structure and order within the world.
• Disorder has a pattern.
• Patterns repeat themselves throughout time.
• Patterns often involve symbols that represent concepts, ideas and experiences.
• Processes such as building, collecting of data, analyzing, creating, evaluating, etc. occur utilizing patterns.
• Each cultural group is developed based on patterns.
• Patterns have recognizable characteristics that like the design or system to a particular people group.
• Communication occurs through patterns, both verbally and written.

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to:

·        Identify patterns of other cultures

·        Create a pattern that represents their life, ideas and experiences

·        Apply the symbolic repetition of patterns to their daily lives

·        Formulate objects and images that incorporate patterns and meaning

·        Observe the way other people groups create patterns

·        Analyze the meaning of a pattern

·        Evaluate the purpose of patterns

·        Compare/contrast patterns of different time periods

Essential Questions:

• What does this pattern mean?
• How do patterns represent a people group and their ideas, beliefs and experiences?
• How are patterns created?
• What shapes and symbols are often repeated?
• How are patterns developed in other disciplines, such as math, science or social studies?
• What values are important to me?
• What symbols can I use to express who I am?

Assessment Criteria:

Challenge

Pattern show use of symbols

Defines the purpose of patterns used by at least one culture

Describes purpose behind personal pattern

Super Challenge

Patterns incorporate a variety of symbols that effectively link together

Compares and contrasts the patterns between two cultures

Communicates the full meaning of symbols used in personal pattern to express individuality

Mega Challenge

Patterns incorporate a variety of  symbols and characters that display meaning, ideas and values

Correlates the use of repetition, symbolism and image representation between a large variety of cultures

Provokes others to recognize values and ideas based on discussion of personal pattern and how it relates to the cultural group it was created within yet incorporating other cultural viewpoints as well

St. Matthew the Evangelist is from the Ebbo Gospels, illuminated c.840 A.D.

Artists:

Artworks:

Artists from the Carolingian Period

Wood-carved ornaments (church art)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8063/carolingian.html

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/ent/A0810537.html

Julian Schnabel

The Walk Home

http://www.haberarts.com/emins.htm

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/schnabel_julian.html

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Schnabel%2C+Julian

Anselm Kiefer

Vater, Sohn, Heiliger Geist

http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/kiefer_anselm.html

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kiefer.html

Gunter Behnisch

Husolar Institute Building

http://www.wiegels.net/serien/olympia.htm

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

http://www.judychicago.com/

Victor Vasarely

Orion

http://www.allposters.com/Galleryc.asp?aid=99864&parentaid=0&search=Victor+Vasarely

http://www.sunnetwork.com/art/vv.html

Bridget Riley

Current

http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs/riley/

http://www.repligator.com/Riley.htm

Jackson Pollock

Lucifer

http://www.allposters.com/Galleryc.asp?aid=99864&parentaid=0&search=Jackson+Pollock

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/criticaleye/ce990217.htm

Gustav Klimt

Death and Life

http://www.globalgallery.com/ggresult.asp?ref=goto&artist=klimt&cnt=0&search=TRUE

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects97/klimt/

Mycenae artist

Warrior Vase

http://www.cc.rochester.edu/MAG/passport4.htm