This lesson helps students learn about the Ancient Egyptian system of writing using pictures or Hieroglyphs. It demonstrates a different format and style of communicating. It also exemplifies a common connection between the modern cartoon or Manga cartoons, the communication methods of the Ancient Egyptians and contemporary emoticons or Emojis.
CA State Standards:
1.Develop Perceptual Skills and Visual Arts Vocabulary:
• 1.1 Identify and use the principles of design to discuss, analyze, and write about visual aspects in the environment and in works of art, including their own.
• 1.2 Describe the principles of design as used in works of art, focusing on dominance and subordination.
2. Skills, Processes, Materials, and Tools
• 2.1 Solve a visual arts problem that involves the effective use of the elements of art and the principles of design. original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their feelings and points of view. ((TPE 7)
3. Historical and Cultural Context:
Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of the Visual Arts
Students analyze the role and development of the visual arts in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting human diversity as it relates to the visual arts and artists.
4. Role and Development of the Visual Arts
• 4.1 Identify similarities and differences in the purposes of art created in selected cultures.
• 4.2 Identify and describe the role and influence of new technologies on contemporary works of art.
5. Diversity of the Visual Arts
• 5.1 Identify and describe trends in the visual arts and discuss how the issues of time, place, and cultural influence are reflected in selected works of art.
• 5.2 Discuss the purposes of art in selected contemporary cultures.
Resources:
Ancient Egyptian Art; An Introduction.
Akhet Egyptology: Horizon to the Past
What Do You Know About Cartouche
Students will be able to solve visual art problems by :
Learning about a Cartouche ( an oval or oblong enclosing a group of Egyptian hieroglyphs, typically representing the name and title of a monarch). Students will determine the spelling of their own name in Ancient Egyptian.
Students will effectively use Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs to write and communicate a story line.
Students will learn that Hieroglyphs are read in vertical rows that are delineated by parallel lines or columns and that the viewer reads starting from the upper left corner and then reads down the length of the column.
Students will understand that complete grammatical sentences do not apply in Ancient Egyptian writing. That there is no punctuation or overall sentence structure and no “waxing poetic”, just the facts.
Students will understand that visual images that are incorporated into the drawing, are stylized and easily reproducible and are to be featured though out their own Hieroglyphic composition in varying sizes and vignettes.
Materials to be used are student sketch-book, Papyrus paper, ruler, erasure, pencil, Sharpie and watercolor.
Rubric:
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