Unit Design

Unit Title: The Pacific (Oceanic Art): Art Over the Greatest Expanse
Course: AP Art History

Unit Length: 3 days

Date Created: 7/2/2015

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 Pacific (Oceanic Art)
Terra Cotta Fragment (Fragments of a Large
Lapita Jar) (review)
Ambum Stone (review)
Buk (mask)
The Korambo or Ceremonial House of the
Abelam of Papua New Guinea
Asmat Ancestral Spirit Poles (Bisj)
Malagan Display and Mask
Staff God
(with detail and contextual image)
Moai on Platform (Ahu)
Female Deity
Navigation Chart
Nan Madol
Hiapo (tapa)
Ahu ula (feather cape)
Tamati Waka Nene (Gottfried Lindauer)
Presentation of Fijian Mats and Tapa Cloths
to Queen Elizabeth II

Concepts/Topics/Unit Vocabulary
The Peopling of the Pacific
(review)
Lapita
anthropomorphic
zoomorphic
The Power of Belief
Dreamtime/the Dreaming
increase rites
le op
korambo
spirit poles (bisj)

Readings and
Assessments
Concepts/Topics/Unit Vocabulary
The Power of Belief (cont.)
moai
tufa
marae
ahu
pukao
dinonga eidu
Navigation and Architecture
wapepe or mattang
header courses
stretcher courses

malagan

Textile Arts
tapa

mana
tiki

Pacific (Oceanic) Royalty

ahu ula

Chapter 27 pages
858-877
Reading Guide
8-A
Graphic
Organizers and
Worksheets
Writing
Assessments
Completed Unit 8
Image Matrixes
Unit Test
Matrixes with
Images - Unit 9

staff god

Learner/Performance Objectives: The student will . . .

Assessments/Evidence

1. Define and use unit vocabulary.

2. Identify works of art.
3. Explain what Pacific (Oceanic) art tells us about the Pacific Islanders.
4. Distinguish between Pacific (Oceanic) arts, created in a variety of media,
by examining various ecological situations, social structure, and external
impacts.

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

5. Examine how the sea, which both connects and separates the lands and
peoples of the Pacific, plays an important role and is a major theme of
Pacific (Oceanic) art.
6. Discover how the use of costumes, cosmetics, and constructions, to
perform ancestral rituals, are central to the creation of and participation
in Pacific (Oceanic) arts.
7. Recognize how Pacific (Oceanic) arts are objects, acts, and events that
are forces in social life.
8. Identify the role that the human body plays as a subject in Pacific
(Oceanic) art.
9. Compare and contrast between artwork created with ephemeral and
enduring materials in different societies across the Pacific.

Unit Resources/Materials:
Textbooks Videos Powerpoint Presentations

- graphic organizers
Product (e.g., essay, model, project)
- image matrixes
- writing assessment
Process (e.g., observations, discussions)
- observation
- classroom discussions
- pair share
- oral questioning