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Gothic Period

Main Core Tie

Interior Design 3
Strand 4 Standard 4

Time Frame

1 class periods of 90 minutes each

Group Size

Individual

Life Skills

Thinking & Reasoning

Authors

SUE E. WINKLER

Summary

Learn about the Gothic period and complete an assignment about the Gothic period.


Materials

1. Gothic power point presentation.
2. Gothic outline.


Background for Teachers

Be familiar with power point presentation on Gothic culture.

I cover the entire section of Architecture furniture and history. I break it up into each time period. Each class period consists of approximately 2 of these time periods, such as Greek and Roman in 1-90 minute period. I have several lesson plans on architecture and furniture history, just know that I usually try to get through at least 2 time periods each class session. Each lesson consists of a power point presentation with graphics, an outline for the students to fill out, and a project where they have to sketch an object from the time, and then get a picture of a piece of current furniture influenced by some of the details of that time period.


Student Prior Knowledge

None.


Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will find Gothic influences in modern day furniture and architecture.


Instructional Procedures

Attachments

Websites

  • Gothic Cathedral
    Good information and great graphics of architecture of the gothic period.
  • Middle Ages
    Information and graphics about Gothic architecture.

1. Hand out the Gothic outline to the students.

2. As you review the information from the power point presentation, have students write down the information on their outline from the presentation. (I try to do a lot of study before I begin the lecture, so I add other information about what I have researched to this lecture.)

3. When lecture is completed, I have the students start on the sketching assignment. Students will sketch a chair from the Gothic time period. (They must not copy, but do their best to sketch!) To this, they will also look in magazines to find a pictures of a piece of furniture or architectural detail that might have been influenced by the time period. For example, students could find a picture of a gothic shaped archway in a bedroom. For their description of the picture, they could say that this bedroom was influenced by the Gothic period because of it's use of gothic shaped arches. Then they will need to be able to recognize a picture of a Gothic cathedral such as Notre Dame for a test. My students are expected to turn this assignment in for grading, then they create a portfolio out of all of the history we have talked about in class.


Assessment Plan

See the attached rubric for Gothic.


Bibliography

USOE Interior Design curriculum


Rubrics

Created: 07/12/2003
Updated: 02/05/2018
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