overview


 * 1. What overarching understandings are desired for this unit?**


 * This unit explores these big ideas:**
 * 1) Some artists use disguise in their work as a way of exploring issues of identity.
 * 2) Disguise serves several purposes in both nature and world cultures.
 * 3) Since ancient times artists have explored the concept of disguise in their work.
 * 4) Some artists use disguise to incite emotions in viewers.
 * 5) Disguise allows artists to make the fantastic a reality.
 * 6) People use disguise and costume to communicate feelings and thoughts.
 * 2. What are the essential questions and enduring understandings for this unit?**


 * This unit explores these essential questions:**
 * 1) How do artists use disguise in their work?
 * 2) Why do artists use disguise in their work?
 * 3) How are masks used as disguise in different cultures?
 * 4) Why do we disguise/hide ourselves?
 * 5) How is disguise used in nature?
 * 6) How does wearing a disguise influence the actions of the wearer? The viewer?
 * 7) How does wearing a disguise affect the people surrounding the wearer?
 * 8) How is costume a disguise?
 * 9) How do costumes and masks accentuate an event, feeling or experience?
 * 10) How do costumes and disguises communicate to others?
 * 11) How do superheroes disguise themselves?
 * 12) How are masks and disguises used to exaggerate a person's feelings and thoughts?

**3. What will students understand or be able to do as a result of this unit?** (Unit goals)

 * As a result of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of:**
 * 1) different ways (and reasons) that selected artists use disguise in their work.
 * 2) different functions that disguise serve in cultures, past and present.
 * 3) how animals and insects use disguise for survival and other purposes.
 * 4) how they can use disguise as a symbol or metaphor in art.
 * 5) how they use disguise in everyday life.
 * 6) how people in general use disguise in everyday life.
 * 7) ways in which disguise raises questions about identity.

4. What "unit" questions will focus this unit?
different ways (and reasons) that selected artists use disguise in their work.

- How (and why) do specific artists use disguise in their work? - What are the different uses of disguise in different cultures? - Why do certain cultures use certain disguises? - What are the similarities in the way disguise is used in different cultures? - How does history/cultural tradition play a part in the use of disguise? - Why are some disguises timeless? (ex: the DEVIL) - What functions do disguise serve in nature? - What can we learn from the ways in which disguise is used in nature? - How do artists appropriate ideas of disguise in nature? - How do artists incorporate nature's use of disguise into their own work? - How can we use disguise as a symbol or a metaphor in art? - What are some ways disguise is used in everyday life?

How will students explore these questions and demonstrate these understandings? See Projects.