Rubrics for Evaluating RSP-PR-01 to RSP-FN-01

Criter Excellent Very Good Good Fair Poor

ia (26-30) (22-25) (18-21) (15-17) (1-14)
All items required Most of the Some of the Most of the Almost all of
Completeness

are present. required required required the required

drawings are drawings are present. drawings are drawings are lacking.
complete. present.

All items included Most items included Some items Some items Most items included
Substance

are in accordance are in accordance included are in included are not in are not in
and relevant to and relevant to accordance and accordance and accordance and
Accuracy

topic and are topic and are relevant to topic irrelevant to topic irrelevant to topic and
intelligently intelligently and are intelligently and are intelligently are intelligently
selected. selected. selected. selected. selected.

Presentation Excellent Very good Good presentation Fair presentation Poor

presentation presentation technique. technique. presentation
technique. technique. technique.

MODULE 2
Architecture of the Ancient Near East/West Asiatic Architecture

This module introduces you to the early architecture of Mesopotamia and Persia.
Mesopotamia was known as the “Cradle of Civilization”. The concept of cities started in this
period when settlements are built aimed at permanence with improved building
technologies and materials.

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 INFLUENCES

HISTORY
• Started as villages on the flat land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers -
“Mesopotamia”
• Turned into city-states with populations of thousands
• Each city-state surrounded by a wall and dominated by a large temple
• Society of kings, craftsmen, soldiers, farmers, priests
• Fought and traded with each other
• Sometimes would conquer each other and form an empire

Mesopotamian
• City-states of Ur, Babylon, Agade, Ashur and Damascus
• 2334 BC, King Sargon of Agade formed the first major empire
• 1792 BC, next by King Hammurabi
• Instituted laws to keep order
• Invention of writing - pictograms or cuneiform records on clay tablets

Assyrian
• Based in Ashur, biggest empire under King Ashurbanipal – conquered
Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine and Egypt

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 Persian
• Begun by Cyrus the Great from 559 to 529 BC
• Covered Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Eastern Mediterranean, Bactria, Indus
Valley and North Africa
• Darius I had provinces ruled by a satrap, who guarded the roads, collected
taxes and controlled the army
• Local peoples were allowed to keep their religions and customs
• Capital moved from Susa to Persepolis
• Network of roads linking the royal court to other parts of the empire – from
Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia
• Traded raw materials, carpets and spices
• Darius and Xerxes tried to conquer Greece
• Ended with the defeat of Darius III to Alexander the Great of Macedonia

RELIGION

• Each city-state worshipped their own

god for protection
• People aimed to make peace with
their wrathful god

GEOGRAPHY and GEOLOGY

Fertile Crescent:
• Marshlands with few natural advantages aside from water and soil
• Import materials like hardwood and metals
Also:
• Deserts of the Arabian Peninsula
• Mountains and plateaux from west to east

ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER

MATERIALS
• Only materials readily available was clay, soil, reeds, rushes
• Bricks made of mud and chopped straw, sun-dried or kiln-fired
• Timber, copper, tin, lead gold, silver imported

DECORATION
• Colossal winged-bulls guarding chief portals
• Polychrome glazed bricks in blue, white, yellow, green
• Murals of decorative continuous stone

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 EXAMPLES
ZIGGURATS
• Religious buildings built next to temples
• On top was a small temple

Development:
• Archaic ziggurat
• Two or Three-staged ziggurat
• Seven-staged ziggurat during the Assyrian period

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 Ziggurat at Ur, 2000 BC

PALACES
• Kings celebrated their victories, wealth and power by building large palaces

Palace Platform at Persepolis

• Ruins still exist
• 50 years to build
• People from all over the empire were involved in its construction
• Variety of architectural styles
• parts: audience halls, reception halls, storerooms for tributes and valuables,
military quarters, apadana – tallest building, with 36 columns of 20m height

DWELLINGS
• Known as Megaron
• Entrance at end rather than on the long sides
• Portico - colonnaded space forming an entrance or vestibule, with a roof
supported on one side by columns
• Suited to climate of Anatolian plateau

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 Engage: Research on notable architectural edifices of ancient East and West Asia.

Explore: Readings on culture of ancient East and West Asia.

Explain: Class discussions of architecture of ancient East and West Asia.

Elaborate: Quiz PR-01 : Quiz on architecture of ancient East and West Asia. See Annex
D.1.(graded activity)

Evaluate: Plate on Architecture of the Ancient Near East/West Asiatic Architecture:

RSP-MT-02 “West Asiatic Architecture”

Research on the following key terms:

a. Eridu
b. Cuneiform
c. Invention of wheel and how did it help the building of the early
cities
d. Ziggurats: Seven-staged ziggurat during the Assyrian period
e. Apadana Column, Megaron
f. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
g. Tower of Babel
h. PPE: people (including: King Nebuchadnezzar), places, and
events. Include a feature on the lifestyle of people in the
prehistoric times.

You must look for definitions, locations, history, illustrations, and actual
examples if there are, to be carefully summarized and compiled in a plate. All
contents of the plate will be done manually from texts to illustrations. Use
standard paper format, refer to Annex B. Divide drawing space into 4
quadrants, same as first plate. Fit items a, b, c in quadrant 1; d & e in 2, f & g
in 3, and h in 4. Minimum requirement is that all the plate content be in
pencil, though you may use ink and coloring materials too. (see Annex C for
sample plate for reference)

MODULE 3
Architecture of Ancient Egypt

This module will let you recognize how political, social, environmental, economic and
religious developments impacted the architecture of the period which is generally classified
into three namely: Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and lastly, New Kingdom.

Engage: Readings on the geographical, geological, climatic, religious, socio-political,

and historical influences of Egyptian Architecture. For additional reference you may
also watch video on Egyptian Architecture at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do3oFnaoYCM

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