Mr. Dorrough’s Class Blog

The Reformation was a time when the religious change.  The root word for “Reformation” is reform.  To reform something means to change it with out throwing it away.

In class today we answered the Pre Reading questions.

Pre-Reading Questions

I will be collecting your text books tomorrow.  Bring them to class with you.

imagine that you were going to give an award to the most important person who lived in the 20th century.  What criteria would you use to select this person?  Who would you choose.  Rosa Parks?  Nelson Mandela?  Walt Disney?  Your parents?  Martin Luther King Jr.?  Winston Churchill?  Cesar Chavez?

Pick any one of these, or someone else, and list three of their major accomplishments  and/or major events of their life.

In the preview 30 you are asked to do this, and to illustrate their accomplishments.

We are going to look at the lives of ten important people and then we are going to asses their place in history.

In class today we did the pre reading questions for chapter 30.

Pre-Reading Questions

For Home Work I assigned essential questions #3 and 4.

This week we will be looking at ten people who had a major impact on world history during the Renaissance.

In class today we will be working on our key terms for chapter 30.

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Due to the seventh grade field trip this wee we had the same agenda today as yesterday.  Most of you missed one day or the other.   By Wenseday you must complete the pre-reading questions, and have at least 5 key terms done.

We are testing this week.  There will not be any posts to the website this week.

We are going to spent the next two days we are going to watch a movie about Michelangelo’s painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling for Julius II.

Today we have looked at the characteristics of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance art.

Characteristics of Classical Art (500 BCE to 500 CE)

Venus Bathing (unknown artist) 400 C.E.
Artists valued balance and harmony
Lifelike and idealize (more perfect than real life)
Figures were nude or draped in robes
Faces were calm without emotion
Little or no sense of perspective

Characteristics of Medieval Art (500 to 1300 CE)

Madonna and child by Giotto 1200 C. E.
Mostly religious
Important people are larger than others around them
No sense of movement
People were fully dressed
Faces were serious
Bright colors

Characteristics of Renaissance Art (1300s to early 1600s CE)

Madonna With Child and Two Angels

Both religious and non-religious subjects
Interest in nature
Figures were lifelike and three dimensional
Bodies were active showing movement
Real people doing everyday things
Representation of light
Paintings were symmetrical
Background showed perspective

I think that it is best to give an extra day fr key terms because we have so many.

•    Renaissance
•    humanism
•    Silk Road
•    Marco Polo
•    patron
•    city-state
•    republic
•    Venice
•    Petrarch
•    humanities