Posted in In Class Today on Jun 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
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
Posted in In Class Today on May 28th, 2008 No Comments »
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.
Posted in In Class Today on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
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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Budget Vocabulary Matrix
chapter-30-standard-guide
Posted in In Class Today on May 12th, 2008 No Comments »
We are testing this week. There will not be any posts to the website this week.
Posted in In Class Today on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
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.
Posted in In Class Today on May 7th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in In Class Today on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
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
Posted in In Class Today on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »
As we near the end of the school year we are moving out of the “Middle Ages” and int early modern history. This begins with the Renaissance, which was a time of re – birth. Art changes from stout and stark religious works to bright and cheerfully works that depict humans in every [...]
Posted in In Class Today on Apr 29th, 2008 No Comments »
This will be our last week studying the civilizations of Mesoamerica.
Today we worked on the Preview activity for chapter 27. What are the most influential inventions of the past 50 years? Do you think people will be using them in 500 years from now? How about 700 years from Now?
In class today we compleeted [...]
Posted in In Class Today on Apr 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Our unit 6 project is to create postcards depicting daily life in Tenochitilan.
You can extend this to life in Mesoamerica during the time we have been studying.
A postcard has two parts, and your postcards will also have two parts. A picture or graphic, and witting.
Follow this link to the criteria guide and rubric [...]
