Warli Art from India

Here are links to the articles and videos you'll need to use to complete the worksheet.

Read this article and answer the questions.  Read only the section on Warli Folk Painting

https://knowindia.gov.in/culture-and-heritage/folk-and-tribal-art/warli-folk-painting.php


Watch this video. The artist is drawing the story while he is telling it using modern technology and traditional Warli art.  Answer the questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbFzmxLQcxk&t=321s


Watch the Trapa instrument being played while the people dance. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnYDjQ-FF70


Coca-Cola videos with Warli art from 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlg9qnw664


Documentary on the Warli Tribe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Mvr7rUWRo


When you are finished, see Mr. Chester for materials to make your own Warli artwork.

Create a scene from your own life.  Fill the page with artwork.

NHD Website and Documentary Information

WEBSITES

To create a website for National History Day go to nhd.org/nhdwebcentral.

There you will be able to register, see videos about how to  make a website and log-in to the web site program.

To register you will need your parents email  and phone number.  To register, go  here.  You can register and then sign in to the program.

Before you make your website, watch the how-to videos here.  Select the Step-by-Step Videos button to view them.  They are short and very helpful.

DOCUMENTARIES

You  may use any video design software you have to make your video, including iMovie.  You can make your doumentary on your phone.

If you don't have video design software,  you can use Adobe Spark for free on your Chrome book.

Go to your  Clever.com page and click on the icon for Adobe Spark.  Set up your account.  If you can do this at home you can go ahead and start work on your documentary.  There are some video tutorials at Adobe that you can watch before you begin.

To capture/convert Youtube and other videos follow these steps:

• Find your video and then copy the url link
• Go to www.onlinevideoconverter.com or another video converter program.
• Select convert video link
• Paste the url link of your video in the box
• Convert the video to an mp4 file.
• After the conversion, press download. This will put the file in your  drive probably in a file labelled downloads.
• Go to your documentary in Spark
• Select the + button and choose video
• You should be able to find your video in the drive folder that pops up.
• Edit video to include just the portion you want to include.  Be care here because you cannot undo this action.  You can delete the slide and redo it.
• Save your work

This looks like a lot of steps, but once I figured it out, it was fairly easy to do.

However, if you can put video in your documentary on a laptop or other computer, it's much easier than doing it on a Chromebook.  You can just download the files to your desktop after they are converted and then upload them to Spark.

The National Parks in Walk Two Moons: A Travelling One-Pager Poster

In the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Salamanca and her grandparents take a trip across America from Euclid, Ohio to Lewiston, Idaho to see Sal's mother.  Along the way they stop at four national parks:  Yellowstone, Badlands, Mt. Rushmore and Pipestone National Monument.

For this assignment,  you  will select one of these four parks to research and create a one-pager poster encouraging tourists to visit.

Use the links below to find the national park website for your project.  You should be able to get all of the information you need from that website.  However, you may do additional research. 

Your one-pager poster should include:

• a slogan featuring the name of your park. For example: "Visit Yosemite: You're Half-Crazy if You Don't See Half-Dome" or "See Death Valley; It's To Die For."
• a border that relates to your assigned park.
• a list of basic information including:
• visitor center hours
• entry costs
• campsites and other facilities like restaurants and/or stores
• a description of two things visitors can do or see at the park. This should be written as a paragraph in a way that will attract visitors.
• one or two large illustrations of  major park attractions.  You must create your own artwork.  No printouts or photos. Ask your teacher about tracing, but probably not.
• other creative touches and information to make your one-paper visually appealing and interesting reading.

Your one-pager poster should be written to encourage people to come and see your park.  Think of it as an advertisement.

Choose one of the parks below for your project:

Yellowstone National Park

Badlands National Park

Mt. Rushmore National Memorial

Pipestone National Monument

Read over the website for your park then create your one-pager on large paper.

This assignment is due on  Thursday , Nov. 7.

Hugo Cabret: Automaton One-Pager

Create a one-pager on Maillardet's automaton using text and images to creatively highlight the most important information. Be sure to include the following:

• The definition of automaton (the plural is automata)
• A description of how Maillardet's automaton works and its capabilities
• A description of the following items:
• the automaton's history, including its creation and creator
• how it was damaged
• the roles Charles Penninman, Bryan Selznick, and Andy Baron played in restoring the device
• its influence on the novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

You can use these links to complete the one-pager assignment about Maillardet's automaton.

Read Andrew Baron’s essay

http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/andrew_hugo_auto.htm

CBS Sunday Morning video The Lost Art of Automata Lives Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7oSFNKIlaM

The Maillardet automaton in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfeNC28vpYo


You may type up the written part of your project, cut it out and glue it onto your one-pager, however, you must draw your own artwork by hand.

Thomas Aquinas Video

This video was made by a group of teachers several years ago.

The music is the song 'Venus' by Bananarama.

The Church Poem Project

Students all received a longer version of these directions in class on  Monday.

Create an illuminated manuscript of a poem describing the structure of the Roman Catholic Church and its influence on daily life in Medieval Europe.

• Nine stanzas.  
• The first letters of the stanzas spell out "The Church".
• The 'T' must be illuminated.  Other letters may also be illuminated
• Student may create their own illuminations or us on-line sources
• Use nine words from the word bank.
• Use correct spelling and grammar

Rhyming is encouraged but not required.

Grades will be largely based on how much accurate history each poem contains.

Word bank

cathedral
monasticism
sacraments
diocese
parish
salvation
Emperor Henry IV
pilgrimages
Thomas Aquinas
excommunication
Pope Gregory VII
universities
holy days
religious orders

The poem should fit on the left side of a ledge size paper.  Your stained class artwork will go on the right side.  (See the example above.)

This project is due on Friday, Sept. 27.  It is a high-value, 60% project.

Annotated Castle Projects

Browse through the book Castle by David Macaulay.

Use David Macaulay's book, your history book and your journal notes to create an annotated "drawing" of a Medieval European castle.  Due Thursday, Sept 19.  You will  have time in class to work on this project today (Friday). After today, this is homework.

You may trace. You may use artistic methods other than drawing.

You may draw all or part of the castle.  You may do a "bird's-eye" drawing. You may include the manor or a town as part of your drawing.  You  may do any type of defensive European Medieval castle from the years 1000 to 1400. They must be realistic. No fantasy castles or fantasy elements.

Include 10 annotations (2-3 sentences each).  An annotation is more than just a label.  Annotations include full sentences explaining the item they label

• Six annotations should label and explain a part of the castle:  Do some research on this.  You may include basic things like a bailey or a drawbridge, but higher scoring projects will include things like the portcullis, murder holes, garderobes, arrow loops, parapets.  (Look  them up.)
• Four should label and describe a person: one for each of the four main social classes.  (Monarch, lords/ladies, knights, peasants).  You can draw these people or you can simply draw a line to the room in the castle where the monarch stays for example.  Tell something about that class or type of person.  How they live. What kind of work they do. etc.

Annotations should contain lots of historical information

Drawings (artwork) should show effort.

Here are some examples of annotated castles I have found.  Some of these would not get a very good grade from me because their annotations are so short and contain so little information. But they are all very good artwork.

There is also one in your history book on page 71 and 73.  

You may trace a picture in Castle for this project as long as your work shows effort.  

National History Day: Breaking Barriers in History - Possible Themes

Here are some links to lists of possible themes.

The NHD 2020 Theme Book has many suggestions linked to different museums and historical groups. You'll have to scroll down towards the last third of the guide book where they are listed.  It's a good idea to read through this book to get a good since of what is involved in winning National History Day.

Check this space for additional topics. We'll add more as we find them.

NHD-CA Topic List

Breaking Barriers in History 

Physical Barriers
Berlin Wall 
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Cumberland Gap & Daniel Boone
Transcontinental Railroad
John Wesley Powell 
Panama Canal
Building of the Golden Gate Bridge
Japanese Internment

Innovation Barriers 
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Hedy Lamar (Mathmatician/Actress)
Cecilia Payne Gasosdekin 
Development of Braille
Susan LaFlesche Picotte
Joseph Lister
Nuclear Weapons
Heart Transplant
Smallpox Vaccine
Apollo Mission
Margret Hamilton
AIDS / HIV Crisis
Development of Communication: 
Telegram, Telephone, Radio
Valery Legasov, Chernobyl
Buck vs. Bell
Eli Whitney
Samuel Morse
Robert Fulton
Penicillin 
John Audubon
John Muir
Dorothea Dix
Women in Scientific Revolution: 
Countess of Lovelace, Maria Winkelmann,   

Countess of Chinchon, Emilie du Châtelet,

Maria Cunitz, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,

Margaret Cavendish, Elisabeth Hevelius
Clara Barton, American Red Cross
Alexander Graham Bell
Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison

Legal Barriers
Trail of Peter John Zenger, 1735
Homestead Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Scopes Monkey Trial
Westminster v. Mendez
Truman Desegregation 
Chief Justice Earl Warren & the Warren Court
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954)
Ruby Bridges
Little Rock Nine
Boston Busing Boycotts
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Perez v. Sharp (1948)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) 
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
West Virginia v. Barnette (1943)
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
Cohen v. California (1971)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Americans with Disabilities Act
Education of Handicapped Children Act
504 Sit-ins 
Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Voting Rights Act

Societal Barriers
Romanticism Literature
Reformation
Counter Reformation
Papal Schism
Martin Luther, 98 Theses 
Akbar, the Mughal Empire, and Divine Faith
Russian Orthodoxy
Gutenberg Printing Press
Ann Hutchinson
Great Awakening
El Clamor Publico
Allensworth Township
Booker T. Washington 
Nellie Bly
Thomas Gallaudet
Hellen Keller
Tennessee Home for Children
Jane Addams, Hull House
Jacob Riis
Margaret Sanger
Flappers
Jesse Owens
Code Talkers
Zoot Suit Riots
Private Desmond Doss
Greensboro Sit-ins 
Lavender Scare
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference 
1968 Mexico City Olympics 
Black Power Movement
NAACP
Walter White - Anti-lynching activist
Harvey Milk
Stonewall
Temple Grandin
WACS: women in the armed services 
Chicano Student Walkout in LA High Schools
Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs
Gloria Steinem
Phyllis Schafly 
Sandra Day O’Connor
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy

Political Barriers
Pericles
Cincinnatus
Anne of Cleves
Benazir Bhutto
King George & Qian Long
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Mary of Scots
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
Mayflower Compact 
Roger Williams
Sons of Liberty 
Paul Revere
Boston Tea Party 1773
Benjamin Franklin
Declaration of Independence
French Revolution  
Maximilien Robespierre
Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
Political Parties
Alexander Hamilton
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
Toussaint L ’Overture
Bonaparte Napoleon
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Ida B. Wells
Susan B. Anthony
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) 
National Woman’s Party (NWA)
Wyoming granting women’s suffrage 
Alice Paul
Virginia Woodhull
Eugene V. Debs’ Leadership of the American Socialist Movement
New Deal and Great Society
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wilma Mankiller
Thurgood Marshall
Shirley Chisholm
Affirmative Action
Bakke v. University of California (1978) 
Nixon’s Southern Strategy 
Chicano Student Walkouts 
Chicano Park 
People’s Park
Walter Cronkite and Vietnam
Watergate Journalism
Geraldine Ferraro

International/Diplomatic Barriers
Treaty of Westphalia Congress of Vienna
Monroe Doctrine
Perry Expedition
54° 40' or Fight 
Treaty of Waitangi 

Environmental Barriers
Chernobyl
Animals in World War I
California Grizzly
California Coastal Commision
Bodega Head Nuclear Power Plant
Three Mile Island
Biosphere
National Parks Service Act
Bowman v. Monsanto (2013)
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Pat Brown California Aqueducts 

Theoretical Barriers
Thomas More, Utopian Theory
John Locke
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
John von Neumann, Game Theory
Carl Sagan
Manifest Destiny

Economic Barriers
Silk Road
Pax Mongolica
Trans-Saharan Trade
Sakoku 
Henry the Navigator
British-Chinese Trade
Columbian Exchange
Three Gorges Dam
Dutch Trading Company
Adam Smith
National Road
Homestead Act
Transcontinental Railroad
Biddy Mason
Pullman Porters Strike 
Railroad Strike of 1877 
Grange Movement
Labor Reform
Mother Jones
Great Migrations
Tucker 48
Interstate Highway Act
Female Property Ownership
Cesar Chavez
Creation of Standard Time
California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
Civilian Conservation Corps
Rosie the Riveter
Curt Flood
Free Agency in Baseball
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 

Artistic Barriers
Muse d'Orsay
Impressionism
Pablo Picasso
E.E. Cummings
Ida Lupino
Tommy Dorsey
Maria Tallchief
Oscar Michaeny
Andy Warhol
Hollywood Studio System
Frank Lloyd Wright
Woodstock
Harlem Renaissance
Royal Chicano Air Force
Pearl S. Buck
Women New Wave Artist
Amy Tan
Brancusi v. US (1928)
Jazz -
Marian Anderson 

Create Your Own Hero's Journey Projects

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Create your own hero's journey story using the nine story dice and as many of the hero's journey elements as you can.

You must use all of the nine story dice in your story.  You can use the same one more than once. You can use other characters, locations, items and any other items you would like to use.

High scoring projects will feature most of the elements.  These are the elements we discussed in class:

The hero.
Ordinary world.
World of the unknown/adventure.
Call to adventure.
Refusal/acceptance of the call
Threshold guardian
Crossing the threshold
Allies/helper
Mentor
Supernatural aid/talisman
Shadow
Tests/trials
Supreme ordeal/abyss
Death/resurrection
Journey home
Transformation
Atonement
Reward/boon

You can find many of these terms in your English journal.  Others you can find on-line or in the video we watched in class.

Select the elements you want to include in your project and put them in the correct place around the circle.  Using complete sentences describe how each element works in you story.  Add details to make your story exciting.  Your story can contain fantastic elements; it can be funny; but it must clearly make sense as a hero's journey.  

Include illustrations.

High scoring projects will have 250 to 500 words.  They will have short paragraphs for each element.  They will have illustrations that show effort went into making them.  They will be written in ink or typed.  They will include creative touches and ideas.

This is a high-value 60% project in English.

Projects are due Thursday, Sept. 12.

Here are the dice rolled for each class:

Period 1/2

Period 3/4

Period 5

Renaissance Action Figures

The Ed-U-Fun Group is designing a line of Renaissance action figures to sell to history teachers and students.  They already have a William Shakespeare doll test figure designed.

You have been hired to design an action figure and write a biography for the package.

Select one Renaissance figure (person) from the list below.  Research the life of that person.  The Ed-U-Fun Group wants you to design and present the following items:

• An action figure.  The figure must include two items it can hold, one in each hand. These must be detachable.  
• A 250 word biography of the figure that will go on the back of the packaging.  This biography must fit on one side of one piece of paper and should include these things:
• A brief passage about the overall life of the figure-- childhood, major events in their life, achievements.  This should be appropriate for 11 to 14-year-old students. Keep it interesting.
• An explanation of the two items. This may be a bullet list, but should be written in an interesting way. 
• A summary of why the figure is important in history and how he or she contributed to the Renaissance and/or the world. 
• The year of your figures birth and death and their birthplace.
• A portrait of the figure.
• At least one good quote from your figure; something important or impressive your figure said or wrote. Put this at the bottom of your paper.

Begin your project by selecting a figure from the list below.  Let Mr. Chester know whom you have selected.  The Ed-U-Group wants to see as many Renaissance figure designs as possible.

You will have  this week to type up your paper, create your action figure and prepare your presentation for Tuesday, June 11.   If you're not going to be in class on that day, make arrangements with Mr. Chester to present your action figure early.

Speeches must be memorized this time and should last about 60 seconds.  Your action figure and the accessories will be your visuals.

Possible Renaissance figures

List A

• Leonardo da Vinci         Anthony       Shaun    Roxy
• Michelangelo               Bryce     Sullivan    Riley
• Galileo Galilei           Christian   Bryan     Luis C. 
• Nicolaus Copernicus     Nic          ------     Maya
• Isabella I of Spain           Megan    Olivia      Iris
• Elizabeth I of England    Connie   Gracie      Valentina
• Christopher Columbus      Jefry     Fernanda    Sam
• Martin Luther                ------          Dylan          Gabe
• King Henry VIII          Martin        --------
• Vasco da Gama           Fernando    -------
• Ferdinand Magellan    Desani       Logan    Owen
• Hernan Cortes              Juan         David
• Titian                           Isaac        Titian
• Albrecht Durer            ----------    Isaiah
• Andreas Vesalius         ----------    Serbie    Wally
• William Shakespeare        Sola    Kian        Josie
• Miguel Cervantes          Nilson    ----------    Jose

List B

• Catherine de Medici        Ella       ----------     Gabby
• Dante Alighieri                -------  Juleyda          Frankie
• Filippo Brunelleschi        ---------  Leisman     Alex
• Sandro Boticelli               -------     --------
• Machiavelli                   ---------      ---------
• Sir Walter Raliegh          ----------   Piper
• Anne Bolyn            Sofia              Jessica      Amelia
• Francisco Pizarro     Betsabe         --------
• Henry Hudson          Ben               ---------
• Johannes Kepler          Liam          ---------
• Johannes Gutenberg       -----------  ----------
• Marco Polo                Isiah           Joe          Logan

List C

• Donatello                         Bhargav   Cesar    Miguel
• Girolamo Cardano          ---------      --------
• Lorenzo de Medici          ----------  ---------
• Queen Mary of England       Sabine    Priscilla    Hailey
• Prince Henry the Navigator      -------  ---------
• Pedro Cabral                         -------       Eddie     Will
• Giovanni da Verrazano          Casey     ---------
• Antoine van Leeuwenhoek       --------  --------
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit       ---------   Jackie
• Artemisia Gentileschi              -------    ------------
• Isabella d'Este                Ada              -------------     Daniela
• Lucretia Borgia           ----------          -------------   Jade
• Ben Jonson               --------        Amari    Ben 
• Elisabetti Sirani       Kaylin            ------------       Audrey
• Raphael (Sanzio)    Sammy          Hegel       Jimmy
• Petrus Apianus        Siena         ----------------   Christopher

List D

• Other people you can suggest

Grades will be based on three things: Your speech, your written paper, your action figure.  Each will be work 1/3 of your overall grade.  

This is an  80% assignment.

Which Greaser Are You?

   

Which Greaser are you?

Complete this assignment in your  English journal.  Be sure to  write the question at the top of the page and on  your table of contents. 

1.  Before you take the quiz, review your Outsiders packet and decide which  Greaser is most like you.  Write your choice in a complete sentence.  Then write one reason why you would pick that character.

2.  Take the quiz over at Penguin Teen.  Write the result.  You can take the quiz a second time, but you'll need to write about the first result you got, whatever that was.

3. Do you agree with the result?  Why?  Describe some things you have in common with that character and a few important things about that character that are different from you.  This should be a short paragraph.  Three to five sentences.

Did Moctezuma have a zoo? Essay outline

BE SURE TO QUOTE THE DOCUMENTS!

Scroll down to find links to the documents cited in your packet

BE SURE TO USE THE ANSWERS YOU WROTE IN  YOUR PACKET!

They will help you with your essays. Pay close attention to the source information and how reliable each source is.

Essay outline

Paragraph One -- Introduction

• Hook
• Question: Did Moctezuma have a zoo?
• Explain why this question matters.  Review the blog post to read why this question matters.
• Thesis statement.  It's better to write your own, but you may use this one:
• The evidence suggests Moctezuma had a zoo more advanced than anything Cortez and the Europeans with him had ever seen.

Paragraph Two -- Body

• Introduce the document.  Use document A, B, or C.
• Explain its value as a source.  Use the answers you wrote in your packet to help with this and the source information.
• Explain how this document corroborates (supports) the existence of Moctezuma's zoo.
• Be sure to include a quote from the document that supports the existence of Moctezuma's zoo.

Paragraph Three -- Body

• Introduce the document.  Use document A, B, or C.
• Explain its value as a source.  Use the answers you wrote in your packet to help with this and the source information.
• Explain how this document corroborates (supports) the existence of Moctezuma's zoo.
• Be sure to include a quote from the document that supports the existence of Moctezuma's zoo.

Paragraph Four -- Conclusion

• Review the evidence you discussed 
• Revisit the question and why it matters
• Final thought to sum it all up.

This essay is due on Wednesday, May 15.  It should be typed, printed and stapled to your packet.

This is an 80% assignment.

Do Now! Tenochitlan

Below is an image of the mural Mexican artist Diego Rivera painted for the Palacio Nacional de México in 1945.  His mural was based on  what historians of his time knew about the Aztec capital city.  This mural shows the marketplace in Tenochitlan

Click on this link to go to the zoomable version at Wikimedia Commons.  Make a list of five to ten things you can see people trading in the market. Then select one or more to sketch in your journal.  Put your list and your sketch on the same page.   To conserve pages, use the first available blank space. A half of a page, maybe even less, will work.

Did Moctezuma Have a Zoo?

Visit this blog post.  Read it over and then answer the questions about it in your packet.

Next take a look at a few pages from the Florentine Codex and then complete the questions in your packet about it

Then, use this zoomable map of Tenochtitlan, or the map in your Aztec File, to answer some questions.

Finally, take a look at Cortes letter to Emperor Charles V of Spain in the original text and in translation to answer questions about what he says he saw in Tenochtitlan.  Start with the last paragraph on pg. 265. The details continue on the next two pages.

Now you are ready to answer the question citing evidence from the documents to support your position.

Write your name in Mayan glyphs

To write your name in Mayan glyphs read the directions at this link.

First write out your name and break it into syllables. Mine goes like this:

Mis-ter Ches-ter

Use the charts at the link to find the best way to write your name. If your name uses a syllable that does not exist in Mayan, use one that is close to it or simply leave it out.  You may do your first or your last name or both.

Write your name in Mayan glyphs on the stela you started in your Exploration of the Americas journal last time.

Civil Rights Songs: Album Cover Project

Example from Mr. Norwood's class.

The front of your album cover should include artwork and/or pictures and a title.  You can include other creative touches.  

One the back include these items:

• Playlists for each side.  Each should have five songs.  You may include more than ten songs if there are some you really want to include.
• Liner notes for each song.  These should be typed.  Use boldface font for the title off each song.

You can include pictures, artwork and other creative touches on the back of the album cover.

Another example from Mr. Norwood's class.

Brown Girl Dreaming: Jacob Lawrence Projects

For this project you will be making art in the style of Jacob Lawrence. 

Jacob Lawrence was a 20th century African American painter who worked during the Harlem Renaissance in New York City and throughout the century.  His paintings all feature African American subjects. Many of them tell stories. 

His most well known work, called The Migration, tells the story of The Great Migration of African Americans from the southern states to the cities of the north during the 1920's and 1930's.

Here is an example:

For your project you'll be making an eight section artwork.  

These are the four sections for the top row:

1. Portrait of one character.
2. Information about that character.  (Use your character cards)
1. name
2. relationship to Jackie
3. lines of poetry about that character. Include the page number.
4. summary of that character's role in Jackie's life
3. Portrait of a second character
4. Information about that character.

These are the four sections for the bottom row:

1. Three to six lines of poetry from one of your favorite poems in the book.  (Use a book or your English journal for this.  This can be from any poem in the book. Pick one that you like.
2. Portrait of a third character.
3. Information about that character
4. Theme.  Choose on of the themes in Brown Girl Dreaming. Create either a visual about it or write a paragraph explaining it.

Here is the project I've been making.  I'm not finished with it yet.  I'll try to  post the finished version  soon.

To type up the written part of this project set up a Google Doc with two columns.  Do this under the Format tab. Set the line spacing to single.  You should be able to put all of your work on a single page when you print.  Carefully cut each section  out and glue it to the correct space.  

This project is due on Wednesday, April 24.  There will be no more class time scheduled for this project.  

Sine this is the final project for Brown Girl Dreaming, it will be an 80% project.

For the Big Test on Medieval Europe

Watch this video about Charlemagne.  He will be on the test.

Study your notes on life in a Medieval town. Be able to describe it with details. 

Review the packet of primary source documents on why Medieval Europe was not a "Dark Age."

Thomas Aquinas will also be on the test so here's his video.

The secret on-line only extra credit task is to sketch a snail fighting a knight somewhere on your test. Two points.

Plague Journal

Complete this assignment in  your history  spiral.

Imagine that you are living in a Medieval European town in the 14th century. (The 1300's.)  Use your notes about life in a Medieval town to help with the details.

The "Great Mortality" or Black Plague has arrived in your town.  How are people reacting?  What is your family doing to survive?  Write a 100 to 150 word journal entry to answer these questions.  Uses your notes, your history  book and your SHEG activity on the Black Plague to add detail  to your journal.  For instance, include what the doctors say you should do to keep from catching the plague and what are other people doing?

Make your journal interesting and dramatic.  You can invent characters and include a plot.  However, the bulk of your grade will come from how much historical detail  you include in your journal entry.

Include an illustration.

This will be due on Friday.

Daily Life in Medieval Towns

Do Now: Observe this painting by Peter Breugal painted in  1560.  It shows over 80 games played by children in the late Medieval period.  Use the zoom feature to take a closer look.  What games are the children playing.  make a list of at least 10.  You can name the games or you can describe what the children are doing.  Write your list in your history journal.

Homework: Chapter 4: Daily Calendar Page

First finish your notes for chapter 4. Glue them into your history journal.

Complete a daily calendar page to describe what a typical day might have involved for someone living in a town in medieval Europe. You calendar page should have an hour-by-hour account of the day and include relevant details from the various aspects of life you learned about.  You may begin your calendar page with the three entries shown below.

5:30 A.M. Rise from bed. Wash face with cold water. Pluck eyebrows. Tie hair in net and put on skirt and hat.

6:30 A.M.  Eat breakfast (bread, cheese, weak cider).  Throw scraps in street for hogs.  Begin walking to market.

7:30 A.M.  Pick up shoes from cobblers' guild. Ask master if his hand is healing properly.

You may add illustrations.
Complete your schedule through to 8:30 P.M. when you go to bed. Write your schedule in your history journal. 

Your notes for chapter 4 should be glued into your history journal once you have finished them.

Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?

There are many illustrations in the margins of Medieval manuscripts showing an armored knight fighting a snail.  Usually they appear in books that are religious in nature such as prayer books.  Typically, the pictures have nothing to do with what the writing is about.  Why did so many scribes include pictures of knights fighting snails? 

To answer this question and complete your assignment follow these steps. 

1.  Read this article at Smithsonian.com.  

2. Take at look at the pictures in this article from the British Library.

3. In your history spiral answer these questions in  complete sentences:

• What are some theories about why there are so many drawings of knights fighting snails in Medieval manuscripts?
• What do you think the reason  is for so many drawings.

4.  Draw a quick sketch of a knight fighting a snail.

Illuminated Church Poem

Create an illuminated poem about the Roman Catholic Church using your notes for chapter 3.  

Poems should have nine short stanzas (2 to 4 lines).  Stanzas may vary in length, they do not all have to have the same number of lines.  The first letters of each stanza much spell out THE CHURCH.  Stanza one must start with 't', stanza two with 'h', stanza three with 'e' etc.

The poem must use at least five of these content words:
religion, persecute, clergy, sacrament, Roman Catholic Church, natural law, pilgrimage, religious order.


High scoring poems will:

• contain several illuminated letters
• have pictures
• be colorful
• look good overall
• have few or no spelling or grammar errors
• be correctly capitalized
• have stanzas
• contain hand drawn elements
• contain rhymes

Here are two examples for the letters H and C:

How emperors did persecute the early Christians in Rome

Til' Constantine did change his ways and say to them "Welcome home."

Certain people while on  pilgrimage did stay in tents.

Prayers and penance - their devotion to God was intense.