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

Add caption

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