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.