Renaissance Test

1. What historical event (the fall of a civilization) took place in 395 AD to usher in the middle ages?
Fall of Rome

2. What was society and culture generally like in the middle ages?
Not many people know how to read and write, people are usually very poor and very rich.
3. Renaissance means _______Rebirth________.

4. What was being brought back during this time?
Greeks and Rome ideals
Define:
5. Contraposto
Paint the shape or the curve of human body
6. Chiaroscuro
Paint dark and light like shadow
7. The painter of the Mona Lisa was ______Da Vinci__________

8. The man who sculpted the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel was _____Michelangelo____

9. What is different about Renaissance painting compared to painting during the Dark Ages?
No contraposto and no chiaroscuro
10. What is meant by the concept of "Humanism?"
People are perfect and good

NY times article

I read a story is Life, this story is about a guy he live in Haiti. Haiti is a place that is really poor. The country that is too poor donkeys and horses are staring a die. The city is out of control and the traffic helpless. One day there is a woman. She is going to have a baby on the street and the people help the woman. They carry her to the hospital and safe the woman and her baby. This story tells me this country is really poor but the people over there are really kind. Haiti had a earthquake and the many people die over there, I think we should help them. The people over there all have good heart and every people are special. We should help them and they also have right the live. People in the world all have to help each other because we all are same creature.

The 19th Century (1800-1899) and the Age of Romanticism

Claude Debussy

Essential Questions (all students answer these questions)

1. What is Romanticism? (It has many definitions, and is many things.)
Romanticism is a kind of thinking or movement starting from the second half of the 18th century. It is a style that can be found in art, music, and literature. It focuses on intuition, imagination, and feelings.

2. How does your subject fit into the world of Romanticism (their work, their life)
Claude Debussy lived in the Romanticism period. When I listen to his music I feel he put a lot of imagination and feelings in his music. I can imagine a picture when I listen to his music. For example, when I listen to one of his pieces called ?Clair de lune,? I think it is really romantic and peaceful.

3. Are there elements or aspects of your subject that are not romantic in nature?
Some people said Debussy?s music style is impressionism, but he said that he was trying to do something different and it shouldn?t be labeled as ?impressionism? or ?romanticism?.

Claude Debussy and Impressionism

1. What was "impressionism" in painting?
Impressionism in painting is include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light, ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

2. How did Debussy try to relate music to painting?
Debussy is trying to let people have a feeling about the a picture when they listen to music.

3. Do you believe he was successful? Why?
He become a famous composer, because when people listen to music people will have a special feeling and make people relax.

School boundaries

In citizenship class, I learn about boundaries and stereotype. People in every place have different type of culture. So we have many different boundaries in school. Like language, culture, how is look... Someone will feel hurt about it, so even have boundaries we still have show our respect.

Glass factory

Art
(glass factory)
11/10
Look like workers
They are wearing gloves and mask.
They are team working
some people are burning something
some people are control the machine

Because here has a lot of silicons
so we can make a lot of glass.

Citizenship class

Today, we learn about citizenship and we also talk about how to be a good citizen at home, school, city and country.
Why you have to be a good citizen
When you have to be a good citizen

We talk about class rules kind of like
"no talking out of turn"
"sit up, pay attention"
"Respect"
"no eating in class"
" look at the person who is talking"

Art

We watch a movie last class. that movie is cool, I saw a lot thing is cool and spacial have the egg make with the rock at anywhere at the beach or at the mountain. that man make a lot art but tell us
sometime he also folding mistake or the art can't done it.