Day 45: Artists of the Italian Renaissance (5/3/11)

Standard: 7.8.5: Detail advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy.

Aim: The historians of 2016 will research an artist from the Renaissance and create a presentation describing his life and accomplishments.

Task 1: Submit your homework here.

Task 2 Quick Question: Who from our culture or modern times will be remember for their accomplishments in 500 years?

Task 3: Track Mr. Sanders as he introduces artists of the Renaissance and Leonardo Da Vinci.

Task 4: Read about one of the other Renaissance painters and create a Google Presentation or Notaland document. There must be at least three pages to your presentation including the cover page.

Artists you can research:

• Masaccio
• Donatello
• Brunelleshi
• Michaelangelo Buonarroti
• Titian
• Tintoretto
• Bellini
• Botticelli
• Caravaggio
• Ghiberti
• Giotto
• Raphael

Task 5: Post your presentation to your history portfolio.

Homework: Read 28.5 about Humanism and complete the workbook page.

Day 44: Art Review (Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Art) (5/2/11)

Standard: 7.8.5: Detail advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy.

AIM: The historians of 2016 will be able to describe what makes a renaissance piece or art vs a medieval piece of art.

Task 1: Submit your homework here.

Task 2 Quick Question: Do you think people still care about religion today in the United States as much as they did during the middle ages in Europe?

Task 3: Track Mr. Sanders as he gives you the different definitions of what makes art classic, medieval, or renaissance. Use this document to take notes.

Task 4: Go through the virtual art gallery walk while examining the different pieces of art. Use this document to record for observations of the different works of art. For each piece of art you need to tell me they type of art (medieval or renaissance) and how you know.

Task 5: If you were putting art into your new house and you were required to put art from the middle ages in one room. Would you choose medieval or renaissance art, why?

Homework: Read section 28.3 and 28.4 and complete the reading notes.

Day 43: Introduction to Renaissance

Aim: The historians of 2016 will be able to define the term Renaissance and what that meant to Europe at the end of the middle ages.

Task 1: Submit your homework here.

Task 2 Quick Question: If you were in charge of planning an activity or assignment for Social Studies this quarter, what would you do?

Task 3: Track Mr. Sanders as he explains the life of Ray Naissance and how it might relate to what we're going to learn. When he's done explaining Ray's life, complete the reflection on how it might apply to our learning here.

Task 4: Make a copy of this vocabulary graphic organizer here and get ready to take notes.

Task 5: After we finish the vocabulary notes, go to this Google Moderator question and submit your idea on how you think our country/world will change in the next 50 years. After you submit your idea, make sure you vote on your teammates ideas.

Homework: Complete the learning reflection on the introduction to the Renaissance.

CST Homeroom Challenge

All this week you'll be getting yourselves ready the CST. Part of that will be working as a team in Team and Family challenges each day.

It will take your knowledge and mastery of the six guiding principles if your team will win the challenge and the Grand Prize!

Spring Break 2011

See you on Tuesday April 26!

2016 Virtual ATS Time

Good morning KIPPsters, today we will be trying out CATS time online. Because it is our first time, we will be starting with 'ATS' instead of CATS.

Open this document and open the discussions box.

Day 42: G.R.A.P.E.S of Mesoamerica (4/14/11)

Aim: The junior historians will complete a higher level analysis of the different Mesoamerican civilizations by mapping out their geography, religion, agriculture, politics, economy, and social structure (G.R.A.P.E.S).

Task 1: Place your homework on your desk and track Mr. Sanders as he shares about his trip to KIPP: Heartwood and Google.

Task 2 Quick Questions: Complete this five question true/false quiz.

Task 3: Review/Discussion of the Cortes video. Please start our discussion by answering this reflection question.

Task 4: GoAnimate Projects. How are they going? What support do you need from me?

Task 5: For task five today we are going to doing a G.R.A.P.E.S analysis of the different societies in Mesoamerica. Please make a copy of this Google Document and rename it. Once you've done that, Mr. Sanders will go through a couple examples of the G.R.A.P.E.S analysis.

Homework: New current even for tomorrow. You may submit your current event here.