Day 48: Studying the Renaissance in Florence (5/9/11)

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 generate a list of culminating tasks and select a topic focus for this week in history.

Task 1: Submit your homework here. If you completed it online already, you do not need to submit it again. If you don't want to retype everything, you can write (submitted paper) in each box and turn in your written responses.

Task 2 Quick Question: If you were alive during the Renaissance in Italy, which topic or subject would you like to study at the university? Your options are Architecture and Engineering, Painting, Sculpture, Literature and Reading, Science and Mathematics, Politics, and Commerce/Trade.

Task 3: Mr. Sanders will show clips from these two videos (video 1, video 2). If you want to watch the entire clips on your own time later, you can. After the videos, we will read the introduction page to chapter 29 together and discuss this week in history.

Task 4: Create a popplet account and become familiar with the tools there. After you're done becoming familiar, create a mind map of the different possible ideas, themes, words, and sub topics associated with the area of study you choose (architecture, mathematics, science, politics, etc).

Task 5: Tell me which topic you're going to focus on this week.

Homework: Read section on Florence during the Renaissance and write a paragraph describing, in three or more sentences, the role Florence played in the Renaissance.

Over the Weekend

KIPPsters, if you have some extra time over the weekend you should check out this documentary on Leonardo Da Vinci

• Check the homework and quick question tracker for week 1. Make up any missing Google Moderator Quick Questions and/or homework assignments. Remember, if you're making up a missing assignment you need to fill out the missing or late work form in order to receive credit.

• On Monday I will be checking your history portfolios for the presentation on a Renaissance artist and your Renaissance art gallery with guestbook messages.

• Homework: Read the chapter on the Italian Renaissance and complete the corresponding questions.

Day 47: Visiting your Teammates Art Galleries (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 visit the virtual Renaissance art galleries of five or more of their teammates. After they visit the galleries they will sign the guestbook (leave a comment), commenting on what they liked, any questions they may have, or any constructive critical feedback.

Task 1: Submit your homework here.

Task 2 Quick Question: During the Renaissance people started to care about history and ideas from the past (humanism) and their own personal happiness (individualism). Do you think society will ever go back to how it was before the Renaissance? Why or why not?

Task 3: You have 10 minutes to get your virtual Renaissance galleries complete and posted to you history portfolio. If you need to see how to post your gallery to your portfolio, you can see a video here.

If you finish early, you should visit the galleries from another homeroom and sign one of their guest books. Here is a link to the history portfolios.

Task 4: Visit five or more of your teammates virtual art galleries and sign the guest book.

When you sign the guestbook, you should write about what art pieces you liked, any questions you might have, and any constructive critical feedback.

Example: Thank you for the opportunity to visit your virtual art gallery. I really enjoyed the Renaissance paintings that you chose for your exhibit. You showcased paintings that showed perspective, realistic figures, and response to light. Why did you choose to include so many portraits? The only thing I would have changed would be to include more paintings that reflected the interest in nature during the Renaissance.

Sincerely,

James Sanders

Which guestbooks did you sign?

Task 5: Take the homework quiz for this week.

Homework: Weekend homework. Read the chapter on the Italian Renaissance and complete the questions at the end of the packet.

Day 46: Building An Art Gallery (5/4/11)

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 create a 10 or more piece art gallery showcasing pieces from the Renaissance Period.

Task 1: Submit your homework. There will be a homework quiz tomorrow, so be ready!

Task 2 Quick Question: If you were there... You are an apprentice working in the studio of a famous painter. You admire him but think some of his ideas are old-fashioned. Most of the time, your job is to paint the background of the master's pictures. Now, though, you have finished a painting of your own. You are proud of it and want the world to know who made it. But the master says an artsist should never put his name on a painting. Would you sign it?

Task 3: Complete your three-slide presentation on your artist. Post your presentation to your portfolio.

Task 4: You are going to create an art gallery using Capzles or Google Presentaiton. If you are using Capzles, to need to Create a Capzles account.

Track Mr. Sanders as he explains how to create and share an art gallery using Capzles. Create a an art gallery showcasing 10 or more pieces of art from the renaissance period. Make sure you describe each piece of art to the best of your ability. Here is a quick Capzles that I created for Leonardo Da Vinci

Task 5: Share your completed Capzles or Google Presentation art gallery project here. Make sure you're tracking when Mr. Sanders explains how to do this.

Homework: Analyze this picture and write a paragraph. Your paragraph should describe what it shows about changes in European life at the end of the Middle Ages that led to the flowering of arts and learning called the Renaissance. Include the following words in your explanation: trade, banking, towns, city-states, classical, humanism.

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.