Sunday, December 2, 2012

December 3-7, 2012

Ecnonomics
Mon. 12/3 -- Computer lab to work on Corporation Project powerpoints.  Students will have four days to complete this research.  Each group will turn in a power point on an American corporation, showing it products, financials, career opportunities, current issues and good works.  Full directions are available in class.
-- Some students will use this time to work on their culminating portfolios.  The CP binders are part of graduation requirements.
Tue. 12/4  -- Corporation research and CP binders
Wed. 12/5 -- Corporation research and CP binders
[Thursday and Friday on the calendars are reversed -- switch 126 and 12/7]
Thur. 12/6 -- Measuring inflation (CPI).  Reading p. 363 and skits on the causes and types of inflation.  IF you are absent then read p. 361-367 Do question #2 and then describe the four causes of inflation.  Turn in your work.
Fri. 12/7 -- What is the business cycle?   Brief notes on the business cycle. Read p. 353-359. Do questions 2,3,4, and 7.  Read p. 360. 
** Note the Corporation research project is due by 3:30 p.m. on Monday 12/10 (we will have the day in class).  Also the third Economic current event is due on 12/12/12. 

Art History
Mon. 12/3 -- Test on the High Medieval period -- Romanesque and Gothic art
Tue. 12/4 -- Analyzing painting:  How do you analyze a painting?  What is subject, context and symbolism to look for in art.  Notes.
Wed. 12/5 -- Early Northern Renaissance Art (ENR) lecture.  Notes will introduce the context of the Renaissance in northern Europe. 
Thur. 12/6 -- Map of the Italian city states.  Students will complete a map and take notes on the major Italian city -states that will figure in the history of art.  If you finish at home: Do Rome, Florence and Venice for your notes, look on-line, focus on the years from 1400-1525 and take four bullet notes for each city-state.  Finish the map.
Fri. 12/7 -- Art Cards on the ENR are due. Graphic organizer on the Italian Renaissance and the Quatrocento.  Get the graphic organizer form and use the text and pictures to learn the background of the Renaissance.

Ancient Medieval
Mon. 12/3 --Finish presentations on the Vikings.  What is Feudalism in Europe and how did it develop?  Feudalism activity and discussion of early Medieval feudalism.  English royal family with Alfred the Great (family tree for fun)
Tue. 12/4 -- Lecture on Castles and Knights.  Reading "The Art of Courtly Love," primary source document.  Students will read the rules and choose three that are still good, three that need minor edits, and three that are quite out of date.  If absent copy the notes and collect a copy of "The art of Courtly Love," to complete the assignment.
[Another calendar switch -- move 12/7 up to Wednesday and shift Wed and Thur to Thur and Fri.
Wed. 12/5 -- Quiz on Feudalism and knights vocab.  Mini-lecture on lay investiture and reading of the letters from Henry the IV to Gregory the VII about the controversy.  Students will re-write the letters in their own words as a summary. 
Thur. 12/7 -- Finish letters, starts Castles, technology and sieges.  Students pairs will make a model of a medieval castle on tag board with construction paper and write about the history of that castle. Handouts on each castle provided in class.
Fri. 12/8 -- Finish castles and read about siege weapons (hopefully).



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