February break assignments

B-block (9)

HOMEWORK: Read up through pg. 84 in This Boy's Life (and if you didn't present before break, be prepared when we return)

C-block (9H)

HOMEWORK: Read up to p. 129 in Girl with a Pearl Earring; keep working on research; BRING MONEY ($15) FOR FIELD TRIP

D-block (9)

HOMEWORK: Read up through pg. 84 in This Boy's Life (and if you didn't present before break, be prepared when we return)

E-block (9H)

HOMEWORK: Read up to p. 129 in Girl with a Pearl Earring; keep working on research; BRING MONEY ($15) FOR FIELD TRIP

G-block (American Dream)

HOMEWORK: Finish reading Catcher in the Rye; creative portfolio assignment will be due about a week after we return

Class Notes: February 9, 2011

B-block (9)

HOMEWORK: 1. Read up to pg. 33 in This Boy's Life. 2. Complete reading questions. 3. Complete vocab worksheet. (Remember that your research powerpoints will be DUE next week.)

C-block (9H)

HOMEWORK: Work on beginning to explore your chosen artist and taking notecards when appropriate.

D-block (9)

HOMEWORK: This Boy's Life research project (This will be DUE before vacation so use your time wisely.)

E-block (9H)

HOMEWORK: Research and read to pg. 48

G-block (Writing Lab)

HOMEWORK: Complete creative assignment: Holden and texting (Be up through chapter 17 in reading.)

G-block wiki project assignments

Group 1: Historical Information: Julia, Georgia, Katie
Group 2: History of the novel: Chris, Pat, Sam, Matt L.
Group 3: What's bothering Holden?: Connor, John, Matt W., Brittany
Group 4: Character analysis: Grace, Marisa, Marissa
Group 5: Literary elements: Allison, Emi, Susanna
Group 6: Ryan, Jeremy

Girl with a Pearl Earring Potential Research Topics

Here is my list of suggestions. Please let me know when there is an artist you think you might want to research and I will sign up your name on this list. Only one student per artist please. First come, first serve. (I've also put the generally accepted style/period of these artists, though these are not hard and fast rules. They are also generally in order historically.)


Giotto: Gothic
Jan van Eyck: Late Gothic (Caroline Qin)
Hieronymus Bosch: Late Gothic
Sandro Botticelli: Early Renaissance (Allie Cole)
Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance (Matt Li; Meghan Belinsky)
Michelangelo: Italian Renaissance (Borui Li)
Peter Paul Rubens: Baroque
Titian: High Renaissance
Raphael: High Renaissance (Luckie Deka)
Rembrandt: Baroque
Johannes Vermeer: Baroque (Timmy Wong)
Caravaggio: Italian Baroque
Diego Velázquez: Spanish Baroque (Amelia Paine)
Francisco de Zurbarán: Spanish Baroque
Pieter Brueghel: Northern Renaissance
Albrecht Dürer: Northern Renaissance
El Greco: Mannerism
Parmigianino: Mannerism
Jacopo Tintoretto: Mannerism
Nicolas Poussin: French Baroque
Claude Lorraine: French Baroque
Canaletto: Italian Rococo (Mallory Kiley)
Thomas Gainsborough: British Rococo
Jacques-Louis David: French Neo-classical
John Singelton Copley: American Neo-classical
Francisco Goya: Spanish Romanticism
Eugène Delacroix: French Romanticism
John Constable: British Romanticism (Sean Tedesco)
J.M.W. Turner: British Romanticism
Caspar David Friedrich: German Romanticism (Jackie Paul)
Thomas Cole: American Romanticism (David Goodell)
Albert Bierstadt: American Romanticism
Edward Manet: French Impressionism (Hannah Almedom-de Waal)
Claude Monet: French Impressionism (Nick Bennett; Olivia Sutherland)
Auguste Renoir: French Impressionism (Angela Zheng)
Edward Degas: French Impressionism (Katie Creane; Zarina Patwa)
Mary Cassatt: American Impressionism
James Whistler: American Realism
Winslow Homer: American Realism (Alexis Miller)
Paul Cézanne: Post-Impressionism
Vincent Van Gogh: Post-Impressionism (Megan Fernandez; Nick Sutphin)
Paul Gauguin: Post-Impressionism
Edvard Munch: Symbolism (Melissa Desmond; Christina O'Neil)
Pablo Picasso: Cubism (amongst lots of other styles) (Daisy Hu; Danny Yang)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Pre-Raphaelite
Henri Matisse: Fauvism
Emil Nolde: German Expressionism
Oskar Kokoschka: German Expressionism (Zach Lowen)
Franz Marc: German Expressionism (Lindsay van Gelder)
Umberto Boccioni: Futurism
Marc Chagall: Fantasy (Modernism) (Ashley Morrison)
Aubrey Beardsley: Art Nouveau
Frieda Kahlo: Neil Shah
Piet Mondrian: Abstraction (Christina Wong)
Salvador Dali: Surrealism (Sara Blouin; Caleb G.)
René Magritte: Surrealism (Viet Tran; Erica Yuen)
Käthe Kollwitz: Expressionism (Caroline ver Planck)
John Singer Sargeant: American Realism & Portraiture (Harlem Renaissance)
Edward Hopper: Realism (Sharon Si; Andréa Yokum)
Georgia O'Keefe: Realism (Ally Daniels)
Jackson Pollock: Abstract Expressionism (Dan Holahan)
Alberto Giacometti: un-categorizable (though related to existentialism)
Wayne Thiebaud: pre-Pop (Claire Ferguson; Hannah Rebentisch)
Andy Warhol: Pop Art (Jenny Papisov)
Mark Rothko: Color Field Painting
Romare Bearden: African-American Modern Collage
Agnes Martin: Minimalism
Richard Estes: Photorealism (Ling-Ling MacLean)
Chuck Close: Photorealism
David Hockney: Yinian Tang
Banksy: Cole Gladstone


Remember that you may also want to consider which of these artists have works in the MFA that you would be able to look at firsthand. (You can search the MFA website to check: http://www.mfa.org/search/collections) This is something for all of you to consider as it will really help to be able to see at least one of your artist's artworks in person (to look at brushwork, color, technique, texture, size, etc.)

C and E blocks: Feb. 3, 2011

C-block (9H)
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E-block (9H)


AGENDA :
1. Discuss GWPE background research
2. Talk about looking at art
3. Watch some of "Stolen"

HOMEWORK:
1. Write a 1-2 page (typed and double-spaced) creative piece imagining what happened to the paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. As I mentioned in class, you are free to write this piece from any perspective and in any style you want. You will want to acquaint yourself with the story of the heist first. In order to help you get started, here are some useful links. Don't consider this an exhaustive list.

Gardner Museum heist:

• Isabella Stewart Gardner museum website
• Boston Globe article 15 years later
• A variety of links from the Boston Herald
• CNN's take on the event
• Celebrate Boston's description of the event
• NPR interview with author of book about event and transript
• "Stolen" - film about the heist
  

January 12: SNOW DAY!!!!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Class Notes: January 11, 2011

B-block (9)

HOMEWORK: Letter of advice to Romeo (after he is exiled)... from a "friend"

C-block (9H)

HOMEWORK: Letter of advice to Romeo (after he is exiled)... from a "friend"

D-block (9)

HOMEWORK: Letter of advice to Romeo (after he is exiled)... from a "friend"

E-block (9H)

HOMEWORK: 1. Act II questions 2. Letter of advice to Romeo (after he is exiled)... from a "friend"

G-block (Writing Lab)

HOMEWORK: The Crucible essay: rough draft DUE Thursday, January 13; Final DUE Monday, January 17