Rennaisance means rebirth.
It was a 'Aha" moment.
It started in Florence, Italy between Mulan and Rome. You couldn't walk down the street without seeing a statue. The Medici family brought this about. Lorenzo Medici was nicknamed the Magnificent because he helped it come alive. A humanist is someone who returned to the classics. The artist and writer were awakened. The Italian artist relied on perspective for making is humanistic. The sistine chapel's ceiling was the masterpiece of Michelangelo. The sistine chapel is in the vatican city in the vatican museum. It is small. The pietta was the only work that he signed. He signed it because he didn't think that it was very good. Da Vinci painted the mona lisa. Her eyebrows are missing on the mona lisa. His last famous painting was the last supper. Raphael is the next artist. He drew many portraits of Mary. Madonna was a picture of Mary.
Petrarch was known for his love poems to an imaginary woman. Niccolo Machiavelli was the next writer. He was from Florence. He wrote the prince.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Book notes
Section 3
In time, townspeople throughout Europe gained four basic rights.
1. Freedom. Anyone who lived in a town for a year and a day became free. This included serf who escaped from a manor to a town.
2. Exemption. Townspeople won the right of being exempt, or free, from ever having to work on manor.
3. Town justice. Towns had their own courts. Leading citizens tried cases that involved townspeople.
4. Commercial priviledges. Townspeople could sell goods freely in the town market. They could also charge tolls to outsiders who wanted to trade there.
Black Death - bewteen 1347 and 1351, Europe and theMediterranean world were devastated by the black death. There were no streetlights or police. People did not go out alone at night for fear of robbers. Waste was dumped into open gutters. For that reason, diseases spread quickly through the crowded cities. No one knows the exact amount of deaths. People's faith in God was shaken. The church lost power. Relations between upper and lower classes changed. Workers demanded higher wages. Peasants staged uprisings.
Chapter 4
Troubadours were traveling singers who wrote poems about love and chivalry.
Fabliaux were short comic stories.
Dante Alighieri and Georffrey Chaucer were two great medieval writers.
Scholasticism was an attempt to bring together faith and reason.
Peter Abelard was an important philosopher.
Thomas Aquinas was a monk of dominican order.
Gothic was the new style of church architecture.
Chapter 5
Hundred Years' War was from 1337-1453 that was a series of conflicts between England and France.
The War of the Roses was in 1455 startedby the York and Lancaster families. The white rose was the badge of the House of York. The red was for Lancaster. Henry Tudor of Lancaster won the war.
In 1429, with the help of Joan of Arc, Charles VII of Orleans was crowned king of France.
Louis XI followed Charles as king of France.
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile helped Spain become a united nation.
In 1273, a member of the Habsburg family became emperor of Switzerland.
In time, townspeople throughout Europe gained four basic rights.
1. Freedom. Anyone who lived in a town for a year and a day became free. This included serf who escaped from a manor to a town.
2. Exemption. Townspeople won the right of being exempt, or free, from ever having to work on manor.
3. Town justice. Towns had their own courts. Leading citizens tried cases that involved townspeople.
4. Commercial priviledges. Townspeople could sell goods freely in the town market. They could also charge tolls to outsiders who wanted to trade there.
Black Death - bewteen 1347 and 1351, Europe and theMediterranean world were devastated by the black death. There were no streetlights or police. People did not go out alone at night for fear of robbers. Waste was dumped into open gutters. For that reason, diseases spread quickly through the crowded cities. No one knows the exact amount of deaths. People's faith in God was shaken. The church lost power. Relations between upper and lower classes changed. Workers demanded higher wages. Peasants staged uprisings.
Chapter 4
Troubadours were traveling singers who wrote poems about love and chivalry.
Fabliaux were short comic stories.
Dante Alighieri and Georffrey Chaucer were two great medieval writers.
Scholasticism was an attempt to bring together faith and reason.
Peter Abelard was an important philosopher.
Thomas Aquinas was a monk of dominican order.
Gothic was the new style of church architecture.
Chapter 5
Hundred Years' War was from 1337-1453 that was a series of conflicts between England and France.
The War of the Roses was in 1455 startedby the York and Lancaster families. The white rose was the badge of the House of York. The red was for Lancaster. Henry Tudor of Lancaster won the war.
In 1429, with the help of Joan of Arc, Charles VII of Orleans was crowned king of France.
Louis XI followed Charles as king of France.
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile helped Spain become a united nation.
In 1273, a member of the Habsburg family became emperor of Switzerland.
Monday, February 6, 2012
February - Black History Month
Harriet Tubman
-She was born into slavery in the year 1820 in Maryland.
-She had a head injury from when a slave once tried to escape, and an overseer threw a rock that hit her. She suffered from this throughout her life.
-In 1844, she married John Tubman.
-In 1849,having heard rumors that she was to be sold, she escaped to Pennsylvania.
Colin Powell
-Colin Powell was the Secretary of state.
-He was confirmed in 2001.
-Colin was born in Harlem, NYC in 1937.
-In 1987 Powell replaced Carlucci as national security adviser.
Muhammad Ali
-He was born in 1942.
-He began boxing at 12 when his bicycle was stolen.
-In high school, he won 100 out of 108.
-He went to complete the 1960 olympics.
Hank Aaron
-He was a baseball player.
-He was born February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama.
-When he was a teenager, baseball was slowly becoming integrated.
-He was recruited by the Milwaukee Braves.
Louis Armstrong
-He was a jazz musician and entertainer.
-He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
-He is the son of Mary Ann and WIllie Armstrong.
-His parents were separated.
Tiger Woods
-He is a professional golfer.
-He was born in 1975.
- He was born in Orlando, Florida.
Langston Hughes
-He was a writer
-He was born in Missouri.
-He graduated from Ohio.
Duke Ellington
-He was a bandleader, composer, and pianist.
-The bond he had with his mother was unique.
-Began He began piano lessons at age 7.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
-She was a journalist, suffragist, anti-lynching crusader, and champion of racial justice.
-She was born a slace in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
-Her parents and some of her brothers and sisters died in a yellow fever epidemic.
Ralph Bunche
-He was the highest american official in the United Nations.
-He was a barber's son.
-Bunch attended University of California.
Lena Horne
-She was a singer and an actress.
-She was born June 30, 1917.
-Her mother was an actress.
-In 1937 she married Louis Jones the politician.
Derrick Bell
He was the first tenured African American professor at law at Harvard.
He was the former dean of the University of Oregon.
He wrote about the critical race theory.
Henry Gates
Gates has hosted several PBS television miniseries.
He is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual.
He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and development of academic institutions to study black culture.
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays.
Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's battle against racial segregation in Chicago.
Hansberry contributed to the understanding of abortion, discrimination, and Africa.
Chester Higgins
Chester Higgins, Jr. is an American photographer.
Higgins has worked as a New York Times photographer since 1975 and has exhibited in museums throughout the world.
His one-man exhibitions have appeared at the International Center of Photography, The Museum of Photographic Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of African Art, Musée Dapper Paris, The Schomburg Center, The New-York Historical Society and the Schatten Gallery at Emory University.
Randall Kenan
Randall Kenan is an American author of fiction and nonfiction.
Kenan strongly identifies with both his African American and gay identities, both of which were highlighted in his next two books.
He then spent several years traveling across America and Canada collecting oral histories of African Americans.
Julius Lester
Julius Lester is an American author of books for children and adults, and taught for 32 years.
He is also a photographer, as well as a musician who recorded two albums of folk music and original songs
During his New York years, Lester hosted a radio show on WBAI-FM.
-She was born into slavery in the year 1820 in Maryland.
-She had a head injury from when a slave once tried to escape, and an overseer threw a rock that hit her. She suffered from this throughout her life.
-In 1844, she married John Tubman.
-In 1849,having heard rumors that she was to be sold, she escaped to Pennsylvania.
Colin Powell
-Colin Powell was the Secretary of state.
-He was confirmed in 2001.
-Colin was born in Harlem, NYC in 1937.
-In 1987 Powell replaced Carlucci as national security adviser.
Muhammad Ali
-He was born in 1942.
-He began boxing at 12 when his bicycle was stolen.
-In high school, he won 100 out of 108.
-He went to complete the 1960 olympics.
Hank Aaron
-He was a baseball player.
-He was born February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama.
-When he was a teenager, baseball was slowly becoming integrated.
-He was recruited by the Milwaukee Braves.
Louis Armstrong
-He was a jazz musician and entertainer.
-He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
-He is the son of Mary Ann and WIllie Armstrong.
-His parents were separated.
Tiger Woods
-He is a professional golfer.
-He was born in 1975.
- He was born in Orlando, Florida.
Langston Hughes
-He was a writer
-He was born in Missouri.
-He graduated from Ohio.
Duke Ellington
-He was a bandleader, composer, and pianist.
-The bond he had with his mother was unique.
-Began He began piano lessons at age 7.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
-She was a journalist, suffragist, anti-lynching crusader, and champion of racial justice.
-She was born a slace in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
-Her parents and some of her brothers and sisters died in a yellow fever epidemic.
Ralph Bunche
-He was the highest american official in the United Nations.
-He was a barber's son.
-Bunch attended University of California.
Lena Horne
-She was a singer and an actress.
-She was born June 30, 1917.
-Her mother was an actress.
-In 1937 she married Louis Jones the politician.
Derrick Bell
He was the first tenured African American professor at law at Harvard.
He was the former dean of the University of Oregon.
He wrote about the critical race theory.
Henry Gates
Gates has hosted several PBS television miniseries.
He is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual.
He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and development of academic institutions to study black culture.
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays.
Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's battle against racial segregation in Chicago.
Hansberry contributed to the understanding of abortion, discrimination, and Africa.
Chester Higgins
Chester Higgins, Jr. is an American photographer.
Higgins has worked as a New York Times photographer since 1975 and has exhibited in museums throughout the world.
His one-man exhibitions have appeared at the International Center of Photography, The Museum of Photographic Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of African Art, Musée Dapper Paris, The Schomburg Center, The New-York Historical Society and the Schatten Gallery at Emory University.
Randall Kenan
Randall Kenan is an American author of fiction and nonfiction.
Kenan strongly identifies with both his African American and gay identities, both of which were highlighted in his next two books.
He then spent several years traveling across America and Canada collecting oral histories of African Americans.
Julius Lester
Julius Lester is an American author of books for children and adults, and taught for 32 years.
He is also a photographer, as well as a musician who recorded two albums of folk music and original songs
During his New York years, Lester hosted a radio show on WBAI-FM.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Digital Learning Day
2,000,000 million TVs in bathrooms in the U.S.
-95% of songs downloaded last year weren't paid for.
-90% of 200,000,00 million emails sent is spam.
-93% of adults own a cell phone.
-Major colleges today didn;t exist 10 years ago.
-More than 50% of 21 one year olds created content on the web.
-The first commercial text message was sent in December 1992.
-1 out of 8 couples in the U.S. meet online.
-Project-based learning is now used in only 1 out of 10 schools.
-1 in 5 teachers used technology in daily instuction
-90% of whiteboads are not in use anymore.
-China will soon be the #1 English speaking country.
-There are more 200 million registered users in the world for Myspace
-31 billion google searches every month.
-540,000 words in the English language.
-The amount is doubled of new technology every 2 years
-95% of songs downloaded last year weren't paid for.
-90% of 200,000,00 million emails sent is spam.
-93% of adults own a cell phone.
-Major colleges today didn;t exist 10 years ago.
-More than 50% of 21 one year olds created content on the web.
-The first commercial text message was sent in December 1992.
-1 out of 8 couples in the U.S. meet online.
-Project-based learning is now used in only 1 out of 10 schools.
-1 in 5 teachers used technology in daily instuction
-90% of whiteboads are not in use anymore.
-China will soon be the #1 English speaking country.
-There are more 200 million registered users in the world for Myspace
-31 billion google searches every month.
-540,000 words in the English language.
-The amount is doubled of new technology every 2 years
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