Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Grades Posted/ Intersession Work


Grades are posted! Congrats! You worked hard all semester!!!

Intersession work is posted here. I'll be teaching lifetime fitness over intersession - mostly off campus. Please email me at renemacvay@yahoo.com if you have any questions.

NON-book work to do:
1. buy volume 2 wkbk from turtle shop
2. create your goodle site and email me link so I can add it to my website. Your first homework assignment of semester 2 is having your website up and running!

If a few students want to get together and organize a review of semester 1 study session for an hour or two after intersession let me know- I can meet interested people back at school.

Before break I'll add to my website links to interesting books and movies that relate to APAH. Feel free to add to the list if you or your parents run across anything also!

Enjoy your break and intersession class!

Ms. MacVay

Friday, December 12, 2008

Final Test

Essay Options... you will be given options - you will need to answer one on Monday (in class). For each answer you MUST provide context as well as specifically mention as well as use artwork to explain/support your response. USE ART AND ARCHITECTURE VOCABULARY...THIS IS AN APAH FINAL (for example, balance, hierarchical scale, post and lintel, horseshoe arch). You will have your MC's back to use on the test.

1. Discuss how the representation of the human form has changed over time. Include in your example images that show the progression of BOTH male and female figures. Include canons of proportion as well as idealized and realistic pictures that span time and place. At lest 6 artworks should be discussed. AT LEAST two of the artworks MUST be from beyone the European tradition.

2. Relate the Chinese Empire with that of Rome. Discuss 5 similarities and 5 differences.

3. Discuss the role Religion played in early civilizations. Explain the role religion played in three cultures that we studied. At least one culture must be from BEYOND the European Tradition. At least 6 artworks MUST be discussed.

4. Many early cultures make VOTIVE FIGURES. Discuss the purpose of the votive figures in three cultures as well as their form. One cultural study must be from BEYOND the European tradition.

5. Discuss the role of women in society (and art). Use three cultures that we studied and explain the role of the female - using at last 6 artworks to support your answer. At least one culture should be from beyond the European tradition.

6. How is POWER displayed in art? Perhaps overtly? Perhaps through symbolism? Discuss how power is displayed in art using at least 6 examples - at least one example MUST be from beyond the European Tradition.

7. Architecture was a means for enclosing space. Discuss how architecture varies based on location, purpose and raw materials. Use three cultures to analyze the architecture of a particular culture. ONE culture MUST be from beyond the European Tradition. A complete answer uses at least 6 artworks to explain the role of architecture in the cultures. Include Architectural Vocabulary.

Reminders:
1. Museum Reflection due emailed to my yahoo account NO LATER THAN MIDNIGHT SATURDAY
2. If you wish to redo your Masterpiece Card paragraph...Email me. In subject say Masterpiece card. In body:
  • tell me grade I gave you
  • write an appropriate response for a regrade
  • send to me by 5 pm Sunday to my yahoo.com email address

Monday, December 8, 2008

Permission Slips for Field Trip

Permission slips will be given out Tuesday and need to be brought with you to class Wed...if you think you'll forget a parent can write a note releasing the school and Norton Simon Museum from liability and giving a contact # if they need to be contacted during the day.

Filed Trip Worksheet/Reflection...due by Saturday Midnight...turn in in class or to my yahoo email account.

Assignments...



Due Thursday 12-11 Masterpiece Card - there are TWO images for this week!

Due Friday 12-12 Final Museum Catalog
...rubric on post before Thanksgiving
FRIDAY FUN DAY...ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM...

Monday 12-15 final test...essays to be posted Friday 12-12

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Field Trip


Wednesday the 10th we will go to the Norton Simon Museum (http://www.nortonsimon.org/)

We need to be at school by 7:15...I know that is early... our tour is at 11 - we need to leave enough time for travel + traffic. MAKE ARRANGEMENTS WITH YOUR CARPOOLS!

Our tour is at 11 and we are able to walk through the musem for an hour after...

BRING FOOD - your driver may or may not allow you to eat in the car...that is the choice of the driver. We can eat a snack when we get there before the tour and then eat lunch at 1 after the tour/wander through the museum time. THEN head back to school.

The return trip will be faster as we will NOT have morning commute. According to yahoo maps the trip is 2 hours and 10 minutes without traffic/accidents, etc. Remember to thank the drivers who took the time to join us! Without them the field trip could not have happened!

Once again, please do let your teachers and coaches know! Thanks to your parents for driving!

This image...Vermeer's Lady Writing...on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington. BONUS...look to the NGA link and research this painting (+2). BONUS...who is Norton Simon, the man for which the Museum is named? (+3). Responses due PRIOR to the field trip!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

LOOK on My class website


Go to the page about Class Presentations - I still have a few links and PPTS to add. If you did not send me yours, do so ASAP...you are taking information from peers but not sharing if you do not.

For those of you that did NOT send me a link to your googlesite - YOU ARE REQUIRED TO CREATE ONE AND SEND ME A LINK...that will be a homework grade over intersession.

All students MUST send me links to their webpages so I can link them to mine. I had you create them as a tool to assist you and your peers. You can always create another "personal" site that each of us can not access.

BONUS TRIVIA:
Go to the National Geographic link - read the story about King Herod. By Tuesday night tell me three things you learned from the article. Use the discussion board on TURNITIN.COM to answer the I learned statement...note...your statements MUST be different from your peers to get credit (+5) for this assignment. The earlier you post...the easier this is!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Projects


Please send me an email ... include link to your website where the PPT is listed. If you did not follow directions and put it on your website, either do so and email link to me or send me your ppt as an attachment

I'll upload all onto my website for you to access to review for the test and create your MC

DEADLINE...FRIDAY 12-5-08 - I'll upload Friday after school so you can view this weekend.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Semester is drawing to a close

if you have questions about your project that is due 12-2-08 please email me at my yahoo address (renemacvay@yahoo.com) so that I can assist you.

REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL 6 CHAPTERS WORTH OF MATERIAL - DO YOUR PEERS A FAVOR AND DO A GOOD JOB SO THEY DO NOT HAVE TO GO BACK AND THOROUGHLY REREAD EVERYTHING. THIS PROJECT WAS GIVEN TO YOU A MONTH BEFORE IT WAS DUE...YOU HAD A MONTH TO PICK AWAY AT THE PROJECT/READINGS. YOUR WORK SHOULD REFLECT THAT TIME.

The final MC is a project grade. It includes a NEW section about the topics you are presenting - India, China, Japan.

We'll have a final APAH test on Thursday the 11 or Friday the 12th of December. The MC will be due that day. Final test will reflect new material with connections to old.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Blog Bonus Trivia

The current issue of Smithsonian magazine has an article about the restoration of the Hagia Sophia. For an extra 5 bonus points, read the article and complete the following.

After reading the Smithsonian article, I learned the following five things about the Hagia Sophia that my book did not teach me:

Due...before Thanksgiving.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Week of November 17th

1. Masterpiece card for next week has been added - Due Thursday 11/20/08.

2. Museum Catalog for 11-12-13-16 is due before Thanksgiving.

3. We'll have a QUIZ on the material before the Holiday as well...Friday 11/21 is my target...notes can be used if MC is not done as of the test date. Quiz will be slide based...3 to 5 slide based questions (5 to 10 minutes each). Look on the website...link on the blog. All powerpoints have been posted. A review powerpoint has been made.

4. Workbook..

Read Chapter 13 and complete wkbk Q's ( (131 # 3, 4 page 132 # 8, page 133 #1, 6) by Wednesday 11-19
Read Chapter 16 and complete wkbk q's ( page 159 #1, 2 discussion Q's...answer fully) by Thursday 11-20

5. Read the following articles from the Smithsonian...link on the side of the blog:

History & Archaeology Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?

Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization


Andy Warhol Pop Politics

Arts & Culture Warhol's Pop Politics

Andy Warhol's political portraits anticipated today's blurred boundaries between public office and stardom

Go to Turnitin.com and complete the discussion question based upon your reading of the articles. DUE BY MONDAY 11/24/08 (ANYTIME BY THAT CALENDAR DAY).

The week of 11/24 we'll have an opportunity to work on the project that is due the day you return from Thanksgiving break.

Monday 11-24 meet in the library

Tuesday 11-25 meet in class (we have use of computer pod) for computer work, paper return, Tuesday Fun Day, Work on project/get my help...lots of activities going on this day.



Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Week of November 10th

Masterpiece Card (on website) due Thursday - we'll have one due each week.

Read Chapter 11 and complete WKBK by Thursday 11-13
page 111 #1 (How...)
112 #2, 4
113 #8 (1st one)
114 #10
115 Discussion #2

Read Chapter 12 and complete WKBK by Tuesday 11-18
Page 119 #1,2 and Early Byzantine #1
120 #3
121#10
122 Definitions
123 #7
124 Definitions
125-126 Thoroughly answer Looking Carefully

Thursday, November 6, 2008

FIELD TRIP

We'll visit the Norton Simon Museum, http://www.nortonsimon.org/, in Passadena on Wednesday December 10, 2008.

Thanks to all those that volunteered to drive!

Details to come!!

Etruscan and Rome Test

Take Home test needs to be uploaded at Turnitin.com no later than before school Tuesday 11/11/08.

Turn in a hard copy with assignment sheet in class Tuesday.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Art Beyond the European Tradition Project

Due 12/2/08 - Class presentations and written assignment.

Rubric and Information

Register for Turnitin.com...by Thursday 11/6/08

go to www.turnitin.com and register for the block that you are in:

Block 1: 2488703
Block 6: 2488705

Password: Room322

Your take home Etruscan and Rome Questions will be posted at Turnitin.com Friday. They will be turned in to the turnitin.com site as well and printed out and brought to class on Tuesday 11/11/08.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Week of November 3rd

Sophomore orientation 11/3 and 11/4 - chapter 10 workbook due the day you are here. We'll be introduced to a group project during the "small class" time so that all questions may be answered. WKBK 10 due the day you are here.

As I mentioned in class Friday, our test would be pushed back. We'll have the test and MC due on the 11th...that means homework over the long weekend. The test is going to be a take home essay...requires research - citing sources - needs to be thorough since it is take home. It will be submitted to me on the 11th and also online at turnitin.com. Students will be given info for registering so they can submit it online.

The rubric for the MC for chapter 9 and 10. The test questions handed out in class Friday.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Chapter 9 and 10 Workbook Assignment

Chapter 9...read and complete workbook by 10/30
WKBK pages 91 discussion #3,5,6 - in essay form

Chapter 10
Read and complete workbook by 10/31
WKBK page 95 #2
96 #4,6
97 # 3
98 #6
99 #1
100 #4,5

Due 11/3...
101 #3,4
103 #6
106 all

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Greece Test - Tuesday 10/28/08

What to do to prepare...other than MC Creation and online version of our book (questions)?

  • Look at Art History Resources on the Web ... on links of interest
  • See October 14th post for blog to visit
  • Visit the Met Museum...go to timelines (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/04/eusb/ht04eusb.htm)
  • Look at discussion Question options for the chapter...one might be on the test
  • Note the distinguishing divisions in Greek History...and a visual example of each
  • Be able to communicate about philosophers
  • Understand how the Acropolis and the buildings on the Acropolis demonstrate Greek PRIDE.
  • Understand the Orthogonal City Plan.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Greece...Etruscans and Rome

We'll cover Greece and the Etruscans this week

Due Wednesday 11-22-08...workbook (5) discussion question #1 page 57
type or hand write (neatly) in paragraph/essay form. Include 2 examples from Greek and 2 from Sumerian culture.

Greece TEST Monday October 27th or Tuesday the 28th

The rest of the week of the 27th we'll discuss Rome

Etruscan and Roman test Monday and Tuesday Nov 3/4 (Soph retreat...test given both days...you take it the day you are in class. Upperclassmen can take the test either day and have a free block to study the other day).

GREECE Museum Catalog rubric

Etruscan and Rome MC to follow

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Study Tips

Ancient Civilizations Blog:
http://ancientcivilization-geology.blogspot.com/
2007/03/brief-history-of-ancient-greece.html

Minoan Snake Goddess:
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/snakegoddess/

Also check out Mother of all Art History Sites link

Monday, October 13, 2008

Chapter 4 Review Topics

Potential Short Answer/Slide Based Questions/Topics to Know:
Support with textual examples and CONTEXT

  • How is the human figure displayed in the Aegean Culture?
  • What is revolutionary about the Harvester Vase? What civilization created the Harvester Vase?
  • Bull-Leaping fresco from the palace at Knossos...what does it reveal about the culture?
  • Use examples to show how the Aegean culture can claim to be the "first civilized western culture" HINT...what deems a culture to be civilized?
  • How does prehistoric Minoan and Mycenaean art and architecture reflect contact with ancient civilizations from Egypt and the Near East?
  • Compare images from the Aegean to previous cultures studied...thematically
  • How did the Mycenaean tomb evolve from teh shaft grave into the tholos tomb?
  • Compare the artwork of the Minoans to that of the Mycenaeans.
Your quiz will be one slide based questions, one short answer and a few multiple choice questions.
JV Football players take the quiz on Thursday am

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Last week of the quarter coming up...

Final Museum Catalog is due Thursday 10/16. QUIZ CHAPTER 4 THURSDAY THE 16th. For those of you on the football team that MAY need to leave early ... players must decide as a team when they wish to make up the test...either before school Wed/Thurs or after PSAT on Wed.

Reminder: Chpater 5 read/WKBK due Monday the 13th
MC and Test Chapter 5 on Wednesday the 22nd.

Friday, October 3, 2008

APAH Assignments Post Test #2

Congrats...two tests down this quarter...one to go. Your final museum catalog of the quarter will be a project grade...if you lost points on earlier MC's then you can "add to them" in an attempt to get full credit on the quarter ending project. Tuesday you'll get those back! Your tests will be returned early to mid week.

Our next test will cover chapters 4 and 5...Aegean and Greece. For Wednesday 10-8-08 Read Chapter 4 (and complete pages 44 and 45 in your ... WKBK as you do so), read the learning objectives (online version of text) and complete WKBK:
page 40 # 1 (Cycladic)
page 41 #3,6
page 42 #8, 1

Chapter 5 reading will be do on Monday October 13th .. complete WKBK pages 59-62 as you read...

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Interested in PHOTOGRAPHY?

National Geographic contest...

Deadline October 31, 2008

Information: ngphotocontest.com

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Test Two Study Guide

I'll show you a few slides tomorrow then we'll review...attached is the Study Guide

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Next Test...Thursday October 2nd

Chapters 3, 14 and 15

Museum Catalog is due on the day of the test

Review documents will be posted on Monday and discussed in class on Wednesday

ALSO...notice on list of links (to the right) ...online text companion sites!!!!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Sign up below to follow the blog

at the bottom of the blog sign in to be come a "follower". You are supposed to be updates as blog is updated...let's see if it works. Please provide me with feedback.

Make Up Test - Intro-Chapters 1 and 2

Wednesday IMMEDIATELY after school. Allow yourself one class period worth of time...50 minutes.

Bring your Museum Catalog...you may use on the test.

Stonehenge Article

Read this article from last night's news:

UK experts say Stonehenge was place of healing

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER Mon Sep 22, 9:49 PM ET

The first excavation of Stonehenge in more than 40 years has uncovered evidence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties, archaeologists said Monday.

Archaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill said the content of graves scattered around the monument and the ancient chipping of its rocks to produce amulets indicated that Stonehenge was the primeval equivalent of Lourdes, the French shrine venerated for its supposed ability to cure the sick.

An unusual number of skeletons recovered from the area showed signs of serious disease or injury. Analysis of their teeth showed that about half were from outside the Stonehenge area.

"People were in a state of distress, if I can put it as politely as that, when they came to the Stonehenge monument," Darvill told journalists assembled at London's Society of Antiquaries.

He pointed out that experts near Stonehenge have found two skulls that showed evidence of primitive surgery, some of just a few known cases of operations in prehistoric Britain.

"Even today, that's the pretty serious end of medicine," he said. Also found near Stonehenge was the body of a man known as the Amesbury Archer, who had a damaged skull and badly hurt knee and died around the time the stones were being installed. Analysis of the Archer's bones showed he was from the Alps.

Darvill cautioned, however, that the new evidence did not rule out other uses for Stonehenge.

"It could have been a temple, even as it was a healing center," Darvill said. "Just as Lourdes, for example, is still a religious center."

The archaeologists managed to date the construction of the stone monument to about 2,300 B.C., a couple of centuries younger than was previously thought. It was at that time that bluestones — a rare rock known to geologists as spotted dolomite — were shipped by hand or by raft from Pembrokeshire in Wales to Salisbury Plain in southern England, to create the inner circle of Stonehenge.

The outer circle, composed of much larger sandstone slabs, is what most people associate with the monument today, particularly since only about a third of the 80 or so bluestones remain. The scientists argued that they were once at the heart of Stonehenge, and closely associated with its healing properties.

As evidence, Darvill said his dig had uncovered masses of fragments carved out of the bluestones by people to create amulets. Any rock carried around in such a way would have had some sort of protective or healing property, he said. He said that theory was backed by burials in southwest England where the stones were interred with their owners.

Today the bluestones are now largely invisible, dwarfed by the huge sandstone monoliths — or "hanging stones" — that were erected later and still make up Stonehenge's iconic profile.

"They are of course quite impressive when you see them," Darvill said. "But in a sense they are the elaboration of a structure which kicked off with the bluestones."

Both archaeologists quoted the 12th-century monk Geoffrey of Monmouth as saying the stones were thought to have medicinal properties. They also said that evidence uncovered by their dig showed that people were moving and chipping off pieces of the bluestones through the Roman period and even into the Middle Ages.

Darvill said he felt the "folklore interest" in the bluestones into modern times suggested some sort of lingering memory of their supposed healing powers.

"That would be for me the single strongest piece of evidence," he said.

Andrew Fitzpatrick, from British heritage group Wessex Archaeology, said Darvill and Wainwright's discovery was "very important" but that the healing theory, while plausible, was not the only one.

"I don't think we can rule out the other main competing theory — that the temple was a meeting point between the land of the living and the dead," he told the British Broadcasting Corp.

The scientists announced their findings Monday, ahead of a documentary due to air on the BBC and the Smithsonian Channel on Saturday, Sept. 27.



After reading the article, use the article, your book and notes to complete the following:

I learned that people speculate as to why Stonehenge was created. Some of the theories include:

Monday, September 22, 2008

Week of September 22nd

See yesterday's post...check grades online...and your email. If I could not open your attachment SEND TO MY YAHOO email before you go to sleep tonight.

Items due this week:
Tuesday 9/23 Chapter 14 Read/WKBK
Thursday 9/25 Chapter 15 Read/WKBK
BOTH ASSIGNMENTS LISTED ON 9/13/08 POST

We will have a test on Chapter 3 and 14/15 on 9/30/08

We will discuss the three chapters in class and review prior to the test. A video about the Incas will also be shown.

The day after the test we'll make a MAKE UP Friday Fun Day since we missed last week due to my absence!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

All papers sent...graded

check your emails...some of you sent documents I could not open. The information needs to be sent as a .doc file or cut and pasted into body of email and resent to my yahoo account (as you did while I was away) by Monday night 9 pm.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Trouble with your homework...

If you sent your homework as an attachment...check to see if I have given u a grade...I emailed back EVERYONE that sent work in the body of an email OR in an attachment I could open. If you did not get a grade and sent work as an attachment...please resend in body of email.

You can also send your Smithsonian homework via email Friday or turn in...either is fine...can grade your btests faster next week if I get the Smithsonianh via email.

Thanks for your kind thoughts about my grandma!

PS - NEW TRIVIA TO COME AGAIN TOMORROW MORNING!

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Important Information for Week of 9/15/08

I'll be with you on Monday but not for the rest of the week as my grandmother passed away this morning. We'll review for the test on Monday and in any spare time we have we can continue the Fun Friday project.

Tuesday WILL BE YOUR TEST AND YOUR MUSEUM CATALOG IS DUE...the sub can administer that...just make sure your name is on everything and you make two piles...one for test and one for museum catalog when you turn in everything!

Wednesday-Friday
You have a reading worksheet due Thursday (sent to me via email renemacvay@yahoo.com). You will watch avideo about Egypt and turn in the worksheet when the video is completed. A video about the Mayas and Incas will follow...it may not be completed...we may finish on Monday the following week.

Due Friday 9/19...Smithsonian Magazine article and worksheet attached here.

You will have a second TEST on Egypt, and chapter 14 and 15 the week of 9/29/08 (with Museum Catalog due same day).

Due Tuesday 9/23/08
WKBK Chapter 14 (Read chapter 14 also)
page 137 # 1, 2 (continues on page 138)
page 138 #4,5,6
page 139 #12
page 142-143 North America Section

Due Thursday 9/25/08
Read Chapter 15 and complete WKBK
page 150 all
151 2,5
152 Discussion Question...in paragraph form ... #1

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The Ancient Near East/Afghanistan

Look at the Mesopotamian Myth about how/why humans were created: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/gods/home_set.html

Read about Woolley's excavations of the Royal Tombs at Ur AND explore the Royal Tombs: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/tombs/home_set.html

Answer the following questions:
What do the items found in the tombs tell one about the Mesopotamian culture?
Does the Mesopotamian creation myth remind you of any other creation myth you have read/heard?

Read about the Treasures of Afghanistan exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/afghanistan/afghanistan.pdf
Watch the video: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/afghanistan/video.shtm
Read the article about Oil Paintings as well as the Afghanistan profile from the following website:http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mission/afghanistan-treasures/


Complete the following statement about the exhibition:
After reading/viewing the videos I learned....

Make connections with what you read about Afghanistan with what is included in our text. Include CONCRETE EXAMPLES.

Due THURSDAY 9-11-08

Please type the questions and responses.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Upcoming assignments

Chapter 2 read/complete the workbook is due Tuesday 9/9/08. Complete details of wkbk assignment in an earlier post.

Friday 9/12/08 we'll have our first Fun Friday (if all goes well) and experiment with OP ART. This will be an ongoing process.

1st test - Intro and ch 1 and ch 2 will be TUESDAY 9/16/08. You will have MUSEUM CATALOG due the day of each test. The rubric/directions for each will always be posted on the blog...once you have the format down for the first you will be familiar with the rest of the year....it will not change too much from chapter to chapter.

Thursday 9/18 you will need to have read chpater 3 Egypt and answered the reading worksheet/workbook questions. Details will be posted.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Change

Activity from the computer pod as well as the elements and principles packet is due FRIDAY 9/5/08

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Week of September 2

While in the pod/library complete the attached worksheet. Due at the end of class or homework due Thursday 9/4/08.

Intro and Chapter 1 read/wkbk due 9/3

Chapter 2 assignment- read/wkbk due Tuesday 9/9
WKBK page 19 define heraldic composition
page 20 #1,4
21 # 1
23 #2
24 #1,2
25 Discussion Question #2 (Type)

Monday, August 25, 2008

Welcome to AP Art History

Today we started to introduce art vocabulary- prior to opening teh textbook. If you wish to watch the YouTube Elements and Principles of Art clip again, it can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUvTI-Syamo. We will continue with our introduction this week.

You need to purchase your workbook as you will need to read the introduction and chapter 1 by Wedneday 9/3/08.

Introduction:Complete Workbook questions 1-4 pages 11 and 12 (both #3's on page 12)
Chapter 1: Complete Workbook questions:
Page 13 #'s 1,2,4
Page 14 #7
Page 15 # 1,4,5
Page 16 # 3 (discussion questions need to be in depth)

Saturday, May 10, 2008

AP Test and Announcements

The AP test is Wednesday May 14th in the gym. Students do not need to attend their other classes. Arrive in spirit wear and bring pencils, erasers and blue or black pens.

After the AP test we will have a test and museum catalog for the ENTIRE YEAR due on Thursday May 22nd. Chapters 33 and 34 will be new - the rest of the chapters need only be found and assembled into a binder. Rubric to come after the test.

Visit the Heritage of the Americas Museum by June 1st.

Two students have not returned their filed trip permission slips. I need them ASAP!

Congrats to each and everyone of you - you worked hard this year...a few weeks to go and you are done!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

AP Test Review Project

The attached document lists the project topics...essay questions from past AP tests as well as thematic based questions to get you to review and think about the overarching concepts/goals for learning in this course. Monday May 5th we will be given our partnerships and be able to work in the computer pod by the classroom (Tuesday also).

Presentations will commence on Wednesday. Each presentation will be stopped if it goes longer than 10 minutes in length. Points will be taken away if groups do not provide an interactive learning environment for their peers.

Please do read over all questions as this is an excellent review tool.

You should be prepared to answer broad based essay questions on the exam - you can pick the artworks you use to answer the prompt. Make sure to MEMORIZE artwork, artist, date and style/country for a few artworks that you could potentially use to answer questions...REMEMBER some artworks are rich in content...they could be used to answer a variety of questions.

The AP Test is NOON on Wednesday May 14th. if you wish to come in for tutoring, please let me know a day in advance and I'll prepare a review customized to your review goals.

You have been working hard...a few more weeks to go! Keep up the good work!

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Additional Assignment

Don't forget to visit the Heritage of the Americas Museum (WS on a previous blog) NO later than June 1st...seniors MUST visit before senior finals so they can get credit for this last assignment.

Don't forget to turn in permission slips ASAP! They were due last week.

Due NO LATER THAN May 6th - read an article from the Smithsonian and visit the Cooper-Hewitt Museum website and answer the questions.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Revisions to schedule

Monday 4-28 Test - chapters 24-28-29. Check here for essay topic ideas.

Homework scheduled to be completed Monday is now due Tuesday
Homework scheduled to be completed Wed (4/30) is now due Thursday May 1st (Ch 33 part 2)

Remember all permission slips for the Bowers Museum Field trip are due 4/25

Friday, April 18, 2008

Upcoming Test

Monday 4/28/08 we will have a test on the rest of 24 and 28 and 29. Museum Catalog for 24 is complete...bring that. Museum Catalog for 28/29 will be due on that date. Rubric to be attached...

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Sample AP Questions

The AP Central site posts several sample AP Art History questions. The link is included below

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/arthistory/samp.html?arthist

I will hold AP reviews at lunch or after school by appointment (to help match everyone's schedule). The reviews can be group or individual.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Upcoming Work

Tomorrow's Quiz/Test will cover 22 and what we got to of 23 in class today. The rest of the assignments between now and the AP test are included in the attached document. Tests/Quizzes will be announced with 2 days notice.

Next week WKBK pages due Monday 4-8 and test 23/24 on Thursday 4/10

Assignment Due Dates (Reading/Wkbk):
4/14
4/17
4/21
4/24
4/28
4/30
5/5
5/8

Monday, March 24, 2008

Upcoming Assignments

A few people asked me for the next Museum Catalog rubric as they wished to get ahead over break. Chapters 22 (completion) and 23 and 24 are linked here.

Have a good break.

Ms. MacVay

Friday, March 14, 2008

Museum Tour - Heritage of the Americas Museum

By June 1st I wish you to have visited the Heritage of the Americas Museum at Cuyamaca College. Check in at the front desk and complete the assignment.

Assignment Due April 1st, Test April 3rd

Wanted to give you a brief assignment ahead of time in case you may be going out of town over break. This assignment is due NO LATER than April 1, 2008.

April 3rd we will have our next test on the rest of 22, and chapters 23 and 24 on April 3rd. Museum catalogs are due that day.

Change of Schedule - Test 3/20/008

The test scheduled for Wednesday 3/20/08 will merely be an architecture quiz. You may have a mini-Museum Catalog about architects. Your information can be the architect's name, date born and deceased (if applicable), a key fact about style and a key image. Only architects presented in class will be on the quiz...each block will have a quiz tailored to notes I took during presentations.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

March 6, 2008

Monday the 10th will be our test on 21, 22 and the architects presented in class. A Museum Catalog is due at that time. Presentations will be skipped on Monday due to the test and will resume on Tuesday the 11th. Workbook pages that are due are located on the blog from a week or two ago - all work until break is on the document.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Assignments Until Easter Break

Architecture Reports begin on Monday.

The Reading Worksheet outlines all assignments due for chapters 21-22-23 adn 24 between now and Easter Break.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Week of February 18th

We'll have a test on Chapters 19 and 20 - with Museum catalog due - on Thursday 2-21-08. We'll cover chapters 21 and 22 the following week. If you do not have your workbook - you need it as you are already behind. See me if there is a problem.

Architecture presentations commence on Monday 2-25-08. We'll have 2 per day. The architects presented will be on tests...Make your presentations interesting for your peers - engage them to help them learn the material!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Chapters 19 and 20

Museum Catalog andTest will be on Thursday 2-21-08.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Upcoming Assignments

I'll pass back your tests on Monday 2-11-08. We'll encounter chapters 19 and 20 the week of 2-11-08. You are expected to have read chapter 19 by Tuesday and 20 by Friday. The workbook pages are due the day the readuing is due.

Do NOT forget...Monday 2-11-08 report to HOMEROOM to start the day - ESLR essay.

The FIRST Architecture presentation will be 2-25-08!

See you at UCSD tomorrow!

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Upcoming Assignments

Watch the National Geographic Videos about stolen antiquities. Due via e-mail no later than 2-8-08.

Read the National Geographic Magazine article about Egypt's Black Pharaohs. Response due via e-mail no later than 2-8-08

Architecture Project - Class Presentation and report (with a partner). Due Dates depend on architect chosen. Presentations commence 2-25-08 (Monday) and last until 3-14-08 (Friday).

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Romanesque and Gothic

Friday we'll have a short vocabulary quiz - 10 questions - about the architecture vocabulary. Format is Multiple-Choice and matching.

Museum Catalog and Test for Chapters 17 and 18 will be TUESDAY 2-5-08.

Don't forget to purchase workbook volume 2 by test day...your next assignment will come from Volume 2 - chapter 19.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

All School Field Trip Information

Friday February 8th we will meet at UCSD from 8:30-11:30. We will visit the Stuart Collection, site specific sculptures throughout the campus in La Jolla. See you there!

Permission slips will be given to the students on Monday January 28th. Please sign adn return by FRIDAY 2-1-08.

Thanks!

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Semester is Almost Over...Looking into Next Semester

Today you turned in your ENTIRE MUSEUM CATALOG...a semester worth of hard work! Congrats! Tomorrow you turn in your take home essay. That completes Semester 1!

Now on to the rest of the year...Our next unit completes VOLUME 1 - Romanesque and Gothic. Your assignments for those chapters are due on January 29th and 31st, as noted. You will be tested on Tuesday 2/5/08 (Museum Catalog as well - some style changes to come).

Please purchase VOLUME 2 workbook from the turtle shop by test day.

Friday 2/8/08 is the ALL SCHOOL FIELD TRIP. Permission slips will be sent home after finals. We will meet at UCSD and look at site specific sculptures on their campus...rain or shine.

Good luck on your other finals!
Ms. MacVay

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

January 2008

This week you need to continue reading Chapters 11, 12,13 and 16. Our test will be Wednesday 1-16-08. Your Museum Catalog is due that day (scored as final exam). Friday 1-18-08 your final take home essays are due.

The first week after finals we will cover chapter 17 and 18 then move on to the Renaissance. You need to purchase workbook volume two for our Renaissance studies - available in the Turtle Shop.

February 8th is the all school field trip - we'll meet at UCSD. More details to follow.