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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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