Yearly Archives: 2022

Whew! What a whirlwind this 8 weeks has been. To have made it this far, you’ve had to work very hard and been willing to think about new ideas and new cultures.   What was the most meaningful thing to you that we studied?   How will you carry what you’ve learned here to your […]

DQ1 POST-IMPRESSIONIST ART   Last week, you read about Impressionism as breaking dramatic new grounds in the visual arts (Chapter 13: The Working Class and the Bourgeoisie). This week, please discuss the role of post-Impressionism in modern art from Chapter 14: The Modernist World. Who were the post-Impressionists? How did they differ from the Impressionists? […]

DQ1 NEOCLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM   Neoclassicism and romanticism are two movements in art that overlap in Europe. Please read about each in Chapter 12: The Age of Revolution and discuss the time frame, defining characteristics, and ideology of each. Please provide lots of visual examples so the class can better understand what you’re talking about. […]

DQ1 ART AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION In your textbook reading this week (Chapters 10 and 11), you’ll be reading about the Scientific Revolution, as well as looking at several styles of art. Please begin by discussing the Scientific Revolution. What was it? How did it begin? What came out of it? Then, focus your discussion […]

DQ1 THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION AND ART This week, you’re reading Chapter 8: Renaissance and Reformation in the North, which is about the Protestant Reformation in Europe and the ripple effect this event had in art and religion. What were the events leading up to the Reformation, and how did the Reformation affect religious art? Please […]

How is studying the humanities beneficial to you as a person and as a professional? Why does thinking and writing about history require a different approach than we’re accustomed to? What are some of the conventions (the rules and expectations) of thinking and writing about history?   Use key details from the lesson and reading […]

REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT: THE NATURE OF TRUTH Please read the excerpt from Plato’s The Republic called “The Allegory of the Cave” (the link is available in this week’s readings), as well as the section in your textbook on Greek philosophy (Chapter 2, pp. 64–67 “Philosophy and the Polis” through “Plato’s Republic and Idealism”). Using what you’ve […]

TIMELINE PROJECT PRESENTATION This week, you will complete the Timeline Project you began in Week 5 with the submission of your formal presentation. The point of this project is to help you see how all of the pieces of this class fit together and give you an opportunity to demonstrate how much you have learned […]

REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT EXPERIENCING MUSIC This week, yourassignment is to explore the legacy of the black artist during the Harlem Renaissance in Harlem, New York. Please review the section in Chapter 14: The Modernist World on the Harlem Renaissance and then view these two videos on this movement in art, paying close attention to the sections […]

ART PRODUCTION   This week you will use your reading for the week as a point of departure to create your own artistic production to present to the class in a narrated PowerPoint.   DIRECTIONS   Complete the reading for this week.   Select one of the visual art pieces from the chapter or the […]