Semester 1 Week 12 update

Charles Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities

Winslow Homer Snap the Whip 
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

1872  Oil on Canvas American Realism

The Sower  1850  Jean-Francois Millet

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Oil on Canvas (French Realism)

Homework Review – complete before week 13 class
Algebra 2	Lessons 43-46. Also, bring one math question from your own math book to put on the board.
Latin	Lessons 16 and exercises, take home quiz
Logic	Finish Lesson 12 and answer questions.
History: HSWTL	HSWTL – chapter 12 and questions in the guide (section IX)
History: Art Essay Annotated Mona Lisa SoA	We will discuss our Timelines, missing Essays, and Notebook preparations. Relationship Essay on “How Winslow Homer’s and Jean-Francois Millet’s works (Snap the Whip & the Sower) show progression from the era of Romanticism into the era of Realism.   Pages 84 and 85 each have more information on the Artists, the Paintings, and the Era. Read chapter 12 (conclusion) in State of the Arts.
Art Presentation:	Start outlines for the Art Critique/Presentation on week 15 (pg. 48).
British Literature Essay:	Read chapters 1-16 in Tale of Two Cities (chart the characters in the book).
Biology:	Finish Chapter 7 and Type Formal Lab Report on Strawberry DNA.

Algebra 2 (Chapters 39-42) For the Algebra portion we covered binomials and conjugates, and for Geometry sections we covered problems with parallelograms, unit multipliers, and scientific notation fractions.

 

Latin – We reviewed Latin word that relate to time and space and worked on a group vocabulary quiz. The students will bring back the last 5 translations next week and take home a grammar review to work on over the break.

 

Logic – This was a week for tackling fallacies in Syllogisms. The students zoomed through 15-20 exercises in class to spot the different logic rules for syllogisms that can be broken. 

History – We took time to discuss our essays and look at the effects of early America on the painters. The frontier life did not have large buildings to adorn or rich patrons to buy art. Many Puritan families resisted art. The general lifestyle of the people valued utility over items of beauty. Furniture and silver items were fashioned with nice craftsmanship but there were no large number of sculptures being made. Most early painters were self-taught and focused on nature scenes and family portraits as their subject matter. We then began a discussion on eras that we'll continue over the next 3 weeks (Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism). 

Art Presentation Project – Students were handed a helpful question sheet that they can use to further prepare for their Art Presentation on week 15. Aside from introducing the art piece, the students also begin to critique the piece for its form and meaning.

British Literature – We held a discussion about social topics in both Pride & Prejudice and Jane Eyre. While one is a novel on social manners and a bit of a comical romance and the other is a Gothic novel with a bit of gloom and mystery, both had some similar themes and societal expectations. We also compared these values 

(carefully arranged marriages and schoolwork of the accomplished ladies) to today's expectations . We read our essays aloud. Also, some previously submitted essays for both art and literature were returned to the students. 

Biology – Before starting labs, we discussed parts of cells again...more specifically, the structure and function of the cell plasma walls. This week’s labs involved observing cell walls in bananas and plants. We also extracted DNA strands of strawberries. Below, you will find pictures of our microscope observations, our lovely reactions to spooling deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and a few final student shenanigans.