People, Themes, Art and Architecture, Literature, and Ideas
History, Ideas, Art, More Art, People and Literature
Get ready for the final test
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Know major ideas and concepts for each chapter.
Ex. Ask yourself: “What is ‘Protest and Reform’ about?” Who is protesting? What are they protesting? What needs reform? What are examples of art/literature from this period? Do that for each chapter. Compare major ideas (“How is the Romantic view of the world different from that of the Protestant Reformation?”) Chapter 18: Africa, the Americas, and Cross-Cultural Encounter Chapter 19: Protest and Reform: The Waning of the Old Order Chapter 20: The Catholic Reformation and the Baroque Style Chapter 21: Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style Chapter 22: The Baroque in the Protestant North Chapter 23: The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning Chapter 24: The Promise of Reason Chapter 25: The Limits of Reason Chapter 26: Eighteenth-Century Art, Music, and Society Chapter 27: The Romantic View of Nature Chapter 28: The Romantic Hero Chapter 29: The Romantic Style in Art and Music HINT: We covered 12 chapters. Here is a good trick: Chapters 24-26 are all about the Enlightenment. Chapters 27-29 are all about the Romanticism. So lump those together and you only have 8 things to study. Here is a summary of what we have covered. |
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Romantic Paintings
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Quotations, Lockets, Portrait, Death Mask And Tattoos Inspired By Keats |
5% Assignment
IA Show Vernissage is April 27! Videos at 5:30 P-204. Show opens in the Agora at 6:30.
Show runs April 28 to May 3 (9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.).
5% Assignment here.
Due May 4th HA-105
Show runs April 28 to May 3 (9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.).
5% Assignment here.
Due May 4th HA-105
Constable or Turner?
Romanticism Notes
Part One is here and Part Two is here. And here is a study sheet to help you review what you know about Romanticism.
For Friday:
1. Are you on Team Constable or Team Turner? Check out the text and be able to say why.
2. Pick your favourite poet: Wordsworth, Keats or Shelley. Memorize a couple of lines from his poem.
For Friday:
1. Are you on Team Constable or Team Turner? Check out the text and be able to say why.
2. Pick your favourite poet: Wordsworth, Keats or Shelley. Memorize a couple of lines from his poem.
Schedule
Apr. 12 Rococo and Neoclassicism cont'd (Chapter 26) College Closed Friday
Apr. 19 Last in-class Quiz (Chapters 24, 25, 26) College Closed Monday
Romantic View of Nature (Book 5, Chapter 27)
Apr. 24 Romantic Hero (Book 5, Chapter 28)
April 26
May 1 Romantic Style in Art and Music (Book 5, Chapter 29)
May 3
May 8 REVIEW
May 10 TEST TWO (20%)
Apr. 19 Last in-class Quiz (Chapters 24, 25, 26) College Closed Monday
Romantic View of Nature (Book 5, Chapter 27)
Apr. 24 Romantic Hero (Book 5, Chapter 28)
April 26
May 1 Romantic Style in Art and Music (Book 5, Chapter 29)
May 3
May 8 REVIEW
May 10 TEST TWO (20%)
18th Century Art
Get all the study questions from the outdoor class here.
18th Century Art
For Monday your "price of admission" to class is two lists.
List One: Your top three favourite works of art from the chapter. Be ready to explain their strength and why they are so great.
List Two: Your three least favourite works of art and why they don't deserve the "top three" designation.
List One: Your top three favourite works of art from the chapter. Be ready to explain their strength and why they are so great.
List Two: Your three least favourite works of art and why they don't deserve the "top three" designation.
Study "The Limits of Reason."
1. Our textbook calls satire "the weapon of the Enlightenment". Explain? Give an example. Who or what was this "weapon" used against?
2. Who is Olaudah Equiano? (Hint: He is not exactly as illustrated at left.)
3. Phillis Wheatley started as a slave but ended up being a poet. This was very unusual. Why was her case different from other enslaved people who might have been equally talented?
4. Find Hogarth's engraving of "Gin Lane". List everything you see in the picture. Use info from the textbook to explain why gin was such a problem in London.
5. Jonathan Swift explains the farming and eating of babies (?!) at great length. It sounds like he is dead serious. Find a couple of points he makes in the text which show that he has really thought this through. It is not until the end of essay that we get a hint of what he really wishes would happen. Explain this.
2. Who is Olaudah Equiano? (Hint: He is not exactly as illustrated at left.)
3. Phillis Wheatley started as a slave but ended up being a poet. This was very unusual. Why was her case different from other enslaved people who might have been equally talented?
4. Find Hogarth's engraving of "Gin Lane". List everything you see in the picture. Use info from the textbook to explain why gin was such a problem in London.
5. Jonathan Swift explains the farming and eating of babies (?!) at great length. It sounds like he is dead serious. Find a couple of points he makes in the text which show that he has really thought this through. It is not until the end of essay that we get a hint of what he really wishes would happen. Explain this.
FYI Quiz on The Enlightenment on Wednesday.
Essay: Are you doing it right? |
Quote? Paraphrase? Cite? Get help here. |
Do clearly state in the intro what question you are examining?
Do you give an overview in the intro of the main points you will make in addressing your question?
Do all of your paragraphs refer back to the main question in your introduction?
Does almost everything in your essay come from one of your sources? Did you cite your source even when the info is in your own words?
Do you refer to more than one source in each paragraph and use them to answer your question?
Do you give an overview in the intro of the main points you will make in addressing your question?
Do all of your paragraphs refer back to the main question in your introduction?
Does almost everything in your essay come from one of your sources? Did you cite your source even when the info is in your own words?
Do you refer to more than one source in each paragraph and use them to answer your question?
The Promise of Reason And the Limits of Reason (notes and Slides)
the_enlightenment_for_ohp.pdf |
Research Assignment 20% Due April 3rd at the beginning of class
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Choose any topic from chapters 22-25. The artists, thinkers or scientists featured there are extremely influential and famous.
Find five academic sources (one in French) from books and academic journals. (Try databases on the library website such as "JSTOR".) Do an annotated bibliography. Build your paper on that foundation. Your assignment will look like this: A synthesis that provides an overview of what other scholars have said about your topic. You use this material to answer your research question. Look for places where your authors agree or disagree. Quote, paraphrase and correctly cite your sources in the assignment. Complete and accurate MLA bibliography. 1500 words. Your To Do List: Choose a topic, do preliminary research, develop a research question, create annotated bibliography, write paper. |
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Going to see the ALC production of Anything Goes?
If you are going to see the play that is on right now (or are participating) you can do a 5% assignment! Send an MIO to Meredith for the instructions. Make sure you save your ticket, take a selfie and enjoy the play! It is $8 for students. Info here: http://www.westislandblog.com/anything-goes/
Newton, Bacon or Descartes?
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Pick one and read up on him in the textbook for Wednesday.
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Quiz on Paintings in Chapter 23 on MondayThe textbook describes four kinds of Dutch Baroque paintings: Landscape, Genre (scenes from everyday life), Portrait (individual and group), and Still Life (with vanitas aka memento mori as specific kinds).
Study the paintings in the textbook. Be able to say why each belongs to a particular category. Know at least one example of each. Practice with the paintings in the slideshow below. (There are two Rembrandt nudes and some illustrations of scientific ideas there too because they are part of the chapter as well.) Notes on chapter 23? Get them here. Don't have your book? There are some on reserve in the library. |
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Schedule for after Reading Week
March 20 and 23 Scientific Revolution (Book 4, Chapter 23) TESTS and ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES returned
March 27 and 29 The Promise of Reason (Book 4, Chapter 24) and The Limits of Reason (Book 4, Chapter 25)
ESSAY DUE APRIL 3rd
Bonus! Take your draft to the Writing Centre in the Library basement by the end of the day March 30th you'll get a bonus on your essay.
March 27 and 29 The Promise of Reason (Book 4, Chapter 24) and The Limits of Reason (Book 4, Chapter 25)
ESSAY DUE APRIL 3rd
Bonus! Take your draft to the Writing Centre in the Library basement by the end of the day March 30th you'll get a bonus on your essay.
Study for the Test! |
March 2nd test |
For Monday's class bring in a chart/list in which you compare Louis XIV with one of the other Absolutist rulers in Chapter 21. Include ideas, facts, and examples from art, architecture, literature, etc. to support your points.
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Want to see the questions? Click here! Three of the four questions will be on the test. You will answer one.
The essay question counts for 10%. Short answer/multiple choice type questions count for 10%. Test will last the whole class. Test will cover everything we have done. Chapters 18-22. |
Notes for Chapter 22 The Baroque in the Protestant North
Here are the notes about John Donne, John Milton, the King James Bible and other crowning achievements of the Protestant North! (This is St. Paul's Cathedral with the "whispering gallery" in the picture at the left.)
Research and Annotated Bibliography |
What is a peer-reviewed academic Journal? |
Field Trip!
Let's go look at art! If you go on your own, take a selfie!
Last possible day to submit is March 6th. So plan your visit before then.
Permanent collection FREE for under 30
ASSIGNMENTS HERE. Assignment is due a week after you visit.
HOW TO GET THERE? It takes about 1 hr and 15 minutes to get there.
-Take the 405, 411 or 211 from John Abbott to Lionel-Groulx (it is the end of the route).
-Get on the metro and take the GREEN LINE to Guy-Concordia Metro (2 stops).
-Exit the metro and walk one block North (it is slightly uphill) to Sherbrooke St.
-Turn right on Sherbrooke and walk east about 2 blocks.
Last possible day to submit is March 6th. So plan your visit before then.
Permanent collection FREE for under 30
ASSIGNMENTS HERE. Assignment is due a week after you visit.
HOW TO GET THERE? It takes about 1 hr and 15 minutes to get there.
-Take the 405, 411 or 211 from John Abbott to Lionel-Groulx (it is the end of the route).
-Get on the metro and take the GREEN LINE to Guy-Concordia Metro (2 stops).
-Exit the metro and walk one block North (it is slightly uphill) to Sherbrooke St.
-Turn right on Sherbrooke and walk east about 2 blocks.
MLA 8th Edition
Here is a pretty good overview of the new MLA citation style. You can use either the 7th or the 8th edition, but you have to pick one and stick with it! :)
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Baroque Opera
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Chapter 21 Louis XIV
As we see in Chapter 21, Louis XIV was not the only only absolutist ruler or "Divine Right" king. Check out notes here. Also, here is a little presentation.
5% Americas Assignment |
Get Notes on the Americas here |
Pick any non-African culture from Chapter 18. Make a "travel brochure" to convince people to visit your chosen culture. Of course your travel agency has a time machine so you can promise people they will see the culture you choose at its height. If you choose a culture that does not have much in the textbook, find another source online (NOT Wikipedia) to fill things out. Due in class Wed. 15th or in HA-105 Thursday 16th.
Chapter 21 Louis XIV 5% Activity Sheet
Create a quiz/activity page (like the one Africa and the New World) to share with the class. Your challenge is to identify the most important ideas and examples in the chapter and to use them in an organized way for the student using the study sheet.
Hints: Stop at the beginning of Molière's play, but make sure you use all parts of the chapter preceding it. If you are drawing, use pen! If you draw first with pencil, then ink your work after. And proofread! Marks are awarded for completeness, correctness, creativity, and care. Due Monday, February 13th.
Hints: Stop at the beginning of Molière's play, but make sure you use all parts of the chapter preceding it. If you are drawing, use pen! If you draw first with pencil, then ink your work after. And proofread! Marks are awarded for completeness, correctness, creativity, and care. Due Monday, February 13th.
Notes on Counter-Reformation |
Mannerism or Baroque? You be the Judge! |
Bernini |
El Greco |
Caravaggio (See video here) |
Gentileschi |
Do you Know your Artists?
Notes for Chapter 20
Quiz on Monday
Show you understand Luther, Durer, the Protestant Reformation, etc.
Study Chapter 19
Next class we will finish up Chapter 19 (in book 3) and start Chapter 20. If you don't have books 4, 5, and 6 now is the time to get them.
NEWSFLASH! "Price of Admission" to next class is reading two excerpts. Choose between the texts written by Cervantes, Erasmus, Montaigne or More. (I added More because Erasmus was lonely without his friend.)
NEWSFLASH! "Price of Admission" to next class is reading two excerpts. Choose between the texts written by Cervantes, Erasmus, Montaigne or More. (I added More because Erasmus was lonely without his friend.)
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Want to test yourself ? Try these questions:
1. Name one new technology and how it changed the culture. 2. Were the concerns of the Christian Humanists of the North essentially identical to those of the Classical Humanists of the South? 3. What inventions made it possible to easily transmit ideas? 4. What did Martin Luther object to in the Church? 5. To what does Calvin’s doctrine of predestination refer? 6. Who founded the Anglican Church? Why? 7. What does it mean to write in the vernacular? Who did it? 8. Explain any of: Thomas à Kempis/devotio moderna/imitatio Christii/Lay Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life 9. Who was the father of the personal essay? 10. Name two Northern artists who did portraits 11. Name two Northern artworks which are not portraits. Describe their features and who made them. 12. How are engravings and woodcuts different? 13. Which two sacraments did Luther think were necessary? 14. What is satire? CHALLENGE: Why was the cathedral door in Wittenberg an important place? Why would someone translate or retranslate the Bible? What is the Diet of Worms? |
Notes for Chapter 19Here are the notes projected in class.
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General Study TipsHere are some things to try:
Explain to someone what you learned today. (Long bus ride? Boring dinner conversation? You can liven things up!) Write in your textbooks. (Yes, I know it feels wrong, but it helps you focus and helps you find important bits later on.) Make connections between course material and your life or imagination. (Compare past ideas about love, satire, dance, etc. to our world now.) |
First Homework Chapter 19 (5%) due Monday, January 23rd
Option A. Authors on Twitter. You need to make 10 "tweets" from one of the following figures from the Northern Renaissance/Protestant Reformation. Choose one of: Michel de Montaigne, Erasmus or Cervantes. It is to be your own work, based on material from the textbook (each of these has a reading attached to it--check it out!) To inspire you, here is an example of someone's Martin Luther Twitter posts. You can either make a profile and post for real on Twitter or you can just do it on paper and hand it in.
Option B. Two Artists Walk Into a Bar... For this assignment pick two artists from chapter 19 and write an imaginary dialogue they might have if they met. Use material from the textbook. You can write the dialogue like a script, as a cartoon, or, if you are very ambitious, you can perform it for us.
Option B. Two Artists Walk Into a Bar... For this assignment pick two artists from chapter 19 and write an imaginary dialogue they might have if they met. Use material from the textbook. You can write the dialogue like a script, as a cartoon, or, if you are very ambitious, you can perform it for us.