“Iconography: The area of study dealing with the description of visual images and symbols. Art historian Erwin Panofsky first made the distinction between the identification of images (iconography) and the interpretation of their meaning (iconology). See ALLEGORY and REPRESENTATION.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged art/architecture/design
Next up: a lesson plan on Cyrus the Great and the Persian Empire. Like the previous lesson on Hammurabi’s Code, this one includes a trove of differentiated documents.
Let’s start with the do-now exercises, which for this lesson are two Cultural Literacy worksheets: the first is first is on xenophobia and the second is on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Now onto the documents that constitute the principal work of this lesson–there are two sets. Here the primary reading on Cyrus the Great along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. There is only the slightest difference between the primary reading and this version of it, but this worksheet is shorter to attend it. I imagine (it has been a while) that I prepared the second versions of these documents for one student, but I cannot say that for sure.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“Diaspora: Exile or dispersion used with reference to the exile of the Jewish people from the land of Israel, though also now by analogy to other groups. Diaspora may also be used to refer not only to the state of being in exile, but also to the place of exile, the communities in exile, and to a state of mind that results from living in exile. The Hebrew term galut (also golus, galuth) expresses the feeling of living as a member of a relatively defenseless minority, subject to injustice if not to outright persecution in an unredeemed—though not unredeemable—world.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged philosophy/religion
OK, here is a lesson plan on Hammurabi’s Code. It looks like every version of this lesson I wrote is in this folder, so here are all the documents I’ve used to teach this material over time.
First the do-now exercises: here is a context clues worksheet on the verb censure and another on the noun chaos.
Next, the primary documents. Here is first reading on Hammurabi’s Code along with its accompanying worksheet. This is same reading in a second, edited and simpler version of the same reading with its similarly simplified worksheet. Finally, here is a third and even shorter reading and worksheet.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“Daura * Zaria * Biram * Kano * Katsina * Rano * Gobir
These are the seven cities of the Hausa people of Central West Africa whose historic territory extends across Nigeria, Niger, and several other modern nations.”
Excerpted from: Rogerson, Barnaby. Rogerson’s Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers–from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World. New York: Picador, 2013.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged black history, readings/research
Here is a lesson plan on Assyria and Babylon. To open this lesson, for some reason, I arranged three context clues worksheets. The first is on the adjective civil; the second is on the noun civilization, and here is one more on the noun coalition. Finally, here is the reading and comprehension questions that are at the center of this lesson.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“buffer state: Small state created or maintained between two larger ones, either to prevent their taking control of strategically important territory or to eliminate the possibility of an armed clash between them by removing their common border.”
Excerpted from: Cook, Chris. Dictionary of Historical Terms. New York: Gramercy, 1998.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged term of art
Moving right along, here is a lesson plan on identifying the characteristics of empires. I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet worksheet on the noun era. In the event the lesson goes into a second day, I use this this Cultural Literacy Worksheet on the Nile River. Finally, here is the worksheet that is the principal labor of this lesson.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“The children now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize over their teachers.”
“Attributed in N.Y. Times, 24 Jan. 1948. This spurious quote, trying to make the point that adults have always complained about the behavior of youths, became very popular in the 1960s, Researchers have never found anything like it in the words of Socrates or Plato. Dennis Lien has discovered a similar attribution in Guy Endore’s 1933 novel The Werewolf of Paris: ‘The young people no longer obey the old. The laws that ruled their fathers are trampled underfoot. They seek only their own pleasure and have no respect for religion. They dress indecently and their talk is full of impudence.’ Endore cites ‘an ancient Egyptian papyrus’ as the source.”
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Here is the second of two lessons on the ancient civilization of Sumer. I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun diaspora—a nice solid noun for whose meaning students have asked after repeatedly over the years. Finally, here is the worksheet at the center of this lesson.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
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