Category Archives: Grade 9

What are the Humanities?

What are the Humanities? 

“The humanities can be described as the study of how people process and document the human experience. Since humans have been able, we have used philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language to understand and record our world. These modes of expression have become some of the subjects that traditionally fall under the humanities umbrella. Knowledge of these records of human experience gives us the opportunity to feel a sense of connection to those who have come before us, as well as to our contemporaries.”

http://shc.stanford.edu/what-are-the-humanities

Action Organizer Template

NEW HORIZONS Action Organizer Template

I made this template up to help me plan out what I am doing each day, and what I need to schedule in my calendar, like homework or group tasks. For students, use it to keep track of daily homework for each class.

1. Fill in your your schedule for each day.
2. Save 5 copies of the template, DAY 1, DAY 2, DAY 3, DAY 4, DAY 5. That way, you won’t ever have to write out your schedule again.
3. When I save a copy, I simply open yesterday’s file (to refresh my memory) or a blank template and re-save the file with the date in the name.
4. You’ll notice my initials are after NH  – that’s so when I send it to a friend, they will know who wrote it. Change your copy to your initials.
5. Make sure to set up reminders in your google calendar to keep track of project management. You may wish to push reminders to your smartphone.
6. Customize & make it your own!

NH PAR DAY 2 – Sept 2 Template

AGA Opening: Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880-1910

Opening Soon: Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880-1910
September 6, 2014

This extraordinary exhibition highlights the wide spectrum of exciting work created by avant-garde artists in Paris around the turn of the century. Through dreamy Symbolist landscape paintings, edgy Parisian street scenes, intimate domestic tableaux, bawdy cabaret sketches, figure studies, portraits and still life compositions, it investigates a generation of artists continuing the battle against French Academic standards fought by the Impressionists and the Barbizon painters before them.

The exhibition traces the important 30 year period of modern French art at the turn of the century, from the “fin-de-siecle” through to “The Belle Epoque”, a time when Parisian art was multi-faceted with varied approaches to the idea of being “modern.” Breaking with tradition, some artists explored expressive means in line, colour and form to depict daily life, while others used abstract styles to negate naturalism and suggest underlying universal symbols.

With Toulouse-Lautrec as its focus, and featuring the work of a generation of his contemporaries, this exhibition puts the art of famous Impressionists and Post Impressionists into context; it demonstrates how avant-garde artists approached the subject of modernity, and highlights the various media turn of the century artists put to use to publicize their work: illustrated journals, books, posters and theatre programs.

This groundbreaking exhibition is comprised of over 180 works including paintings, watercolors and drawings; posters designed by Lautrec and Pierre Bonnard, among others; illustrated programs and rare zinc shadow puppet silhouettes used in avant-garde shadow-theatre productions at the Chat Noir cabaret; and illustrated programs for circuses, cabarets and café-concerts documenting the activities of avant-garde artists.

Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880-1910 is curated by Phillip Denis Cate and is presented at your AGA with the support of Capital Powered Art, an exhibition series sponsored by Capital Power Corporation

Organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia.
His Excellency Franҫois Delattre, Ambassador of France to the United States of America is Honorary Patron of the exhibition.

– See more at: http://www.youraga.ca/exhibit/toulouselautrec#sthash.h8CRKB3Y.dpuf