Tuesday 25 March 2014

Homework during my absence

During my absence, you have to study unit 6 by yourselves, according to the notes you have to buy at the school.
You must do the following exercises according to the following timeline (in case there is any contradiction with the timeline that there is on my box at the teachers' room, the paper from teachers' room have priority):
Day 1: You will combine study page 57 and the notes until "Independenca of Castile" (1.1.1). And you have to do the following homework: exercise 1 and 2 on that page 57..
Day 2: You have to study in your notes 1.1.1. (Independence of Castile), and the whole 1.2 "The Pyrenean region". Homework: page 58, and "Activity sheet 24" (page 99) of your photocopies. Activity on the Cid. page 60
Day 3: You have to study "2. The Art (8th-10th centuries)", completing it with the part of mudejar art on page 59. Homework: "Activity sheet 22. Exercises 1 and 2", and exercises on page 59, and also complete the photocopy of "The asturian kingdom".
Day 4:  Bring your dictionary with you and translate the text about "El convento de Santa Clara-Museo de Pedro I". You have architectonical vocabulary on the photocopy I gave you in unit 4.
Day 5:Study on your notes Point 3 until the kingdom of Portugal, and do exercises on page 60, and activity sheet 22 (exercise 3).
 Day 6: Study on your notes the rest of point 3, and do the exercises on activity sheet 23
Day 7: Study on your book about the "Three cultures" on your book and do exercise about the Way of Saint James.
Day 8: You have to do a timeline combining what you learned in unit 5 and unit 6, on one side there must be facts about unit 5, and on the other about unit 6.
Day 9: Start unit 7.
PD: In case you have given me your notebook, do these exercises on sheets and I will give you your notebooks as soon as I come back.



Sunday 23 March 2014

Romanesque Mudejar

One of the specifically spanish styles was the mudejar, built by the muslims who lived in the christian kingdoms. Here you have a short documentary from "Las claves del románico" series that explains about romanesque-mudejar.

"El rómanico mudejar"

Saturday 1 March 2014

Islamic art

Here you have a few links about islamic art in Spain.
The first one is an illustrated book edited by the Metropolitan Museum of Arts of New York with lots of information and pictures (You have a copy of them in your classroom computers)
The second one is the  museum with no frontiers, and more precisely, the webpages dedicated to islamic art.