IA Apprentice- Feb Europe

Imaginative Arts- Europe

Fairy  Tales








Study and Learn 

• Dress warm, you will be having an archeological dig. If you have a small shovel or paint brushes (big and small) please label them as yours and bring them.
• Finish reading the Trumpeter of Krakow, come ready to discuss.
• Write the definitions on your notecards.  Bring your notecards to class.

• Fairy Tales
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Courtly love
• Grimm Brothers
• Norse
• Odin
• Thor
• trolls
• Vallhalla

• Watch these videos about fairy tales.
• Hero Cycle
• Fairy Tale elements 1
• Fairy Tale elements 2

• Read these fairy tales:  The Little Mermaid and  Beauty and the Beast then pick 5 more to read of your choice.  The library will have tons and you can find them online.  I would assume you have a fairy tale book in your home you can pick up and read.  

In class we will be playing around with Fractured Fairy Tales. A Fractured Fairy tale is a fairy tale designed to be humorous by changing the story in an unexpected way; altering characters, or adding a modern language or events.  In your cultural groups you will be making up a fractured fairy tale and performing it.  Get familiar with these by watching a few of these gems from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Cinderella.  Watch a few of your favorites.  Come prepared with some ideas.  It might be helpful to connect with your cultural group and decide on a fairy tale. You will have 30 minutes in class to get ready to perform! Costumes and props are encouraged!

Bring one of your favorite Fairy Tale picture books to class.


Know and Understand

Choose one:

• Make a picture book of your favorite fairy tale.
• Build a detailed castle
• Make an illuminated page out of the bible or fairy tale story.
• Write your own fairy tale

Become and Serve: only choose one for the whole day


As you read your fairy tales, look for the universal values that are believed in and taught.  What are they?  Are the present in every civilization? What are the values that are being taught?  Can you find those same values in our civilization today?  How have these values been passed on?  Journal for 10 minutes.

Why are Disney versions of Fairy Tales different?  Do you think that changing the story has benefited society? What values were changed? How do you feel about that? Journal for 10 minutes

Feb. Journeyman

Feb. Journeyman

DO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Read Chapter 5  in the drawing textbook.  Do all of the drawings 8 times.  Bring your best ones to show
• Read pages 84-106 in "Put a Cherry on Top".  Color one of the drawings in the book
• Draw or paint a picture of your favorite Norse god. Or create a Norse helmet out of cardboard or whatever you want, and make it fun and cool, DON’T BORE SISTER FONTANO
• Come to class prepared to share your art or helmet

February Master Class

Norse Mythology

Please remember that in  order to attend Master class you must have completed all the work for Journeyman and Apprentice.  Also you must finish ALL of the Master work.  Be honest with yourself and with your classmates.  Masters is awesome, I hope you are all trying to get there.  We love having you!

Study and Learn

• Read 10 stories of Norse Mythology. You can find these at the library or online
• Find out where we got the names for our days of the week

Know and Understand

• Do a Hero Study on one of the following Fairy Tale authors: (Look in the tool box on the blog if you don't know what this is) Come ready to share what you have learned. Let me know who you choose so we don't double up.
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Charles Perrault
• Grimm Brothers
• Alexander Afanasyev
• Lewis Carroll
• Oscar Wilde
• Carlo Lorenzini

Become and Serve

• You are invited to attend a feast at the legendary Valhalla in Asgard.  Come dressed as a Norse God of your choice.  Be ready to regale us with  your many adventures and stories.  The god Heimdall, the keeper of the rainbow bridge will know if you are an imposter, make sure you know your stories well.

February 2nd Class

Everyone stays all day this week!  Bring a lunch and plan to be there!

We are hearing a presentation from Kaiden Cloward on his mission to India, discussing the reading and the book "Seven Daughters and Seven Sons" (so make sure you've finished it!) and visiting the Krishna Temple in Salem.

We would like to do a tasting table of Indian food.  Please bring an Indian dish per family that day.  The Clowards will bring the basmati rice, so if you're dish is served on rice, there will be some there.

Please dress warm, we will be outside at the Krishna Temple and last year it was really cold.

And don't forget to bring your artifact for your culture that day, too.    Please connect with your culture group and make sure your culture is complete.  It's time to bury them!

January Apprentice: Hinduism

January Apprentice: Hinduism

Study/Learn

1 - Write the following on note cards from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy:

• Bhagavad Gita
• Hinduism
• reincarnation
• Sanskrit
• yoga
• zen

2 - Read this short overview of Hinduism

3 - Read this excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita, one of the holy books of Hinduism

4 - Read at least one of the following articles:  (for a more complete understanding of Hinduism, you can read all of these articles)

• Hinduism By A. Burt Horsley, Ph.D. at lds.org
• Reincarnation at lds.org 
• Latter-day Saints and Eastern Religions: A Few Thoughts on Bridge Building by R. Lanier Britsch at lds.org

Know/Understand

1 - Meditation is key element in the Eastern religions we have been studying.  What does God say in our LDS scriptures about meditation?  Is it even mentioned?   Sit somewhere quiet for 10 minutes.  Try to clear your mind and just be.  Was it hard or easy?  What could you do differently next time to make it better?  Is this something you would like to have more of in your life?

2 - Make a list of at least 5 of the teaching from Hinduism and find scriptures from our LDS scriptures that teach the same thing.  Bring your list to class and be prepared to discuss.

3 - Prepare (or talk your mom into preparing) vegetarian meals for ONE WHOLE DAY this week.  Vegetarians don't eat meat or use meat products.  Bring the recipes for what you ate to share with the class.  Could you eat this way all the time?  Why or why not?


Become/Serve

In 1986, in discussing our relationships with other people, Elder George I. Cannon quoted an old Hindu proverb that says,

“Help thy brother’s boat across, and lo, thine own has reached the shore.”

What do you think this proverb means?  What does it mean to you?  Journal for 15 minutes on how you can better apply the principle taught in this proverb in your own life and then set a goal to do this week to better serve others.

January Journeyman

Journeyman

1. Drawing Textbook - chapter 4.  Start at the beginning if you haven't started yet. Draw each pictures 8 times.  Cut out the best of each and put them on one page to hang on the wire.

2. Read Put a Cherry on Top 51-83.

3.  Research the art of India.  Replicate one of the styles you see and bring your art to class to show.