What is this website?

This website is your main general resource for our 10th grade interdisciplinary European Humanities course and your main specific resource during the artifact paper process.  It should be the first place you go to on the internet to find information pertaining to your artifact paper.  The website provides you with primary and secondary sources, key questions for major time periods/ eras, teacher reviewed internet sites, and various other resources designed to assist you throughout our  course and in all phases of the artifact paper process.  In addition, your various class textbooks should be the other main resource for this paper in terms of selecting artifacts and gaining insights to, and background information of, the various time periods/eras we cover in our 10^th grade European Civilization course.

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How can I use this information?

This website was designed to assist your selection of primary and secondary sources and to give you a visual way to compare and cross-reference artifacts among the four major subject areas (art history, English, history, music history) of our 10^th grade curriculum.  Navigating through the different time periods/eras, you should be  able to gain an appreciation for a particular period’s and/or era’s Zeitgeist, an understanding of when certain artifacts were produced, and an awareness of what else was happening contemporaneously (at the same time period) to any one artifact.

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How do I select a topic or time period?

Probably the best way to use this resource is to browse through time periods/eras/movements, read the key questions for each section and to see what interests you.   In terms of selecting a time period that we have not covered yet, I would suggest reading the introductions in Marvin Perry’s Sources of the Western Tradition to get an general overview of the time period in question.  In addition, peruse your Art history text and Music history Power Points to gain an insight into past and future classes, and review your various handouts from all your classes that are either collected electronically here on the website and/or organized neatly in your class binder.

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‘Reading’ this website:

Each section follows a basic historical chronology in terms of the main subject headings (‘Greece: Golden Age’, ‘French Revolution’, ‘World War I’).  When you   click on the title of the section, you will be linked to that specific time period/era with overarching key questions, and selected art, music, English and history artifacts.  This should allow you to gain insights into the particular period by reviewing the essential issues of the time period and allow you to be able to compare artifacts across disciplines.  In addition, as you scroll down each time period, a section on secondary sources, lessons plans and presentations appears which includes teacher   reviewed internet links, course material and other pertinent information for you to review and analyze.

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Why are some artifacts and/or subject areas missing?

Not all historical time periods correspond directly to other time periods in art, music and/or literature but this does not mean that there are no art, music, or literature artifacts for  that time period.  For example, while there are not specific artifacts that can be directly labeled as ‘Scientific Revolution art’ or ‘Imperialism music’, if you scroll down to the secondary sources, there are usually links to contemporary artistic movements.

Thus instead of looking for musical artifacts that critique the Industrial Revolution, look at the general time period of your topic to find what other artifacts were produced and/or created during that time.  This will take a little bit of navigating in terms of the historical time periods, but your art and music Power Points have listed dates for major movements and these should be relatively easy to cross-reference in terms of other contemporary artifacts.

This being said, there are no musical artifacts for the historical time periods prior to the Middle Ages, so if you choose a topic that falls within the classical world of Greece and Rome you will need to select an additional artifact to make up for the lack of a musical selection.

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