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January 7, 1610

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas
Test the arguments on both sides in the case that shook the foundations of faith and science.

January 7, 1830

Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Composition and Content in the Visual Arts
How do artists create a story that provides a message or provokes emotions in that single frame? This lesson will help students analyze ways in which the composition of a painting contributes to telling the story or conveying the message through the placement of objects and images within the painting.
Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Genre in the Visual Arts: Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes
Still Life, portrait, and landscape are all categories, or genres, of painting which your students have probably seen examples of on their trips to the museum or when looking through an art book. This lesson plan will help students to understand and differentiate the various genres in the visual arts, particularly in Western painting. Students will learn to identify major genres, and will learn to discriminate between a painting’s subject and its genre.

January 7, 1891

Lesson Plan / Art & Culture
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Learn how writer Zora Neale Hurston incorporated and transformed black folklife in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. By exploring Hurston’s own life history and collection methods, listening to her WPA recordings of folksongs and folktales, and comparing transcribed folk narrative texts with the plot and themes of the novel, students will learn about the crucial role of oral folklore in Hurston’s written work.