
Mrs. Valerie Hunt’s 7th and 8th Grade Classroom
I am blessed to teach incredible people–seventh and eighth graders!

ART 
“I have touched with a sense of art some people – they felt the love and the life.
Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?”
~ Mary Cassatt
“Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone.
Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath. “
~Charles Burchfield
Artists and Style
Realism
Style Characteristics
- Attempted to show what life is “really” like.
- Painted subjects to look realistic.
- Painted common, ordinary, even ugly images of life.
- Painted the common people instead of the upper class.
- Showed subjects doing everyday tasks.
- Brought people into their studios and posed them.
Jean-François Millet ( 1814-1875)
- Born in France.
- Visited the Louvre Museum often
- Painted signs and portraits in his early career.
- Painted landscapes and people in common everyday activities later in life.
- Used water color and pastels.
Impressionism
Style
- Used quick, choppy brush strokes
- Tried to capture effects of light
- Placed unmixed colors next to each other to create impression of third color
- Created shadows using colors instead of using black
- Painted spontaneously
- Captured “vibrating quality of light.”
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
- Biographical information on Duckster
Art Nouveau
Style
- World-wide art movement characterized by:
- natural themes — especially floral (Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species)
- flowing, curving lines and forms
- useful art designs–furniture, architecture, jewelry, etc.
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
- He was trained as a painter.
- He became interested in glass making.
- He used opalescent glass and “impurities” in the glass to create beautiful works.
- Patented his “Favrile” (handmade) iridescent glass in 1894.
- In 1893 he started a factory and hired skilled glass artisans and designers–even women.
Fauvism
Style
- Color instead of form
- Color to express feeling instead of to show reality
- Unrealistic color
- Simplified shapes
- Patterns and repeated shapes
- Contrasting color
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Biography on Ducksters
Cubism
Style
- Created by our featured artist in collaboration with Georges Braque (French) to create a “new way of seeing things”
- Attempted to show multiple viewpoints at once
- Used combinations of basic geometric shapes
- Painted pictures that look like fractured glass
- Used bright colors and hard-edged forms to create a flattened picture
- Distorted reality
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
- Born in Spain
- Father taught art
- Went to a prestigious art school at 14
- Painted so well his father supposedly vowed never to paint again
- Officially named Pablo(Pablito) Diego Jose Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso Lopez!
- Duckster biography
Neoplasticism
Style — History and Characteristics
- The movement started in early 1900s.
- Artists reverted to the basic fundamentals of art such as color, form, and line.
- They felt that art shouldn’t be the reproduction of real objects, but the expression of the absolutes of life.
- The only absolutes are lines and primary colors.
- Primary colors–red, blue, and yellow or “non-colors”–gray, black, and white
- Geometric shapes such as rectangular planes or prisms
- Balance by use of opposition
- Straight lines or rectangular areas
- No symmetry
- Balance and rhythm through proportion and location
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
- He was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr. in the Netherlands.
- Father was a teacher and artist.
- He studied art at National Academy of Art in Amsterdam.
- He left his parents’ church and could be regarded as a “hippy.”
- He loved nature and painted landscapes and flowers.
- He taught elementary school.
Dada
Style –history and characteristics
- French for “hobbyhorse”
- Randomly chosen name (according to historians—knife in dictionary)
- Anti-art instead of art
- A reaction to World War I
- Expression of the disorder of the world
- Meant to “enrage” instead of “engage”
- Collage of unrelated subjects
- Cut up photographs and other printed images
- Photo mantage
Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971)
- Born in Austria
- Moved to Germany when he was 14
- Studied with his father, a painter
- Studied art, philosophy, and literature
- Wrote poems and articles
- Edited magazine titled “Dada”
- Helped found the “Dada” art movement
Futurism
Style–History and Characteristics
- 1909-1918 (1920s)
- Began as a literary movement in Italy
- Started after poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote a manifesto in 1909
- create a new art for ourselves
- throw out the ideas of the past, especially political and artistic ideas.
- glorify speed, noise, machines, pollution and industrialization of cities
- see industrialization and the invention of cars and airplanes as man’s triumph over nature
- oppose “pastists” and “pastism”
- glorify war and violence
- Repetition of lines to create rhythm
- Use of time lapse photography to capture the element of time
- Illusion of movement
- Brilliant colors
- Flowing brush strokes
Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)
- Born in Turin Italy in 1871
- Studied art
- Worked as an illustrator, caricaturist and portrait painter
- Taught artists
- Signed futurist manifesto and devoted work to that style
- Painted, sculpted, made furniture and clothing in the futurist style
- Continued working in the style into the 1920s.
Surrealism
Style — History and Characteristics
- People should free their minds and exercise their “unconscious minds.”
- Perhaps dreams are more true than everyday reality.
- Art should be mysterious.
- Art is images of reality but NOT reality.
- Fantasy mixed with reality
- Surprising and imaginative
- Dream-like and mysterious
- Images that are not reality but look “real”
- Juxtaposing (like Dada) unrelated things
René Magritte (1898-1967)
- He was born in Belgium in 1898.
- His mother committed suicide when he was 13.
- At 16 he studied art at a fine arts academy.
- He served in the military.
- He worked as a graphic designer designing wallpaper and as a portrait painter.
- In 1926 began painting in a “surreal” way like Salvador Dali from Spain.
Abstract Expressionism
Style — History and Characteristics
- The movement had its roots in cubism and surrealism.
- Abstract Expressionism started in America after World War II.
- With the beginning of Abstract Expressionism, New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world.
- The movement had its roots in cubism and surrealism.
- Abstract Expressionism started in America after World War II.
- With the beginning of Abstract Expressionism, New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world.
- Painting abstract images
- Focusing on surface qualities such as brush strokes and texture
- Using huge canvases
- Embracing accidents as part of the art process
- Glorifying the act of painting
- Attempting to capture pure emotion on canvas
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) about him and his unique style
In the 1940’s he began to develop his own unique techniques
- He affixed the canvas to the floor or wall.
- Paint was poured or dripped on the canvas.
- Sticks, trowels and knives were used instead of brushes.
- Sometimes he mixed broken glass or sand into the paint.
- He wanted an All-over style where no part of the painting is emphasized over another.
Website with biographical information: Tate
Pop Art
Style
- Every day objects drawn in bold colorful ways
- Short for Popular Art
- Inspired by comic strips, advertising, and popular entertainment.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
- Born in 1928 with a natural talent for art.
- Studied design and illustration in college.
- Worked in New York City after graduation doing magazine illustrations, decorating store windows, designing greeting cards, record albums, book covers, etc. He even designed the images used in TV weather reports.
- Wanted to be famous, so he started his own style of painting images from everyday life.
- Made a movie once of a man sleeping for 6 hours.
South America
SOCIAL STUDIES
“We have nothing to fear for the future,
except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us,
and His teaching in our past history.”
~ Ellen White
Biography Research Links
Wikipedia (for organizing and discovering ONLY — not for research of facts)
Works Cited Resources: MLA Format for pring media such as books
MLA Format Electronic Sources such as internet
Fanny Lou Hamer
PBS — “Freedom Summer — Hamer”
Stamford University article
Mississippi History Now Online Magazine — “Fannie Lou Hamer: Civil Rights Activist”
National Women’s History Museum article on Fannie Lou
Nikola Tesla
Franklin Institute — Case file
MIT Timeline of Tesla’s Life and Inventions
“The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla” Smithsonian Magazine
Henry Ford
Post Gazette — Henry Ford’s Legacy
Obituary from New York Times — On This Day
Picture of 999 and Oldfield on day of 1902 race win
Henry Ford Hospital
Henry Ford RACE
Thomas Edison
Theodore Roosevelt
Alvin York
Legends and Traditions of the Great War
World War I Document Archive (a paragraph about him after the war)
Elizabeth Blackwell
U.S. National Library of Medicine — Exhibit on Elizabeth Blackwell “That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine”
Sojourner Truth
PBS — This by Faith
Biography.com — Sojourner Truth
Prudence Crandall
Hartford Courant “State Heroine”
Connecticut History.org — “Prudence Crandall Fights for Equal Access to Education”
Ronald Reagan
White House Biography
Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute — Life and Times
Biography.com — Ronald Reagan
History.com — Reagan
Louis Zamperini
National Archives — Zamperini as True American Hero
Interview with Zamperini — YouTube
National Review — “Remembering Louis Zamperini”
Nellie Bly
Women’s Museum of California–First in Their Field: Nelly Bly
The New Yorker.com — “Nellie Bly’s Lessons in Writing…”
John Muir
School Work Helper — John Muir: Biography and Contributions
The Great Peacemakers — John Muir
John Muir and “Godful” Nature article
Neil Armstrong
PRI — 5 Ways Neil Armstrong likely changed your life
Neil Armstrong Changed the World — by Bill Nye (Yes, the “science guy”)
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR Library — Eleanor’s work with Universal Human Rights Declaration
FDR Library — Eleanor and the Tuskegee Airmen
Women’s History — Eleanor Roosevelt
George Eastman
Learning to Give — Student paper with bibliography on Eastman
PBS — “The Wizard of Photography” from the American Experience
Desmond Doss
U.S. Army Website — Hero behind Hacksaw Ridge
Museum Research Links
Video for formatting in MLA
General Medieval History Links
Questia Research Topics
Edtechteacher Medieval History Websites
Black Death
Khan Academy — The Black Death
Khan Academy — Plague
Samurai
How Stuff Works — Samurai
Bushido from New World Encyclopedia
Sandy Fussell — Samurai
Peter the Great Museum — Exhibit on Samurai
DK —Samurai Knights
Good site for Samurai social structure: FactsNDetails
Queen Isabella of Spain
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Ehistory at Ohio State University
Crusades
Ancient History Encyclopedia — Children’s Crusade
BBC — “The Crusades”
The Met — “The Crusades”
History.com — “The Disastrous Time tens of Thousands of Children Tried to Start a Crusade”
Joan of Arc
Smithsonian — France’s Leading Lady
Ducksters — Joan of Arc
Siege Weapons
How stuff works — siege methods
Mansa Musa
Ancient History Encyclopedia — “Mansa Musa”
Britannica Homework Help — Musa
Mr. Donn — “Mansa Musa: The Muslim King of Mali”
National Geographic — “Mansa Musa: Musa I of Mali”
Ducksters — Empire of Ancient Mali
Francis of Assisi
Encyclopedia of World Biography — “Francis of Assisi biography”
Christian History — “Francis of Assissi
Knights
DKFindOut — Introduction to Knights
Ducksters — Middle Ages: History of the Medieval Knight
Mr. Donn — “Knights, Squires, and Pages”
LibraryPoint — “A Day of Knights”
Ancient History Encyclopedia — “Medieval Knights”
Charlemagne
Attila the Hun
History for Kids “Attila the Hun”
Justinian
Ancient History Encyclopedia
Bay Trail Middle School — Mr. Giotto’s Online Textbook
Marriage to Theodora — Catholic Law Review
Ming Dynasty
Encyclopedia Britannica — Great Wall
Encyclopedia Britannica — Ming
Ming Lacquerwork
William the Conqueror
Ducksters (good overview) — William the Conqueror
Royal UK — William the Conqueror
Ancient History Encyclopedia — William the Conqueror
History.com — “10 Things You May Not Know About William the Conqueror
History Extra — “9 Surprising Facts about William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest
Heraldry
English Heritage Organization — Our Guide to Heraldry
Vikings
Britannica Kids Homework — Great site for making an outline
10 Facts About Vikings from National Geographic Kids
DK Findout — Vikings
Mr. Donn Viking Life–many topics related to Vikings
Sufis
Encyclopedia Britannica– Sufism
New World Encyclopedia — Sufism
Art of the Sufis — The Met
Oxford Islamic Studies — Sufism
Rumi:
BBC –Jalaluddin Rumi
Whirling Dervish — Historydaily
Akbar
Cultural India — Akbar the Great
History Today — Death of the Emperor Akbar
Biography.com — Akbar the Great
Gothic Architecture
An Introduction to Gothic Architecture from Khan Academy
Academic Kids Encyclopedia — Gothic Architecture
School History — Gothic Architecture
SmartHistory — Gothic Architecture: An Introduction (same article as Khan Academy)
Genghis Khan
Ancient History Encyclopedia — “Genghis Khan”
History.com — “Genghis Khan”
Discover Magazine — “The Life of Genghis Khan, The Ruthless Warlord Who Created the World’s Largest Empire
The MET — “The Legacy of Genghis Khan”
Martin Luther
Biography.com — Martin Luther
Biography online Martin Luther
Britannica Kids Homework
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — “Martin Luther”
BBC — “Martin Luther”
The New Yorker — “How Martin Luther Changed the World”
Provinces and Territories–Learn where they are on the map with this quiz
Canadian Provinces Research Project Links
Britannica School— Use yellow SEARCH bar at the top of the page and type in your province for reliable resources and information.
Travel Canada — Kids Space (This has links to each province–Good site)
2Learn — Numerous links to resources on Canada and regions
Canada Info — Information on Provinces (Site Kids’ Space links to)*****
Kids’ Zone — Links to information about the provinces (good site)*****
Canadian Geographic — Unusual Facts
Links to numerous resources about various topics on Canada
Blank map of Canada to practice provinces and capitals study
Canadian Encyclopedia–This site has articles and time lines
Canadian Provinces Tutorial–This site has an interactive map to practice provinces and capitals as well as information about each province
Tripsavvy — Guide to the provinces with interesting pieces of information***
Specific Provinces — Mostly Fun Facts
Nunavut — Fun Facts
Quebec — Things to see and do, Fun Facts
Prince Edward Island — Fun Facts
Ontario History
Alberta (fun facts)
Alberta (Travel Site)
Alberta (things to see and do)
Nova Scotia Enc. Britannica
Manitoba fun facts
Nova Scotia — Things to see and do
Saskatchewan — Things to see and do
Provinces and Capitals of Canada — Link to study
Central America — Video to help learn the country’s locations on the map
South America — Video to help learn the country’s locations on the map
Study help for Latin America Countries/Capitals Test
Mayan Civilization
Write your name in Mayan Glyphs: Mayan Translator
Write your age in Mayan Glyphs: Mayan Numbers Translator
Links to Candidate’s websites — Politics1.com
POT POURRI (Miscellaneous)
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next.
Amen.
Excerpts from Psalm 91 — Promises for such a time as this!
“For he will rescue you from every trap, and protect you from deadly disease.
Do not dread the disease that stalks in the darkness, nor the disease that strikes midday.
Though a 1,000 fall at your side, though 10,000 are dying around you, these evils will not touch you.
No evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home.
For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you may go.
You will trample upon lions and cobras; you will crush fierce lions and serpents beneath your feet.
The Lord says, ‘I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.
When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them.
I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation.’”
~Psalm 91:1,3,6-7,10-11,13-16 NLT version
Shared by Jamie Hagan
BIBLE
Psalm 25:1-11
1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul
2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.
8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
9 The meek will he guide in judgement: and the meek will he teach his ways.
10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great…
MATH
Xtra Math Log in
IXL Log in
SCHEDULE OF IXL ASSIGNMENTS
IXL skills practice will be assigned in class for individual skills instead of multiple skills being assigned at once.
RED BOOK
For May 6, 2022:
BLUE BOOK
TECHNOLOGY
LINKS
Typing Agent Login
Typing Pal
One-Handed Keyboarding
Keyboarding Lessons and Tests Site
Advanced Keyboarding Speed Practice
Advanced Keyboarding — “The Practice Test” site
WebQuests
Internet Safety
PERIODIC TABLE
CHEMICAL BONDS
Isomers — Khan Academy
BALANCING EQUATIONS
Jefferson Labs — Balancing Act!
Invertebrates
Insect Collection
Links:
Labeling Directions:
- Times New Roman
- 9 pt. font
- Single spaced
Collector: Your Name
Date: 9-15-20 (or other date if you know it)
Locality: Cleveland, TN
Common Name
Genus species
Worms
Video about DNA structure
Genetic Engineering Websites to Visit
Pros and Cons — Health Research Funding
Genetic Engineering topics to explore — A Guide for Kids with Tiki the Penguin
Genetic Engineering and the Christian — Is it moral?
Adventist Perspective — Adventist.org
Bible Texts — Open Bible.info
Cyberbully Expert Sites
Netiquette Researcher Sites
Wisekids.org http://www.wisekids.org.uk/netetiquette.htm
Social Network Explorer
Cell Phone Safety
Common Sense Media video
Motion Test Study Guide
Physics
(By Design Chapter 12-13)
Know the following vocabulary:
- motion
- balanced forces
- inertia
- speed (know formula)
- velocity
- acceleration (know formula)
- gravity
- mass
- weight
- momentum (know formula)
- force (know formula)
- distance
- displacement
- elastic force
- mechanical force
- magnetic force
- electrical force
- nuclear force
Be able to read distance/time graphs as well as speed/time graphs.
Know the formulas for speed/velocity, momentum, and force (in Newton’s second law). Be able to apply them!
Know all of Newton’s laws of motions and examples of each.
Law of Inertia
Law of Acceleration
Law of Action/Reaction
Review notes taken in class on all topics related to motion.
Re-read material in By Design
Use the motion graph exercise online for practice reading them. (Ask Mrs. Hunt)
Practice working science math problems from your graded assignments.
Glossary of Astronomers from Enchanted Learning
Space.com — Famous Astronomers
Windows2universe — People
Space Facts — Information for Planet Postcards
Botany
Links for Tree Honor Project
Leaf Identification Sites — Online Dichotomous Keys
- Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
- What Tree Is It?
- Illustrated Key to Common Trees of Middle Tennessee
- What Tree is That? (Arbor Day Foundation)
- Iowa State University dichotomous leaf key
Tree Table Assistance
Leaf Test Practice
Leaf ID Power point
Root Resources
Kiddle — “Root Facts for Kids”
Crops Review — The Functions of the Root
Encyclopedia.com — Roots
Lecture on Roots (look at big ideas on slides)
Alcohol Webquest Resources
- How alcohol works — https://science.howstuffworks.com/alcohol1.htm
- Alcohol’s effects on the body — https://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/specialfeatures/interactivebody.aspx
- What do you know about the effects of alcohol? QUIZ —http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/InteractiveTools/Quizzes/40,AlcoholAbuseQuiz
- Binge Drinking — https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/binge-drinking.htm
- Compute your BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) — http://www.intox.com/wheel/drinkwheel.asp