EL ED okay for now

Joy Prior

Book Report: A Book of a 1,000 Days

Author: Shannon Hale

Professor Young

Passages

“Like I what? Like I what, Douggo? Do you ever wonder what it’s like to be so angry that you… And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that’s what you’re like, and that’s what you’re always going to be, and so you just decide to be it? But the whole time your thinking, Am I going to be like him? Or am I already like him? And then you get angrier, because maybe you are, and you want to…”

He stopped. He wiped at his eyes. I’m not lying. My bother wiped at his eyes.

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But maybe you can understand a little when I tell you that when the So-Called Gym Teacher hollered at me during Volleyball that I should to after those balls and not act like a Mama’s Baby, you can understand why I got the volleyball and was about to throw it as hard as I could into his sneering face, but I held back- and I’m not lying, it wasn’t easy- and I told him to shut up, just shut up, and he sneered some more and said I would never throw the volleyball because I knew what would happen to me, and my mother would be all upset, wouldn’t she?

I almost threw it.

I almost did.

But I didn’t.

I smiled- the way Lil Spicer likes. Then I took off my shirt and threw it onto the bleachers. I went back and served the stupid ball over the stupid net. Overhand."

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Golden Quotes

“When you find something that’s whole, you do what you can to keep it that way.”

Page 176

“Creativity is a god who comes only when he pleases, and it isn’t very often. But when he does come, he sits beside my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants and in exchange he lets me type all sorts of things that get turned into plays for which people who own New York stages are waiting. And right now, he is sitting by my desk, and he is being very kind.”

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Questions

What was Mr. Ferris’s childhood like? What makes him so willing to identify with Doug?

How did the kind-a small town low financed library get ahold of such a famous book?

Alternative Book Report

EL ED book of 1,000 days

Joy Prior

Book Report: A Book of a 1,000 Days

Author: Shannon Hale

Professor Young

Sections from the book

Day 1
My lady and I are being shut up in a tower for seven years.
Lady Saren is sitting on the floor, staring at the wall, and hasn’t moved even to scratch for an hour or more. Poor thing. It’s a shame I don’t have fresh yak dung or anything strong-smelling to scare the misery out of her.
I nearly warned him that such words would bring him bad luck and canker his own heart. Thank the Ancestors that my lady’s fit stopped me from speaking out of turn. When I pulled her back, her hands were red from beating at the bricks and streaked with wet cement. This isn’t exactly a happy-celebration morning, but I don’t see what good it does to thrash about.
“Easy, my lady,” I said, the way I’d speak to a feisty ram. It wasn’t too hard to hold my lady back, even squirming as she was. I’m fifteen years, and though skinny as a skinned hare, I’m strong as a yak, or so my mama used to say. I sang the calming song, the one that goes, “oh, moth on a wind, oh, leaf on a stream,” and invites the hearer into dreaming. I feared my lady was so angry she wouldn’t heed the song. But she must’ve been eager to sleep, because now she’s snoring on my lap. Happily the brush and ink are at hand so I can keep writing. When you can’t move, there isn’t much to do but think, and I don’t much want to think right now.

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“My lady, I’m Dashti. I’m your new maid.”

“You can’t be, they’re all hiding from me because they don’t want-“ She considered me. “What is your name?”

“Dashti, my lady,” I told her again.

She hopped off her bed and grabbed my wrist, but tight. Her swiftness and force startled me. “Swear you’ll serve me, Dashti. Swear you won’t abandon me. Swear it!”

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Golden Lines

Mama saying…

“You have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."

“'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.”

Questions

What was the mother of Lady Saren doing this whole time? Was she killed before the girls were locked up in the tower? Does Saren have any siblings?

What “group” did the two men who came to plunder the tower belong to?

Alternative Book Report

A story from Dashti’s childhood

Mama looks up when she hears me walking towards her. Her hair blows like tree branches in the wind across her checks and nose. I try to roll the sticks out of my arm into a pile near the fire but the nobs on the sticks leave white scratches on my arms and the pile looks scattered and meager. I smile when I look up at mama, knowing one day I will bring her the biggest, most sticks any one could carry.

I don’t look like mama. Mama looks like she belongs in the trees and the wind. My face is red; I have a red splotch across my face. I don’t belong in the world.

She smiles at me and opens her arms. Her red shall drapes across her arms, and I fall into the folds of her red shall. I belong to mama. The Ancestors were kind to give me a mama I belong to.

I like how she smells. Her clothes smell like dirt and her hair smells like sweet rice and smoke. I rub my red check against her and she cuddles me close. I am still little enough that I fit in her arms even when she is sitting. Through the waves of scruffy red I can hear the rhythm of her heart beat, and then she starts singing.

Her voice is warms my cold fingers. It starts a fire in my chest that flickers and licks up my bones and around my wrists and ankles until I it feels as if my fingers are candle wicks and I fell all a glow. She lets me stay in her lap while she stirs the soup and keeps singing. A few lumps and roots float to the top, and I count them out loud to myself.

I feel her ribs shiver through the red shall and I wrap my hands wrap around her trying to warm her like how her singing warms me. My arms are too short to make it all around her hunched over frame, but I don’t let go. She kisses my red check and I open my eyes, not realizing I had been squinting. She brushes my hair back with her fingers, and sings again.

She sings so slow I can watch the words her lips are making. I sing too. Only the words I know, only the notes I remember, but I can hear my voice and mama’s voice.

REL

the law of concecration. What do I want to give up? what should I give up? what am I willing to give up? What the heck is going on? Do I give up my will- that is all that I have to give, but that means my time, energy, emotions (really are emotions there too), thoughts, money, talents... all of it. It all feels like it is mine and I have to give it up- NO!! I want to give it up.
That is the difference the law requires me to want. To want to give all that I have to God. To want to give my will, because that is all that I have to give. Sometimes I wonder exactly what is my will. I mean if everything else was given to me by God, what is left. I can scratch off the easy earthly stuff: my car, bed, apartment, scholarship, food, clothing, shoes, ring, hair holders, my body, my nose, face, legs, arms, eyes, talents, does that include my thoughts? when do my passions cross into a gift from God and my own. When do my desires cross from "my will" to what God has given me? Is there a way to have the two become the same. Is it possible for my will and all that God gives me to be the same thing? Could God give me my will? That seems like an ironic sentence, and one that I do not fully understand.
Today I had a long day- just cause I wanted to. Nothing went wrong, nothing happened, I got made at someone for a worthless thing (what made it worthless), what is wroth fighting for. Above all what do I want to give up. I want to give my all to God, but today as I sit at this computer I realize that I have to learn how to give my will to God. I think that after my little internal blow up it will be harder than I thought. There will not be a magical momement when I give all to God, and let him take the reigns. Like everything I guess, I am going to have to learn how to give my will to God.
I will have to learn what is my will. More importantly I will have to learn God's will, and then I will have to learn what I want to give up to follow God's will. I will have to be patient with myself... I am not the fastest all the time, but the atonement will help. Christ is not only my Redemer but my Teacher and he will help teach me. I think that to keep the law of concerection I should strive to become more teachable.

EL ED Breadwinner book report

Joy Prior

Community Books: Breadwinner, by Deborah Ellis

Passages

“The people who are buried here. Do you think they’d mind us digging them up?”

Shauzia leaned on her board. “Depends on the type of people they were. If they were nasty, stingy people, they wouldn’t like it. If they were kind and generous people, they wouldn’t mind.”

“Would you mind?”

Shauzia looked at her, opened her mouth to speak, then closed it again and returned to her digging. Parvana didn’t ask her again.

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The Talib kept looking down at her. Then he put his hand inside his vest. Keeping his eyes on Parvana, he drew something out of his vest pocket…

He shook his head and held out his hand for the letter. Parvana folded it and gave it back to him. His hands trebled as he put the letter back in the envelope. She was a tear fall from his eye. It rolled down his cheek until it landed on his beard….

Parvana took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Up until then, she had seen Talibs only as men who beat women and arrested her father. Could they have feelings of sorrow, like other human beigns?

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Golden lines

Finally, she stuck her whole head under the tap, hoping the cold water would wash the images of what she had done all day out of her head.

Page 113

He was holding up a rope strung with four severed hands, like beads on a necklace.

Page 122

Questions

How likely is it that Parvana will see her family again? What would have happened to her family?

Will Parvana continue to be a boy? When will she start dressing/acting like a girl again?

EL ED picture book report

EL ED 340 Children’s Literature

Section 003

Terrell Alan Young

Joy Prior

Picture Book Project

I chose Mei Li written and illustrated by Thomas Handforth, the 1939 Caldecott winner, for the picture book project. This book implored the Caldecott requirement to provide a visual experience. The characters seem to dance across the folds and creases of the pages, as if they were alive, and the pictures were the ones telling the story- the words were simply attached for an adult’s convenience.

A picture book develops a story-line, concept, or theme. The illustrator in Mei Li uses remarkable details for the clothing and faces of particularly Mei Li and her family to emphasize the theme family relationships are enriched through community celebrations. This is particularly noticeable when Mei Li is at the celebrations. The backgrounds and crowds are composed of lines and smudges. In contrast the features on her brother’s clothing remain unbelievably realistic. The detailed facial expressions, clothing, and gestures allows the audience enjoys the same familiarity Mei Li has with her family.

Caldecott defines the audience for a picture book as a child, persons under the age of fifteen. The illustrations in Mei Li are children: girls in dress up, boys setting off fireworks, children playing with dancing toys, and children flying kites. Few things can captive children more than other children; even the adults in the pictures are holding and cuddling their children. One particular image seems misplaced, but supports the very theme of developing family relationships. It is of the orphan girl holding the gate open for Mei Li; the adults on this page are mostly blurred squiggles. Compared to the adults that surround Mei Li who are expressive these adults appear obtrusive. Her father, uncle, and even older brother look at Mei Li, hold her, and carry her. These images of Mei Li with her family create a sense that children are beloved members of a family. A theme intended for an audience of children.

The content of Thomas Handforth’s Mei Li is a little Chinese girl who dresses as her brother and explores the wonders at the New Year Fair in the nearby city. One of the major themes of the book is how traditions and celebrations bring families together. In my ink drawing I wanted to depict my own unforgettable memories of the Fourth of July. Trying to stay within the content of the Mei Li I drew my brother and me in matching barber quartet hats. Our mother bought them for us; we wore them until the Styrofoam broke.

The pictorial style of media Thomas Hadforth used lithographs (a method involving images scratched in wax and then inked onto a slab of stone so it can be transferred to a sheet of paper). This media creates a stamp like quality- thick lines flowing from curves into lines and shapes filled with blotches of sponged grey. To better suit my resources I used an ink brush pen to imitate the patterns and designs of Thomas Hadforth’s images.

Mei Li measures up to the Caldecott Criteria. Thomas Handforth most famous etcher and lithographer from his early 1900s collections is Mei Li because it is such an outstanding execution of lithography technique. The pictures depict the story so clearly that the words merely act as a frame; they enclose the characters. Particularly impressive is the detail of Mei Li and her family. Their faces and movements make them seem like characters filled with love and life- not simply images.

Lithography was an ideal style chose to support the theme of Mei Li. A single lithograph requires wax tablets, stone, paper, chizzes, and ink not to mention the multiple copies and recopies. Similarly, the family in Mei Li has siblings, uncles, and parents that interact together to produce a single memory. The highly invested process of the illustrations parallels to the theme of the picture book.

Because Thomas Handforth lived in China he was able to draw images from his own memory that enriched the illustrations. Without obscuring the innocence of the story the illustrations depicts the Chinese culture: the character’s hair to the slopping roof tops.

Mei Li is a presentation for children of children doing childish things: A picture of Mei Li talking to a bear, her being held upside down, flying a kite. They are all images a child sees at the fair- without the over crowded streets, the staggering drunks, and the glazed eyes of underfeed circus performers. The illustrations embody a child’s memories and ideals of a celebration.

Although, the illustrations in Mei Li are outstanding the text is a complementary component of the picture book. The plot is oddly romantic. A little girl dressed as a boy enjoys a celebration beyond any believable expectations. I believe that the characters are especially important: a loving uncle and playful older brother. The author and illustrator Thomas Handforth brings to life the daydreams and pleasures of a child celebrating culture and life with a loving family without depending on sound, film, or computer programs. I found it remarkably enjoyable to read the story, study the pictures, and immerse myself in my own childish memories.

I have included a table describing all the books that I chose to read for this project. These picture books impressed me with not only the artist talented but the consistency the artists use throughout the entire book. It was beyond my understanding when I realized that illustrators do not simply have to create ONE master piece but pages and pages of majestic art work that maintain the same themes, patterns, and designs.

EL ED Alternative book report Breadwinner

Alternative Book Report Project for Joy Prior number 25- three poems about the characters, place, or themes in the book.

They Burned His Blood

By: Joy Prior

Based on Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

Burned his blood into the blank sheets of my brain,

Screaming makes rocks jump and pebbles topple down stairs,

Drops of rubies charred in Hell-

Dangling,

Vanes dripping from my chin,

Pooling, even earth does not want to drink this blood,

Rotting oil and fish left, my eyes water,

Left to burn in the sun,

They burned his blood,

Free Silk

By: Joy Prior

Based on Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

The free silk is locked in the cupboard,

Tasting like honey, dancing sunbeams through the crakes in the closed shutters,

The free silk is locked in the cupboard,

Rippling like waves, bathing raindrops nursing the drought killed streets,

The free silk is locked in the cupboard,

Smelling like a breeze, rustling through the leaves on the hedges in the labyrinth of ideas,

The free silk is locked in the cupboard,

With my brother, father, sisters, mother, and me.

But I take it out, I put it on,

Am I free?

Hair

By: Joy Prior

Based on Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

It will swish against my shoulder blades when I walk- again,

It will shimmer like hot coffee, swirling browns and blacks- again,

It will smell like cream and cinnamon- again,

Papa will kiss my skin with his callused fingers- again,

Papa will push open the wood panel door- again,

Papa will smell like dusty street venders- again,

My hair will grow back,

Papa will come back,

REG D&C 72; 78-80;82; 83

I have been thinking a lot about covenants lattly, because in the Reliefsociety broadcast the women said that we make many covenents. Not all of them are limited to the covevents in the temple. This has driven me to discover what covenents I have made. I would like... I am striving to prepair myself for the temple and to make the covenents there and marriage covenents. One of the best ways that I can do this is to honor the covenents that I have already made. Truthfully, I do not know what all of those covenents are.
The first one that I recognized was the covenants that I made at baptizum. I then listed off the covenants that the sister mentioned in her talk: morn with those that morn, comfort those who stand in need of comfort. While I was sitting in sacrament the talks were about the temple and the spirit of Elisha. One way that I can fullfill covenents taht I have already made is to visit the temple often and do baptizums for the dead. I can also do family indexing. Although, I have received many answers as to what a covenent is and how I can keep my covenents I feel like this idea of making and keeping covenents will be a life long lesson. The sections that I read tonight for Doctrine and Covenants helped me to realize how vital and divers the covenents I am and will make in life are.
One scripture that is continually playing in my mind now is that the Lord promises: when yea do what I say I am bound, but when yea do not what I say yea have no promise. This is the first time that i have read that scripture and realized that God is talking about covenents. He is talking about making a promise with divinity- the actual definition of a covenent. Then he clarifies there are unseperable promises associatied with keeping covenents. He also warns me that if I do not keep my covenets then he is not bound- those are the terms.
Another passage that touched my soul was about the law of conceration. There were several quotes from the Doctrine and Covenants manual that were about covenets and coveneting to love God, and his children. I have been thinking about these quotes, and I even highlighted several of them. It has made me wonder more about my own personal covenents. It has made me want to clarify with God what I promise to do. It was also a wake up call, becuase of how much truth and love he has given to me I am covenented to continue in faith. The warning that if I turn from the knowledge I know, and the covenents I have already made I am putting my eternal salvation in jepordy was powerfully humbling.

REG #7

This was about the prophet Joseph Smith, and the sacrifices that he made for the Church. I have been thinking a lot about honesty. That has been an overwhelming theme in my life this week. The devotional was on honesty, Marlena brought home an article about being honest in relationships, and then we watched My Best Friend's Wedding throughout the entire week I have been learning about honesty. I have been thinking about honesty. I have been hearing about honesty. It causes me to wonder about honesty in relationships. This has been an overpowering thought for a few days.
I tried to connect this thought back to the prophet Joseph Smith. He went through trials and tribulations, the mobs came, the crowds came, people betrayed him, and he remained faithful. This is what has caught my attention- remaining faithful. He was honest with himself. This is a vital relationship for me to be honest with. I need to be honest with myself. I was wondering if all of these promtings about honesty were to prepair me for some grand relationship; that was just around the corner. Now as I am thinking I believe that these promptings have been for me to realize that if I want to have an honest relationship with another soul for all eternity and share eternity through temple blessings I need to learn to be honest with myself.
What are somethings that I can start doing right now to change my thinking that will help me to be more honest with myself: honest thoughts about my physical appearance? honest with what I am thinking, honest with my ideas and inspiration, honest with homework, honestly work hard... this is a pointless list... it seems so ambigous and like there is no actual single thing that I can do?
I will use Joseph Smith as my example. What did he do in his life to be honest with himself. Well I can do all of the "basics" and then how can I change my thinking to become more honest with myself. I think... this may sound odd, but I believe that I should think more about others, and less about myself. For some reason I think that this will help me to become more honest because when I think more about others I can see clearer. I can see more truth and then apply that truth to my life instead of trying to dig in a cement pit in my own soul that will not lead me to know more truth about myself. I think that is a good solution. I should make other people more of my reality; learn about other's and make beautiful truths that can honestly grow inside of myself.

REG D&C 76:50-70;

This was such a surprise to me, I want to sing and dance, and I want to let the world know how amazing this revelation is! I thought that the way to heaven was a check off list... something that I had to fill out. Of course there are covenants, but I am talking a check off list! one that if it were written down would roll out the door and across the hall and down the stairs.
It would look something like a report card. Joy Marie Prior- class of 1990 to death date: passed church 101, recieved a poor score in her church puntuality, kept a fairly positive attitude in family relations 250, but did not pass time management 100 or organization 365 or order and priorities 250, and had to retake hummility in daily living 110 because without that requirment she could not take basic gosple knowledge 216. There would be a tally of how many times I went to church, and not only how often I prayed but a record of how long and what I prayed for. It was a horrifying image, becuase under this system I don't know how I would make it to heaven. It also felt like so much pressure.
I loved reading this section though because my eyes were opened the true nature of God. I am sure that God knows all of the "statistical" numbers of my spirituality- the average number of times I fell asleep in church. He knows all things from the begining to the end, and he can number the sands of the sea. I am sure that he has numbered my life. This was the only perspect that I had taken of my Heavenly Father when it came to judgment. After reading this section I saw a different perspective of my Lord at judgment day.
This perspective was a God filled with mercy. He is filled with so much mercy that it pours out from heaven like raindrops and covers me, so that I can grow. He is filled with so much mercy that Christ can take me into his arms and cry with me until we have bandaged all of my sins and put rainbows were there once was sorrow. The kind of mercy that makes me soul take flight not because I am weightless and perfect but because God is, God is perfect and He will take me with him.that is what I learned from this reading.

ENG writting #2

In my classroom the students will be younger than third grade; we are talking three to eight year olds. I thought that the book had some really great suggestions on how to handle a writing workshop; a lot of the solutions were simple things I can do as a teacher to change the environment. In my mind the best way to have a healthy writing workshop in classrooms with young children is preparation and active involvement. I plan to organize the writing workshop in a specific way so that I can easily asses my students. Many of the ideas that I used to create my lesson plan came from the classroom readings.
The outline for the timing of my writing workshop would be after recess. While the students are coming in from recess I would play wiggle songs- children songs that require the students to move and dance. Once all of the students have really wiggled I would have them sit on the carpet, and have a Why We Wonder? time. After that there would have a short lesson on a grammatical concept, new vocabulary word, or writing concept. Then the students would have time to draw and practice writing. In my mind this would last as long as possible (about 20 to 30 minutes). I would take sections of writing on my own and reviewing their work. Then I start reading a story, and ask the students to come back to the rug with what they had worked on that day by the time the story was finished. Once all of the students have come back to the rug we will have sharing time. I would have two students perform their work- these students would have signed up earlier to perform a finished piece. Then until time was over I would have other students volunteer to share their unfinished work with the class.
This specific lesson plan would relate to how I plan to asses my students. I would formal grade my students on their performance- how they present themselves, their voice, and then they would turn this piece in to be graded by the 6 plus traits of writing. The students would also get points for performing, and they would also get points for sharing- although they would only have to share their work a set amount of times a year. At the beginning of class during the Why We Wonder? would also be graded on a self-grading format for preparation. The work that they do in class would also be graded eventually. By the end of the year they will have to turn in several of their rough drafts that model each of the grammatical concepts we discussed throughout the year. While I am reading the story I would ask the students to participate in reading the story by touching their nose when they hear a golden line- from our reading.
The Why We Wonder? time would be vital to the lesson. This time would be when a student shares something that they learned. I want this to come before the writing workshop because I want the students to simply explore and get ideas before writing. Each student would sign up for a time when they would bring in a show and tell but it would be about science, art, or math. They could bring in an item, photograph, or something and explain it to the class. For example they could bring in a glow in the dark sticker and tell us why the sticker glows in the dark- then tell us what the sticker reminds them of such as a memory or an emotion. This is an important part of the writing workshop, because I want my students to start thinking and learning about the world around them before we start writing. This is how I plan to encourage them to have important things to write about, and to help direct my student’s attention span.
I thought that the Writing Workshop had some really good ideas, and identified a lot of potential problems. One that I thought was interesting was to watch for student’s language. Another one that I found helpful was to let children draw, add words to their picture, let them expand the picture again, and then I add more words to their new drawing. I think that this would be good to help them learn that words symbolize things just as a drawing does. Something that I was not expecting to read about was to have oral readings and talk about performance to help them learn how to become expressive in their writing.

The glory of the after life. It seems to complicated to me, and I don’t like to think about it. I think this is because I don’t like to image sending people any place but the top. Most of the time I can not imagine someone going to any were but heave, and other times I image that we are all just going to go to Hell. The idea that there are glories, and that it is plural is strange to me; at least a little strange to me.
I am going to the temple tomorrow morning to do baptism work. The work that I will be doing will be for the dead. While I am there I want to pray a little more about the degrees of glory and what they mean to me right now. I should ask myself some questions before I go there:
Is there any way to tell who will be in the degrees?
What is so important about having the degrees?
Were there degrees in the premarital life?
Are there degrees within all of the degrees?
One thing, before I go to bed, I am thinking about is how the degrees are sealed. Is the after life sealed like this earth with souls still wondering, and people able to communicate with the after life. Is it sealed by putting us all on separate earth’s or are these earths divided by a space-time difference. How does the fourth dimension work into the division of all of the degrees?
All of this has me confused and I am slightly tired. There were lots of things that I did not understand when I read today.
I read really fast.
I wanted to get this journal done.
It is later.
I have to wake up in the morning.
I should sleep more….
I am thinking about that last statement; that I should sleep more. I am thinking about how important my physical body is to me right now, and how that is part of how I react and respond to events. That when I am sleepy my reaction is different than when I am not. This treatment of my physical body influence my eternal destiny.
My body is not created to go to bed late and wake up early. It is not designed to go to sleep late and wake up late. It is created to go to bed early and wake up early. It is designed to have energy in it, and to eat healthy food. My body was created with these functions so that I can fulfill my purpose. When I do not take care of my body I am not fulfilling my purpose.
My purpose is to become like God- God would take care of His body because he respects his bodies creation. How I can respect my own creation and other people's creations, and other things: trees, wind, power, all things have a purpose to their creation and should be respectful of that purpose.
Simply because someone has a purpose for their creation it does not mean that they will fullfil the purpose of their creation- that is how the degrees come in I think... that you only allow the grace of the Savior to fill up your purpose cup partly and not fully- but then it has something to do with actions. How we allow the Savor to help us is to follow His commandments? is that fullfilling my spiritual purpose- well there is a spiritual death and a physical death. I should fullfill both purposes while in this life. They both seem vitally conected. I need to pay attention to my phsyical purpose, and go to bed.

Apartment Plan for Victoria Place #66

Victoria Place Apartment #66

We will be socially AMAZING; we will invite someone from our ward to our apartment at least once a week. That means breakfasts, dance parties, coco socials, and game nights.

We are going to flirt it up. That is right girls. We like boys and… lets face it we like talking about boys too. Our goal is to go on four dates in a semester. They can be set ups, blind dates, or a “special interest”.

We will be positive. Honestly, we got to learn to be hopeful. To help us do this we will begin to write at least one positive thing that happened to us that day on our “Daily Menu” white board.

We really do want to just get to know everyone in the ward and even though we know that it is impossible to be great friends with everyone we want to get to know people. To help us accomplish this we will learn everyone’s name in our ward by the end of the year.

We want the sprit to dwell in our home. One way we will do this is to have apartment prayer in the evenings, and on Sunday mornings we will have apartment scripture study. There will be no TV on Sunday, and if you want to watch a movie on Sunday it should be G. Although, we are ok with PG-13 movies on the other days of the week we will not watch R rated movies in our apartment.

We believe that serving others is important to our progression. Once a semester we will volunteer together.

Love, we want sisterly love. We should show patience towards each other; it is ok to be moody (we are human, and we should remember that everyone in our apartment is as well)

We think that safety is important. We should check up on each other. If you are not home before curfew, please, let us know so that we do not worry about you- your physical safety, spiritual safety, and mental safety depends on it.

Quote wall… enough said.

Joy really likes fake tattoos (for some reason) and she will be allowed to have one.

Alison will be allowed to have cuddle time, in bed, with her books before she goes to bed.

Bethany is allowed to be hyper (not at the annoyance of others) but in her room. She can cuddle up with her hyperness.

Marlena is allowed to eat as much as she wants, what ever she wants, any time, any place, on the toilet, in her bed. She can do it if she wants to.

REG#3

How can you not be moved by the spirit? How can your heart not be happy for the Lord? I love late mornings… for many reasons. This morning was beautiful late morning though, because I am so in love with life right now. As I read this scriptures about the voice of the Lord and how he speaks with his children I can not help but to hear the Lord’s voice speak to me. I can not help but to think back only a few hours ago when I laid in my bed thinking about how wonderful life is. I can not help but to feel like God is speaking to me.
He speaks to me so personally sometimes. I truly can hear his voice as it comes into my heart. In all truth I can not always understand what he is says; I get the impressions or the jest of the message, but words can not describe what we talk about. Other times he talks to me through others, a sunset, lucky pennies, and so on. I want to focus on the direct voice of the Lord though. The one that is clear. The voice that is so clear that you feel like you are speaking to someone who is in the room with you right now. That someone who is present is sending you a message. That is the voice that I am thinking of.
Some nights when I can not go to sleep I imagine that God is tucking me into bed. Just like any father I am sure that he loves to tuck his children into bed. That when the sun sets and the nigh sky is draped across the heavens that is his way of pulling the blanket up to my chin. That when the night birds call, the wind blows through the trees, the rain drizzles, that he is singing a lullaby to me. That his lullaby is beautiful and about love and kindness. I can hear the music and it enters my heart. It makes me feel calmed and loved. I like to imagine his face- not so that I can KNOW, but so that I can believe and recognize him. I image his eyes shine like the rays of sun or the beams of star light. I image that he feels warm like the summer breeze when he hugs me good night. I image that his lips are soft like clay when he kisses me on my forehead good night. I image that his arms are strong, stronger than the wind, stronger than the waves, and larger than the mountains when he encircles me in his arms and holds me close.
Then he tells me all of the beautiful things of the word. He tells me about the butterfly that hatched from his cocoon today, and he tells me about the rainbows. We don’t talk about the world problems at night, sometimes, but most of the time we talk about the beautiful things. I tell him about my day, and what happened. I tell him what I loved, and what I want. He listens, and listens. He does not say anything when he knows that I wont listen. He tells me everything when he knows that I am listening.
He does not answer all of my questions in an instant. Although, most days he answers my questions rather quickly. He tells me when I am reading in my text book the next day. Other times he just tells me when I am walking to class. He tells me when I am not paying any particular attention to anything, and he tells me when I am concentrating on something. I can feel the thoughts come into my body. They don’t hit me, and they don’t soak into me, but they come to me. More like they walk right through me, and if I don’t write them down or repeat them to myself then they are gone.
The voice of the Lord is a beautiful voice. I am thankful that I have the gift of the Holy Ghost in my life, and that when I am worthy and humble I can hear God’s voice in my life. His voice is the voice of truth.

ARTHC notes

CHAPTER 1 ART BEFORE HISTORY
Every artist in every generation asks
1. What shall be my subject?
2. How shall I represent it?
Paleolithic Art (greek paleo “old” and lithos “stone”) old stone age- few people depicted mostly profile of animals. When archaeologists first decovered statues of women they named them venus after the Greek goddess of Love
Mesolithic: middle stone age- few people depicted mostly profile of animals
Neolithic: New stone age- few people depicted mostly profile of animals
Burin: a pointed engraving tool to scratch lines into a surface
Incise: scratches on an engraving
Twisted perspective/ composite view: the viewrs see the heads in profile but the horns from the front
Optical: painting seen from a fixed viewpoint ex: portrait
Descriptive: painting that builds the concept of the image. Ex: stick figure
Negative: the painter placed one hand against the wall and then brushed or blew or spat pigment around it
Makapansgat pebble (3,000,000 BCE) South Africa: a water worn reddish-brown jasperite pebble near prehuman bones
PALEOLITHIC ART (30,000-900 BCE)
Apollo 11 cave (23,000 BCE) Africa: seven fragments of stone plaques with paint on them (recognizable animals)
Hohlenstein-stadel (30,000 BCE) Germany ivory: 1 high sculpture with feline head and human body (male/female?)
Venus of Millender (28,000-25,000 BCE) found in Austria: stone age, a women with full bossom named after the greek goddess of Love because the sculpture is nude. Like other human figures you can not see the face, but it appears to be covered in curly hair or a woven hat. The body is disproportionate, but the artist did detail the pubic triangle.
Laussel (Paleolithic era) France: stone block found in a rock shelter from stone that was painted with red ocher. Simulare to the earlier venus of Millender with a disproportionate body but one arm is up and another is across the abdomine.
Le Tuc D’audoubert (10,000 - 15,000 BCE) France: two bison about 2 feet long sculptures built in clay
La Madeleine (12,000 BCE) France: bison 4 inches long with turned head with lines into the bison’s main and carved from reindeer antler. Face turned at 180 degrees to maintain the full profile view.
Altamira (12,000-11,000) southern France, northern Spain: discovered by Don Marcelinno Sanz de Sautuola with his daughter Maria in 1879 while they explored into a cave. 85 feet into a cave a chamber with shadowy paintings of running animals. The artists sole concern was representing the animals not locating them in the space- no relation to each other.
Pech-Merle (22,000 BCE) France: checks, dots, squares, line to picture animals and human hands painted in the negative
Chauvet Cave (30,000-28,000 BCE) France: two hinoceroses suggest that the artist intended a narative. An exhibit of advanced features such as overlapping horns
Lascaux (15,000-13,000 BCE) France: most paintings hundreds of feet from entrance of the caves. There is an image of a man, with his prominent penis, but not detailed. One of the more famous is Hall of the Bulls (15,000-13,000 BCE) France: many colored silhouetttes and outlines; one is 11 feet long
NEOLITHIC ART (8000- 2300 BCE)
Shrines: distinguished from the house structures by the greater richness of their interior decoration: wall paintings, plaster reliefs, animal heads
Bucrania: bovine skulls
Terracotta: baked clay found at Catal Hoyuk and most are small female figures a few are 12 inches
Megaliths: (great stones) designated Neolithic architecture in western Europe
Passage grave: tomb with a long stone corridor leading to burial chamber covered by earthen burial mound (western Europe)
Tumulus: earthen burial mound (Western Europe)
Corbeled vault: construction techniaue used in tombs today
Courses: stacked horizontal rows
Post-and-lintel system: two uprith stones (posts) support a horizontal beam (lintel)
Apses: semicircular recesses that curve
Henge: arrangement of megalithic stones in a cirlce, often surrounded by a ditch (almost entirely limted to Britain)
Sarsen: a form of sandstone (Britian‘s stone henge)
Bluestones: various volcanic rocks (Britian’s stone henge)
Jericho (7000 BCE) Palestine and Iran: villiage with spectacular water ways, wealth, more than 2,000 people, and arcihitecture
Ain Ghazal (7200-5000 BCE) Amman Jordan: houes of irregularly shaped stones and 3 doxen plaster statues with busts and some two heads. White plaster built up over a core of reeds and twine. Some with clothing but not always obvious gender but there were details added with painting
Catal Hoyuk (7000-5000 BCE) Anatolia- Near east: houses in early city adjoined one another and and doors but openings in the roof. With decorated rooms and burial grounds. Wall paintings of hunters, but regural appearance of the human figure with wettings and groups describing scenes. Landscape with volcanic erution is a wall painting from Level VII (6150 BCE) Catal Hoyuk, Turkey and first known landscape with out human or animals
New grange (3200 BCE) Ireland burial monument, a tomb with a large stone corridor leading to the burial chamber covered in burial mounds (others found in Franc, England, Spain and Scandinavia) to honor the dead. At winter solstice the sun illuminates the passageway
Hagar Qim (32000 and 2500 BCE) Malta an island far south: oldest stone temples, and built out of carefully cut stone blocks. Altars, stone statues of headless nude women on seats and standing
Stonehenge (2550-1600 BCE) outer ring is almost 100 feet in diameter and is made of megaliths with a ring of bluestones open end facing eat of a horseshe shaped. Some stones weigh 50 tons. Accurate to the solar calendar

CHAPTER 2 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Mesopotamia: Greek meaning land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and gave birth to 3 major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
City-state: unified nation of Sumaria with each city was thought to be under the protection of a different deity. Ruled by a family or individual
Pictogrpahs: simplified pictures standing for words
Stylus: shar tool used to make inventory clay tablits in Sumaria
Cuneiform signs: group of wedge-shaped signs used in Samaria to simplify pictures of animals
Ziggurat: a high platform for temple construction
Bent-axis plan two or three angular changes in directions down the doorways of White Temple Uruk
Cella: set aside central hall for the divinity and housed a stepped alta
Registers/friezes: bands in a sculpture that depict the story in pictographs
Votive offering: gift of gratitude to a deity usually made in fulfillment of a vow
Conceptual: representation of what is being seen not the actual image
Hierarchy of scale: greater height of the priest-king and Inanna compared to the offering bearers indicaes their greater importance
Stele: carved stone slab erected to commemorate a historical even, or sometimes mark a grave
Ensi: ruler/king in of Lagash depicted in Stele
Lapis lazuli: rich azure-blue stone imported from Afghanistan into Ur- Iraq
Bestiaries: medieval stories with animals as the humanistic characters
Heraldic composition: symmetryical on either side of a central figure
Diorite: a rare costly dark stone, hard to find in carve, used to make Gudea statotues of Lagash for gods
Sumer (2,000 BCE) Sumarians in Iraq. Made up of city-states (government) writing (3400-3200 BCE) inventory of cattle, food, supplies into clay with stylus; these were simplified to cuneiform signs; literatuer (2,000 BCE) Epic of Gilgamesh the sotyr of king Uruk and moster slayer of Huwawa
White Temple, Uruk (3000 BCE) Uruk-a city with 40,000 people. Whitewashed walls to the sky god, with a central hall and a stepped alter. Sumerian’s refered to as waiting rooms
Inanna (3200-3000 BCE) Uruk- Iraq war discovered: fragmentary white marble female head- only a face with a flat back, drilled holes for attachment to the rest of the head and the boyd that may have been wood; goddess Inanna- but unknown. Colored shell or stone filled the deep recesses for the eyebrows and large eyes. A wig of gold leaf on the head
Warka Vase first great work of narrative relief sculpture; in Inanna temple, has several bands, figures to tell a story; with crops depicted, and domesticated animals. Naked men fills baskets, top layer has goddess
Eshunna Statuettes (2700 BCE) Iraq: cache of sculptures in temple at Eshnunna. They are gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone of a both males and females. Their oversized eyes symbolized perpetual wakefulness of substitute worshipers offering prayers to deity, beakers they hold were for libations in honor of the gods about 30 inches tall.
Stele of the vultures (2600-2500 BCE) Iraq: limestone about 2 ½ feet high and the full stele almost 6 feet. Vultures carrying off the severed heads and arms of defeated enemies; Hierarchy of scaled enemy: king on top, war chariots, foot soldiers. Eannatum is larger than any one leading his army against the enemy
Standard of Ur (3000 BCE) Iraq (biblical Abraham) tomb chambers filled with gold helmetns, dagger of lapis lazuli, dozen of bodies with musicains, servants, charioteers, soldiers. With wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone paintings using a mosaic-like technique of battlefields, and feast of celebrations. There were two sides on the box, the war side and the peace side, but they might be the first and second part of the entire narrative
Bull-headed Lyre (2600 BCE) Iraq- Ur: gold lear and lapis lazuli of a wooden core over 5 feet high a bull’s head, imaginary composite creatues as heroic figures; the lion carrying the vase, and the donkey playing the lyre
Cylinder Seals: found in the tombs of “Queen” a cylindrical piece of stone engraved to produce a raised impression when rolled over clay. Figures with large frontal eyes, profile head, seated dignitaries- looks like a stamp roller today.
AKKAD AND THE THIRD DYNASTY OF UR (2332-2279 BCE)
Akkadian: site in the vicinity of Babylon near Eastern people who spoke language related to Hebrew and Arabic, and used cuneiform characters; royal power based on loyalty to king rather than city-state
Akkadian Portraiture (2250-2200 BCE) copper head of Akkadian king is all that remains of a once grand statue, with the eyes gouged out to make statement. Life-size. Earliest known great monumental work of hollow-cast sculpture
Naram-sin Stele (2254-2218 BCE) Iran: the figures are staggered and not layered abandoning the traditional formate- the empty space between figures was utilized
Ziggurat, ur (2150 BCE) Iraq: construction of ziggurats one of the largest in Mesopotamia with a soild mas bass of brick fifty feet high, hundreds of steps
Gudea of Lagash (2100 BCE) Neo-Suerian age: portray of Gudea (ensi of Lagash) His statues were wearing a wollen brimmed hat and dressed in long garments with one shoulder exposed to give gods their du. All of diorite
SECOND MILLENNIUM BCE
Hammurabi (1792-1750) most renowned king in Mesopotamian history; best known for his law code that had penalties for adultery, murder, and cutting down a neighbor’s tree. Large blocks made of heavy stone with lions, beasts
Napir-asu of Elam (1350-1300 BCE) Iran: bronze and copper over 4 feet high but life-size of the wife of Elamite king and was as an offering in the temple with an inscription to ask the gods to protect the statue
Assyria: (721 BCE) ambitious layout the confidence of the Assyrain kings, strong defensive walls, palace on elevation, tiber roofed hallwas, courtyards, over-life-sized figures of kings lined wall
Lamassu (720-705 BCE) Iraq: limestone over 13 feet high complete view of animasl with five legs four legged on the side view and two in the front; Assyrian palace guardian
Palace of Ashuranasirpal II (875-860 BCE) Iraq: narrative reliefs exalting roay power. Throughout the palace, painted, rich textiles on the floors; archers shooting arros, enemy soldiers in the water. The human figures are enlarged to stand out from the back ground
Palace of Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE)Nineveh palace: a great city was constructed. Brilliant depictions of straining muscles, swelling veins, wrinkled skin, flattened ears of defiant beast; making the king appear grander
NEO_BABYLONIA AND PERSIA
Ishtar Gate, Babylon (575 BCE) Iraq: under king Nebuchadnezzar II dazzling blue glazed brick that were on the front of gates, towers, with animals both real and imaginary. With lions in yellow or brown and sometime red against a blue background
The Persian Empire (559-529 BCE) Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon
Persepolis (522-486 BCE) Iran: ceremonial/admnistrative complex with art and architecture; on high plateau, led through monumtental gateway called the Gate of All Lands, reference to the harmony among the peoples of th evast Persain Empire that is 60 feet high and 217 feet square with 36 colossal columns: 23 nations with a gift. has Greek influence that attests to mediterianian influence was speed
Sasnian Ctesiphon (330 BCE) Alexander the Great's conquest in Persia. erectedpalaces at Ctesiphon the capital his father established near modern Bahdad. a monumental iwan, covered by a vault more than 100 feet above ground
Shapur I and Rome (260 BCE) Turkey: a series of rock-cut reliefs in the cliffs of Bishapur in Iran to dipict his triumph (susanian army) over Roman emperor Valerian. with Valerian kneling before Susanian- ironic level of political message in stone