ARTS Questions Based on: "What Your 4th Grader Needs to Know" by E.D. Hirsch These questions are copyright 1997 Karen Crowther and are not endorsed nor sponsored by the Core Curriculum Foundation nor E.D. Hirsch. They are brought to you as a public service by Redwood Games (http://www.maui.net/~redwood/hs.html) You may use them for personal use provided you do not remove this notice and provided you do not distribute them. Note that you really need to get a keyboard and have the children practice scales, learning simple songs from notes and singing so that they develop their ability to sing on key. ALL people can learn to sing -- even the most "tone deaf". (My family is living proof of this! ) It helps to practice with a keyboard (Casio sells inexpensive ones for less than $50) since just playing and hearing the notes will help the children sing them in key. With kids who have trouble signing on key, use the pointing system to help them get the note. If they are singing flat, point up. If they are singing sharp, point down. Then be SURE to tell them when they are right on. ASSIGNMENT #1 ============= Read p 219-221 Classical music began in what area? __________________ and what year? _______ One of the first great classical composers was _____________________________. He was born in ____________________ and lived from _______ to ___________. What type of music did Bach write? ________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ What is a fugue? _________________________________________________________ Listen to a selection of Bach music. You can buy inexpensive tapes or cd's or find a site on the Internet which has music you can listen to. (See the Redwood Games Homeschool Page at http://www.maui.net/~redwood/hs.html for links to music sites. ASSIGNMENT #2 ============= Read p 221 (Orchestra) - 223 What are the 4 basic types of instruments which make up an orchestra? 1._____________________ including the _______________________________________ 2._____________________ including the _______________________________________ 3._____________________ including the _______________________________________ 4._____________________ including the _______________________________________ Who were two other great composers who wrote about the same time as Bach? 1.______________________ who wrote ____________________________________ 2.______________________ who wrote ____________________________________ ASSIGNMENT #2 ============= Read p 224-227 Who does the mosaic in your book show? __________________________________ What is Hagia Sophia? _____________________________________ What are the four pointed towers called? _________________________ What is special about Hagia Sophia's dome? _______________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ASSIGNMENT #3 ============= Read p227-230 When you suddenly realize something or are excited by a new idea you have experienced ____________________________ What is one thing that has inspired many artists? ___________________________ Abbot Suger who lived in France during the early 1100's invented what kind or architectural style? __________________________ Before the 1100's what were Western European churches like? __________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ What feeling were gothic churches supposed to inspire? ___________________ __________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ What are gothic churches supposed to resemble? ____________________ Name 3 famous gothic churches: 1____________________________________ in _____________________________ 2____________________________________ in _____________________________ 3____________________________________ in _____________________________ What is the difference between the shape of the gothic arches compared to the arches in Hagia Sophia? ___________________________________________________________________________ ASSIGNMENT #4 ============= Read p 230-233 How long did some gothic churches take to build? ______________ Why did people love churches in the Middle Ages? _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ How was the color put into glass for stained glass windows? _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ What figures do you usually see in a "Rose Window"? _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ What important purposes did windows serve in gothic churches? 1._______________________________ 2.___________________________________ ASSIGNMENT #5 ============= Read p 233-236 What is a statue that is not completely separate from the stone that it is carved on called? A ________________________ What were the statues supposed to make people think of? _________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ What were gargoyles supposed to do? 1.____________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________ What church has gargoyles? ________________________ in __________________ ASSIGNMENT #6 ============= Read p 237-239 What is the part of the artwork that we can see called? ________________________________________ What is a facade? ___________________________________________ Did gothic cathedrals have lots of plain walls? ___________________ What was on and in the walls to make them fancy? 1.________________________ 2._______________________ 3._______________________ 4._______________________ How did the architect of the Cathedral at Cologne, Germany make it look taller? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Why is it harder to make taller buildings than shorter ones? __________________________________________________________________________ A part of a building that sticks out and helps hold up the walls is called ______________________________________________________________. ASSIGNMENT #7 ============= Read p 239-241 What is the place where Muslims worship called? ___________________ When was the Great Mosque in Djenne in Mali, Africa built? _______________ What is the Great Mosque made of? ________________________________________ What makes the Great Mosque look tall? ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are the pointed arches and vertical lines in Grant Wood's painting, American Gothic? _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ Byzantine style architecture has many ___________________ Gothic style architecture has _______________________, ___________________ and __________________________________________