Notes on the Semester for the Final

This is my little table of notes for the semester.  It makes sense to me, if it does not make sense to you I apologize.

	Unit 1: Folk Knowledge	Unit 2: Oral Knowledge	Unit 3: Written Knowledge	Unit 4: Print Knowledge
Self-directed learning	Bushmen of the Kalahari, Plains Indians: Using all of the animals they kill.  Eat the meat, bones for jewelry, drink the liquid, hide for clothing etc. Midwives: Practices in Egypt, Greece, present How to avoid poison	Assyria: instruments used in Assyrian music Little known about Assyrian music,  Akitu festival Le Guin in Math Poetry -oral and written	Description of Akkadian cuneiform The Library of Ashurbanipal Mesopotamian number systems	Newspapers Bookselling and Publishing
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Kacee	Early Ballet/ Male ballerinas and high heels Choreography/Discussion of Mantic and Sophic Making Cookies		Islamic Calligraphy, first written language: Kufic, artistic writing Explanation of symbolism in Notre Dame (cathedral) Arabic’s connection to writing What is important to us? Do we write it down?	Censorship Children’s books and evolution of children’s stories
Holland	Harp players and Pedagogy-Henriette Renie Water in China, different ways of obtaining water	different forms of oral knowledge-spiritual and secular Loss of oral knowledge when written down Lusitanian poets and mythology Connections in scriptures found through memorization	Explanation of Mayan symbols Mayan Codices	Typefaces Typography
Blaine	eating together-Roman banquets Gift giving in different cultures: Hebrew, Japanese, Swedes, Denmark, Christian tradition Bartering	Ancient Greek music, its origin and place in mythology, instruments and amphitheaters Music’s involvement in Greek’s everyday life	Greek tradition and the accounts of the apostles Linear B-the beginnings of Greek writing  ways of telling time Cartography Cryptography	Renaissance best sellers Printing Press and printers
Samuel	Living in ice- Inuit. Diving-Olympians on the beach Western music vs. Chinese music and their conventions	Dancing and singing to prepare for battle among the Kanak Dances that tell stories of conquests, In Polynesia same legends portrayed over different Islands Polynesian navigation by stars	The evolution of music Pe’a, Fijian tattoos Egyptian wrting and the Book of Mormon	Woodblock prints the effect of print on the reformation
Jared		Mesopotamian religion, system of gods, open canon beliefs, influence of authority and abuse, Adiabene empire and culture clash, Gilgamesh and dreams, more difficult the medium the more important the subject?	the evolution of cuneiform, the effect a medium has on what is written
Emily		Akkadian overview-Sargon and influence of culture, mythology, Epic of Gilgamesh and ways to keep audience interested,	writing difficulty, propaganda in Persia
Kody		Kody: Hittites-from Caananite tribes, lahguage use of repetition, pros and cons of oral and written knowledge- Epic of Gilgamesh, unifying power of orality	Hittite written language mixed with Akkadian-substitute in Akkadian words when the isn’t a Hittite word, medical knowledge in Egypt, scribe profession in different cultures
Morgan		Orthodox Judaism-orality, , how culture affects knowledge, religion not as important as trade, Phoenicians’ influence on the present	Phoenician books were rare
Alex		Alex: The Epic of Gilgamesh, preservation of knowledge, learning strategies	Written law and its authority-code of Ur-Nammu, how the medium affects the knowledge, Sumerian contracts
Collaborative learning	Learning party for folk knowledge Google doc review for first midterm oral exam.	Memorization of King Benjamin’s speech from the book of Mosiah Prepared before presentation with group	Rosetta Project	Print Knowledge papers
Projects / Activities	Me: Learning the Violin, Taught braiding Samuel: Learning Diving Taught how to sing in harmony Holland: learned Zumba Blaine: learned photography Taught how to crack a Bulgarian bullwhip Kacee: learned to make patterned onesies Taught Blaine photography	King Benjamin's speech	Group calligraphy party	King James Bible Exhibit visit