Preparation For the Final!

Hey Everyone! Well, I'm excited to be able to gather all the information we've learned over the semester into one big discussion. I think it will be enjoyable and we can reminisce as well.

	Unit 1: Folk Knowledge	Unit 2: Oral Knowledge
Self-Directed Learning	-Traditions at the Dinner Table (Roman/Italian -importance of food) - Gift Giving - Japan, Swedes, Christian gift giving) - Skills at bartering (why is this folk knowledge? )	Greek Culture - Music and the Muses: "For though a man have sorrow and grief in his newly-troubled soul and live in dread because his heart is distressed, yet, when a singer, the servant of the Muses, chants the glorious deeds of men of old and the blessed gods who inhabit Olympus, at once he forgets his heaviness and remembers not his sorrows at all; but the gifts of the goddesses soon turn him away from these." (From Theogany) - Oral Tradtion of many important texts - Homeric Question, Four Gospels, History of the apostles
Others' blogging	Kacee - Dancing and teaching coreography Holland - Teaching -harp music training and the teacher (teaching passed on) Midwives (Catherine) - Passing down help generation to generation	Navigational Ninjas (Sam) - Memorization skills (Holland) - Contrasting Oral and Written Knowledge (Catherine) - reading scriptures aloud, poetry, plays, emotion of the story (Akitu festival)
Collaborative learning	- Preparation for Unit one exam discussion - practicing oral discussions	- Memorizing King Benjamin's Speech - The ease of memorization because of repitition, constantly calling the crowd's attention, stories
Projects / Activities	- Making Cookies together - Teaching the Bull Whip - Learning how to use an SLR Camera	- Interview with Dr. Howard - Influence of Greek culture on today (aulos, perfect fifth) - Group discussion , video post (discussing oral traditions)

	Unit 3: Written Knowledge	Unit 4: Print Knowledge
Self-Directed Learning	- Cryptography - Greek Stytale rolled around a a stick to line up lines, Vigenere Square (Leon Battist Alberti) (keyword matched with message to code) - Travel during the past - tourist vacations to Troy, unknown beyond and importance of maps, beginnings of tourism Time Keeping - Star Charts (Egyptian tombs, astrolabe, the Antikythera Mechanism - - Greek - Linear B - Michael Ventris deciphering Mycenaean text in 1953	- Fights against Change - Authoritative Texts, Spanning Time with a medium, - Printing Presses and Publishers - Each geography had a unique flavor to its publishing - Bestsellers - "Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years." Henry Thoreau Feeding the audience, bibles,
Others' blogging	- Notre Dame Cathedral (Kacee) - architecture contributes to the reputation of an institution. The university will frequently include pillars with an Ionic or Corinthian styling to represent higher learning. Architecture as knowledge - Islamic Caligraphy (Kacee) - decorative and informative	- Children's Literature (Kacee) - start during the print - shifting from instruction to pleasure of reading - Newspapers (Catherine) - birth of reporters, schedules, each language a newspaper
Collaborative learning	- Library Visit - Seeing Roman plates, vellum and papyrus scripts, clay tablet	Editing Papers (Brett) - Learning how to use a draft and peer-editing
Projects / Activities	- Rosetta Stone Project (Difficulty of translation) - Baking stone, mistakes and learning - Calligraphy Activity at Sam's Home - Drawing on "papyrus"	- Typesetting - Italian(italic) vs Germanic(gothic) - (Brett)- Relationship between publisher and author - - Visit to the King James Bible Display