Lang 5th Hour Character Project Presentations
Monday
1/7
Dante’s Inferno and
Paradiso
1/14
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Khyli Ray
Maddie Gorman
Mary Bertrand
Kasem G.
Damon H.
1/21
MLK Day – No school
Tuesday
1/8
Test Review
1/15
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Clare S.
Omar W.
Grant M.
Prutha P.
Harsh K.
1/22
No Class
Exams 1st & 6th
Wednesday
1/9
Architecture Field
Trip
1/16
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Erin B.
Jessica S.
Mariah M.
Megan P.
Natalie P.
1/23
Exams 2nd & 5th Hour
1. Souvik Roy
2. Daniel S.
3. Alex W.
4. Ryan C.
5. Bryant C.
6. Arianna K.
7. Khadija C.
January 2013
Thursday
1/10
Extra Work /
Review Day – No
character projects.
1/17
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Jinting H.
Lydia P.
Paul L.
Melissa S.
Nate B.
1/24
No Class
Exams 3rd and 4th Hour
Friday
1/11
Unit 3 Test
After School Test for
DECA Students
1/18
1. Fiana A.
2. Samidha V.
3. Krista A.
4. Meghan H.
5. Cameron W.
1/25
No School
Records Day for
Teachers
1/28
1/29
1/30
1/31
12/1
Start of Semester 2
1/14 Characters Being Portrayed:
1. Khyli – Mary Boleyn (c. 1499/1500 – 19 July 1543); the sister of English queen consort Anne Boleyn and a
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member of the Boleyn family, which enjoyed considerable influence during the reign of King Henry VIII of
England. Some historians claim she was Anne's younger sister, but her children believed Mary was the elder, as
do most historians today.
Maddie G.— Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587); was queen regnant of Scotland from
14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567 and queen consort of France from 10 July 1559 to 5 December 1560.
Mary— Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122 or 1124 – 1 April 1204); one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in
Western Europe during the High Middle Ages. As well as being Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, she was
queen consort of France (1137–1152) and of England (1154–1189)
Kasem— Salid a-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137/1138 – March 4, 1193); better known in the Western world
as Saladin, was a Kurdish Muslim, who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and founded the Ayyubid
dynasty. He led Muslim opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant.
Damon— Genghis Khan (Mongol; 1162? – August 1227); the founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol
Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his demise.
1/15 Characters Being Portrayed:
1. Clare-- Queen Nefertiti (ca. 1370 BC – ca. 1330 BC); the Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of
the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten
2. Omar-- René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650); French philosopher, mathematician, and writer
3. Grant-- Zheng He (1371–1433); Chinese Admiral; a Muslim Hui-Chinese court
eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral
4. Prutha-- Catherine de' Medici (Italian: Caterina de' Medici, 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589); Franco/Italian
noblewoman who was Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France.
5. Harsh-- Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar (14 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), the third Mughal Emperor
1/16 Characters Being Portrayed:
1. Erin— Marguerite of Angoulême (1492–1549) Queen Consort of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon; the wife
of Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became king of France, as Francis I.
2. Jessica— Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539); Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women
of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader
of fashion
3. Mariah— Héloïse d'Argenteuil (1101? – 16 May 1164); French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess, best known for
her love affair and correspondence with Peter Abélard (a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and
preeminent logician)
4. Megan P .— Grace O'Malley (c. 1530 – c. 1603); was Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan and
a pirate in 16th century Ireland.
5. Natalie— Saint Olga of Kiev (, born c. 890 died 11 July 969, Kiev); a ruler of Kievan Rus'as regent (945–c. 963) for
her son, Svyatoslav. In 1997 the Order of Princess Olga was established in Ukraine.
1/17 Characters Being Portrayed:
1. Jinting— Wu Zetian (c.625 – 705); a Chinese sovereign, who ruled officially under the name of her self-proclaimed
"Zhou Dynasty", from 690 to 705; however, she had previous imperial positions under both Emperor Taizong of
Tang and his son Emperor Gaozong of Tang, of the Tang Dynasty of China.
2. Lydia— Hatshepsut (1508–1458 BC); the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt
3. Paul— Confucius (551–479 BCE); a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn
Period of Chinese history
4. Melissa— Joan of Arc (French; ca. 1412[3] – 30 May 1431); a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
5. Nate— Ivan IV Vasilyevich (25 August 1530 – 28 March 1584), known in English as Ivan the Terrible); the Grand
Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and Tsar of All the Russias from 1547 until his death
1/18 Characters Being Portrayed:
1. Fiana— Anne Boleyn (c. 1501 – 19 May 1536); Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry
VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right
2. Samidha—Mary I of England (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558); Queen of England and Ireland from July
1553 until her death. Her brutal persecution of Protestants caused people to call her "Bloody Mary"
3. Krista— Theodora I (c. 500 – 28 June 548), was empress of the Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the wife of
Emperor Justinian I.
4. Meghan H.— Anna Komnene (December 1, 1083 – 1153); a Greek princess, scholar, physician, hospital
administrator and the daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos of Byzantium and Irene Doukaina. She wrote
the Alexiad, an account of her father’s reign, which is unique in that it was written by a princess about her father
5. Cameron— Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564[4] – 8 January 1642); an Italian physicist, mathematician,
astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution
1/23 Characters Being Portrayed:
1. Souvik— Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527)
2. Daniel— Alexander III of Macedon / Alexander the Great(20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC)
3. Alex— Björn Ironside; a semi-legendary king of Sweden who would have lived sometime in the 9th century
4. Ryan— Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519); an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter,
sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist,
geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized
the Renaissance humanist ideal
5. Bryant— Cao Cao (Wade-Giles: Tsao Tsao; Chinese:155 – March 15, 220); a warlord and the
penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during the dynasty's final years
6. Arianna— Diane de Poitiers (3 Sept. 1499 – 25 April 1566); a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the
courts of kings Francis I and his son, Henry II of France. She became notorious as the latter's favorite.
7. Khadija— Sophie Brahe (24 August 1556 – 1643); a Danish horticulturalist and student of astronomy, chemistry,
and medicine, best known for assisting her brother Tycho Brahe with his astronomical observations