The Peace of Art Project Calendar (tentative)
Monday
September 5
Labor Day
No School
Tuesday
September 6
What is humanities class
about?
-learning other’s
perspectives
-sharing our perspectives
-practicing reading and
writing
I am from poems
September 12
-Present violent revolutions,
create class timeline
-Take notes on violent
revolutions
-Analyze the pattern that
violent revolutions take
September 13
How are people convinced
to fight?
-Through propaganda
-Through writing (primary
source from a violent
revolution): The Communist
Manifesto
September 19
Animal Farm
-Chapters 5, 6 and journal
-Add to essay notes
-Animal Farm propaganda
September 20
Animal Farm
-Chapters 7, 8 and journal
-Add to essay notes
-Animal Farm propaganda
Examples of the success of
nonviolence: Children’s
March documentary
Examples of the success of
nonviolence: Viva la Causa
documentary
Wednesday
September 7
How have people
throughout history tried to
change the world?
-Project Handout
-What is nonviolence?
-Reading: Nonviolence: The
History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Kurlansky
September 14
A Critique of a Violent
Revolution: Animal Farm by
George Orwell
-Introduction lecture
-Chapter 1 and journal
What is an alternative to
violence?
Nonviolent revolutions
-Reading: “Martin Luther
King, Jr.” by Cesar Chavez
September 21
Animal Farm
-Chapter 9 and journal
-Add to essay notes
-Animal Farm propaganda
Examples of the success of
nonviolence :
Reading excerpts: “My
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence”
by King and An
Autobiography: The Story of
My Experiments with Truth
by Gandhi
-mini Socratic Seminar
Thursday
September 8
What does violence
accomplish?
-Violent revolutions
throughout history:
England, France, America,
Russia, China, Cuba
-Crane Brinton’s theory on
violent revolutions
-Creating a class timeline of
revolutions
September 15
Animal Farm
-Chapter 2 and journal
-Add to essay notes
Friday
September 9
-Work in groups on violent
revolution for class timeline
-Nonviolent Revolution
groups work on poster for
class timeline (“A Force
More Powerful”)
- posters on wall by the end
of class
Notes on Nonviolent
revolutions
September 22
Animal Farm
-Chapter 10 and journal
-Add to essay notes
-Animal Farm propaganda
Narrative writing based on
Gandhi and King readings
September 16
Animal Farm
-Chapters 3, 4 and journal
-Add to essay notes
Nonviolence vs. violence
-Reading: “If We Listen
Well” by Edward Guinan
-class brainstorm on wall
September 23
Front Page Cafe
Monday
September 26
Animal Farm
-Animal Farm movie clip
-Prepare for Socratic
Seminar
-Animal Farm propaganda
Tuesday
September 27
-Animal Farm Socratic
Seminar
-Animal Farm Journal due
-Animal Farm propaganda
due
Circle share out of
narratives
Prepare for test
October 3
No School
October 4
Field Trip for Project:
San Diego Museum of
Contemporary Art
Exhibit: Viva la Revolucion
-Downtown murals
throughout the city
-Murals and lunch at
Chicano Park
October 5
Animal Farm essay: Work on
outline and rough draft
-Essay rough draft due on
Tuesday
October 6
Animal Farm essay: Work on
outline and rough draft
-Essay rough draft due on
Tuesday
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-field trip debrief
-groups assigned
-mural proposals
-lesson proposals
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-finish lesson proposals
-peer critique of proposals
October 11
-Animal Farm essay rough
draft due
-Peer critique of rough
drafts
-Essay final draft due on
Thursday, October 13
October 12
Refine Animal Farm essay
October 13
Essay final draft due
October 10
-Animal Farm essay: Work
on outline and rough draft
-Essay rough draft due on
Tuesday
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-create lessons
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-create lessons
Wednesday
September 28
Summary of Learning: In
Class Writing Test
Thursday
September 29
Animal Farm essay: Work on
outline and rough draft
-Essay rough draft due on
Tuesday 10/11
Friday
September 30
Advisory Olympics
Prepare for field trip
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-create lessons
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-present lessons to three
other groups
-critique process
October 7
Front Page Café
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-refine proposals
-create lessons
October 14
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-refine lesson
-begin mural sketch
Monday
October 17
Tuesday
October 18
Wednesday
October 19
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-peer critique sketch
-refine sketch, start doing
math
-refine lesson
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-area and perimeter on
mural sketch
-refine lesson
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-Present lesson to Brooke
and Caroline
-mural sketch and math
October 24
Staff Day
No school for students
October 25
October 26
October 27
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-refine lesson and present
again
-begin painting
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-present lesson again
-painting mural
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-present lesson again
-painting mural
October 31
Project debrief and
exhibition plan
Thursday
October 20
FP Café
Friday
October 21
Community Service Day
Afternoon Team Project
Time:
-present lesson to Brooke
and Caroline
-mural sketch and math
October 28
Go to elementary school!
Lessons and mural with
elementary students.