Thursday March 12th

 8^th graders  Echo, Maggie !!!bring in a baby picture for the yearbook~!  

Friday March 13^th -

 Artifact #1 typed write up- remember the calligraphy template you got in class!

See Calligraphy example below! (bottom of post)

Monday March 16^th –

Artifact #1(either 2D or 3D) and write up  ready to present in class

8th Grade Portfolio- Environmental Symbol

Tuesday March 17^th –

Final typed draft of your 5 paragraph compare and contrast book to movie essay

Current event – Orange- Noah B, Cyrus, Truman, Ireland, Tana  Make Up – Tony, Neo, Will, Echo, Brad, Noah, Neo

MUST BE A CURRENT EVENT FROM JAPAN!!!!Remember 3 paragraphs- Beginning, Middle and End!!!

Wednesday March 18^th -

Late Opening school starts at 10:45

Artifact #2 typed write up

Thursday March 19^th-

Ready for field study to Nikkei Legacy Center with your Curator’s Notebook, lunch, water and layers of clothes.

Friday March 20^th-

Artifact #2(either 2D or 3D) and write up  ready to present in class

Upcoming trips-

 3/19- Nikkei Legacy Center   10:30-, 4-2 Errol Heights 8:45-, 4/16-Cooley Gallery 8:45-, 4/23- Jeans 8:45

Service Learning Opportunities:
    a) The Whole Foods event this Friday night should be awesome! It starts at 6pm, and Jan's husband Amilcar is performing along with Edna Vasquez and others! Helen is bringing me tickets on Monday or Tuesday ($5-10 suggested donation per ticket).
    b) Solv Beach Cleanup--March 28....

Japanese Calligraphy

書道

600-1400 BCE

Rice paper and Ink

Model made out of paper and marker

By Azul Blue (Indigo Corwin) in  2015

               Calligraphy came from China to Japan around 500 CE. Calligraphy is written using a brush and ink set.  These sets include: Shitajiki, a soft black mat to put the paper on, Bunching, a metal stick to weight down the paper, Hanshi, special thin calligraphy paper, Fude, the brush for writing characters, Suzuri, the black container for ink, and Sumi, the solid black material that must be rubbed in water in the Suzuri to produce black ink.

There are three major forms of calligraphy: Kaisho, Gyosho, and Soshu. Kaisho is a beginner style of writing; it is used to give people experience in the basics, such as correct placement and balance (left and right, up and down, etc.). Characters written in kasha are easy to copy and instantly recognizable.

               In Gyosho strokes are allowed to run into one another and the characters are more fluid and less angular. In this style the brush leaves the paper less often. The average Japanese person will be able to read the characters with relative ease, but foreigners will have a harder time understanding the fluid script.

Sosho, the third style, is the most cursive and flowing script of them all, and is often unintelligible to those who have not mastered the style itself. It might also be hard to understand because a character written by one master might look completely different written by another master.

Calligraphy was important to the culture in Japan as an art, recording history, and a meditation practice.

Sources:

"Japanese Calligraphy." Japanese Calligraphy. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2015.