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1. The Rembrandt Teaching Project: Lesson Plan - A Birthday In Amsterdam
A BIRTHDAY IN AMSTERDAM Author: Christine Pilling, PS 91 Queens Lesson: After observing and discussing Rembrandt s etching, View Preview of Amsterdam, students are asked to create written responses integrating what they have learned, especially about the topic of commerce and trade in seventeenth-century Holland. Standards...

2. The Rembrandt Teaching Project Lesson Plan A View of Amsterdam
The Rembrandt Teaching Project Teaching Guide Lesson Plan A View of Amsterdam Details of the Work Title: View of Amsterdam (c. 1640) Size: 4 1/2 x 6 in (11.3 x 15.4 cm) Medium: Etching (only state) Location: Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam Lesson Preview This lesson gives students a geographical sense of place, speaking about Rembrandt in the context of the city of Amster...

3. The Rembrandt Teaching Project: Lesson Plan - The Night Watch
...pper Elementary and Intermediate Levels Subjects Language Arts, Social Studies, Art Materials general drawing supplies WWW www.rijksmuseum.org Instruction Review the definition of a portrait and compare one portrait to a group portrait. Observe a group portrait such as the Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers Guild. Display the class photo done by a school photographer.and The Night Watch, side by side. Have the class determine similarities and differences. Ask: What makes Rembrandt s painting more interesting to look at? Give the art historical background of The Night Watch using various class l...

4. Buddy Scavenger Hunt/Van Gogh Museum
...9 Art, Grade 4 Buddy Scavenger Hunt/Van Gogh Museum Prince Buddy Night will be used by parents and students attending Buddy Night and students in art class. (Site 3) s/p-student and parent buddies. Objectives Academic: S/p and student buddy teams will investigate and identify the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, after clicking on English. There they will identify that individual person the new wing will be named after. This person provided the financial and moral support that allowed Vincent Van Gogh to develop as an artist. Technological: S/p and student buddy teams will solve the challenge of their Buddy...

5. Lesson Tutor : Lesson plan for Creative Writing: Narrative paragraphs.
...An expository paragraph doesn't have to be dry and boring. In fact, some of the best expository papers are those that have a unique slant and grab the reader's attention. When you read one of those, you hardly even realize all the facts you are learning because the paper is so much fun! The Topic: Amsterdam - From a Sea Captain's View 1. A good expository writer does research. Find out all you can about Amsterdam before beginning your paragraph. 2. Decide what year your sea captain lived and research the duties of a sea captain of that period. 3. Write your paragraph as if you are the sea captain descr...

6. Lesson Tutor : Lesson Plans : Elaine Ernst Schneider : Language Arts : Creative Writing
...paragraph because it gives information about a person, place, thing, or idea. The last two lessons, you've been asked to write an expository paragraph and a narrative paragraph from the vantage point of the sea captain. Now, using the same information, write a descriptive paragraph that tells what Amsterdam was like from the viewpoint of the sea captain. Sometimes a descriptive paragraph is also called a spatial paragraph. That is because its purpose is to paint a picture for the reader. Try to cover every detail from the ground or water of the sea to the sky. Fill in everything much like an artist use...

7. Shall we go Dutch?
...ness and Declare that we on the Day of the Date under- written have given and granted to Peter Ebel one Plantation situate on the South River of New Netherland at Fort Casmier bounded on the North by Jan Eckhoff and to the Southward by said Fort is large four Morgen with express Conditions &c. Done Amsterdam in New Netherland the 30th February Anno 1657. BACKGROUND INFORMATION During the early 17th century the nation called The Netherlands (the Dutch) was a powerful, seafaring nation. Like other European nations, the Dutch wanted to take economic advantage of the new land in America. To carry out this m...

8. Acts of Citizenship: American Jews and Military Service
...g willing to shed blood on behalf of the United States, soldiers demonstrate their willingness to pledge their ?lives, fortunes, and sacred honor? to their society. This notion of loyal citizenship was central to the formation of the first Jewish community in what would become the United States; as Amsterdam Jews appealed for the right of 23 of their brethren to remain in New Amsterdam (New York), they wrote that ?the Jewish nation in Brazil have at all times been faithful and have striven to guard and maintain that place, risking for that purpose their possessions and their blood.? Throughout American...

9. The Rembrandt Teaching Project: Lesson Plan - Posing For Rembrandt
POSING FOR REMBRANDT Author: Virginia Wasniewski, PS 12 Queens Lesson Preview This lesson introduces students to Rembrandt s costuming and posing techniques used in his paintings. It will encourage students to explore the theatricality behind Rembrandt s works as a key to his popular success in Amsterdam of the 17th century. Standards New York State Learning Standards for the Arts Understanding the cultural dimensions of the arts New York City English Language Performance Standards Producing a narrative account Grades Upper Elementary and Intermediate Levels Subjects Art, Language Arts, Photography...

10. Knowing Where You Are Knowing Where You Are
...these types of common name elements are found, and discuss any possible significance. For example, the word part -kill means ?creek? in Dutch. It is found frequently in place names around the Hudson River Valley in New York, where many Dutch people settled when New York was the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. As a class, create a map key with symbols representing each classification. Then, on a map of your state, have students use the symbols to mark the cities they researched. Add the key to the map to explain the symbols. Individual students can research biographical figures who have had towns named f...