updated 6 May, 2007

Electives Grade 8

Full Year:

Trimester:

  • Music, e.g., guitar, Piano Lab, General Music
  • Fine Arts (2-D)
  • Applied Arts (3-D)
  • Career Modular Technology II
  • Family and Consumer Science
  • Acting Techniques (Brooks) School
  • School Options in Technology
    • Writing Workshop (Julian)
    • Beginning Computer Skills (Brooks)

    Art Related Web Sites

    • Museum of Photography
    • Butler Institute of American Art
    • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    • Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, TX
    • Art Institute of Chicago
    • National Museum of American Art
    • Smithsonian
    • Famous Architects and Their Architecture Architecture Central, a comprehensive guide to world famous architects, looks into the architecture of the past, present, and future
    • Cities/Buildings Archive Travel the world through images chosen by architects, and collected for educational use in this Website. These eclectic images are cataloged by countries scattered around the world. There are mosques, churches, markets, city buildings, and houses. Students may study here many famous structures, from the train station in Amsterdam, to the buildings on the Acropolis in Athens, to the Taj Mahal in India, and the Torii Gate in Hiroshima.
    • Tall Office Buildings The elevator, steel girders, and fireproof frames and sheathing made possible the skyscraper, whose origins are to be learned here. This Web presentation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an interesting study of how ideas are contagious in architecture (and everything else). There are illustrated biographies of Louis Sullivan and several others who pioneered the design of tall buildings - all architects who were both active in Boston and influenced the architecture of Chicago.
    • Rembrandt House Permanent Collection Visit here the house in Amsterdam where Rembrandt lived and worked, and study some of the master‚s choice works that comprise the permanent collection of the museum located at the house. This small group of drawings has five themes: Self-portraits, Saskia, Biblical Themes, Daily Life, River Amstel, and Landscapes. Titles are in English and in Dutch. Rembrandt occupied the house and recorded its setting at a time when the city's port involved Amsterdam in world affairs. Because of the virtual Rembrandt House, the world once again sails to the dam of the Amstel, now gliding in on the Internet.
    • Art Safari This art site for children encourages kids to explore paintings and sculptures from the Museum of Modern Art. A series of questions guides children to write about what they see.

    Technology Related Web Sites

    Nerds 2.0.1

    This Web site from PBS is a kicky sort of place to overcome a feeling of not knowing anything about computers. A lot of excellent biography, chronology, and vocabulary is provided about the invention, development, and proliferation of computers. As computers and the Internet seem now to be just about everywhere, these pages offer understanding of what has been going on behind the scenes for years to create the new computer dominance. Called here "nerds" and "geeks," are great innovators of the late twentieth century. They are well worth getting to know.

    World Languages Related Web Sites