https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd Why Humanities should be a required course en-us 2023-04-07 15:02:40 UTC 2023-04-16 19:06:31 UTC hello@padlet.com slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547241009 To begin, I start with my paper with the purpose of explaining why I chose this class. I wanted a challenge. To learn new ideas and explore a subject. ]]> 2023-04-07 15:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547241009 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547244027 I then explain the basics of what I've learned in Humanities. I expand on how I feel educated about our topics of literature artists, theatre, cinema, sculpture, architecture, music, and dance.]]> 2023-04-07 15:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547244027 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547250234 While I thought about that quote it made me think about how the topics we had briefly gone over are only the key ideas of Humanities. ]]> 2023-04-07 15:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547250234 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547258825 While reading Dennis J. Sporre's book a quote stood out to me that made me start thinking of the broader idea of humanities. I started to analyze how humanity is all around us. The quote states how the book “illustrates the accessibility of the arts and how we can use our perceptual skills to engage them.”]]> 2023-04-07 15:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547258825 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547268524 Dennis J. Sporre's quote made me want to be more knowledgeable about humanities. This lead me to do some research of my own. I found a great quote from the University of Tennessee and they state their definition of Humanities. ]]> 2023-04-07 16:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547268524 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547284096 I had decided that high school junior year would be the best choice. ]]> 2023-04-07 16:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547284096 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547286344 Junior-year students are also learning how to drive and are taking the SAT state tests. ]]> 2023-04-07 16:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547286344 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547349630 The basics that I have shared and learned so far convinced me that humanities should be a required course. In my essay and padlet I continue to express my ideas of why.]]> 2023-04-07 19:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547349630 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547354976 Learning this subject in a classroom would help students through their personal experiences. ]]> 2023-04-07 19:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547354976 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547365184  The two basic genres of literature of utilitarian and creative. Utilitarianism is the way we can sort out the rights and wrongs to determine the outcome. While creative is how we use emotion and plot in a story.  ]]> 2023-04-07 20:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2547365184 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553720467 Humanities could help us make a choice for our future by learning background knowledge from all over the world.  This is the time we should learn and explore new topics.]]> 2023-04-13 21:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553720467 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553724012 This course is much larger than I had thought. We use humanities day to day in our everyday lives. Even just looking around outside you can connect humanities to everything.]]> 2023-04-13 21:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553724012 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553732202 Humanities would help students all over the world understand how society has grown to how we know it today. ]]> 2023-04-13 21:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553732202 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553735421 Theatre explains the purpose of lighting, plot scenes, and costume design behind shows or movies. Theatre is the reason behind many ideas of the shot.]]> 2023-04-13 22:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553735421 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553736988  Cinema is described in why the film shots are the way they are. If you ever questioned why the camera goes in that angle. It is the main purpose of why the directors use this to create rhythm in the film.]]> 2023-04-13 22:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553736988 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553740232 I explain that I hadn't heard of the word humanities before this class. While now learning all about this topic I honestly feel it is sad that I had not learned of it before.]]> 2023-04-13 22:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553740232 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553743740 Teenagers should acquire this skill so they would discover how we are all connected in different ways.]]> 2023-04-13 22:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553743740 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553744671 The students now are the future and need to learn how we can develop the world. ]]> 2023-04-13 22:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553744671 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553748005 While learning about the key ideas it made me think about how the studies of humanities is human experience through the world around it, from an analytical perspective.]]> 2023-04-13 22:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553748005 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553750429 While grasping the knowledge I learned on my own it made me wonder when would be the best time to learn about this if I hadn't taken this class. ]]> 2023-04-13 22:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2553750429 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555917945 Sculpture focuses on the art in front of the camera. Our book describes sculpture as using focal points to enhance the technique of negative space and dimension.

]]> 2023-04-16 18:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555917945 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555918462 In a class like humanities, there is no downside and it only will benefit you from looking at the world from a different perspective with the past, present and future.]]> 2023-04-16 18:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555918462 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555920760 Learning through their culture at home or family life. Students are given more opportunities to learn about their peers.]]> 2023-04-16 18:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555920760 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555923248 This is because this is the age where we are starting to question what we want to do with our future. ]]> 2023-04-16 18:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555923248 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555928399 Sixteen would be the best age in Junior year. Your mind is just getting cohesive thoughts of what you should do after high school.  I wish I had learned it during this age to help after high school.]]> 2023-04-16 18:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555928399 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555931695 Money production and distribution are also important topics to talk about and are benefits that stick out to me the most. Students should be learning what this means.]]> 2023-04-16 18:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555931695 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555933198 Money production and distribution are a part of humanity economically and are constantly changing. Students should be learning how we are going forward with it to help our society financially. ]]> 2023-04-16 18:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555933198 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555938196 Architecture talks about the idea of classical themes it expresses this idea by analyzing it on a greater scale like a skyscraper. ]]> 2023-04-16 18:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555938196 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555938968 Architecture describes the use of lines, form, and rhythm to explain how structures are built the way they are.]]> 2023-04-16 18:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555938968 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555941317 Our book focuses on perceiving the arts. Which talked on a fundamental level about the impacts of literature, theatre, cinema, sculpture, architecture, music, and dance. In each of these chapters, I want to share a brief overview of what I learned and why it is essential to humanities.

]]> 2023-04-16 18:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555941317 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555944311 In Junior year and at the age of sixteen with all this pressure of driving and SAT testing. Taking a course that just focuses on society would benefit them to succeed in life.]]> 2023-04-16 18:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555944311 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555946459 Music also can be described as finding the soul within the rhythm. There are different types of musical textures to perceive this art and the feeling it holds while preformed.

]]> 2023-04-16 19:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555946459 slawrence141 https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555948863 ballet, modern, world concert/ritual, and folk dance all go hand and hand with the rhythm of your movement that defines which lines are portrayed. ]]> 2023-04-16 19:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/slawrence141/x7srhpklm8injpqd/wish/2555948863