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Whether the news is written or spoken, take the time to get the grammar correct in your play. If there are grammatical mistakes, your audience may be distracted by the mistake and miss the excellent theme and message you use to create your play!

Review your work and give yourself a score. Explain why you gave your work this score.

To go the the next rubric, click here.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow takes unique place at a time in American history. Research about what it was like to live in America during this time. You may find that some history sources only talk about famous people and events, but not common people. Keep searching! [Hint: See what life on a farm was like at this time. Or, what life in New York City was like at this time.]

The setting of this book is a great illustration of what it was like to live day to day in America at this time. Write a five-paragraph essay that describes three ways that the setting of this book describes aspects of day-to-day living in America during this time.

Be sure to include:

• Five paragraphs
• Three quotes from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Citations for any other resources you used

Take a picture of everything and upload it here.

Click here to see the rubric.

Whether the play is written or spoken, take the time to get the grammar correct in your play. If there are grammatical mistakes, your audience may be distracted by the mistake and miss the excellent theme and message you use to create your play!

Review your work and give yourself a score. Explain why you gave your work this score.

This essay may require some outside research. Be sure to show your reader where you are getting your facts by citing these outside materials.

Review your work and give yourself a score. Explain why you gave your work this score.

Explore the Museum of Fine Arts online with Google Arts & Culture street view! Click here to start

Here are some interesting exhibits that aren’t on the Google Arts & Culture tour:

Art of the English Regency

• 360-view of the exhibit!
• Official MFA info on the room!

European Painting 1550–1700 and Hanoverian Silver

• 360-view of the exhibit!
• Official MFA info on the room!

Mummies

• 360-view of the exhibit!
• Official MFA info on the room!

TAKE A TOUR! You can see a virtual tour of the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Google Arts & Culture Street View! Click the photo below to see the tour.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum showcases different time periods of American Art! Here’s some key time periods that the SAAM covers on their website.

19th Century Art

In the 1870s, artists like Mary Cassatt and Childe Hassam often worked outdoors to record gorgeous light and color, big features of the impressionist style.

20th Century Art

Artists in the twentieth century chose two ways to represent the world and the excitement of progress—realism and abstraction.

Welcome to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City!

Explore some of the Guggenheim’s current exhibitions through their website! Here’s one that has some wacky sculptures: Click here to see sculptures by Constantin Brancusi.

Go beyond the art! Use Google Expeditions to learn more about the famous architecture of the Guggenheim Museum building!

If you haven’t already, download Google Expeditions on Android or Apple devices now!

• Expedition: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Instructions for downloading/using the Google Expeditions App

1. Open the app store
2. Search for “Google Expeditions”
3. Select the app titled “Expeditions” with the orange icon
4. After the app finishes downloading, open the app and log into a google account
5. Go to the “Library” section at the bottom of the app
6. Search the name of the tour you want to download in the search bar
7. Tap the tour you want to see, then tap “Download to view or guide”
8. Press “View” to open the menu for the virtual tour
9. Scroll to the tour location you want to start at.
10.  Press the binoculars icon in the top right to start viewing in VR mode
11. To search for another tour, exit the tour and go back to the “Discover’’ tab at the bottom. 

Take a virtual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art using Google Arts & Culture Street View! As you move through, click on paintings that you like to learn more about them!

Start the virtual tour here.

Take a break from the many famous artists that the MET has by looking at their special exhibition, P.S. Art 2019: Student Artworks! All the art is done by kids in New York City public schools!

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/ps-art-2019/works-of-art#

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC has art by some of the most famous artists in the world! On their website, you can read about an artist’s life, look at pictures of their artwork, and find out which paintings are on display in the gallery right now, so you can go visit in-person!

Here are a few artists that are featured inside the National Gallery of Art:

• Pablo Picasso – Click here to see some of Picasso’s art!
• Claude Monet – Click here to see some of Monet’s art!
• Jackson Pollock – Click here to see some of Pollock’s art!

Summer Exhibit – ReCOVERing the Classics: Explore re-imagined covers for classic books, all designed by students at South County High School! This exhibit will be at the Lorton Workhouse Arts Center through August 4th, 2019. Click here for more information.

Artist Spotlights! Take a look at the art made by local artists through the Arts Center website. (or, even better, go visit in-person!) Here are a few artists that we liked:

• Artist Spotlight – Candi Durusu
• Artist Spotlight – Cheryl Peasley
• Artist Spotlight – Bill Firestone

Images from workhousearts.org, click any pic to explore Lorton Workhouse Arts Center!

Bill Firestone is an accomplished painter. His work includes many paintings that interpret the natural and physical environment around him.

To see what other exhibits the Lorton Workhouse has this summer, click here.