2º - Challenge 6 - solution

The first University in Spain was the University of Palencia.

It was founded by king AlfonsoVIII de Castilla in 1212. They taught Theology and Arts there (Trivium y Quadrivium).

The trivium is the lower division of the seven liberal arts and comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

The quadrivium was a grouping of four subjects or arts—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy—that formed a second curricular stage following preparatory work in the trivium.

2º - Joan of Arc

 While studying the Hundred Years' War... We have mentioned Joan Of Arc, let's learn more about her:

4º - Challenge 6

This week is not about speed! You have to be creative... 

We are teaching the Industrial Revolution... so this challenge includes 2 parts:

The one you can read in the picture, that is about your daily life (present): ¿¿Sin qué aparato tecnológico no podrías vivir?? y por qué!!!??? Razona y sé original! :)

And a second one: you have to think also in what invention of the Industrial Revolution those people could not have lived without from the very first moment they discovered it... and why...

Come on! Go for it!

This reward is valid for the second term!

2º - Challenge 6

Hi, Here you have a new chance to get a card!

You have to investigate about the first Universities:

1- When and where was the first university in Spain created?

2- What did they teach at universities in medieval times?

4º - Music and history

As an answer to the last challenge...

This is Nabucco (first perfomed in 1842), by italian composer Verdi... Italians adopted it as a hymn of liberty and national unity during the process of unification...

Others...

Canto degli italiani o Fratelli d'Italia, 1847. Es el himno actual, adaptado a la República más que a la monarquía resultante del proceso de unificación.

Bella Ciao, from the late 19th century, originally sung by the mondina workers in protest against the harsh working conditions in the paddy fields of Northern Italy.

It is widely assumed that the mondina song was modified and adopted as an anthem of the Italian partisans who opposed Nazism and fascism, and fought against the occupying forces of Nazi Germany, who were allied with the fascist and collaborationist Italian Social Republic between 1943 and 1945 during the Italian resistance and the liberation of Italy.

Versions of "Bella ciao" continue to be sung worldwide as a hymn of freedom and resistance.

Marcia Reale. Official national anthem of the Kingdom of Italy between 1861 and 1943. It was composed in 1831 by Giuseppe Gabetti to the order of Charles Albert of Sardinia as the hymn of the royal House of Savoy, along with the Sardinian national anthem.

4º - Challenge 5... music & history!

Today's challenge is about MUSIC...

We are going to study the process of unification of the italian penisula into the Republic of ITALY...

We are looking for a related song! A song that has to do with the ideas or feelings of the revolution that italians followed... Let's try!

4º - Music & history

Here you have a pair of songs related to the French Revolution...

Waterloo by Abba, about Napleon's defeat...



... and Viva la vida by Coldplay about Louis XVI's life... and death... This last activity is inspired in another teacher's blog, you can visit his activity in this link.