Luis05

//September28,2006// //Bo//y //of the Painted Cave Prewrite// 1.I am good at basketball. 2.I feel great.I like to shoot and do tricks with the ball. 3.I'll get so mad.I would never talk to them.I would still play it even if they tell me not to.

October3,2006 Chapter1 1.Volt is angry at Tao. 2.Tao's foot is deformed. 3.They should fix Tao's foot so he could hunt. Volt and Tao should make up or else things may go wrong. October3,2006 Chapter2 1.He had a handful of grubs an insects to return to the village to eat. 2.Tao finally found food.He stuck his hand in a hole and found nuts. October6,2006 Chapter3 1.Tao and Ram learned how to hunt together. 2.Taon tells Volt that he will hunt together. 3.If I were in Volt's perspective,I would say,"you need to bring the clan food."I would also say,"you can't hunt with a wolf,it's bad and you would be betraying the clan. October12,2006 Chapter8 What I chose was that girls want to go to art school but her parents want her to go to regular college.I think they should let her do what she wants.Do what you are good at.It will be easier for your life because you know how to do it.

O4/11/07 The book I'm reading is Surviving the Applewhites.

History Alive:Luis, Morataya Period4/5 June11, 2007

The Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty had many interesting events. Including warfare, government, agriculture, industry, art, medicine, and science. One of the many interesting sections I read was art. It has a lot of facts and a lot of ways to color, draw, and write. They drew many colorful paintings that became famous. Cao Buxing was a fabulous paper, the Chinese painter along with Chen Daofu, Cao Zhibai, and most of all Chen Lin. They were very much found to be rich and famous. The Chinese had many different ways to write. For example: calligraphy. Calligraphy was the art of fine handwriting. Calligraphy was an important form for the Chinese. They particularly valued a style of writing that flowed naturally, as if inspired by nature. They used many kinds of tools and techniques. They wrote their characters by painting them with a brush in ink. Before the invention of would scroll up their work, but the worst part about scrolling silk was that it was too expensive. The Chinese people also wrote on bamboo. They wrote symbols vertically on bamboo strips. To make books they tied a series of strips together to make a bundle. Bamboo was cheaper than silk but it was weird for the people to use, but they still used it. Paper helped calligraphers, butt it not only helped them, it changed the way they communicated. Paper was even cheaper than either bamboo or silk, they did that so that people could be able to afford it. Paper was the easiest way to put into books. A variety of materials were used to make paper, including silk fibers, hemp, bamboo, straws, and seaweed. Materials were boiled into a soupy kind of pulp. Then a screen was dipped into the pulp dried, it dried on the screen, and it made paper. We find scenes of daily life, pictures of animals and men, decorations that make us laugh and feel the happiness of a social interacting during a feast or a banquet. We see the hard work of the peasants and hunting scenes of the Han aristocracy on clay bricks and on lacquered objects. Clay figurines of servants, peasants and warriors were tomb offerings like in Egypt. Some of the most beautiful objects of Chinese art were unearthed from the tomb of a duchessat Mawangdui in Hunan. The invention of paper ca. 100 AD changed the style of writing from the flat Clerical or Chancellery Script to change calligraphy to a more fluid style. One of the most popular Han art material was lacquerware. No major changes in writing materials were to come for about 3,000 years. According to Chinese historical accounts, paper was first invented by Ts'ai Lun (about 104 CE), who lived in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He took the inner bark of a mulberry tree and bamboo fibers, mixed them with water, and pounded them with a wooden tool. He then poured this mixture onto a flat piece of coarsely woven cloth and let the water drain through, leaving only the fibers on the cloth. Once dry, Ts'ai Lun discovered that he had created a quality writing surface that was relatively easy to make and lightweight. Some other materials he used for various papers included tree bark, remnants of hemp, linen rags, and fishnets. He presented the invention to Emperor He Di in 105 CE, and knowledge of papermaking was passed along to Korea, Samarkand, Baghdad, and Damascus.

Bibliography Frey, Wendy. History Alive! Palo Alto: Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, 2004 www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/art/han.htm