IRELANDSecond Parent/Student MeetingApril 15, 2014

AGENDA Ms. Ball

Travel information Communication

Mr. Piotrowski Finances

Mrs. Byrnes Research and Travel Journal

FACTS ABOUT TRAVELandCOMMUNICATION Ms. Ball

Quick facts about travel to Ireland PASSPORT VALIDITY:

Must be valid at time of entry We need a copy of your child’s passport as

soon as possible- give to any chaperone soon

BLANK PASSPORT PAGES: One page required for entry stamp

TOURIST VISA REQUIRED: Not required for stays under 90 days

VACCINATIONS: None

Quick Facts CURRENCY RESTRICTIONS FOR ENTRY:

None CURRENCY RESTRICTIONS FOR EXIT:

None NOTIFY THE BANK OF TRAVEL PLANS

BEFORE YOUR CHILD LEAVES If not, your child may not be able to access

funds with his/her bank card

Quick Facts MONEY CONVERSION:

Belfast suggests we convert before we land in Ireland. Does your bank convert dollars to Euros (Dublin) and British pounds (Belfast)?

WhatsApp Download the app, according to your

device. http://www.whatsapp.com/download/

Once we add each other as contacts in our cell phones we can add each other as contacts in WhatsApp Here’s Ms. Ball’s number: (321)914 - 8245.

There’s a sheet here so you can give us your numbers

SKYPE Skype can be another method of

communication, but this will be done from homes, not the road Practice Skyping with your host family before

we go.

Wiki We try to keep answers to questions

there, dates for monies due, and projects

There will be wiki pages for each group’s project now that project groups are assigned. Expect an email with information about next week.

Rubrics for projects are there, too.

FINANCESMr. Piotrowski

RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTandTRAVEL JOURNALMrs. Byrnes

Research Project STUDENT GROUPS and DOCUMENTS:

Students are sorted and should be in communication with each other; docs sent and available on the Wiki

PROJECTS COVER PLACES/TOPICS RELATED TO THE TRIP The Troubles Kelly Boyle, Anne Laird, Amanda Dalton Irish Sports: Kiara Barrett, Alana Shoff, Kilian Kellly, Mari Conrad Irish Step Dancing/Irish Music Kyra Fournier, Anastasia

Laneuville, Maddy Ix: Belfast Castle Shannon Ament, Nicole Hennessy, Michael Ridyard: Irish Visual Arts Briana du Mee, Alacoe Amedee, John Michael Ay Titanic Belfast Courtney Kyle, Emily Sturgeon, Michael Deglomine

PowerPoint Exemplar The Book of Kells

The Book of Kells

WHAT IS THE BOOK OF KELLS? The Book of Kells

(Trinity College Dublin MS 58) contains the four Gospels in Latin

The book is written on vellum (prepared calfskin) in a script known as "insular majuscule"

ORIGINS…

Probably came from the scriptorium of Iona, an island off western coast of Scotland, but some claim it came from Northumbria or in Pictland in eastern Scotland

ORIGINS…

St. Colum Cille founded a monastery around 561 on Iona

ORIGINS

This monastery became the principal house of a large monastic confederation

BEEHIVES

Monks’ cells

ORIGINS… In 806: Vikings

raided the monastery

68 members of the community were killed

The monks took refuge in a new monastery at Kells, County Meath, Ireland

ORIGINS…

Around the year 800 the Book of Kells was written

Scholars don’t know if the book was produced wholly at Iona or at Kells, or partially at each location

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The text glorifies Jesus’ life and message

Images abstract

decoration images of

plants, animals and humans

THE EVANGELISTS

MatthewMarkLuke John

THE EVANGELISTS

Matthew

THE EVANGELISTS

John

CHRIST ENTHRONED

This monogram consumes the entire page

CHI RHO

Detail from Chi Rho page

DETAIL

At Matthew’s Gospel chapter 46, Judas’ arrival with a mob to arrest Jesus, and subsequently to betray him with a kiss, is prefaced in the letter 'A' of 'Adhuc‘’

Lions represent both figures, Judas on the left aggressively biting the more passive figure of Jesus

DETAIL

This page is the beginning of the Gospel of Luke

DETAIL

HOW MANY ARTISTS?

There seem to be three major artists

Four major scribes

HOW DID IT WORK?

One scribe responsible only for text

He would leave the decoration of letters at the beginning of verses to an artist

HOW DID IT WORK? The last scribe

tended to use bright colors - red, purple, yellow - for the text, and to fill blank spaces with the unnecessary repetition of certain passages

THE COLORS

Orpiment (yellow arsenic sulphide) produced a vibrant yellow

Red probably came from red lead

A copper green, reacting with damp, perforated the vellum in places

HOW WAS THE BOOK USED?The number of errors in the text and its fanciness suggest it was used for ceremonial occasions but not for everyday Mass

HISTORY OF THE BOOK

It was stolen in 1006 and recovered

It remained at Kells throughout the Middle Ages

Dissolution of the monasteries under King Henry VIII

HISTORY OF THE BOOK

Around 1653 the book was sent to Dublin by the governor of Kells for safekeeping

A few years later it reached Trinity College, Dublin

TODAY

It’s been on display in the Old Library at Trinity College from the mid-19th century

Attracts in excess of 500,000 visitors a year

TODAY

Since 1953 it has been bound in four volumes

Two volumes can normally be seen, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script

Works CitedCraton, Debbi. "Old Roads Once Traveled." Web log post. : The Island of Iona,

Scotland. Squidoo, 15 May 2013. Web. 14 Apr. 2014."Gazetteer for Scotland: Map of Scotland." Gazetteer for Scotland: Map of

Scotland. The Royal Scottish Geographical Society,, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2014.

"Map of Meath in Ireland,Irish Incoming Tour Operator and Destination Management Company Ireland." Specialized Travel Services Ireland. Specialized Travel Services Incorporated, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2014.Treasures of Irish Art, 1500 B.C. to 1500 a.D. : From the Collections of the

National Museum of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, & Trinity College, Dublin, Metropolitan Museum of Art & Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1977.

"Trinity College Dublin." Book of Kells. University College Dublin, 6 Oct. 2009. Web. 14 Apr. 2014.

Travel Journal Document is available on the Wiki Buy a nice notebook- small enough to

carry easily