In beginning to work on our Day of the Dead projects, please place the two paragraphs you have written about a historical figure who died thirty years or more here.
Joan of Arc Facts Jeanne D’Arc was born in Domremy, France in 1412 also she died on 30th May, 1431 in Rouem, France. She grew up as a village girl, the daughter of a farmer. At the age of 12 she thought she saw a vision of some of the dead saints which included:-Saint Margaret, Catherine and Michael. She led the French army into battle against the English and everytime she was fighting she always had a vision of how to win the war and she always won. How she died (a little story) People found out that she was visualising these pictures of the saints and they told the king at once. The king listened to people about her, then one day in 1431, he sent his guards to capture her. The guards found her crying because she had just seen 1 of the visions. She always cried after she had seen of vision because they were so beautiful. The guards grabbed her and bought her to the king, then the king said, “WITCH –WITCH-WITCH!!!”She was put on trail but found guilty of being a witch, so the king burnt her at the stake when she was only 19. Later, she became a saint and now she is 1 of the most popular saints in the Roman Catholic.
Frederic Chopin was a polish composer but a French citizen. He was born on the twenty second of February in 1820 and died on the seventeenth of October in 1849. His father was French and his mother was Polish. Chopin, tutored at home until he was thirteen, enrolled in the Warsaw Lyceum in 1823, but continued studying piano under Zywny's direction. In 1825, in a performance of the work of Ignaz Moscheles, he entranced the audience with his free improvisation, and was acclaimed the "best pianist in Warsaw." And after a few years he arrived to Paris in 1831.
Chopin was a skilled pianist, and a large proportion of his works are for solo piano. Many of these works are fairly short in duration.
Napoleon was born 15 August 1769 in Corsica, only one year before Corsica became a part of France. Corsica was part Italy before that time. When he was ten, he started to learn French and started military school in France. When he finished school 1785, he became second lieutenant in the French artillery. During the French Revolution Napoleon was promoted to command more and more troops of the French military. 1799 Napoleon was asked to help overthrow the French government. He managed to do that and in 1804 and he also became Emperor of the French. Napoleon started several wars around Europe to gain power. First he was successful but when he invaded Russia in 1812 things started to go wrong. Napoleon and the French were defeated in the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Napoleon was captured by the British and was imprisoned on the island of Saint Helena where he died 5 May 1821. His remains were brought back to France in 1840. He is now buried in Les Invalides in Paris.
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter. He was born on 25 October 1881 in Malaga, Spain and was the son of an art teacher. He went to the Barcelona School for Fine Arts when he was 14 years old and was a brilliant student. Pablo went to Paris in 1900 and loved the city. Those were hard times for Picasso and sometimes he had to burn his paintings just to keep himself warm. In 1905-7 he began to paint with orange and pink colours and this was called the Picasso’s Rose period.
In 1918 he married Olga who was a ballerina and they had a son called Paulo. But they separated when Picasso had an affair with a 17 year old called Marie-Therese Walter. They had a long relationship and a daughter called Maia but he never married her. She died four years after Picasso’s death when she hung herself. Picasso died on 8 April 1973 at the age of 92!
Edith Piaf was a French singer. She was born in December of 1915 and died in October of 1963. She was a very famous French singer and she was awarded as the most popular France’s singer. At the age of 1, her parents gave her to her grandmother because of the World War 1, and her dad was a soldier. From the age of 3 till 7 she was blind, because of the disease called keratitis. The recovery of her sight was a miracle, her grandmother sent her to a doctor in a church, and somehow she managed to heal Edith.
Her Life and Career.
At the age of 16, when the war ended, she worked with her dad, doing acrobatics on the streets to earn money for a living. At the age of 16, she got a boyfriend, and when she was 17, she gave birth to a girl called Marcelle, who died of meningitis at the age of two. Later, she got another boyfriend, who was a criminal, who made her sing in a very bad and unrespectful way. But later Edith Piaf started liking singing, and became a professional singer. She moved to New York and lived there for some years, but later moved again to France, not long ago before World War 2 started. The Nazi soldiers captured her in France, and she was brought to Germany during the war. She worked in German clubs as a singer until the war ended. After the war she was married to a famous French boxer called Marcel Cerdan. Unfortunately he died in a plane crash while flying from Paris to New York. It was shocking news for Edith Piaf, and for weeks she cried, remembering her husband. After some years she married a French singer, but then divorced with him after four years. Edith Piaf died from liver cancer at the age of 48.
Selena is the famous Hispanic person who I chose for my project. Here is a bit of info about her:
Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16th, 1971 in Texas, though she is Mexican too. She was shot and killed by the president of her fan club because of jealousy on March 31st, 1995.
Selena was a singer and when she died, George W. Bush, the governor of Texas at the time, declared her birthday "Selena Day". The Warner Brother Company produced a film about her life starring Jennifer Lopez in 1997.
Claude Debussy. Claude Debussy was born in St-Germaine in France. The year he was born in was August 22, 1862. He died Paris, March 25, 1918. He was a French composer. Claude Debussy did not have an easy childhood. His father was a travelling salesman and his mother worked as a seamstress. He learned the piano when he was young and went to the Paris Conservatoire. For a time it seemed he would become a concert pianist, but he did not do well enough in his exam. After winning an important prize, the Prix de Rome, he went to Rome for two years but did not enjoy it. Lots of composers admire his talent and learnt from his music.
I’m dead My artist is Picasso. He was born on the 25th of October, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. In 1895, Pablo’s sister who was seven years at the time, died of diphtheria. He was one of the best artist of the century and later moved to Paris. He did a lot of paintings and very good ones too. He got married and had a son. He called him Paulo. He died 1973 8th of April.
JOAN MIRO I FERRA Joan Miro I Ferra was born on the 20th April 1993 in Barcelona, Spain. Miro worked with sculpting, painting and mobiles. In 1920 he moved to Paris, France. In France he developed a unique style: organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp line. Miro’s style was influenced in varying degrees by surrealism and Dada, yet he rejected membership to any artistic movement in the interwar European years. Andre Breton, the founder of surrealism described him as “the most surrealist of us all”. Miro confessed to creating one of his most famous works. Harlequin’s Carnival, under similar circumstances: “How did I think up my drawings and my ideas for painting”? Well I’d come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I’d go to bed, and sometimes I hadn’t any supper. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a note book. I saw shapes on the celling… Miro married Pillar Juncososa in Palma de Mallorca on October 12, 1929; their daughter Dolores was born July 17, 1931. Shuzo Takiguchi published the first monograph on Miro in 1940. In 1948-49, although living in Barcelona, Miro made frequent vists to Paris to work on painting his techniques at Mourlots studios (lithographs) and at the Atelier Lacouriere (engravings).
In beginning to work on our Day of the Dead projects, please place the two paragraphs you have written about a historical figure who died thirty years or more here.
Joan of Arc
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Jeanne D’Arc was born in Domremy, France in 1412 also she died on 30th May, 1431 in Rouem, France. She grew up as a village girl, the daughter of a farmer. At the age of 12 she thought she saw a vision of some of the dead saints which included:-Saint Margaret, Catherine and Michael. She led the French army into battle against the English and everytime she was fighting she always had a vision of how to win the war and she always won.
How she died (a little story)
People found out that she was visualising these pictures of the saints and they told the king at once. The king listened to people about her, then one day in 1431, he sent his guards to capture her. The guards found her crying because she had just seen 1 of the visions. She always cried after she had seen of vision because they were so beautiful. The guards grabbed her and bought her to the king, then the king said, “WITCH –WITCH-WITCH!!!”She was put on trail but found guilty of being a witch, so the king burnt her at the stake when she was only 19. Later, she became a saint and now she is 1 of the most popular saints in the Roman Catholic.
Frederic Chopin
ReplyDeleteFrederic Chopin was a polish composer but a French citizen. He was born on the twenty second of February in 1820 and died on the seventeenth of October in 1849. His father was French and his mother was Polish. Chopin, tutored at home until he was thirteen, enrolled in the Warsaw Lyceum in 1823, but continued studying piano under Zywny's direction. In 1825, in a performance of the work of Ignaz Moscheles, he entranced the audience with his free improvisation, and was acclaimed the "best pianist in Warsaw." And after a few years he arrived to Paris in 1831.
Chopin was a skilled pianist, and a large proportion of his works are for solo piano. Many of these works are fairly short in duration.
By Michael
I’m dead
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Napoleon was born 15 August 1769 in Corsica, only one year before Corsica became a part of France. Corsica was part Italy before that time. When he was ten, he started to learn French and started military school in France. When he finished school 1785, he became second lieutenant in the French artillery.
During the French Revolution Napoleon was promoted to command more and more troops of the French military. 1799 Napoleon was asked to help overthrow the French government. He managed to do that and in 1804 and he also became Emperor of the French.
Napoleon started several wars around Europe to gain power. First he was successful but when he invaded Russia in 1812 things started to go wrong. Napoleon and the French were defeated in the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Napoleon was captured by the British and was imprisoned on the island of Saint Helena where he died 5 May 1821. His remains were brought back to France in 1840. He is now buried in Les Invalides in Paris.
BY ALBERT
I’m Dead!
ReplyDeletePablo Picasso was a Spanish painter. He was born on 25 October 1881 in Malaga, Spain and was the son of an art teacher. He went to the Barcelona School for Fine Arts when he was 14 years old and was a brilliant student. Pablo went to Paris in 1900 and loved the city. Those were hard times for Picasso and sometimes he had to burn his paintings just to keep himself warm. In 1905-7 he began to paint with orange and pink colours and this was called the Picasso’s Rose period.
In 1918 he married Olga who was a ballerina and they had a son called Paulo. But they separated when Picasso had an affair with a 17 year old called Marie-Therese Walter. They had a long relationship and a daughter called Maia but he never married her. She died four years after Picasso’s death when she hung herself. Picasso died on 8 April 1973 at the age of 92!
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Edith Piaf was a French singer. She was born in December of 1915 and died in October of 1963. She was a very famous French singer and she was awarded as the most popular France’s singer. At the age of 1, her parents gave her to her grandmother because of the World War 1, and her dad was a soldier. From the age of 3 till 7 she was blind, because of the disease called keratitis. The recovery of her sight was a miracle, her grandmother sent her to a doctor in a church, and somehow she managed to heal Edith.
Her Life and Career.
At the age of 16, when the war ended, she worked with her dad, doing acrobatics on the streets to earn money for a living. At the age of 16, she got a boyfriend, and when she was 17, she gave birth to a girl called Marcelle, who died of meningitis at the age of two. Later, she got another boyfriend, who was a criminal, who made her sing in a very bad and unrespectful way. But later Edith Piaf started liking singing, and became a professional singer.
She moved to New York and lived there for some years, but later moved again to France, not long ago before World War 2 started. The Nazi soldiers captured her in France, and she was brought to Germany during the war. She worked in German clubs as a singer until the war ended.
After the war she was married to a famous French boxer called Marcel Cerdan. Unfortunately he died in a plane crash while flying from Paris to New York. It was shocking news for Edith Piaf, and for weeks she cried, remembering her husband. After some years she married a French singer, but then divorced with him after four years.
Edith Piaf died from liver cancer at the age of 48.
By Denis.
Selena is the famous Hispanic person who I chose for my project. Here is a bit of info about her:
ReplyDeleteSelena Quintanilla was born on April 16th, 1971 in Texas, though she is Mexican too. She was shot and killed by the president of her fan club because of jealousy on March 31st, 1995.
Selena was a singer and when she died, George W. Bush, the governor of Texas at the time, declared her birthday "Selena Day". The Warner Brother Company produced a film about her life starring Jennifer Lopez in 1997.
By Isabella
Claude Debussy.
ReplyDeleteClaude Debussy was born in St-Germaine in France. The year he was born in was August 22, 1862. He died Paris, March 25, 1918. He was a French composer.
Claude Debussy did not have an easy childhood. His father was a travelling salesman and his mother worked as a seamstress. He learned the piano when he was young and went to the Paris Conservatoire. For a time it seemed he would become a concert pianist, but he did not do well enough in his exam. After winning an important prize, the Prix de Rome, he went to Rome for two years but did not enjoy it. Lots of composers admire his talent and learnt from his music.
I’m dead
ReplyDeleteMy artist is Picasso. He was born on the 25th of October, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. In 1895, Pablo’s sister who was seven years at the time, died of diphtheria. He was one of the best artist of the century and later moved to Paris. He did a lot of paintings and very good ones too. He got married and had a son. He called him Paulo. He died 1973 8th of April.
JOAN MIRO I FERRA
ReplyDeleteJoan Miro I Ferra was born on the 20th April 1993 in Barcelona, Spain.
Miro worked with sculpting, painting and mobiles.
In 1920 he moved to Paris, France. In France he developed a unique style: organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp line.
Miro’s style was influenced in varying degrees by surrealism and Dada, yet he rejected membership to any artistic movement in the interwar European years. Andre Breton, the founder of surrealism described him as “the most surrealist of us all”. Miro confessed to creating one of his most famous works. Harlequin’s Carnival, under similar circumstances:
“How did I think up my drawings and my ideas for painting”? Well I’d come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I’d go to bed, and sometimes I hadn’t any supper. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a note book. I saw shapes on the celling…
Miro married Pillar Juncososa in Palma de Mallorca on October 12, 1929; their daughter Dolores was born July 17, 1931. Shuzo Takiguchi published the first monograph on Miro in 1940. In 1948-49, although living in Barcelona, Miro made frequent vists to Paris to work on painting his techniques at Mourlots studios (lithographs) and at the Atelier Lacouriere (engravings).