The document discusses the connection between art and literature through history. It introduces the thematic unit on this topic and provides examples from ancient Greece of how vase paintings often depicted and narrated stories. Vocabulary is defined and students are assigned to create illuminated manuscripts telling stories through images and words in the style of the Middle Ages.

1. Warm-Up 10/24
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2. Thematic Unit 8: Art and
Literature

3. Socrates to Phaedrus, 370 BC

4. Art and Literature: What is the Connection?
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5. What you were expecting?

6. Sharing Vocabulary
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7. Ekiphranos Writing
White clouds encircle
the mountain waist like
a sash,
Stone steps mount high
into the void where the
narrow path leads far.
Alone, leaning on my
rustic staff I gaze idly
into the distance.
My longing for the
notes of a flute is

8. Warm-Up 10/25/12
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9. Types of Art/Literature Connection
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10. Ancient Greek: Vase and Narrative
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11. Middle Ages: Illuminated
Manuscripts
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12. Northern Genre Painting: Realism

13. Post-Impressionism: Analytical

14. Modernism: Structuralism
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15. Art Activity: Story Manuscripts
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