1. IRELAND Second Parent/Student Meeting April 15, 2014

2. AGENDA  Ms. Ball  Travel information  Communication  Mr. Piotrowski  Finances  Mrs. Byrnes  Research and Travel Journal

3. FACTS ABOUT TRAVEL and COMMUNICATION Ms. Ball

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)?

7. WhatsApp  Download the app, according to your device.  http://www.whatsapp.com/download/ 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. FINANCES Mr. Piotrowski

12. RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT and TRAVEL JOURNAL Mrs. Byrnes

13. 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

14. PowerPoint Exemplar  The Book of Kells

15. The Book of Kells

16. 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"

17. 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

18. ORIGINS…  St. Colum Cille founded a monastery around 561 on Iona

19. ORIGINS This monastery became the principal house of a large monastic confederation

20. BEEHIVES Monks’ cells

24. 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

25. 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

26. WHAT’S IT ABOUT?  The text glorifies Jesus’ life and message  Images  abstract decoration  images of plants, animals and humans

27. THE EVANGELISTS Matthew Mark Luke John

28. THE EVANGELISTS Matthew

29. THE EVANGELISTS John

30. CHRIST ENTHRONED

31. This monogram consumes the entire page CHI RHO

32. Detail from Chi Rho page DETAIL

33.  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

34. This page is the beginning of the Gospel of Luke

35. DETAIL

36. HOW MANY ARTISTS?  There seem to be three major artists  Four major scribes

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. Works Cited Craton, 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.

46. Travel Journal  Document is available on the Wiki  Buy a nice notebook- small enough to carry easily