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4. On a map of Brazil, mark and label: the capital, Brazilia; important cities, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador de Bahia; Amazon River and its mouth; Sao Francisco River; Brazilian Highlands; Guiana Highlands; Pantanal; Iguassu Falls.

Week 2: Suriname

1. Read about Suriname.

World Atlas

CIA World Factbook

Wikipedia

U.S. Embassy

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Suriname, mark and label: the capital, Paramaribo; WJ van Bloomenstein Lake; De Hann Mountains; Van Wijck Mountains; the Savannah.

Week 3: Guyana

1. Read about Guyana.

The Guyana World Wide Web Handbook

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Guyana, mark and label: the capital, Georgetown; New Amsterdam; Guiana Highlands; Rupununi Savannah; Kanuku Mountains; Pakaraima Mountains; Acarai Mountains; Kaieteur Falls; the Essequibo River.

Week 4: Venezuela

1. Read about Venezuela.

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Venezuela, mark and label: the capital, Caracas; Maracaibo; Isla la Tortuga; Isla de Margarita; Lake Maracaibo; Lake Guri; Orinoco River; Andes Mountains; Guiana Highlands; Amazon Jungle; Angel Falls.

Week 5: Colombia

1. Read about Colombia.

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Colombia, mark and label: the capital, Bogota; Cartagena; Cali; Barranquillia; Andes Mountains; Cauca River; Magdalena River.

Week 6: Ecuador

1. Read about Ecuador.

World Atlas

The Galapagos Islands

CIA World Factbook

Wikipedia

Ecuadoran Flag

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Ecuador, mark and label: the capital, Quito; Gulf of Guayaquil; Isla Puna; Andes Mountains (Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Oriental); the Galapagos Islands (Archipielago de Colon).

Week 7: Peru

1. Read about Peru.

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Peru, mark and label: the capital, Lima; Cuzco; Macchu Picchu; Andes Mountains; Lake Titicaca.

Week 8: Bolivia

1. Read about Bolivia.

Lake Titicaca Islanders - BBC

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Bolivia, mark and label: the capital, La Paz; Lake Titicaca; Lake Poopo; the Andes Mountains (Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Oriental); Altiplano; Desaquadero River.

Week 9: Chile

1. Read about Chile.

Atacama Desert - National Geographic

Chilean National Symbols

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Chile, mark and label: the capital, Santiago; Andes Mountains; Cardillera de la Costa; Atacama Desert; Salares (Salt Basins); Arauco Gulf; Ancud Gulf; Penas Gulf; General Carrera Lake; Chiloe Island; Los Chronos Archipielago; Reina Adelaida Archipielago; Taitao Peninsula; Strait of Magellan; Tierra del Fuego; Drake Passage; Lake District; Easter Island (Rapa Nui); Cape Horn.

Week 10: Argentina

1. Read about Argentina.

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Argentina, mark and label: the capital, Buenos Aires; La Plata River; Laguna Mar Chiquita; Chaco; Andes Mountains; Pampas; San Matias Gulf; Nuevo Gulf; San Jorge Gulf; Valdes Peninsula; Strait of Magellan; Patagonia; Tierra del Fuego; Staten Island; Cape Horn.

Week 11: Uruguay

1. Read about Uruguay.

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Uruguay, mark and label: the capital, Montevideo; Rio de la Plata; Negro River; Negro River Artificial Lake; Merin Lagoon; Littoral.

Week 12: Paraguay

1. Read about Paraguay.

2. Complete a Country Notebook Form.

3. On a map of South America, label each country.

4. On a map of Paraguay, mark and label: the capital, Asuncion; Iguacu Falls; Paranena; Chaco; Parana River; Paraguay River.

A Wagner Lesson

Mrs. Happy Housewife

on August 2, 2007 3:21 PM | Permalink

Week 10:

1. Read about "Siegfried's Idyll".

The Siegfried Idyll, one of Richard Wagner's few non-operatic works, is a symphonic poem lasting approximately twenty minutes for chamber orchestra. Wagner composed it as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on the morning of Christmas Eve (Cosima's birthday) in 1870 by a small ensemble on the stairs of their villa at Tribschen in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland; Cosima awoke to its opening melody. Today, it is often performed by orchestras.

Its original title was Triebschen Idyll with Fidi's birdsong and the orange sunrise. "Fidi" was the pet version of the name Siegfried. It is thought that the birdsong and the sunrise refer to incidents of personal significance to the couple.

Wagner's opera Siegfried, which was not premiered until 1876, incorporates music from the Idyll. It was once thought that the Idyll simply used musical ideas intended for the opera, but it is now known that the opposite is the case. Wagner adapted melodic material for the Idyll from an unfinished chamber piece and later incorporated it into the love scene between Siegfried and Brunhilde in the opera, somewhat disrupting the melodic and motivic unity of the larger work. From Wikipedia.

On the morning of Cosima's thirty-third birthday a small fifteen-piece orchestra, that had been assembled by Wagner's resident student of several years, Hans Richter, crept onto the stairs of the Wagner's house, Tribschen. Wagner raised his engraved baton and the strings ushered in the soft music that would crescendo into a compete expression of Wagner's love for Cosima. What they would later refer to as the Siegfried Idyll, due to the birth of their son Siegfried and themes from the opera Siegfried, had achieved its desired affect:

Sunday, December 25, 1870 About this day, my children, I can tell you nothing--nothing about my feelings, nothing about my mood, nothing, nothing, nothing. I shall just tell you, dryly and plainly, what happened. When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew even louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music! After it had died away, R. came in to me with the five children and put into my hands the score of his "Symphonic Birthday Greeting." I was in tears, but so, too, was the whole household; R. had set up his orchestra on the stairs and thus consecrated our Tribschen forever! The Tribschen Idyll--thus the work is called. -- At midday Dr. Sulzer arrived, surely the most important of R.'s friends! After breakfast the orchestra again assembled, and now once again the Idyll was heard in the lower apartment, moving us all profoundly (Countess B. was also there, on my invitation); after it the Lohengrin wedding procession, Beethoven's Septet, and, to end with, once more the work of which I shall never hear enough! -- Now at last I understood all R.'s working in secret, also dear Richter's trumpet (he blazed out the Siegfried theme splendidly and had learned the trumpet especially to do it), which had won him many admonishments from me. "Now let me die," I exclaimed to R. "It would be easier to die for me than to live for me," he replied. -- In the evening R. reads his Meistersinger to Dr. Sulzer, who did not know it; and I take as much delight in it as if it were something completely new. This makes R. say, "I wanted to read Sulzer Die Ms, and it turned into a dialogue between us two." (C. Wagner 312)

Thus came to be the "Tribschen Idyll, with Fidi's Bird-song and Orange Sunrise, presented as a Symphonic Birthday Greeting to his Cosima by her Richard, 1870" (Osborne). From The Siegfried Idyll: Jewel of the Wagner Romance.

The original family title of the piece made reference to "Fidi's Bird-Song and Orange Sunrise" as elements incorporated in the music, "Fidi" being a nickname for the 18-month-old Siegfried and the "orange sunrise" being the effect made by the morning sun striking the orange wallpaper in Cosima's bedroom. The music, warm-hearted and intimate throughout, could not have been better categorized than by the designation Idyll. It begins and ends as a caressing lullaby, with what might be described as a sequence of dream-pictures as its substance. In it are several motifs associated with Siegfried, from the music drama so titled which Wagner had completed at about the time of the boy's birth the previous year. From The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Siegfried was born while the rising sun turned into a blaze of the color of the orange wall-paper outside Cosima's room, a bird sang, and chiming bells sounded over the Lake of Lucerne. When Wagner heard the same bird later at sunset, he called it Siegfried's bird. On the title-page of his manuscript he wrote, "Triebschen Idyll [Triebschen was later changed to Siegfried], with Fidi's bird-song and orange sunrise, as symphonic birthday greeting from Richard to Cosima." From Antiques Digest.

2. Listen to "Seigfried's Idyll".

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Classical Archives

3. Complete a Music Worksheet.