Mr. Hagney

AP Art History & PICI

AP Art History

Study Guide - ArtHistory.exe - right click on link and save to desktop. Once the file is downloaded, double click and extract to your desktop. This is a large file (238 Meg) and may take quite a while to download based on your connection. The folder you need is called ArtHistory and will probably be embedded in multiple files. Open the folder on your desktop until you reach ArtHistory and move it to your desktop. You can delete the empty folders. After extraction, to run the program, click on Start.exe.

The PICI Concept - Vision without action is merely a dream · Action without vision just passes time · Vision with Action can change the world

Practicum in Community Involvement (PICI) has offered Lewis & Clark seniors the opportunity to make a positive difference in your community since 1994.

 

Enrollment in the two semester course is open to all seniors.  All students who fulfill course expectations, as described below, are extended CWA & Economics credit, senior social studies requirements.  PICI interns are also eligible for 5 quarter hours of social science credit at the 195 level through EWU (Communications Studies,  Education,  Geography,  Government,  History,  Psychology,  Sociology, Women's Studies) transferable to all colleges and universities.  Tuition for such credit is funded fully through Running Start.

 

PICI is an award-winning community based course through which students develop an expertise on an issue (e.g., psychology of dying) guided by a mentor with academic and career credentials compatible with this issue, consult with EWU faculty on their research, intern 3 hours per week throughout the academic year at a community non-profit organization addressing this issue (e.g., Hospice of Spokane), and work with clients served by the organization.  There are 30+ affiliated organizations from which students can choose internships.  Other internship options include documentary filmmaking through North By Northwest and public interest radio programming through KPBX Spokane Public Radio.

 

PICI interns produce throughout the academic year evidence of progressive research on their issue specialty, including refined working bibliographies, writing reviews of current research, reading two books on their issue, and presenting their findings through peer teaching, a paper, a symposium in April and a project in May.

 

As PICI interns acquire more expertise on their issue, they teach other students in the course January-March.  Generally 50% of the appraisal of the student is based on the internship while the balance is apportioned to research, peer teaching, regular journaling, and, second semester, the paper, symposium, and project.

 

PICI is based on the democratic classroom, which compliments one of the course's objectives: To nurture informed and inspired citizens.  To this end in part all students will be provided with a copy of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time (St. Martin's, 1999)  The curriculum is designed in part by decisions made by consensus during the year; thus, the course evolves to better meet the needs of the learner and the community.

 

This course is indispensable for the college-bound, pre-professional senior.  As a high quality service learning experience, it imparts demonstrable advantages in college admissions and scholarships, and, as numerous studies indicate, infuses the last year of high school with meaning and vitality; moreover, students who engage in service learning such as PICI tend to be better prepared and thus more successful in college.¹

 

For more information, please contact John Hagney, PICI teacher, at 354-6948 or e-mail (johnhag@spokaneschools.org).

PICI Distinctions

Center for the Study of Responsive Law Grant, 1994

Spokane Area Technical-Professional Pathways Award, 1997

Health Improvement Partnership's Discovery of Spokane County, 1998

Chase Youth Commission's Group Service Award, nominated 1999-2003

Eastern Washington University, Social Science Accreditation, April, 1999

Citizen's League of Greater Spokane, Government/Citizen Education Award, April, 1999

Southern Poverty Law Center Grant, 2000-2001

Learn and Serve America Grant, 2000-2001

Washington State Best Practice in Service Learning, 2000-2001

Portland Film Festival, student-produced work selected by judges as featured festival film; Portland, OR; June, 2001

New Priorities Foundation Grants, 2001-2002

Washington State Running Start designated course, March, 2002

Professional Bibliography

Botstein, Leon. Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (2000).

Dewey, John. Democracy and Education (1916).

Giono, Jean. Then Man Who Planted Trees (1954).

Glickman, Carl. Revolutionizing America's Schools (1998).

Hine, Thomas. The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager (2000).

Hursh, David & E. Wayne Ross. Democratic Social Education: Social Studies for Social Change (2000).

Leob, Paul Rogat. Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time (1999).

Postman, Neil. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1996).

Putnam, Robert. Bowling Alone (2000).

Sizer, Theodore. The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract (2000).

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¹ All data available upon request

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