A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single, specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (often paper) of such a system. 

Before today’s Gregorian calendar was adopted, the older Julian calendar was used. It was admirably close to the actual length of the year, as it turns out, but the Julian calendar was not so perfect that it didn’t slowly shift off track over the following centuries. But, hundreds of years later, monks were the only ones with any free time for scholarly pursuits – and they were discouraged from thinking about the matter of "secular time" for any reason beyond figuring out when to observe Easter. In the Middle Ages, the study of the measure of time was first viewed as prying too deeply into God’s own affairs – and later thought of as a lowly, mechanical study, unworthy of serious contemplation.
As a result, it wasn’t until 1582, by which time Caesar’s calendar had drifted a full 10 days off course, that Pope Gregory XIII (1502 - 1585) finally reformed the Julian calendar. Ironically, by the time the Catholic church buckled under the weight of the scientific reasoning that pointed out the error, it had lost much of its power to implement the fix. Protestant tract writers responded to Gregory’s calendar by calling him the "Roman Antichrist" and claiming that its real purpose was to keep true Christians from worshiping on the correct days. The "new" calendar, as we know it today, was not adopted uniformly across Europe until well into the 18th century.


componenet of a calandar

• Layout
  
  • The Calendar comes in Horizontal or Vertical layout suited to display one month at a time, but also supports a Multiview option for showing two months side by side.
    
• Content
  
  • the month stated
  • the days numerically represented
  • important days or holidays indicated
• Styling
  
  • The Calendar comes with styling flexibility through the various overrides controlling the background, header background, title colors, and content month and year picker items, as well as text and background colors for the selected day, month, or year. These are applicable according to the rest of your configurations.
    
    

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Assignment 

Students will start off with an assigned month, they will create a small graphic based on their month.  They are encouraged to be as creative as they can be.  Think outside the box.  From the that graphic student will incorporate the days of the months, month name and indicated any special days of their choosing. ie holidays, etc.


Project requirements
must represent a month thematically
must have the days numerically represented
must have the month name present
must be well crafted and show effort
Must be creative!!!  

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