Homework for April 26

Tonight you should prepare for the COT essay you will write in class tomorrow.  The score guide for it is linked up here.  It will be drawn from the most recent time period back to the age of exploration (so 15th century through 20th century, a mere 500 years...)

Over the weekend, you should read pages 1005-1014 and 1020-1027, which will cover nationalist movements in Asia, India and Latin America.

Homework for April 25--post test recovery reading

For homework tonight, you are to read pages 985-989, which will cover the Global Depression and attempts to fix the problem (interesting to compare it to recent economic events...) Then read pages 1014-1020, which will look at Africa after WWI and the growth of African Nationalism.  We will spend a few minutes tomorrow discussing the age of anxiety before working with African nationalism.

Period Two, just a head's up, we will have 2-3 visitors in class tomorrow from a group called Primary Source.  Nothing for you to do, just wanted to let you know!

You will have an in class essay on Friday.  It will be Change Over Time, and it will be derived from the recent contents of the class.  You should review the components of the COT score guide!

Test tomorrow, April 25th

Your test tomorrow will be on Chapters 29-34, I would strongly encourage you to pay attention to the chapters we didn't discuss in class!

Homework for April 23

You have a test on chapters 29-34 on Wednesday.  It will be 70 multiple choice questions.  Tonight you should be studying for the test!

Spring Break Homework

Have a great vacation. Now let me spoil it a bit...

Over vacation you are to read chapters 33 and 34. Linked to each chapter is a reading guide to help you pull out some important information.

You should also look over the presentations and fill out the scoring guide below for your period. It has been emailed to you via school email account.

When we return, on Wednesday the 25th there will be a test on chapters 29-34. We will not have lots of time to review! You will need to do that on your own.

You will have an in class essay to write on the Friday we return (the 27th). It will be a Change Over Time essay from this time period.

We will write one more DBQ as well the following week (first week of May) date is TBD.

Homework for April 11

For tonight work on your Empires projects. Your political cartoon and two paragraphs are due tomorrow at the start of class.

Take a look at the google document about how to grade these projects and contribute your thoughts to the discussion.

Homework for April 9

Work on your political cartoon.

Read the section in the textbook (chapter 32) that pertains to your empire in distress.

Your in class essay tomorrow will be compare and contrast, and it will be drawn from information from the Enlightenment forward.

Long one will work on the Empires project after the essay is done.

In class April 9

EMPIRES IN DISTRESS

There will be four groups around the room. (period 4 groups are linked here) Each group is responsible for creating something (paper or digital) that tells the story about the Empire in distress to share with the rest of the class. There are categories below, but in general, you are to address the following questions:

1. What the problems are, when they arise and why they arise;
2. What the proposed reforms are when they arise;
3. Who the players are on both sides--for and against reform;
4. What the outcome is both short term and long term: If the reforms fail, why do they fail? If they succeed, why do they succeed?

As an individual, you are responsible for composing a political cartoon that represents either the issues/problems or the reforms for your empire. This cartoon must be done on paper, to be handed in on Thursday. The cartoon must be accompanied by two typed paragraphs; the first should explain the historical context of the cartoon, and the second should be an explanation of the cartoon (Imagine telling a person who can't see it what it contains.) This is to be printed out and ready to hand in on Thursday as well. The cartoon will not be graded on the basis of your artistic merits!

Some prompts to guide your thinking:

What are the problem(s) the empire faces?

Who in the empire is affected by these problems?

Who are these troublemaker(s)

Ottoman: Muhammad Ali (1805-1848), Young Turks

Russian: the Intelligentsia, The People’s Will,

Chinese: Hong Xiuquan, British Opium Traders, The Boxers

Japanese: Commodore Matthew C. Perry,

Who are these reformer(s)

Ottoman: Sultan Mahmud II, Tanzimat

Russian: Tsar Alexander II, Sergei Witte

Chinese: Self-Strengthening Movement, Emperor Guangxu, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao

Japanese: Emperor Mutsuhito/Meiji,

Who are these resistor(s)

Ottoman: Religious conservatives, Abdul Hamid II

Russian: Tsar Nicholas II

Chinese: Empress Dowager CiXi

Japanese: none in Japan! (why is that???)

Homework over the long weekend

Your assignment is to read Chapter 31. We aren't going to discuss the contents. Ever. SO be sure you take notes to help you remember it! You can feel free to skim over or skip the contents that have to do with the development of America (Civil War, Westward expansion, etc.) if you feel comfortable with remembering them.

Impacts of Industrialization

Slideshow from class on Friday

Impacts of industrialization

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Try Number two for the slideshow

Slideshare seems to have converted the keynote successfully, so try this instead...

Nationalism and industrialism

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Nationalism and Industrial Revolution slides

It seems to think it is a video, so I'm not sure it will work...

Tonight, you should read The Communist Manifesto that was shared with you in class today. You can also download the unabridged version from iBooks if you like, which will allow you to access the features of iBooks that might make it better for you.

I also shared a document about reading the CM with you that contains several vocabulary terms that will help you to understand the content better. You do not need to write down the vocabulary terms, they are there for pre-reading purposes--look them up first, then read...

Your task is to post on your blog 4 constructive/positive things and 4 destructive/negative things that Marx and Engels highlight.  Pay extra attention to the actual manifesto part of it all; that's the list of 10 demands they make at the end...

And remember, this was to be read by the factory workers to inspire them to revolt against the Bourgeoisie...

Homework for April 3

Tonight, read pages 825-833, stop when you get to "Socialist Challenge." It's really important that you grasp and retain the impact that the Industrial Revolution has on all aspects of human society, so do what you need to do to hold onto the contents of these pages...

The -isms are going to grow over the next couple of days, so you also want to get a way to keep them all clear--maybe a chart, maybe a list, maybe flashcards...you must understand the differences between the economic theories that are floating around. Thus far we've done Capitalism and Mercantilism.

Homework for April 2

Tonight, take a look again at the presentation on the liberator hero that was shared with you via email earlier in the day. If you like, you can use the link here to access the presentation.

Examine each of the paintings, and compose a blog post in which you do the following:

Note similarities between the portrayals. What do they have in common? Why do they have these things in common?

Then: Why do the artists portray these figures in this way? What does this accomplish in terms of future generations regarding these men?

Then: Why do these revolutions need to have heroic figures? What is heroic about them--is it their actions, their persons, or their ideals that the artist is celebrating?