Journal Write: Kintsukuroi

Kintsukuroi is a Japanese pottery "philosophy" where they repair broken pottery with beautiful gold or silver. The idea being that the piece is more beautiful BECAUSE it was broken. I know from a personal account that the things that "broke me" make me better now, and I have seen that some of the most beautiful people I have ever known have been through the roughest past. In what ways has being "broken" given you [or someone you know] something positive that you never would have had if life had been easy?  

As an example, I believe that some of the pain and heartbreak that I have been through allows me to better understand what others are enduring.  In some ways I believe this makes me a better teacher.  

(You can hand this to me personally if you want nobody else to see it.)  [15 minutes]  

Short Story: What If...

Write a short story with a "what if" scenario based on a historical event.

(1 page / 10 points -- and PLEASE use your brain.  THINK about a really good "What If" scenario.  A well-written answer for this one can result in 10 extra credit points.)

Journal Write: Civilization 1,000 Years Ago

Journal Write: Civilization 1,000 Years Ago

(10 minutes)

Journal Write: Post-Apocalyptic Short Story

Journal Write: Post-Apocalyptic Short Story

(1 page)

12.4: Imperialism in Latin America

• Reading Progress Check (p.243): In what ways were U.S. actions in Latin America during the early 1900s Imperialist?
• Critical Thinking (p.243): How did ships travel before the opening of the Panama Canal?
• Critical Thinking (p.244): What is the significance of this 1915 photograph of Mexican revolutionaries?
• Reading Progress Check (p.244): How did Diaz, Madero, Villa, and Zapata help incite or prolong the Mexican Revolution?
• Reading Progress Check (p.245): How did an increase in exports change Latin America after 1870?
• Lesson 4 Review (p.245): #3, 4, 5

Dollar Diplomacy:

Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History:

12.3: British Rule in India

• Taking Notes (p.237): Chart
• Reading Progress Check (p.238): What were the effects of the great Rebellion in India?
• Critical Thinking (p.238): Which side had the military advantage in this battle?  Why?
• Drawing Conclusions (p.239): What attitude would Tagore have had toward the opinion expressed by Macaulay about the use of English to educate Indians?
• Reading Progress Check (p.239): What was the price Indians had to pay for the increased stability of British rule?
• Reading Progress Check (p.240): What difficulties did the Indian National Congress face?
• Drawing Conclusions (p.241): How did newspapers and literature help shape the nationalist movement?
• Critical Thinking (p.241): Why might Indian domestic servants have become resentful of British rule?
• Lesson 3 Review (p.241): # 1, 3, 4, 5, 6

12.2: Empire Building in Africa

Bell Ringers: 

1. What are some reasons that countries might have for taking control of other countries?
2. Hypothesize three reasons you think that imperialism (when one country takes over another country) would have taken place in the late 1800s.  
3. Discuss whether imperialism still happening anywhere in the world.

Book Assignment: 

• Critical Thinking (p.232): Which colonial power controlled most of West Africa?
  
• Critical Thinking (p.233): Why did the phrase, "Dr. Livingston, I presume." become so famous?
• Critical Thinking (p.234): What conditions did men endure in South African diamond mines?
• Critical Thinking (p.235): Why was Zulu chief Cetewayo unable to maintain power?
• Lesson 2 Review: #1, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7

SUBSTITUTE: Please play the "Imperialism" video by "Crash Course World History" about 20 minutes before the end of class.

Students: Answer the following:

1. Describe how opium was used to control China.
2. Why weren't Europeans able to take over Africa?
3. How did Britain control India?

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This is a little off-topic, but in the early 1980's there was a band called "Art of Noise" that created music with sound clips and sound effects. They created this song called "Instruments of Darkness" to protest the Apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid was a system by which the white minority basically enslaved the black majority.

Journal: Best Time and Place to Live

Journal Write: In the whole history of the world,what was the best time and place to be alive? Why?

(10 Minutes)

Chapter 12.1: Colonial Rule in Southeast Asia

Chapter 12: Lesson 1:  Colonial Rule in Southeast Asia

• Vocabulary (p.216)
• How did Europeans justify imperialism?
• What prompted Britain to colonize Singapore and Burma?

“Mr. President, the times call for candor. The Philippines are ours forever. And just beyond the Philippines are China's illimitable markets. We will not retreat from either. We will not abandon an opportunity in [Asia]. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world.”—Senator Albert Beveridge, from a speech before the U.S. Senate, January 9, 1900

• How does Beveridge's statement (above) reflect a mixture of moral idealism and a desire for profit?
• Read the section "Colonial Economics":  What kind of economic system did colonial rulers establish?
• How did indigenous people in Southeast Asia respond to colonial rule?
• Lesson 1 Review:
• #3: What were the motivations for the new imperialism?
• #4: What led to Western dominance in Southeast Asia?
• #5: How did colonial powers govern their colonies?
• #6: How did indigenous people in Southeast Asia respond to colonial rule?

Book Notes

Talking Points:

11.3: The National State and Democracy

Chapter 11 Lesson 3: The National State and Democracy

• Vocabulary
• Taking Notes (p.213): Chart
• Geography Connection (p.214): #1 & 2
• Reading Progress Check (p.214): How did Italy's government in the 1870's compare to Great Britain's?
• Reading Progress Check (p.215): Did the government of Germany, Austria-Hungary, or Russia adhere to the principle of ministerial responsibility?
• Critical Thinking (p.215: What changes in Russia challenged the autocracy of the czar?
• Analyzing (p.216): How did the U.S. Civil War affect African Americans?
• Critical Thinking (p.216): #1 & 2
• Critical Thinking (p.217): #1 & 2
• Reading Progress Check (p.217): Describe the events in the Balkans up through 1914.
• Lesson 3 Review
• #1: What is ministerial responsibility, and why is it important?
• #3: What happened with democracy in Western Europe in the late nineteenth century?
• #4: What political developments did Central and Eastern Europe experience in the late nineteenth century?
• #5: How did the Second Industrial Revolution affect the United States?
• #6: How did international rivalries push Europe close to war?
• #7: Write a short paragraph about the impact of labor issues in Great Britain and Russia.

Video: The National State and Democracy

11.4: Modern Ideas and Uncertainty

Before we begin... let's take a look at an advertisement from Apple Computer back in the 1990's. It celebrated thinking different.  That's really what this section of the book celebrates -- at least in my opinion.

11.4: Modern Ideas and Uncertainty

• Vocabulary (p.218)
• Analyzing Historical Documents (p.219): #1 & 2

Igor Stravinski: The Rite of Spring

The Impressionists:

Marie Curie: Great Minds

Einstein: Draw My Life

Einsteins Theory of Relativity Explained

11.2: The Emergence of Mass Society

Chapter 11 Lesson 2: The Emergence of Mass Society

• Vocabulary (p.208)
• Reading Progress Check (p.209): Present three reasons for the growth of European cities in order of importance.  Explain your answer.
• Critical Thinking (p.209): Wo chich social class did these women belong?  What was the social class of their employer?
• Reading Progress Check (p.210): Discuss the major social changes that occurred during the Second Industrial Revolution.
• Drawing Conclusions (p.210): What do the different types of militancy outlined by Pankhurst show about her approach to the struggle for women's rights?
• Critical Thinking (p.211): Why did British police prevent the Pankhursts from entering Buckingham Palace?
• Reading Progress Check (p.212): How did the working-class family change in the late 1800's?
• Critical Thinking (p.212): Compare and contrast the amusement part at Blackpool with those of today.
• Reading Progress Check (p.212): What were some reasons governments promoted public education?
• Lesson 2 Review: # 3, 5, 6

Sister Suffragette: Mary Poppins

Emmeline Pankhurst:

Video: The Emergence of Mass Society

Here in America:

11.1: The Growth of Industrial Prosperity

The Growth of Industrial Prosperity

1. The Second Industrial Revolution
1. New Products and Patterns

1. Bessemer Process makes high quality steel cheaply
2. Electricity was a valuable new form of energy
3. Electricity leads to new inventions
4. Streetcars and subways powered by electricity
5. Development of internal combustion engine
6. Industrial production grew as a result of increased sales
7. First department stores sell variety of consumer goods
8. Europe divided into two different economic zones
2. Toward a World Economy
1. Second Industrial Revolution and growth of transportation fostered world economy
2. European capital invested abroad to develop railways, mines, power plants and banks.
2. Organizing the Working Classes
1. Marx's Theory

1. Communist Manifesty by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
2. Marx believed all history was a history of class struggles
3. Marx believed society was splitting into two great hostile camps: bougoisie (middle class) and proletariat (working class)
4. Predicted that struggle between classes would lead to revolution
2. Socialist Parties
1. Working class leaders formed socialist parties based on Marx's ideas.
2. Socialist parties emerged in other European states
3. Marxist parties divided over goals -- revolutionists vs. revisionists
3. Trade Unions
1. Trade unions worked for evolutionary rather than revolutionary change.

Assignment:

• Page 205: Geography Connection
1. What parts of Europe were the least industrialized?
2. How do you think the environment was affected in areas of industrial concentration?
• #3: What were the causes and effects of the Second Industrial Revolution in Western Europe?
• #4: How was socialism a response to industrialization?
• #5: Write a paragraph describing the obstacles that trade unions faced in their effort to improve labor conditions.

Chapter 10.5: Romanticism and Realism

Assignment: Chapter 10:5

• First, make sure you label your paper with your name, the date, and Chapter 10:5.
• Looking at this picture of the British House of Parliament, notice that it uses the Gothic Revival style of architecture, which often repeated medieval elements such as towers.  What makes structures such as those with towers representative of the Romantic movement?
• How did science and industrialization contribute to the development of romanticism's celebration of nature?
• How did advances in science influence life during the Industrial Revolution?
• What factors contributed to the movement known as realism?
• Write a paragraph describing some key event in your life using the style of the romantics or the realists.

[Insert Video of Romanticism Here]

[link]

10.4: Nation Building in Latin America

Chapter 10 Lesson 4: Nation Building in Latin America

• Taking Notes (p.192): Chart
• Reading Progress Check (p.194): What did Hidalgo, Jose de San Martin, and Simon Bolivar have in common?
• Reading Progress Check (p.195): Why did Latin American countries continue to experience economic dependence after achieving political independence?
• Lesson 4 Review (p.195): #1, 3, 4, 5

10.3: Nationalism, Unification, and Reform

Chapter 10 Lesson 3: Nationalism, Unification, and Reform

• Vocabulary (p.186):
• Unification
• Regime
• Militarism
• Emancipation
• Abolitionism
• Taking Notes (p.186): Chart
• Geography Connection (p.187): #1 & 2
• Critical Thinking (p.188): How did Bismarck's and Garibaldi's careers as unifiers differ?
• Reading Progress Check  (p.189): How did the Crimean War destroy the Concert of Europe?
• Critical Thinking (p.190): How does this image convey the possible living conditions of Russian peasants?
• Reading Progress Check (p.191): What concessions did the Hungarians gain from the Compromise of 1867?
• Reading Progress Check (p.191): What issues divided Americans in the 1800's?
• Lesson 3 Review (p.191): #2, 3, 5

10:1: The Industrial Revolution

Watch this short video about the Industrial Revolution in England:

1. Vocabulary (p.176)
2. Critical Thinking (p.177): In what way does this image depict factory work?
3. Reading Progress Check (p.178): Why might it be important to have fast, reliable transportation between Manchester and Liverpool?
4. Geography Connection (p.179): #1 & 2
5. Reading Progress Check: How did the effects of industrialization in the United States compare with those in Great Britain?
6. DBQ (p.180): Why might the British Parliament have examined the conditions of child factory workers?
7. Reading Progress Check (p.181): Why do you think the working conditions during the Industrial Revolution led some to argue for socialism?
8. Review Questions: #4, 5, & 6

The Brooklyn Bridge

Many people have never heard of Granville T. Woods, but he was an amazing inventor.

Finally, this is an interesting clip about Thomas Edison

10.2: Nationalism and Political Revolutions

Chapter 10 Lesson 2: Nationalism and Political Revolutions

• Vocabulary (p.182)
• Taking Notes (p.182): Chart
• Reading Progress Check (p.182): In what ways were liberalism and nationalism causes for the revolutions of the 1830's in Europe?
• Critical Thinking (p.183): Describe the symbolic meaning of this painting.
• Critical Thinking (p.184): How does this image illustrate the chaos and level of participation in the 1848 revolt?
• Drawing Conclusions (p.185): Why did the revolutions of 1848 fail?
• Lesson 2 Review (p.185): #1, 2, 4.

We will start with the first minute of this video as a refresher:


Next we will take some Cornell Notes on this teachers' lesson:


The Crimean War:

Chapter 9.1 & 9.2: The French Revolution & Napoleon

First we will preview chapter 9: The French Revolution and Napoleon

• What causes revolution?
• How does revolution change society?

Lesson 1 Assignment:

• Content Vocabulary (p.152)
• Lesson 1 Review:
• #3: How did the structure of social classes in France lead to discontent?
• #6: what were the French peasants reacting to in their rebellions of 1789.

Lesson 2 Assignment:

• Content Vocabulary (p.158)
• Academic Vocabulary (p.158)
• Lesson 2 Review:
• #3: Why did the French Revolution become more radical?
• #4: How did the new French government deal with crises?

We will also view the "History Teachers" take on the French Revolution.  :)

The French Revolution - In a Nutshell:

Marie Antionette ("Paparazzi"):

French Revolution (Part 1):

10 Things You May Not Know About Marie Antoinette

On the morning of October 16, 1793, Henri Sanson entered the prison cell housing Marie Antoinette, the 37-year-old former queen of France who only hours before had been convicted of treason and sentenced to death. The red-hooded executioner sheared Marie Antoinette’s beloved locks to allow for a quick, clean cut of his guillotine blade. Moments after cutting her hair, Sanson cut off her head as a joyous crowd cheered, “Vive la nation!” More than 220 years after her execution, learn 10 surprising facts about Marie Antoinette.

1. Marie Antoinette was born an Austrian princess.  Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1755, Archduchess Marie Antoinette was the 15th and last child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and the powerful Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.
2. She was only 14 years old when she married the future Louis XVI.  To seal the newfound alliance between longtime enemies Austria and France that had been forged by the Seven Years’ War, the Austrian monarchs offered the hand of their youngest daughter to the heir apparent to the French throne, Dauphin Louis-Auguste. On May 7, 1770, the 14-year-old royal bride was delivered to the French on an island in the middle of the Rhine River, and a grand procession escorted the archduchess to the Palace of Versailles. The day after Marie Antoinette met the 15-year-old future king of France, the two were wed in a lavish palace ceremony.
3. It took seven years for the future king and queen to consummate their marriage.Politics literally made strange bedfellows in the case of Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste. Just hours after they first met, the young teenagers were escorted to the bridal chamber on their wedding night by the groom’s grandfather, King Louis XV. After the king blessed their bed, gave both a kiss and left the room to allow them to start work on producing a royal heir, nothing happened between the two relative strangers that night. Apparently, nothing happened for the next seven years either. The dauphin suffered from a painful medical condition that rendered him impotent, and the palace gossip soon circulated around Europe. Finally in 1777, Maria Theresa dispatched one of her sons, Emperor Joseph II, to Versailles to intervene, and the problem was rectified either because the now King Louis XVI underwent surgery to correct the problem or because, in the words of the emperor, the couple had been “two complete blunderers.” Within a year, Marie Antoinette bore the first of the couple’s four children.
4. Marie Antoinette was a teen idol.Unlike during her years as queen, Marie Antoinette captivated the French public in her early years in the country. When the teenager made her initial appearance in the French capital, a crowd of 50,000 Parisians grew so uncontrollable that at least 30 people were trampled to death in the crush.
5. Her towering bouffant hairdo once sported a battleship replica.As Will Bashor details in his new book, “Marie Antoinette’s Head,” royal hairdresser Léonard Autié became one of the queen’s closest confidants as he concocted her gravity-defying hairdos, which rose nearly four feet high. Autié accessorized the queen’s fantastical poufs with feathers, trinkets and on one occasion even an enormous model of the French warship La Belle Poule to commemorate its sinking of a British frigate.
6. A fairy-tale village was built for her at Versailles.While peasants starved in villages throughout France, Marie Antoinette commissioned the construction of the Petit Hameau, a utopian hamlet with lakes, gardens, cottages, watermills and a farmhouse on the palace grounds. The queen and her ladies-in-waiting dressed up as peasants and pretended to be milkmaids and shepherdesses in their picturesque rural retreat. Marie Antoinette’s elaborate spending on frivolities such as the Petit Hameau infuriated revolutionaries and earned her the moniker “Madame Deficit.”
7. Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake.”When told that starving French peasants lacked any bread to eat, the queen is alleged to have callously declared, “Let them eat cake!” There is no evidence, however, that Marie Antoinette ever uttered that famous quip. The phrase used to encapsulate the out-of-touch and indifferent royals first appeared years before Marie Antoinette ever arrived in France in philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s description of Marie-Therese, the Spanish princess who married King Louis XIV in 1660. The remark was also ascribed to two aunts of Louis XVI before it was apocryphally tied to Marie Antoinette.
8. The trumped-up charges against Marie Antoinette included incest.Nine months after the execution of the former King Louis XVI, a Revolutionary Tribunal tried the former queen on trumped-up crimes against the French republic that included high treason, sexual promiscuity and incestuous relations with her son Louis-Charles, who was forced to testify that his mother had molested him. After a two-day show trial, an all-male jury found the former queen guilty on all charges and unanimously condemned her to death.
9. She was buried in an unmarked grave and then exhumed.Following the execution of Marie Antoinette, her body was placed in a coffin and dumped into a common grave behind the Church of the Madeline. In 1815, after the Bourbon Restoration returned King Louis XVIII to the throne following the exile of Napoleon, he ordered the bodies of his older brother, Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette exhumed and given a proper burial alongside other French royals inside the Basilica Cathedral of Saint-Denis.
10. A U.S. city is named in honor of Marie Antoinette.When a group of American Revolution veterans founded the first permanent settlement of the Northwest Territory in 1788 at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, they wanted to honor France, which had been instrumental in assisting the patriots against the British. They named their new community—Marietta, Ohio—after the French queen and even sent her a letter offering the monarch a “public square” in the town.

Journal Write: The Magic Wand

Journal Write: The Magic Wand

(7 minutes)

8.4: The American Revolution

• Vocabulary (p.145)
• Critical Thinking (p.146): Why did some American colonists seek independent from Great Britain?
• DBQ: Paraphrasing (p.146): Rewrite the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence in your own words.
• Reading Progress Check (p.147): What was the purpose of separating the federal government into three separate branches?
• Lesson 4 Review (p.147): #1, 3, 4, 5
• Chapter 8 Assessment (p.148): #1-10

8.3: Enlightened Absolutism and the Balance of Power

1. Vocab (Academic and Content) (p.140)
2. Taking Notes (p.140): Chart
3. Comparing (p.142): Describe two similarities between the reigns of Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia.
4. Geography Connection (p.143): #1 & 2
5. Reading Progress Check (p.144): Explain the involvement of Great Britain and France in the Seven Year's War.
6. Lesson 3 Review (p.144): #1 & 3

8.2: The Ideas of the Enlightenment

1. Content Vocabulary
2. Reading Progress Check (p.136): What are two ways in which philosophes sought to change the world?
3. Guiding Question (p.136): How did the belief in logic and reason promote the beginnings of the social sciences?
4. Reading Progress Check (p.136): What roles did Adam Smith believe the government should fulfill in society?
5. Critical Thinking (p.136): How did both printing and the Encyclopedia contribute to the promotion of Enlightenment ideas?
6. Critical Thinking (p.138): Do the coffeehouses of today serve the same purpose as early ones?  Why or why not?
7. Reading Progress Check (p.138): How did Mary Wollstonecraft use the Enlightenment ideal of reason to advocate rights for women?
8. Reading Progress Check (p.139): How do Haydn's interests as a composer reflect the influence of Enlightenment Ideas?
9. Lesson 2: Review: #1, 3, 7

• We will also discuss some Current Events occasionally and may be asked to locate them on a map.
• We will explore a map of Africa and the Middle East and wrote down some major names to watch.