Sunday, March 27, 2011

Week of March 27, 2011

This is the last week of the term. It is important to finish the term strong and start the new term on a good note.

We will be finishing up the French Revolution/rise of Napoleon this week as well as starting our study on the Agricultural and Industrial Revolution.

French Revolution test will be Thursday, the bookwork collected on Friday will be extra credit this term as well as counting on next term.

Due by Friday:
19(1)Dawn of the Industrial Revolution (608-611) Identify the terms,people, and places. Answer the focus question on page 608. Draw Jethro Tull's seed drill on page 609. Answer the biography question on James Watt on page 610. Also, answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

19(2) Britain Leads the Way (612-615) Identify the terms, people, and places. Read the witness history on page 612 and try to answer the focus question. Answer map skills questions 2+3 on page 613. Identify and draw one invention on page 614. What does the textile idustry make? Anwer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

19(3) Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution.(616-620) Identify the terms, people, and places. Read Witness history on page 616 and answer the focus question. Look at the graph on pane 617, describe the population trend from 1750-1900. Who is pictured working on page 619? Why is this sad? What benefit of industrialization is pictured on page 620? Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Tuesday (4/5) Read the Primary Source on page 621. Answer Thinking Critically questions 1+2.

Due Wednesday (4/6) New Ways of Thinking (622-626) Identify the terms, people, and places. Read Witness history on page 622, how do Marx and Engels describe working conditions? Who does Malthus (picture 623) blame for poverty? Answer thinking Criticaly questions 1+2 on page 624. Answer the five checkpoint questions.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Week of March 21, 2011

Complete the book assignments on last week's blog.

I will be passing out a DBQ on the French Revolution.

Current Event #3 Due on Friday.

Note** MCAS this Tuesday and Wednesday.
Period 4 is moved to room 205 on these days.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Week of March 14, 2011

The short paper on the Elizabeth video is due Monday.

Complete the terms, people, and places for 17(2)listed on page 550 for Tuesday.
17(3) and The Chapter Check-up is due Wednesday

Due Friday:
18(1) On the Eve of Revolution (572-577). Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 572. Look at the Witness History pn page 572. Who and what led to the storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789)? Answer question #1 on page 573. Answer Critically Thinking questions #1+2 on page 574. Read the Primary Source on page 575, why did the poor attack the nobles's homes?
Answer the 4 Checkpoint questions in the section.

Due Friday: 18(2) The French Revolution Unfolds (577-583)
Read Parisian woman storm Versailles, who did the women want to kill? Read French reaction to Am. Rev (579). What two men had great influences on both revolutions? Read the caption on page 580, why did the starving French women resent Marie Antionette? Read the Analyzing Political Cartoons (582). What rodent represents the French Revolution? Why did the other European royals fear the French Revolution? Look at the sans-culotte (583), why isn't the man wearing knee high stockings?
Answer the four checkpoint questions.

Due Tuesday (3/22): Double points homework: 18(3)Radical Days of the Revolution (585-591)
Read The Engine of Terror, what methporically was the "day's wine" for the guillotine? Read the two account of the Execution of a King (Louis XVI p.586). Why does Marat want to execute the king? List three reasons. How does the London Times portray the Revolution? Read the Rovespierre biography (p.597) list three events in his life that would explain why he disliked Louis XVI and Marie Antionette. Draw a guilotinne (588) Read the six captions to the pictures (587-88) bullet one fact from each. Looka at the picture on page 590: was is La Marseillaise? Look at the painting of Napoleon on page 591, which two sides of the French Revolution did the painter, David, agree with? Why?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in the section, also answer #6 on page 590.

Due Thursday:(3/24) 18(4) The Age of Napoleon (592-600)
Read the Witness History (592) Describe Freance after the Revolution; how was Napoleon able to come to power? Look at the map on 595, which city marked Napoleon's furthest advance east? Read the primary source (596) bullet two effects of Napoleon's march into Russia in 1810.Read the biography of Prince Clemens von Metternich (598), answer the question in the box. Look at the portrait of Louis XVIII, who does he look like?
Answer the six checkpoint questions.

Answer Chapter Assessment questions #1-10 on page 604.

Friday, March 11, 2011

short paper topic

Mr. Stanton
Writing Assignment
Due Monday , March 14, 2011

Demonstrate your understanding of the video Queen Elizabeth I, The Virgin Queen. Select 3 main ideas and prioritize these ideas in the order of their importance to the topic. Justify the time spent in class watching this film.


Explain the obstacles Elizabeth faced in her life. Explain her accomplishments both from the film and from the Paul Johnson reading on heroes. How did she turn the first job of the queen, to have an heir, from a criticism to a strength.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Week of March 7, 2011

Book work for the week.

We will study the Englightment and the American Revolution.
Due Wednesday 17(1) Philosophy in the Age of Reason (544-548) Identify the terms, people and places listed on page 544. Read page 543. How did Enlightenment thinkers think they could fix the problems of society? What did Rousseau (witness history p.544) think people should do in order to be free? Look at the picture on 545, how is Hobbes's ruler pictured? Why? Read the biographys on page 546. What did Voltaire attack in his writings? What did Montesquieu think was necessary to protect liberty? Look at the picture on 548. What resource do investors provide :human, natural, or capital?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sections.

Due Thursday: 17(2) Enlightenment Ideas Spread (550-555) Read the Witness History (550) What does reason, tolerance, and love overcome in the Magic Flute? Look at the picture on 551, why did writers hide their feelings in satire? Read the infographic(552-3), how does Rococo Art differ from Baroque Art? Who are the three enlightened despots pictured on page 554? Read about Operas on page 556, answer question #1.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Monday (3/14), 17(3) Birth of the American Republic. (557-563) Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 557. Read Mak skills page 558, answer question #3. Look at the picture on page 559: what three men were credited with drafting the Declaration? What three heroes of the Revolution are pictured on 560? List one fact about each. Read the infographic on page 562, answer question #2. Look at the Bill of Rights onpage 563, whose ideas do they embody?
Answer the five checkpoint questions.

Due Tuesday (3/15) Chapter Assessment, page 568. Answer questions #1-6.
Also answer questions#7,9,11 or # 8, 10,12.