Sunday, March 26, 2017

March 27, 2017

This is the last week of the term.   Get your late work in
 18(1) 18(2) are past due: 18(3) is due by the end of the week.

We will wrap up our salon with the Enlightenment philosophes.  We will discuss these questions in our class Salon:
1. How did the Scientific Revolution lead to the Enlightenment?
2.  Why were scientists originally called Natural Philsophers?
3. Is man's nature good or evil?    If man is good why does evil exist?
4. Can man be trusted to govern?  What would the speakers in our salon say?
5. What is the best form of government?  Why?

Homework due next week:
18(4)  The Age of Napoleon
Identify the terms, people and the places
Read Witness History (592) Describe France after the Revoltion in three words.
How did Napoleon come to power in 1799?  What did he offer France?
Look at the map on p.595:  Which Russian city marked the end of  Napoleon's march east?  Does this remind you of any 20th century dictators blitzkrieg?  Who?  Why?
Read the primar source (596)  bullet two effects of Napoleon's march into Russia?
Answer the checkpoint questions in complete sentences or bullet 3 facts for each checkpoint section.



Sunday, March 19, 2017

Week of March 20, 2017

The term closes March 31, get your missing hw in.

18(1) and 18(2) are due this week
Honors reading on Coffee and the Enlightenment is due Thursday.

We will start a  philosophes debate this week. The Salon notes and participation count as a quiz grade.


Due next week (double homework grade)
18(3)Radical Days of the Revolution (585-591)
 
Identify the terms, people and places.

Read The Engine of Terror, what metaphorically 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 Robespierre biography (p.587) list three events in his life that would explain why he disliked Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Draw a guillotine (588) Read the six captions (pictures p.587-88) list one fact from each picture.

Look at the picture on page 590: was is La Marseillaise?

Look at the painting of Napoleon on page 591, which side of the French Revolution did the painter, David, agree with: The monarchy or the Revolutionaries?  Why?

Answer the four checkpoint questions  or list 3 facts for each  section

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Week of March 13, 2017

Questions for class discussion
1.  What did Ben Franklin mean when he stated: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” 
2. What is the NSA (National Security Agency) and what is its job?
3. Who is Edward Snowden and why do some view him as a hero and others as a traitor? 
4. How much power should the government be able to collect about its people? What information did Julian Assange release last week? 
5.  Who were absolute monarchs and what is divine right of kings?

Homework due next 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. 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' homes? 
Answer the 4 Checkpoint questions in the section OR questions #3-5 on page 577 Or 3 bullets /section

18(2) The French Revolution Unfolds (577-583)  
Identify the terms, people and places. 
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 Antoinette?  
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 in complete sentences or 3 bullets/section

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Week of March 6, 2017

We will wrap up our presentations this week.  Also,  17-2 and 17-3 are due by Friday.

I am ahead with the book work assignments, so there will be no new book work due next week.
It is a good time to catch up on missing homework from the quarter.

After the presentations we will explore the link between
The Age of Exploration
The Rise of the Nation States of Europe and the Absolute Monarchs
The Enlightenment and its impact on the American and French Revolutions.

Don't forget current events.
Honors classes will get their next reading on the role of coffee and the Enlightenment.