Week 4 of remote learning, World History classes Due May 1, 2020

CP2,  Complete 1 of the first 2 assignments,  I, II,
CP1, Complete 2 of the first 2  assignments, I, II,
Honors, Complete 3 of 3 assignments,  I, II, II

In last week's assignment Green sarcastically said before 1820 men lived like the Neaderthals(who never farmed or domesticated animals ).  Green also sarcastically said life between 1220 was similar to life  in 1820.   These statements are not true,  the period between 1500-1800 was dominted by Slavery, Commerical and Agricultural revolutions, which changed life dramatically.

I. Watch   Crash Course, European History #8, Commerce, Slavery, and Agriculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU2dhPlJWyY

Answer   question 1,   and  then 5 of the following 9 questions ( 5 questions on 2-10) from the video
1. Write 4 facts from the video
2. Complete Green's statement:  "History is how people lived and what we learned from their lives. Politics touche everything, but politics is not _________________"
3. What three revolutions dominated the early modern period (1500-1750)
   a. Agricultural Revolution, Commercial Revolution and the ______________  _____________.
4. What two crops were planted in the Agricultural revolution with crop rotation: turnips and ______
   what did the crops do to the soil?
5. What is the Enclosure movement?  How did enclosure impact tenant farmers and day laborers?  Who was hired to farm the land?
6. What crop does Green pull from the globe?  How did this Indian crop revolutionize farming?
7. What crop did African women slaves bring from Africa to the Americas?
8. Why did Europeans dehumanize Africans?  What evil institution did it justify? How many slaves is it believed were taken from Africa?
9. What was the business of the Fuggars and how did it help capitalism?
10.  In your opinion, did Capitalismwith all its flaws, help lead the way to the Industrial Revolution?

II. Watch Mankind, the story of all of US,  Revolutions
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwryjf

  Answer 6 of the following questions
1. Where did the British surrender to the Americans to end the American Revolution?
2. List 3 other nations that were inspired by the success of American Revolution.
3.What tool with potentially unlimited power does James Watt develop in the Industrial Revolution?
4, What kind of workplace does Richard Arkwright create with his water frame?
5. What natural resource fuels the steam engine?
6. What was the leading cause of death in the cities of the 1800's?
7. What does John Snow discover is the true cause of cholera?
8.  What system do the British develop to clean up the cities? Thank you, plumbers
9. Why did Britain sell opium in China?  What product did the British buy from the Chinese?
10. What was the key for the North to defeat the South in the US Civil War?
11.  How many slaves were freed as a result of the Civil War in America?

III.  Watch the video: Cost of covid 19 to dairy farmers in Alabama
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/the-cost-of-the-pandemic-for-americas-farmers/2020/04/16/d568edb1-243a-4322-b567-dea1b8d57208_video.html

Answer the following quesions
1. What percentage has milked dropped in price due to covid 19?
2. Why can't farmers just stop milking their cows if there is a weakened demand for milk?
3. Dairy farmers do not want to dump their milk. Why do they feel they have to dump it?
4.  Is the current crisis a dairy supply or a consumer demand issue?  Explain your answer.
5. Dairy farmers don't want people to die due to Covid, what balance do they seek?  What do we as a nation have to figure out?  Explain your answer

Week 3 of Remote learning, Due April 27

Enjoy Patriot's Day Monday,  and remember where the American Revolution began

CP2 complete video 1
CP1 complete video 1 and then either or both of II and III
Honors complete all 3 video sets   I, II, III

I. Watch Crash Course European history #24, the Industrial Revolution   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjK7PWmRRyg

  1.  Bullet 5 facts from the video
Answer   8 of the following 10 questions
2. Before the IR of 1820 how did people measure time if not by the clock?
3. How did drinking hot coffee and tea help keep people healthy during the IR?
4. Match these inventors with their inventions
     ___John Kay                                                 a.  Steam Engine improvement
     ___James Hargreaves                                    b. spinning jenny
     ___John and Ellen Hocking                           c. flying shuttle
    ___Richard Arkwright                                    d. carding machine
    ___James Watt                                                e. water frame
    ___ Johann Friedrich Bottiger                         f. porcelin
5. Why was so  much spying of inventions used in the I.R.?
6.  Describe industrial oppression:  what came first profits or people?
7. List 3 adjectives describing life in a factory for children.
8. What is urbanization?  Where did people move to to find work?
9.  Why did people read newspapers out loud in cafes?
10. What is the difference between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
11. What type of swing riots did the Luddites lead? Why?
12. Why does Green say the IR was not a revolution?

II.  Watch Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo 

1. Does Hans Rosling have a positive or negative view about the changes since 1810 brought about by the Industrial Revolution?  Explain what has happened to health and wealth over this time. 

2. What is Rosling prediction about the future?  Remember that this was completed in 2009.

3. Do you agree or disagree with Rosling?  Explain your answer

III  Watch two short videos

A. Hans Rosling Yardstick of wealth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpdyCJi3Ib4 

1. How much income per day does Rosling measure extreme poverty?

2. List the levels of transportation extreme poor to extreme wealth Rosling uses.

2. Why does he say that wealty people can't distingush between extreme poverty and poverty?

Then watch Rosling How to end poverty

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JiYcV_mg6A

1. Instead of viewing the world as the rich and the poor how does Rosling want to call the majority of the world?

2.  Do you think Rosling's video shows the US and the West falling behind or Asia (tiger economies) and Africa (lion economies) catching up?

3. Does this give you hope for the future of the world? 

Week 2 of Remote learning Due April 20,2020

CP2 Choose 2 of 3 Videos  (1, II, III), but you can skip up to 3 questions on the video you complete
CP 1 Complete  3 videos, but skip up to 3 questions on video II and III
Honors  Complete all three videos, you can skip 2 questions on video II and III

Compete your answers in a google docs shared with me or take a picture of your answers and email me   mstanton@plymouth.k12.ma.us

This is the work for the WHOLE week.  If it takes longer than one hour and 45  minutes to complete the assignment let me know.
You should not have to work longer than an hour and a half  to one hour and 45 minutes. and you can stop and let me know if you have exceeded the time limit.
Good luck, and please stay safe.  Email me if you have any questions.

I. Watch the 29 second video on how social distancing works.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/ohio-department-of-health-coronavirus-video-goes-viral/2020/04/10/158b37b9-fbff-4391-8be0-3c94ce884082_video.html
      1. Is this an effective advertisement for social distancing?  Explain why or why not.


  II. Watch the video on the French Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTvKwCylFY&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=29
        1. List 5 facts from the video 
         CP` Answer  4 of the 7 following questions on the video  Honors 5 of 7
        2. How did the  support for Americans and hailstorms help lead to the French Revolution?
        3.. Do you think it is significant that Green confuses the 1st estate (clergy) and 2nd estate (nobility) in the video?  Why do you think this was not corrected?
        4. What were two changes brought on by the August Decrees?
        5.  According to the DoRoMaC (Declaration of the Rights of Man)  Everyone has the right to liberty, property, and ______________?
        6.  When the Women marched on Vesailles in Octobet where did they want the royal family to move to?  Why there?
        7. Who  is Green's open letter to?  Why was this viewed as an enlightened idea?
        8. Why does Green view the French Revolution as more revolutionaray than the American Revolution even though an emperor(Napoleon) replaced a king (Louis XVI)?


III.    This video was assigned as a supplemental video last month.  If you have already completed it DO NOT complete it again.  I will put in your completed grade.
1. What type of leaders do people want during a time period of crisis?
2. Napoleon Bonaparte ended the French Revolution in 1799 and replaced liberty, equality, and fraternity with order, security, and efficiency. He also ended many of the democratic reforms brought about by the French Revolution. Why do you think he did that?
Napoleon was a great general and administrator and admired by many, including Adolf Hitler.
Both of these men considered themselves destined for greatness, and both met the same fate after their failed invasions of Russia.

-Watch the A+E biography attached Napoleon the Glory of France
make sure to start at the beginning of the video
3, Bullet point 7 facts that you have learned about Napoleon.
4, What is the Rosetta Stone?
5. What do you think about his relationship with Josephine? How was she key not only to his success, but also to his ultimate failure?
6. Who crowned Napoleon emperor in 1804?
7. Why did Napoleon use the Continental System? What nation was he trying to subdue?
8. Why did Napoleon invade Russia in 1812?
9. Who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo? How did he do it?
10. What do you think is the ultimate reasons for Napoleon's downfall?
11. Why do you think he said on his deathbed that he could not be another Washington?
How was power his ultimate mistress and how did this quest for power lead to his ultimate downfall? 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOw9wQnskWY&t=12s

Week of April 6, 2020 Week 1 work due April 13

Please put your name on the top of the google docs
CP2 complete 1 of the following 2 videos and you can skip 1question/video 
CP1 Complete 2 of the following 2 videos and you can skip 1question/video
Honors Complete 2 of the following videos
  Hint:  Green talks fast so put closed captioning on to follow what he is saying

Please put answers in a google doc and share it with me or take a picture and email me your answers
Good luck and stay safe
   Mr. Stanton
p.s.  Mr. Whyte   swhyte@plymouth.k12.ma.us  said he would help explain any of my directions, please email him if you need clarification

I. Watch the video on Captain Cook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yXNrLTddME&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=28&t=0s

A. list 5 facts or points from the video
 B.  answer 3 of the 6 of the questions on the video
      1.  What animal did Cook introduce to Australia?
      2. What disease did Cook introduce to Hawaii?
      3. Why does Green believe that Cook was probably not viewed as a god by Hawaiians when he was killed?  Why would Englich historians want to view Cook's death this way?
      4.  Explain the point of the White Man's Burden poem Green refers to in his open letter.
      5. Why do you think Cook is not given much credit for his discoveries in American textbooks? What is the relationship between the US and England during  the time of Cook's voyages (1768-1780)
      6.  What questions or comments do you still have about the video?


II. Watch the video on the American Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=28
    1 . list 5 facts or points from the  video
    Answer 3 of the 5 following questions on the video
       1.  Why did the British pass the Stamp Act after the 7 years 3. war/ French+ Indian War?
       2.  When the British repealed the Stamp Act and then imposed the Townhend Acts how did Americans respond?
       3. In Green's open letter to tea why does he refer to the British as posers?
       4.  Green claims the French Revolution was more revolutionary than the American, but what ideas taken from the  American Revolution are truly revolutionary?  How do Americans view themselves?
    5. What questions or comments do you still have about the video?