Saturday, April 4, 2020

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  When the British repealed the Stamp Act and then imposed the Townhend Acts how did Americans respond?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?





 
   



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