Monday, May 2, 2011

Week of May 2, 2011

Complete Friday's handout on Italian nationalism, it is worth a 5 point quiz

Remember the interview project due May 13, 2011

Chapter 24 material assigned last week is due this week

Due by Friday

24(3) European Claims in Muslim Regions (762-766)
Identify the terms, people and places. Look at the picture of Napoleon on 762, why did he invade Egypt in 1798? Read the infographic on page 765, how many miles were cut on a trip from London to Bombay (Mumbai), India? What two bodies of water does the Suez Canal connect? What is pictured on 766? Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Answer questions #1-8 on the Chapter Assessment on page 780, also questions #9 and 19.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Week of April 25, 2011

Chapter 22(1), 22(2), 22(3) assigned the week before break are due by Tuesday.

Remember long term project.

Due by Friday
24(1) Building Overseas Empires (750-753) Identify the terms, people, and places. Look at the picture on page 751, what wasa a driving force behind imperialism? Look at the picture age 752, why were outnumbered European armies able to defeat African and Asian forces? Read European Conquest of Aftica (752) What is Cecil Rhodes's argument for imperialism? What is Chief Kanbongo's argument against imperialism?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.


24(2) The Partition of Africa (754-760)
Identify the terms, people, and places. Read Cecil Rhodes's biography on page 758, how did he become one of the world's richest men by the time he was 40? Read Menelik II's biography on page 759, how did he preserve Ethiopia's independence?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due by next Monday (May 1, 2011)

24(4) The British Take over India 767-771 Identify the terms, people, and places. Read the infographic on the Sepoy Rebellion (768-9) Who are sepoys and why did both Muslim and Hindu sepoys revolt against Britain? Look at the pictures on railroads and trade (770) How did imperialism economically benefit India?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

24(5) China and the New Imperialism (773-777) Identify the terms, people and places. Read trading opium for tea (773) Why did Lin Zexu condemn the British policy of trading opium for tea? Read the caption on page 776 on the Boxer Rebellion. Who were the Boxers and why were they discontented?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Week of April 11, 2011

We will wrap up the Industrial Revolution this week and will quiz on chapters 19 +21on Friday

Due Thursday: all of Chpt 21 assigned last week is due as well as
21(4) Arts of the Industrial Age (681-685)
Identify the terms, people, and places. Read Beethoven' biography (682), what tragedy did this musician suffer? Read realism in the arts(683) which picture in the classroom is Munch's? Look at van Gogh's painting (684) what is on his ear? Answer the three checkpoint questions.

Due the Tuesday we get back from break

22(1) Building a German Nation (692-695) Identify the terms, people, and places. Look at the picture on page 693, by what two things did Bismarck use to unify Germany? Answer question #3 on page 693. Read the primary source on page 694, why did Prussia go to war with Austria (6 Weeks War)?
Answer the three checkpoint questions.

22(2) Germany Strengthens (696-699) Identify the terms, people, and places.
Look at the pictures on page 696, 697,698, 699 and write a one sentence summary for each. Answer the three checkpoint questions.

22(3) Unifying Italy (700- 703)Identify the terms, people, and places. Answer the three checkpoint questions. Answer thinking Critically questions 1+2 on page 703.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Week of April 4, 2011

Last week Chapter 19 The Industrial Revolution begins was assigned last week

This week Chapter 21 Life in the Industrial Age (660-685) will be assigned.

Material due by Friday:
21(1) The Industrial Revolution Spreads (660-666). Identify terms, people, and places. Answer the focus question on page 660. Answer #3 on page 661. What three countries are listed in steel production on page 662? What two countries bypassed Great Britain by 1900? What is going on in the picture on 663? What is a dynamo? Answer Critically thinking question 1+2 on page 664. What did Marconi invent (picture 665) How is big business pictured on page 666?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

21(2) The Rise of Cities (667-673) Identify the terms, people, and places. Answer the focus questin on page 667. What did Florence Nightingale reform? (picture 668) Why did Jacob Riis write How the Other Half Lives? On page 671 what does the French advertisement urge people to go to?
Complete the three checkpoint questions in the section.

Due Tuesday (4/12/11)
21(3) Changing Attitudes and values (674-680)
Identify the terms, people, and places. Answer the focus question on page 674. Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 675. Who is pictured on page 676? Look at the picture on 677, how did the Industrial Revolution help lead to public education? Answer Thinking Critically questions 1+2 on page 679. What is pictured on page 680? Answer the five checkpoint questions in the section.

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.