Sunday, May 17, 2020

O4 W3 World History remote learning due by Friday, May 22, 2020


The 20th century was one of the most destructive times in history.  WWI, WWII, and the Cold War dominated the century.  The Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin and Nazi Germany's Adolph Hitler were each responsible for killing 10's of millions of people, but a man of peace emerged during their time.
India's Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1869,  Stalin was born in 1879, and Hitler was born in 1889.  Although contemporaries, they each changed the world dramatically, though by very different means.
This week we focus on a man of peace, Mahatma Gandhi.  Mahatma was a title given to Gandhi meaning "great soul".
Answer the questions in complete sentences unless it is a fill in the blank.
Note that III and IV splits the Pilgrim of Peace video into two parts.
CP2 complete 2 of 4 (I, II, III, IV)
CP1 complete 3 of 4
Honors complete 4 of 4

I.  Watch John Green's Crash Course: Nonviolence and Peace Movements (Gandhi)
https://www.youtube.com/wa3 tch?v=eP-mv5IjFzY

 1. By 1900 what 3 coninents did Europe dominate?
 2. How did Russia's Leo Tolstory tell  to  confront British imperialism?  With what two things?
 3.  What is ahimsa that Gandhi learned from Hindu Jainists?
 4.  Gandhi titled his autobiography:  The Story of My Experiments with_____________?
       Why do you think the title is ironic?
 5. What is satyagraha?  Green's definition is adherence to the _________________ ?
 6. What famous Gandhi march does Green describe in the thought bubble?
 7.  Identify the country where these people or events occurred that influenced Gandhi
    Phan Chu Trinh __________________
    1922 boycott of British goods occurred in this colony ________________
   WWII peace movements occurred in ____________________
 8. Identify where these civil disobedience movements occurred that were influenced by Gandhi:
    Rosenstrass protest (1943)____________
    MLK's Civil Right's movement ____________________
    Alexander Dubcek's 1968 peace movement _________________
    2011  Arab Spring _______________________________

II.  Gandhi quotes.
   1. What do you think Gandhi meant when he said:  "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary: the evil it does is permanent."

   2. Rewrite  three more  Gandhi quotes found in the link below.  Explain what you think the quote means or why you agree or disagree with the statement.
from  the quotes below
I think it would be a good idea. Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization 


III   Watch the first 21 minutes of the video Pilgrim of Peace and answer 8 of  the questions
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncPJoGnyBw


 1. Gandhi's first role model, his mother, fasted until what ended?
 2. What did his father do to Gandhi when he learned Gandhi stole money for cigarettes?
 3. At age 16 how did Gandhi neglect his duty as a son?
 4.  Where did Gandhi go to school to become a lawyer? How did he dress?
 5.  After failing as a lawyer in India, in what "god forsaken land" did Gandhi find God?
 5.  At age 24 when Gandhi was thrown off a train how did he choose to deal with prejudice?
  6. From 1893-1906 Gandhi worked to change laws against prejudice.  Why did this method fail? What did the British in South Africa do when a law was changed?
 7. After the Zulu War in 1906 Gandhi no longer viewed himself as British.  Gandhi took a vow of bramacheria.  Why did he choose celebacy (no sex) for the rest of his life? I think of his quote: "Be the change you want to see in the world."
 8. Who did Gandhi get to support his protest after Smuts marriage laws of 1919?
9. When Gandhi returned to India in 1915 he said "when you behave like worms you should be expected to be trampled on."  What did he mean?
10. Why did the Indian troops stop shooting into the crowd in the Armritsar massacre?

IV  Watch the last 21 minutes of the video Pilgrim of Peace and answer 8 of the questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncPJoGnyBw

 1.  300,000,000 Indians were ruled by 100,000 British.  Did Gandhi view the British as enemies? How did he stop a massacre of British after Armritsar?
 2. Why did Gandhi spin his own cloth?  What did he want to promote?
 3. Why did Gandhi often call off protest marches? What did he want to maintain?
 4. How did Gandhi's eldest son protest against his father and mother?
 5. The 1930 Salt March was how many miles to the sea? What product did Indians illegally manufacture?  Why?
6.  After his wife died why did Gandhi sometimes sleep with young, Hindu girls? What was he testing?
7.  When India gained independence why was Gandhi heartbroken?  Who was fighting?
8. How did Gandhi temporarily stop the violence between Hindus and Muslims?
9. What word was on Gandhi's lips when he was assassinated?
10 . What did MLK mean when he said "Christ gave me the message, Gandhi gave me the method."










Sunday, May 10, 2020

Q4 W2 World History Virtual Learning




CP 2 classes complete 2 of the 4 assignments (I,II,III,IV)
CP1 classes complete 3 of the 4 assignments
Honors classes complete 4 of 4 assignments
           Cut and paste the questions from the blog and share them in a google docs with me or write down your complete answers, take a photo and email it to me at  mstanton@plymouth.k12.ma.us

I.  Watch Mr. Clifford's movie review of Capitalism and The Hunger Games  and answer 5 of the questions that follow:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXzkAs_cf0

1. What is Katniss' opportunity cost of choosing Peta?  What best option did she lose?
2. What was Katniss special skill or her comparative advantage?  What should Peta have chosen even though Katniss was also better than him at this task?
3. Why is Panem not a capitalist nation?  Does it allow a free market?
4. How does the iphone show a weakness of capitalism?
5. Give one reason why Clifford states "Capitalism is still awesome."
6. What is income inequality? How does Clifford believe this problem can be solved?


II. Although Clifford believes the Hunger Games is an allegory about capitalism, I think the Hunger Games has more in common with Fascism(Mussolini and Hitler)  and New Imperialism (1850-1914)after the Industrial Revolution. The economy of Panem was based on exploitation, and explotation is the basis of New Imperialism and Fascism.
Watch the Imperialism crash course and answer 8 of the questions that follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJaltUmrGo

1. Europe wanted these three goods from China:  rhubarb, silk and _________
2. Besides silver, what product did the British trade  because the Chinese wanted no Western goods.
3.   What animal did the Chinese want to attach fireworks to and launch onto British ships?
4.What Chinese city did the British recieve after the Treaty of Nanjing? 
5. What European revolution allowed Europe to dominate Asia and Africa?
6. Finish the children's book statement: "C is for colonies, rightly we boast, that of all great countries  _______    ___________ has the most."
7. Before the Industrial Revolution why couldn't Europe bring horses into Africa?  What technology replaced horses to allow African imperialism?
8. What did Hiram Maxim invent that allowed for domination of Africa?
9. How did the British use indirect rule in India?  How were 1,000 British able to control 300 million Indians?
10. Complete the following   " thanks to imperialsm
       bananas are______________
       call centers are in _______________
       and everything else comes from __________________
11. Bonus question:  What was the only empire able to defeat Afghanistan?  (Hint, they are Green's favorite topic on Crash Course)

III. Watch John Green's Crash Course: Asian responses to New Imperialism (1850-1914)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxmWfbXS4Pw
Answer 6  of the questions
   1. Match each intellectual from the Asian area they are from
      ___China                             A. Rabindrawath Tagore
      ___ Middle East                  B. Sayyid Jamal Ad Din Al Afghani
      ___ India                              C. Liang Qichao
2.  Green identifies in his thought bubble why Europe was able to dominate Africa and Asia in the era of New Imperialism (1850-1914). What 3 things did Asia need to reform if it were to compete with Europe and the West?
3. What did Aurobindo Ghose warn India would lose if they surrendered to European materialism?
4.  What two items does Green have in his hands when he describes European materialism?
  Is there any irony in that segment?
5. Japan modernized, but why was its modernization not a great model for other European states?
6. What type of rulers is Green's Open Letter dedicated to?  Why do people turn to these leaders in crisis?
7. Did Gandhi (more on him next week) accept or reject Western materialism?
8.  Complete the statement:  Imperialism extracted resources, but spread ________ and pluralism, and the nation state.


IV.  Watch these two videos and answer the 3 questions
Denmark, happiest place on earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9vdMTbRG4

1.  Bullet three reasons why Social Democratic Demank has been called one of the happiest places on earth for the last 40 years?   How stressful is life in Demark? What did you think of the truckdriver?

 Watch why is Scandanavia so expensive?   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VJX2W3O9Ek

Two acronyms you should know:  VAT- value added tax (a national sales tax on purchaces)
 OECD- Organization for Economic Cooperating Development (an international organization)
2. Bullet  3 reasons life in  Scandanavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland) is so expensive.
      What is paid for by the governments that costs so much?
3.  Bernie Sanders wants to bring this democratic socialist system to the US.
 Do you think :  A. it could work in the US?  Why or why not? (do we have Danish truckdrivers?)
                          B.  Is it  worth the cost?  Would you want to live in this type of economy?




Sunday, May 3, 2020

4th quarter week 1 Remote Learning due May 10th

CP2 complete 2 of the following
CP1 complete 3 of the following
Honors complete all 4 of the following

I. The Industrial Revolution Brought many changes to society.  We have seen  the emergence of winners, the bourgeoisie,   and  second place finishers, the exploited and oppressed proletariat.
How does this compare to todays changes in the world economy?
Watch Mr. Clifford's (not the Red team) review of the Lion King and answer the questions that follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyQuNZVJGc#action=share
Answer 5 of the questions in complete sentences

    1.  Define or give an example from the video of creative destruction. What happened to Blockbuster or Toys R Us?
   2. Why do most economists think bailing out failing businesses by the government is not good policy?
   3. Complete the statement and answer the question:
    Free enterprise capitalism creates winners and __________________.
    What do the losers often want the government to do for them?
  4.  Simba learned if he just focused on the past what did he miss? What is the lesson from the movie?
  5.  How best should we prepare for the future? Should we focus on the impact of how globalization and trade took American factory jobs?  Or should we do something else?
6. What did you think of Clifford's movie review? Why did you like it or dislike it?

II. Watch this short video explaining three of the ISMs that emerged from the Industrial Revolution:
    Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53vmQNVBm0w
Answer 5 of the questions that follow in complete sentences when possible
1.   Match each of the following to who owns the wealth (means of production) in each system
   _____ Capitalism                                          a.  the workers own the wealth
  ______ Socialism                                           b. individuals own the wealth
   _____ Communism                                       c. the government owns the wealth
2.  Why did Karl Marx (the guy with the beard) criticize capitalism?   Who did he blame for causing the exploitation of the workers?  What two systems did Marx want to replace Capitalism?
3. Why does Socialism tend to be less productive than Capitalism?
4.  Who tends to take over socialist systems and refuse to give up power?
5. Where is capitalism and socialism combined in Europe?
6.   In the US the word socialism is hated by many.  Why do you think this is the case?  Why do many individuals fear socialism?  What are they afraid will happen to their rights and property?  Do you agree or disagree?  Explain your answer.

III. Watch John Greens Crash Course on Nationalism where loyalty to the king would be replaced by loyalty to the country.  You may have to rewind the video to the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nosq94oCl_M&t=429s

  Bullet 5 facts from the video
  Answer 5 of the following
  1.  A big part of being Irish is not being _________________
  2. Before the Civil War, how did most people in the US view themselves?
  3. Why do you think stability is one of the most valued of government virtues?
  4. What American Admiral forced Japan open in 1854? Matthew____________
  5. According to Green why do public schools exist?  How do they benefit those who do not have children in school or go to school themselves?
  6.. Why do you think nation states thrive on conflict?  How does fighting another nation impact a nation?


IV.  Watch the Washington Post video on the Novel Corona Virus  (Mrs. King will love this video)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/health-science/the-novel-coronavirus-is-a-master-of-disguise-heres-how-it-works/2020/05/01/70b98db0-ca93-4dfc-859d-3ac026cf6d1b_video.html?itid=hp_hp-banner-main_virusvideo-615pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

1. Describe human relationships with virus in the past.  How did virus help to make us?
2. What is SARS,  and MERS? Where did they originate?
3.  When Covid 19 is called  zoonotic, what does that mean?
4.  Why is it good news that Covid 19 is not mutating quickly?
5.  Is knowing about the causes of Covid 19 more or less comforting to you?  Explain your answer.

                      --------------------------OR-------------------------------------------------------

IV. Read the Boston Globe Story: How will coronavirus change the way we shop
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/26/business/how-will-coronavirus-change-way-we-shop/

1. Bullet 5 of the 10 changes that the Globe story predicts will occur after the Covid 19 lockdown lifts.
2. Think about Clifford's points on winners and losers being part of capitallism.  Do you think the government should step in to save malls?  Explain your answer.------------------------


Sunday, April 26, 2020

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

Sunday, April 19, 2020

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   


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
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? 








Saturday, April 11, 2020

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







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?