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.

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

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

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.

Week of February 27, 2017

Welcome back from break and happy Mardi Gras Week.  Why is Tuesday called Fat Tuesday in New Orleans and Carnival in Brazil?

We  will present our power points this week in class.  Remember to include slides on background, obstacles, accomplishments and legacy of your person.  Did they do more to change society or were they products of their time period? 

Honors reading on Rum and its impact is due this Thursday.

Homework due next week:

17(2) Enlightenment Ideas Spread (550-555) 

Identify five of the terms, people, and places Read the Witness History (550) What does reason, tolerance, and love overcome in the Magic Flute? 
Look at the picture on 551, why did writers hide their feelings in satire?
Read the infographic (552-3), how does Rococo Art differ from Baroque Art?
Who are the three enlightened despots pictured on page 554?
Read about Operas on page 556, answer question #1.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR question #3-6 on page 555 Or three bullets/section.

17(3) Birth of the American Republic (557-563) (double hw grade)

Identify five of the terms, people, and places
Read Witness History (557) What was the point of Paine's Common Sense?
Look at map skills (558) Answer question #3.
What three men are pictured on page 559?  What did they write?
Read the three biographies on page 560. Answer the bold questions at the bottom of each reading.
Who is the focus of the picture on page 561?
What three branches are pictured on page 562?
Read the Bill of Rights (563) Why do you think they had to be added as amendments to the US Constitution?
Answer  the 5 checkpoint questions OR #3-6 on page 563 or 3 bullets/section.

Week of February 13, 2017

One week until February break,  keep doing your job.

We will be in the IMC this week to research our biographical assignment.
After we determine who you will present your power point must include:
Background information.  Who is your person and what is he most known for?
What obstacles did they have to overcome, both personally and in their field
What was their accomplishment(s)?
What legacy do they have today? What is the significance of their invention/discovery/achievement?

100 most influential people Week of February 6, 2017

"Adopt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative."  H.G. Wells
Choose a person who changed world history.
Identify their  background, obstacles, accomplishments and impact on world history.
We will present your findings on a powerpoint to be presented the week of February 27th.
We will choose from the list in the class.

http://rhsweb.org/library/1000PeopleMillennium.htm

A & E's Biography: 100 Most Influential People of the Millennium

1 Johann Gutenberg (mass media--movable type for printing)
2 Isaac Newton (gravity)
3 Martin Luther (Protestant Reformation)
4 Charles Darwin (evolutionist writer)
5 William Shakespeare (Renaissance playwright)
6 Christopher Columbus (explorer)
7 Karl Marx (19th c. political writer)
8 Albert Einstein (physicist)
9 Nicolaus Copernicus (astromony)
10 Galileo Galilei (astromony)
11 Leonardo da Vinci (for science)
12 Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis)
13 Louis Pasteur (bacteria)
14 Thomas Edison (inventor)
15 Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president, Declaration of Independence)
16 Adolf Hitler (Nazi leader during WWII)
17 M. Gandhi (led peaceful revolution in modern India)
18 John Locke (17th c. philosopher)
19 Michaelangelo (Renaissance artist/sculptor)
20 Adam Smith (18th c. Scottish philosopher and economist)
21 George Washington (1st US president, General of Revolutionary War)
22 Ghengis Khan (12th c Mongul conqueror)
23 Abraham Lincoln (16th US president)
24 St. Thomas Acquinas (Catholic philosopher)
25 James Watt (Scottish inventor; steam engine)
*26 W A Mozart (great Classic composer)
27 Napoleon (French general, president and self-proclaimed emperor)
*28 JS Bach (great Baroque composer)
29 H. Ford (mass production of automobile)
*30 Beethoven (great late Classic/early Romantic composer)
31 WatsonCrick (DNA)
32 Descartes (philosopher)
33 ML King Jr (US civil rights leader)
34 Rousseau (great philosopher of French "Enlightenment")
35 N. Lenin (Russian political lewader/writer)
36 A Fleming (pen)
37 Voltaire (great philosopher of French "Enlightenment")
38 Francis Bacon (deductive reasoning)
39 Dante Alighieri (Medieval writer)
40 Wright Bros. (first human flight)
41 Bill Gates (computer software giant)
42 Mendel (genetics)
43 Mao Tsedung (1st Chairman of Chinese Communist party)
44 A G Bell (telephone)
45 William the Conquerer (11th c. leader of Normans and English)
46 Machiavelli (political philospher)
47 Charles Babbage (17th c. early "computer" pioneer)
48 Mary Wollstonecraft (women's rights)
49 Gorbachev (1st Soviet premier to establish good relations with US)
50 Margaret Sanger (crusader for birth control legislation)
51 Edward Jenner (vaccination)
52 Churchill (Prime Minister of Britain during WWII)
53 Marie Curie (radioactivity)
54 Marco Polo (explorer)
55 F. Magellan (explorer)
56 E. Stanton (womens rights)
*57 Elvis Presley (first major icon of Rock and Roll)
58 Joan of Arc (French religious martyr)
59 I. Kant (philosopher)
60 FD Roosevelt (longest serving US President)
61 M. Faraday (chemist/physicist; electricity & magnetism)
62 Walt Disney (early animation)
63 Jane Austen (writer)
64 Pablo Picasso (painter)
65 Werner Heisenberg (physicist; "uncertainty principle")
66 D W Griffith (film)
67 Vlad Zworkin (TV/RCA)
68 Ben Franklin (inventor, writer, statesman)
69 William Harvey (blood circulation)
70 Pope Gregory VII (separated church & state)
71 Harriet Tubman (underground railroad)
72 Simon Bolivar (great South American general and freedom fighter)
73 Princess Diana (human rights)
74 Enrico Fermi (nuclear physicist; quantum theory)
75 Pincus (birth control pill)
*76 The Beatles (most influential band in rock history)
77 Thomas Hobbes (17th c. philosopher)
78 Queen Isabella I (supporter of Columbus' voyages)
79 Joseph Stalin (ruthless Russian leader during WWII)
80 Elizabeth I (Queen of England in late Renaissance)
81 Nelson Mandela (imprisoned leader against Apartheid)
82 Niels Bohr (atom)
83 Peter the Great (Russian Czar)
84 Marconi (radio)
85 Ronald Reagan (40th US President)
86 James Joyce (author)
87 Carson (environment)
88 Oppenheimer (atomic bomb)
89 Susan B. Anthony (US women's suffrage)
90 Daguerre (photo)
91 Spielberg (film)
92 Florence Nightingale (medicine)
93 Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights)
94 Patient Zero (1st AIDS victim)
95 Chaplan (film)
*96 Caruso (famous singer and early recording star)
97 Salk (polio vaccine)
*98 Louis Armstrong (great jazz trumpeter and scat singer)
99 Vasco de Gama (explorer)
100 Suleyman I (greatest Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)