Aftermath of World War I

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Get freebies (2 pointer) on the upcoming Test

One freebie for each part.
Part I: Summarize this article. (At least one paragraph--four sentences)
Part II: Define terms: Antietam, Robert E. Lee, Battle of Cold Harbor, and Jubal Early
Part III: Which side do you take in this debate? Progress or Preservation? Explain why in a two paragraph essay.

Civil War battlefields endangered by development
By Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — The site of the single bloodiest day in American history is under siege — threatened by a 120-foot cellphone tower, says a preservation group.

The vast field in western Maryland is where the Battle of Antietam was fought on Sept. 17, 1862. It's one of the 10 most endangered Civil War battlefields, according to an annual report released Wednesday from the Civil War Preservation Trust.

The list includes other historic sites in Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee.

"In almost all cases, it is suburban sprawl that threatens these battlefields," said Jim Lighthizer, president of the trust. "We're not against development, but we're for thoughtful, sensitive growth that takes cognizance of the assets in the community."

The Battle of Antietam ended Gen. Robert E. Lee's first attempt to invade the north. It resulted in nearly 23,000 casualties — about 3,700 killed, 17,300 wounded and 1,800 captured or missing. The casualties over a 12-hour period shocked the nation.

The trust says the site is virtually devoid of visual intrusions, giving visitors a sense of the battlefield as it was in 1862. The cell tower, it says, would rise 30 feet above the tree line and be seen from almost all of the site's most famous vantage points — including Lee's headquarters.

Another major concern for the trust is the Cedar Creek Battlefield in Virginia, where Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early attacked Union forces in the fall of 1864. Union troops, however, were able to rally and defeat the Confederates. The trust says the site is facing a triple threat: expansion of a limestone mining operation, possible widening of I-81 and the proposed inclusion in a plan to expand power line construction.

Intense development pressure in the Richmond, Va., area is the reason the Cold Harbor battlefield is on the list. The 1864 battle saw heavily entrenched Confederate forces repel repeated attacks from a Union army nearly twice its number.

Only 300 of the battlefield's 7,500 acres have been preserved, the trust said. It said a county plan would double the housing density allowed in the area, encouraging more development.

The other endangered sites on the list are: Perryville, Ky.; Prairie Grove, Ark.; Hunterstown, Pa.; Monocacy, Md.; Natural Bridge, Fla.; Savannah, Ga., and Spring Hill, Tenn.

With its more than 60,000 members, the trust said it was able to save more than 1,600 acres at legendary battlefields last year. It cost about $14 million to buy the land, said Lighthizer.

The trust is the nation's largest non-profit battlefield preservation group.

Blood, Mud, and Tarmac

If you are not in class Tuesday (4/8) here is the video we watched, the worksheet is attached.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

One free question on the next test for this...

Sufficiently (that means at least one page) summarize the history of Apartheid in South Africa using these sites/tools.
Turn in two things: Your summary (one page, double spaced 12 point font) and copies of the articles printed off. Do that, and you can have one fill in the blank freebie on the upcoming test next week.

Good luck.

History of Apartheid: Part 1

Part 2 History of Apartheid

Part III History of Apartheid

Part IV: The Fall of Apartheid in S. Africa

Guns, Germs and Steel

Watch them all, starting at the top and moving to the bottom.

Friday's Class Notes: 2/29/2008

Causes of Imperialism and A Short Documentary on the Maxim Machine Gun (or, how Europeans took over Africa--and much of the rest of the world, as well...)

Homework (and an Extra-Credit Chance)

HOMEWORK: Due THIS Monday (2/25) is to do the Review questions on p. 466. The better you do on them, the better your group will do during Jeopardy on Monday and the better you will do on the test come Tuesday.



Extra-Credit Opportunity
Also, if you listen to ALL three movements of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, the video I have posted, you can earn up to 5 extra credit points. An additional 5 points can be earned by listening to all of Modest Mussorgsky's (another 19th century Russian composer) "Night on Bald Mountain" for a total of 10 points.

Advice: Make sure to press play on all three videos, then pause the second and third one and start them at your convenience. That way you won't have to wait while the video lags while it uploads...










Copy and print off the following form:




"I certify that my son/daughter listened to all three movements of P.I. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto 1 in their entirety on the class website: www.honorshistory.blogspot.com"



______________________________________________________________
(Parent)



______________________________________________________________
(Student)



The Modest Mussorgsky score "Night on Bald Mountain" was used by Walt Disney in the movie Fantasia. This is it. Click on the link below to watch the video and have your parent sign off on the sheet below to receive credit.

Night on Bald Mountain

"I certify that my son/daughter listened to all of Modest Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" on the class website: www.honorshistory.blogspot.com"



______________________________________________________________
(Parent)



______________________________________________________________
(Student)





Have a great weekend.

Assignment: Read Stories by Anton Chekhov

DUE Friday: 2/20/2008
The stories by A. Chekhov can be found here:

Death of a Clerk
Small Fry
The Malefactor

The Assignment. Due Friday.

Name:__________________________

Period:__________________________

Date:__________________________

Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
20 points Total.
1.) Define and use the following ten words from Death of a Clerk in a sentence: (5 points total; ½ point for each full response. ¼ point for a definition and ¼ point for using the word in a sentence)
Acme:

Bliss:

Reprehensible:

Fiendish:

Breach:

Frivolous:

Queerly:

Lachrymose:

Fanfaron:

Jove:

2.) Answer the following questions relating to “Small Fry”: (Five Points Total. One point for each response)
A. What did you like best, if anything, about ‘Small Fry?’

B. What makes this story about ‘Small Fry:’
pun (pŭn)
(n. A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.)

C. What do you think of Nevyrazimov?

D. Does Nevyrazimov know where America is?

E. Nevyrazimov seems to be a very unsatisfied, disconsolate individual. In your textbook, using Section 4 of Ch. 16, name another disconsolate group of people who influenced Russian history:

3.) Continue the story of the Malefactor. Write what happens after the stammering malcontent is led away using at least 2 paragraphs for full credit.
(10 points total. 5 points for each full paragraph)



Classwork: (Listening to the 1812 Overture and Reading Mikhael Lermontov's poem about The Battle of Borodino

Listen to the Overture (using real 1812 French cannons) here:
At Wikipedia

Reform and Revolution in Russia

Part I: Russia. Gendarme of Europe



Part II

Homework Due Tuesday 2/19

Have read Section 4 of Chapter 16 (Reform and Revolution in Russia.
Complete and turn in questions 1, 2, and 4 in the Section Review.

The Ems Dispatch Homework

The Ems Dispatch

There were two stories in this historical episode. But in reality, only one story was given to the worldwide Press and as a result France declared war on Prussia. In the end, France was completely defeated, forced to hand over two of its richest provinces (Alsace-Lorraine) and made to pay a massive indemnity to Prussia for the cost of the war. In a way, as you will see when the class moves on, this Dispatch set off a chain of events that only ended with the suicide of Adolph Hitler in his Berlin bunker some 74 years later.

The Unedited version sent to Bismarck:
His Majesty the King has written to me:
Count Benedetti intercepted me on the promenade and ended by demanding of me in a very importunate manner that I should authorize him to telegraph at once that I bound myself in perpetuity never again to give my consent if the Hohenzollerns renewed their candidature. I rejected this demand somewhat sternly as it is neither right nor possible to undertake engagements of this kind [for ever and ever]. Naturally I told him that I had not yet received any news and since he had been better informed via Paris and Madrid than I was, he must surely see that my government was not concerned in the matter.
[The King, on the advice of one of his ministers] decided in view of the above-mentioned demands not to receive Count Benedetti any more, but to have him informed by an adjutant that His Majesty had now received [from Leopold] confirmation of the news which Benedetti had already had from Paris and had nothing further to say to the ambassador.
His Majesty suggests to Your Excellency that Benedetti's new demand and its rejection might well be communicated both to our ambassadors and to the Press.
Bismarck's published, doctored version
After the news of the renunciation of the Prince von Hohenzollern had been communicated to the Imperial French government by the Royal Spanish government, the French Ambassador in Ems made a further demand on His Majesty the King that he should authorize him to telegraph to Paris that His Majesty the King undertook for all time never again to give his assent should the Hohenzollerns once more take up their candidature. His Majesty the King thereupon refused to receive the Ambassador again and had the latter informed by the adjutant of the day that His Majesty had no further communication to make to the Ambassador.



On a separate sheet of paper answer the following questions:

1.) Explain the difference between the two Ems dispatches?



2.) Why would both French and Prussian readers feel their side had been insulted by the doctored Bismarck version of the story and not the original?



3.) Do you think that France would have been less likely to declare war on Prussia if they had seen the original, unedited version of the Ems Dispatch? Why?


4.) Using the definition below, explain how Bismarck’s doctoring of the Ems story was an example of Realpolitik:
realpolitik [(ray-ahl-poh-li-teek)]: Governmental policies based on hard, practical considerations rather than on moral or idealistic concerns. Realpolitik is German for “the politics of reality” and is often applied to the policies of nations that consider only their own interests in dealing with other countries.

The Isms Begin

Extra-Credit Assignment: Listen to Classical Music+Do a Biography.

Extra-credit assignment


Do the following:
Go to one of the following sites and listen to at least 10 minutes of music by any ONE composer listed below...of course, I'd love you to tell me you listened to more than just that....:
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Here
Joseph Haydn:
Here
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Here
Gioachino Antonio Rossini:
Here


Or watch Beethoven's 9th Symphony in its entirety here:






Part I:
Then, print this paper off. With your parent/guardian sign that you listened to 10 minutes of one song by one of the composers below. Earn 10 (ten) extra credit points by turning this in. The points will count, however, only if all in-class/homework assignments are also completed.



Student’s Name

_____________________________________________


Parent’s Name


_____________________________________________



Part II:
THEN On the back, write a short biography of the composer (chose from one of the four above) with the following clearly stated:
When and where was the composer born?
What were his greatest works?
What were two of his character traits (i.e., for Beethoven, you might mention he was deaf...)?
What did you like best about his music?
Is writing a symphony a massive work, to you?
Could Britney Spears compose a symphony? (Remember, a composer like Beethoven had to create the music for up to seventy different members of the symphony orchestra and up to twenty different instruments...)

(To read some more about the numbers involved in writing a symphony go Here

Example of an inventor brief

John Fowler (1826-1864) was famous for his invention of the steam powered plough. In 1858 he won the prize from the Royal Agricultural Society of England (John Fowler and the A7 Traction Engine, http://www.gooch.org.uk/steam/history/fowler.htm) for his creation. In the Society’s explanation for why they gave him the prize, they wrote, "It is beyond question that Mr. Fowler’s machine is able to turn over the soil and in an efficient manner at a saving compared with horse labour; while in all cases it is left in a far more desirable condition and better adapted for all the purposes of husbandry..." Not only was Fowler’s steam powered plow able to turn as much earth as a horse, it was also useful for draining swamplands—the furrows it dug were deep enough to act as drainage ditches, making unusable land cultivable (Today in Science History, ).
The economic case for… …steam cultivation was given…by David Greig in September 1867:
All treading and compression of the soil and sub-soil associated with horse cultivation is…entirely avoided and the implement is driven at a much more rapid pace, throwing up the soil to a greater depth and in a loose state enabling it to derive full benefit from the influences of the atmosphere (History of Steam Plowing, http://www.steamploughclub.org.uk/history.htm)
When he died in 1864, he left an invention which eventually changed the way agriculture had been done for thousands of years. The horse was replaced by the machine.

Remember!
3-5 Sources cited.
As close to 200 words as possible.
Focuses on on topic (a social change on Day 1, and an inventor on Day 2)
Quotes/Citations used.
No grammatical errors.

Links to Industrial Revolution Project...

Find social movements and social changes here:

http://www.guhsd.net/mcdowell/wq/ir/links.htm

Find inventors here:

http://www.guhsd.net/mcdowell/wq/ir/inventions.htm
and here:
http://www.jennermuseum.com/sv/smallpox2.shtml