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...)
Friday, February 29, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
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.
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.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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
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
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Homework Due Tuesday 2/19
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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.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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.
Monday, February 4, 2008
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