Wednesday, October 31, 2007

October 31


I gave you a reading today on First Nations in Canada, from Early Contact to Residential Schools. You are to read this booklet and answer the "Reconnect" questions in the booklet for homework tonight. Whatever you didn't finish in class is for homework. We also split up into our Imperialism Research Project groups for the remainder of the period, we will continue to do this tomorrow.


For most of the class we watched a film called "Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas)" a movie about the widespread Christmas truce that occurred along the Western Front in December 1914 (the first Christmas of the war). This movie was nominated for the Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards a couple of years back. We will finish it on Friday. Please remember that you have your Imperialism Unit Final tomorrow. Here is the study guide:
You need to do the following to be successful on this test:

  • read Chapters 10-11
  • study "The Imperial Age" PowerPoint presentation
  • study the African Colonies map
  • study the "Imperialism in Action" booklet (there are key terms in there that you need to know well)
  • study the "Motives for Imperialism" booklet

Here is the study guide for the Imperialism Unit Final:

  • What is imperialism?
  • "Old" imperialism vs. "New" imperialism
  • The role of the Industrial Revolution in Imperialism
  • Imperialism in Asia
  • Imperialism in Africa
  • "Scramble for Africa" (map of Africa), study your map!
  • Egypt and the Nile (Suez Canal, Muhammad Ali, importance of the Suez Canal
  • Central Africa-Congo (Belgian Congo, Livingstone, Stanley, Leopold II)
  • The French in the Congo (Brazzaville, Timbuktu)
  • The German empire in Africa
  • Fashoda Crisis (French vs. British, know details)
  • Berlin Congress (this congress is called due in part to King Leopold II of Belgium's actions in Africa)
  • South Africa (know details of the invasion of Zululand, and The Boer War)
  • Key People (ex. Cecil Rhodes), Key Events (ex. scramble for Africa, Opium Wars) in Imperialism

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

can u please tell us what exactly you mean by "key people/key events"? thanx (social 20)

Anonymous said...

do we have to memorize the african colony map? what do we have to know about the map?

Anonymous said...

umm...i kinda didnt read ch-11, n now i dont have time. it would be a real help if you could tell meh what is important from ch-11. thanks a lot...(soc 20)

Anonymous said...

wasnt leopoldville a part of the belgian congo, and brazzaville a part of french equatorial africa?

Anonymous said...

yesterday, u answered like 40 questions, and u havent even answered one 2day.....0_0....seems like u only care about ur social 10s.....btw, what do we have 2 know about the opium wars??

Anonymous said...

i cant seem to find anything about the opium wars in the book....where do i get info on that?

Anonymous said...

for imperialism in asia and africa, do we have to read in detail (ie from the book), or is it alright if we just study from your ppt presentation?

Anonymous said...

where are you mr G... chapter 11 doesnt seems to contain any info on imperialism unit final.. except japan..do we have to know about details of chapter 11 ?