We watched an excerpt of
"Saving Private Ryan" today to illustrate the type of conditions soldiers faced during the Normandy invasion in WWII. You also wrote your Economics Test today. This weekend would be a great time to get some work done on your
TOK group presentations and
extended essays, don't you think?
I had you do short presentations on your assigned individual from the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Scientific Revolution or the Enlightenment today. I also had you hand this assignment in at the end of the period. We also started watching a video on the collision of cultures that occurred with the colonization and settlement of North America. If you are interested in this topic you can watch a great PBS documentary on the subject called
"When Worlds Collide".
You can watch the documentary online here. There is an emphasis in that documentary on the developments of Latino culture in the Americas, post-colonization. Your
History of the Americas textbook also covers this subject (pages 12-21). You have two
homework assignments this weekend, bot of which are on the wiki in the Unit 3 section. You will have to download a couple of documents and complete the questions that go with the readings. One of the readings is rather short and discusses the colonial period in North America and how it was transnational in nature. The other article is called
"The Settlement and Colonization of North America" with has an emphasis on Spanish, French and Dutch colonization of North America. Next week we'll look at the Jamestown settlement.
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