October 2

Social 20-1

We watched a short documentary video from the CBS World War I series called "Trench Warfare". You had some class time to work on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions (which are due on Friday). Please remember that you have your Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow, you can still find the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Please make sure that you read the Causes of World War I in your blue study booklet before Friday's class. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Monday, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

You will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, October 7th. It is 75 multiple choice questions. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. These are the presentations that you should review:

1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Era
4. Contending Loyalties

Know the key concepts from the Unit 1 Worksheet (a lot of them have been defined on the wiki by your classmates, check under Unit 1 Key Terms). If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them to test.

• nation
• nation-state
• nationalism
• patriotism
• self-determination
• sovereignty
• sovereign
• civic nation
• civic nationalism
• ethnic nationalism
• collective consciousness
• French Revolution
• Estates-General
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• cahiers de doléances
• Ancien Régime
• bourgeoisie
• feudal system
• philosophes
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• National Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath
• constitutional monarchy
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• National Convention
• levée en masse
• Robespierre
• Danton
• Marat
• Reign of Terror
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Code
• Continental System
• contending loyalties
• cultural pluralism
• reasonable accommodation
• sovereignists
• federalists
• royal commission
• expressions of nationalism
• non-nationalist loyalty
• alienation
• segregation

Social 30-1

I went through some tips on how to analyze political cartoons. You'll be doing an in-class writing assignment on Friday in which you'll pick a political cartoon to write an analysis of it. You'll get 30 minutes to write your analysis. I went through the Great Depression in the USA handout today, and gave you some notes on the board. If you missed class today, please get the notes that you missed from a classmate. I also gave you some booklets on mixed economies and democratic socialism in Sweden. Please make sure that you read and highlight these booklets. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday.

IB 30/35

We continued to watch Ken Burns' "The Civil War" today, specifically Episode 5 "The Universe of Battle" which covered the Battle of Gettysburg in great detail as well as the Battle of Vicksburg. These two battles were key to securing victory for the Union in the Civil War. In this episode you might remember that Ken Burns had an interview Daisy Turner (at the time she was 104 years old) whose father was a former black slave who fought in the Civil War. During her segments of the episode she was seen reciting a poem called "Dear Madam". If you're interested you can see the poem in its entirety below. Burns linked passages of the poem to what was happening in the key battle of this episode, the Battle of Gettysburg. Your Episode 5 Questions aren't due tomorrow, since we didn't finish off the episode. We'll finish off Episode 5 tomorrow, and you'll get to hear the Gettysburg Address. Then we'll skip to Episode 8 of The Civil War. You need to finish off "The American Civil War" PowerPoint on your own, since I won't have time to deliver it in class.

Dear Madam

author unknown

          I am a soldier and my speech is rough and plain
          I'm not much used to writing and I hate to give you pain
          But I promised I would do it and he thought it might be so
          If it came from one who loved him perhaps it would ease the blow
          By this time you must have guessed the truth I fain will hide
          And you'll pardon me for rough soldier words while I tell you how he died

          It was in the mortal battle, it rained the shot and shell
          I was standing close beside him and I saw him when he fell
          So I took him in my arms and laid him on the grass
          It was going against orders but they thought to let it pass
          'Twas a mini ball that struck him, it entered at his side
          But we didn't think it fatal till this morning when he died

          "Last night I wanted so to live, I seemed so young to go.
          This week I passed my birthday. I was just nineteen, you know.
          When I thought of all I planned to do it seemed so hard to die
          But now I pray to God for grace and all my cares gone by."
          And here his voice grew weaker as he partly raised his head
          And whispered "Goodbye, mother," and your soldier boy was dead

          I carved another headboard as skillful as I could
          And if you wish to find it I can tell you where it stood
          I send you back his hymn book and the cap he used to wear
          The lock I cut the night before of his bright, curly hair
          I send you back his Bible. The night before he died
          I turned its leaves together and read it by his side
          I'll keep the belt he was wearing, he told me so to do
          It had a hole upon the side just where the ball went through

          So now I've done his bidding, there's nothing more to tell
          But I shall always mourn with you the boy we loved so well