Showing posts with label French Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Revolution. Show all posts

Monday, September 23, 2019

September 23


You went down to the Business Office to pick up the textbooks that you're going to need moving forward in the IB History course. We finished off the lecture on "The League of Nations" today. Please check out the Paper 2 page on the IB 30/35 wiki tonight, and go over your IB command terms, and prescribed content for tomorrow's quiz. The WW I Quiz will have 15-20 multiple choice questions and a short answer question. The rough draft of your IA is due on September 30th. 



I went through the differences between argumentation and evidence today. Tomorrow, we'll talk about the recipe for success for writing WRA II Essays. Make sure that you have gone through the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution sections of the lecture on "The Development of Classical Liberalism" that I delivered last week.  




We finished off the lecture on "The Development of Canadian Confederation" today. Tomorrow, we'll be talking Quebecois nationalism. Make sure that you work on your French Revolution DBA Assignment, it's due on Wednesday, September 25th (I've corrected this date on the blog). Your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due in one week. 

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

October 10


We finished watching "Inequality for All" today. If you missed today's class or yesterday's class, it is advisable to have the graphics package with you and watch the film from the YouTube link below. We moved on to democratic socialism today, and the mixed economy. We'll look at a few countries that employ "the Nordic model".



We continued looking at how to write a position paper. I gave you a booklet called "the recipe for success" today, which is essentially a writing guide for WRA II essays. I also gave you the essay question for this Friday's essay. You'll write the first paragraph on Friday, and then finish off the essay on Monday.


I gave you a cross class booking form for our Holocaust guest speaker that is coming in on October 25th. Please give this form to your Period 3 teacher to sign. We started the French Revolution today, and we'll talk about the causes in tomorrow's class.

Friday, February 16, 2018

February 16

Sorry, it looks like I forgot to post on Wednesday. Here's what happened in class:



For most of the class we talked about media consolidation and the big 6 media TNCs that produce 90% of the content that you consume. If you missed class today, make sure that you get the "Media Giants and Me" notes from a classmate. Please don't forget that your universalization and hybridization assignment is due on Wednesday, February 21st. Please see the notes below on how to cite the images that you use in your project. Also, don't forget that you have your Chapter 1-2 Test on Thursday, February 22nd, the study guide is posted below.



Most of you will probably use Google for your image search. Just type in your image search term. I typed in The Holocaust. 





A bunch of different images will pop up. Just click on one that you like. I clicked on the first image and a pop-up screen will show you the image more closely. 



Click on "View Image". In the address bar you will see a specific URL for the image. This is what you need for your image citation. It should end in either .jpg or .png. or .svg or some other file extension that indicates that it is an image file. 



If you're working in Microsoft Word, click on the References tab. You can select the Style of citation here (MLA, Chicago, APA, etc.). If you need to insert an in-text citation, you click on Insert Citation. If you want to start building a Bibliography, you can Insert Citation or Manage Sources.



You'll get a pop-up dialogue box like the one pictured below. I filled in the fields for the image that I picked. There are also online citation machines available as well, such as EasyBib (http://www.easybib.com/)



  1. Study your Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms
  2. Review the case studies from the textbook in Chapters 1 and 2, specifically the Metis, the Francophones, the Hmong, and the Maori
  3. Be prepared to answer any of the "Questions for Inquiry" from Chapters 1 and 2 (they are on the following pages: p.9, p.14, p.20, p.29, p.35, p.39):
  • How does globalization affect economic aspects of people's lives?
  • How does globalization affect social aspects of people's lives?
  • How does globalization affect political aspects of people's lives?
  • What is the difference between individual and collective identity?
  • What is the relationship between identity and language?
  • How does cultural exchange shape people's identities?
4. Make sure that you can answer all of the chapter questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet



I off the lecture on the Napoleonic Age and showed you a video on Napoleon's invasion of Russia today as well. I will teach you the 19th century political spectrum on Tuesday. Don't forget that you're writing the Chapter 1-2 Test on Wednesday. Please check out the Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide below. 

You should also have a look at this timeline of key events in Napoleon's life that I made a few years ago on Timetoast: http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/3805

You could also check out this one that I made on the key events of the French Revolution: http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/3780

For both of these timelines, click on the slider button and drag it to advance through the years. 

This test will be on Wednesday, February 21st. The test has a matching section and ashort answer section.
  • Make sure that you have read both Chapter 1-2 from your textbook Exploring Nationalism
  • Study Chapter 1-2 Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
  • Study your answers to the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet for Chapter 1-2

Study the following PowerPoint presentations:

  • "Nation and Identity" (Chapter 1 material + supplementary material)
  • "Shaping Nationalism: The French Revolution" (Chapter 2 material + supplementary material; key terms from the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Glossary of Key Terms)
  • "The Napoleonic Age" (Chapter 2 material + supplementary material; key terms from the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Glossary of Key Terms)





I showed you a video from the History's Turning Points series on the Korean War. Please check your Google Drive for notes on the Korean War that I shared with you. Please print these notes out, read them, highlight them, and annotate them as well, then add them to your notebooks. I then started talking about the Truman administration. I'll be sharing the Truman administration lecture with you on Google Drive.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

February 13


We continued talking about the Cold War today, as I finished off my lecture that we started yesterday. We talked a little about the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Hungarian Revolution and the Prague Spring. We'll be talking about some of these events in far greater detail in the days and weeks to come. I will be sharing some more notes and lectures with you on Google Drive, so make sure that you're putting this in the correct folder in your Google Drive, namely Paper 2, World History Topic 12 (The Cold War).


We watched an A & E Biography on Napoleon Bonaparte today, and I started a lecture on the Napoleonic Age today as well. I should be able to finish off the Napoleonic Age lecture tomorrow, and then teach you the 19th century political spectrum. Please check out the Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide below. You should also have a look at this timeline of key events in Napoleon's life that I made a few years ago on Timetoast: http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/3805

 You could also check out this one that I made on the key events of the French Revolution: http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/3780


This test will be on Wednesday, February 21st. The test has a matching section and ashort answer section.
  • Make sure that you have read both Chapter 1-2 from your textbook Exploring Nationalism
  • Study Chapter 1-2 Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
  • Study your answers to the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet for Chapter 1-2

Study the following PowerPoint presentations:

  • "Nation and Identity" (Chapter 1 material + supplementary material)
  • "Shaping Nationalism: The French Revolution" (Chapter 2 material + supplementary material; key terms from the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Glossary of Key Terms)
  • "The Napoleonic Age" (Chapter 2 material + supplementary material; key terms from the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Glossary of Key Terms)


We finally finished watching "Whale Rider" today and talked about the film study questions. Yuo had some time to work on your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions, which are due in one week's time. We also finalized what your topics are for the hybridization and universalization project (due one week from tomorrow, February 21st).  On Thursday, February 22nd you will be writing your Chapter 1-2 Test, please see the study guide below.


  1. Study your Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms
  2. Review the case studies from the textbook in Chapters 1 and 2, specifically the Metis, the Francophones, the Hmong, and the Maori
  3. Be prepared to answer any of the "Questions for Inquiry" from Chapters 1 and 2 (they are on the following pages: p.9, p.14, p.20, p.29, p.35, p.39):
  • How does globalization affect economic aspects of people's lives?
  • How does globalization affect social aspects of people's lives?
  • How does globalization affect political aspects of people's lives?
  • What is the difference between individual and collective identity?
  • What is the relationship between identity and language?
  • How does cultural exchange shape people's identities?
   4. Make sure that you can answer the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet for these          


       chapters.


Tuesday, November 01, 2016

November 1

Better late than never...



You wrote your Chapter 5-6 Test yesterday (I'm in the process of marking it, it will take me a while to get both classes marked), and today we watched "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb". Tomorrow, you'll be watching an excerpt from "Saving Private Ryan" since we're looking at the D-Day landing on the beaches of Normandy.


You had time to work on your IA today, hopefully you took advantage of it. We're booked into the Blenheim again tomorrow, but please come to my classroom and then we'll go down to the lab together. Please remember that you have your French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test on Thursday. We're doing the current events quiz on Friday along with the four options debate on Saint Domingue (Haiti).



  • know the causes of the French Revolution (short term, long term, economic, political, social, intellectual)
  • know the structure of French society during the Old Regime
  • know Napoleon's domestic policy
  • know Napoleon's foreign policy (Continental System in particular)
  • know key battles in the Napoleonic Wars (results of the Battle of Trafalgar, Russian campaign, the Battle of Leipzig, and the Battle of Waterloo)
  • know chronology of key events in the French Revolution
  • know the chronology of key events in the Napoleonic Age
  • know the key players at the Congress of Vienna (country and representatives)
  • what were the major decisions of the Congress? what were the guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna
  • know the 19th century political spectrum (please see the graphic below; values and characteristics of the various positions on the spectrum; what groups are represented on the various positions on the spectrum?; what phases/accomplishments of the French Revolution are represented on the spectrum?)

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

October 18


The main issue that we covered today was the demands placed on Germany post-WWI to pay reparations to France, Britain and Belgium. We'll be moving into the rise of Adolf Hitler tomorrow.


We continued our examination of the French Revolution today by watching a History Channel documentary. We weren't able to finish it, so we'll continue it in tomorrow's class. I also gave you back your Paper 3 essays today. If you want to talk to me about these essays, please see me in tutorial (Tuesdays-Thursdays 8:15 pm to 8:55 pm). I've also activated the D2L shell so you can check your marks.

Monday, October 17, 2016

October 17


I did a quick review of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe), and then we looked at Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. We also did an activity called "Making Peace" in which you had to look at different statements and determine whether Wilson, Lloyd George or Clemenceau would have made the statement. You should read, highlight, and annotate the notes that I have in your Social 20-1 study booklet on the Interwar Years (1919-1939).


I finished off my PowerPoint lecture on the French Revolution today. Make sure that you print off and add to your binders a reading called "French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Glossary" from the IB 20 wiki.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

October 12


We did our WWI conference today, unfortunately in both classes war broke out. I'll be showing a BBC video tomorrow on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. If you're in my Period 4 class, I'll make sure to show you your marks on the Unit 1 Final Exam again because some of you had to rush out to get home.


We started the French Revolution today, and we'll continue with this lecture tomorrow. You will also be writing a current events quiz tomorrow. I'll also address some concerns regarding Friday's Paper 3.

Monday, February 09, 2015

February 9


I continued talking about essay writing today in class, specifically how to organize and structure your first paragraph. I also showed you the WRA II Essays page on the Social 30-1 wiki. You need to read over the sample essays on this page to get ideas on how to structure your essays, what argumentation you might use, and to get some ideas on evidence. We also started our film study of "Sicko". We'll continue this film tomorrow. Please remember that you are writing your Chapter 1-2 Test on Wednesday (February 11th). The study guide for your Chapter 1-2 Test is below, as is the study guide for the Unit 1 Final Exam. Please remember that your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

Important Upcoming Dates:
  • Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, February 11th
  • Unit 1 Final Exam is on Tuesday, February 17th
  • Unit 1 WRA II Essay is on Thursday, February 19th

The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, February 11th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short/long answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:

Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts:
  • ideology
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • John Locke
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • representative democracy
  • individualism
  • collectivism
  • private property
  • public property
  • ideology
  • radical
  • liberal
  • moderate
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • communism
  • socialism
  • liberalism
  • conservatism
  • fascism
  • adherence to collective norms
  • economic freedom
  • economic equality
  • rule of law
  • competition
  • individual rights and freedoms
  • cooperation
  • self-interest
  • Adam Smith
Other Study Tips:
  • you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
  • know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
  • what are the differences between communism and socialism
  • be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
  • be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
  • know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
  • know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Tuesday, February 17th. Make sure that you study the following:
  • Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms (please see the Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide for a list of terms) 
  • Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file, on the Social 30-1 wiki, and in your study booklets, pages 12-17)
  • Review Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (view of the nature of human beings, how society should be organized, people's role in society; notes on page 3 of your study booklet)
  • Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
  • Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
  • Study the political-economic grid
  • Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
  • Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet that is in your study booklets (pages 4-7)
  • you need to be able to apply your knowledge and understanding of these concepts/ideas
  • there are a lot of source-based questions on this exam! (there are references to Nazi Germany, the USSR)



I finished off the "French Revolution" PowerPoint lecture today. We'll start a video on the French Revolution from the History Channel tomorrow. Please remember that your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Please remember you are writing your World Geography Test on Wednesday, February 11th (please see the study guide below).


This test will take place on Wednesday, February 11th. It is simply a country identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:


  • any of the EU countries (there are 28 countries in the EU, a map of the EU is in your textbook on page 265, of course, it's a bit out of date)
  • any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
  • any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
  • full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
  • to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
  • other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Serbia, Georgia, China, India, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel
  • **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

October 28


You wrote your Chapter 5 Test today, so you'll get the results back tomorrow. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, November 6th. It's a lot of work, so start getting some of that work done tonight!


We finished looking at Napoleon Bonaparte today, by watching the A & E Biography "Napoleon Bonaparte: The Glory of France". I also showed you a video from the Turning Points of History series on Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Tomorrow you'll be writing a WRA I three source analysis assignment. Your Unit 5 Test is on Monday, November 3rd, please see the study guide below.




2. Other study tips:
  • know the causes of the French Revolution (short term, long term, economic, political, social, intellectual)
  • know the structure of French society during the Old Regime
  • know Napoleon's domestic policy
  • know Napoleon's foreign policy (Continental System in particular)
  • know key battles in the Napoleonic Wars (results of the Battle of Trafalgar, Russian campaign, the Battle of Leipzig, and the Battle of Waterloo)
  • know chronology of key events in the French Revolution
  • know the chronology of key events in the Napoleonic Age
  • know the key players at the Congress of Vienna (country and representatives)
  • what were the major decisions of the Congress? what were the guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna
  • know the 19th century political spectrum (please see the graphic below; values and characteristics of the various positions on the spectrum; what groups are represented on the various positions on the spectrum?; what phases/accomplishments of the French Revolution are represented on the spectrum?)
3. Study the 19th century political spectrum (click on the graphic to enlarge it)




Wednesday, October 22, 2014

October 22


We watched the A & E Biography of Adolf Hitler today ("The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler"). You have to complete the following homework by Friday's class:

  • read, highlight, annotate "Totalitarianism" (pages 144-145 in your 30-1 study booklets)
  • read, highlight, annotate "Comparison of Communism and Fascism" (page 146)
  • read, highlight, annotate "Core Fascist Values" (page 148)
  • complete the charts on Fascism/Nazism (pages 149-151)
  • complete the chart called "Stalin: Techniques of Totalitarian Control" (page 152)
Please remember that you are writing your Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis assignment on Monday, October 27th. You are writing your Economic Systems Exam tomorrow, please find the study guide below. You are also writing your Chapter 5 Test on Tuesday, October 28th, again, you'll be able to find the study guide below.



This exam will be written on Thursday, October 23rd. It is a multiple choice question format test.
This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 74 multiple choice questions.
  • Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki under Unit 2 (check your notes): The Development of Classical Liberalism, Responding to Classical Liberalism, The Evolution of Modern Liberalism, 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism (just the USSR section of this PowerPoint)
  • In Chapter 5, just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
  • please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise), page 78-80 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • supply-side economics (page 84 in study booklet)
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle (pages 50-54 and pages 56-62 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
    self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
  • basic economic problems/questions
  • advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
  • causes of the Great Depression (pages 63-64 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism): pages 73-76 in the study booklet
  • also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics/"womb to tomb economics"): pages 65-72 in 30-1 booklets
  • characteristics of a mixed economy
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • democratic socialism
  • welfare capitalism
  • Keynesian economics
  • the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you)
  • demand-side economics
  • neo-conservatives
  • monetarism
  • trickle down economics
  • supply-side economics
  • Thatcherism and Reaganomics
  • Milton Friedman
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy) pages 81-82 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism): pages 81-82 in the 30-1 booklet
  • advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
  • neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
  • characteristics of a centrally planned economy
  • advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
  • Marx notes (pages 94-96 in 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (pages 97-98 in 30-1 booklet)
  • establishment of the Soviet Union
  • Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process): study pages 105-114 in the Social 30-1 booklet
  • Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
  • "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
  • Stalin notes (pages 99-101)
  • "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev): pages 116-117 in 30-1 booklet
  • Gorbachev to Collapse Notes: pages 118-121 in 30-1 booklet
  • Economic Planning in the USSR: pages 122-129 in 30-1 booklet
  • Market Socialism (pages 130-132 in the Social 30-1 booklet)



The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, October 28th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • Characteristics of Democracy
  • Characteristics of Dictatorship
  • Democratic Systems notes
  • Non-Democratic Systems notes
  • Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
  • A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
  • Totalitarianism notes
  • Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
  • do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

  • centrally planned economies
  • initiative
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • Reaganomics
  • consumer sovereignty
  • invisible hand
  • Keynesian economics
  • laissez faire economics
  • War Communism
  • Five Year Plans
  • mixed economies
  • indicative planning
  • proportional representation
  • democracy
  • dictatorship
  • political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
  • status quo
  • egalitarianism
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • liberal
  • radical
  • SA
  • Hitler
  • Bolshevik
  • fascism
  • communism
  • indoctrination
  • controlled participation
  • terror and force
  • direction of popular discontent
  • democratic socialists
  • supply-side economics
  • authoritarian
  • tyrant
  • totalitarian
  • totalitarianism
  • ultranationalism
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • propaganda
  • progressive taxation
  • Marx
  • Lenin
  • utopian socialism
  • Gorbachev
  • martial law
  • Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
  • referendum
  • collectivization
  • modernization
  • classical liberal
  • laissez faire free market economy
  • mixed economy
  • planned economy
  • (review your economic political quadrant model)
  • Das Kapital
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Wealth of Nations



We watched a documentary today from the History Channel on the French Revolution. I also gave you a DBA assignment on the French Revolution. The DBA assignment is due on Monday, October 27th. You will be writing a WRA I three source analysis assignment in class on Wednesday, October 29th. I will re-teach how to write a WRA I three source analysis assignment next week. You will be writing a Unit 5 Test (French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test) in the first week of November.




2. Other study tips:
  • know the causes of the French Revolution (short term, long term, economic, political, social, intellectual)
  • know the structure of French society during the Old Regime
  • know Napoleon's domestic policy
  • know Napoleon's foreign policy (Continental System in particular)
  • know key battles in the Napoleonic Wars (results of the Battle of Trafalgar, Russian campaign, the Battle of Leipzig, and the Battle of Waterloo)
  • know chronology of key events in the French Revolution
  • know the chronology of key events in the Napoleonic Age
  • know the key players at the Congress of Vienna (country and representatives)
  • what were the major decisions of the Congress? what were the guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna
  • know the 19th century political spectrum (please see the graphic below; values and characteristics of the various positions on the spectrum; what groups are represented on the various positions on the spectrum?; what phases/accomplishments of the French Revolution are represented on the spectrum?)
3. Study the 19th century political spectrum (click on the graphic to enlarge it)



Monday, September 22, 2014

September 22


I continued on with "The Development of Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint lecture. You have to read over/study the section on the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution in this PowerPoint presentation. I gave you some notes today on economics, so if you missed class, you need to get the notes from a classmate. We covered basic economic problem (scarcity), basic economic systems and their economic values, and how the various economic systems answer the basic economic questions. We also talked about the laws of supply and demand.


You need to study the French and Indian War PowerPoint presentation that is on the wiki. I started the American Revolution (I jumped the gun a little bit, and should have discussed the French and Indian War), we'll come back to this on either Wednesday or Thursday. Tomorrow will be spent doing the Thirteen Colonies presentations, and a bit on Wednesday.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

April 17


You wrote your Unit 5 Test on the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age today, it took the entire period. Your Facebook assignment for your assigned Latin American revolutionary leader is due on Thursday, April 24th.



Most of today's class was spent preparing for next Wednesday's debate on the following topic: "Be it resolved that the 21st century will belong to China". You were split into the affirmative (PROP) and negative (OPP) sides in this debate. You had some time organize your thoughts and ideas, and take in some of the topics that I suggested you examine. I'll include some links to topics raised in class today in this post. To get a closer look at any of the infographics below, right click on the image and open in a new window.

Useful links to prepare for the debate:


 




Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam on Tuesday, April 22nd, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).



You wrote your Paper 3 on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement today in class. Please remember that you have Nixon assignment due on Tuesday, April 22nd.

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

April 3

We finished watching the CNN Cold War series today by watching the final chapter in the series called "Conclusions (1989-1991)". This chapter focused on the break-up of Eastern bloc countries such as Czechoslovakia and Romania as well as the break-up of the Soviet Union. As I said in class, some of Gorbachev's domestic policy reforms coupled with his foreign policy decisions contributed to the end of the Cold War. Please remember that you have your Cold War Exam on Thursday, please see the study guide here.
We finished watching the History Channel documentary "The French Revolution" today. We then moved directly into a PowerPoint presentation on the Napoleonic Age, which we will finish tomorrow.