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.
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
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.
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
