Your grades are as follows:
#1: 53
#2: 91
#3: 103
#4: 70
#5: 76
#6 : 83
#7: finish
#8: finish
#9: 86
#10: 53
#11: 80
#12:
#13: 86
#14: 83
#15:
#16: 94
#17: finish
One person did not hand in the exam. Hmmmm... If you are #12 or 15, please see me in the morning.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Midterm Review and end of Q2
Period 4:
A few people did not present their projects. Get these in before the end of the week or you will have a permanent zero.
Some of you need to show me your notebooks and the review sheet.
Please bring any questions you have to class tomorrow.
Period 2:
Any more genocide projects left must be emailled to me by Friday or presented to the class tomorrow.
Review sheet questions--contact me soon-
Your exam is Thursday.
Let me say this again--your exam is Thursday--even if there is snow tomorrow.
A few people did not present their projects. Get these in before the end of the week or you will have a permanent zero.
Some of you need to show me your notebooks and the review sheet.
Please bring any questions you have to class tomorrow.
Period 2:
Any more genocide projects left must be emailled to me by Friday or presented to the class tomorrow.
Review sheet questions--contact me soon-
Your exam is Thursday.
Let me say this again--your exam is Thursday--even if there is snow tomorrow.
Monday, January 5, 2009
The Andrew Review
Thank you Andrew for asking the question "What's the exam going to be on? What'd we learn, anyway?"
Things you learned:
Film and literature terms and constructs (things that are used in film and literature)
Gladiators and ancient Rome.
Structure of Roman society.
Reasons for the Fall of Rome
How the fall of Rome lead to the Dark Ages.
Why the Dark Ages were called "dark"
Urban planning and structure in the Dark Ages (how the cities and villages closed in upon themselves w/o Roman support, learning, and innovation)
Reasons for quests and crusades.
The significance of the "holy grail" legend in history
Connections to the historical King Arthur and the King Arthur of literature legend
Reasons for the European and American witch trials
How the Renaissance saved Europe from the Dark Ages
All about the holocaust and genocide
About the story of Oskar Schindler
Why genocide still occurs
About other genocides in the world.
About Civil Rights from Gandhi to America.
About Gandhi's connection to Indian freedom, African decolonization, world freedom movements, and the peace movement
About "satyagraha"--Gandi's philosophy of peaceful noncooperation involving sit ins, boycotts, prayer, fasting, and civil disobedience.
about conditions of colonization at the end of World War II
How MLK brought Gandhi's methods of resistance into the American Civil Rights Movement
How college groups like SNCC and CORE used these methods in the struggle for Civil Rights
How the women's movement evolved out of Civil Rights
About the split in the Civil Rights movement between those advocating peace, and those advocating militancy (Black Panthers, Nation of Islam)
About Malcolm X's role in the Civil Rights movement
About how Malcolm X's philosophy changed after his hajj
To compare and contrast Nation of Islam and traditional Islam
We compared the Bobby Kennedy presidential race to the race for President in 08
We discussed campaign issues that were pressing at the time of RFK and compared them to issues today.
We speculated about what might have happened if RFK had won.
Period 4:
You additionally looked at Forrest Gump and discussed special effects, the historical events in Gump, the Vietnam War, "ping pong diplomacy" and many other Gump issues.
Thank you Andrew for bringing such an extensive list of learning to the top of my mind in time for this review.
Don't forget to review notes about anything you might have forgotten and place those notes in your notebook for this week's quarter 2 notebook check and for the midterm!
Things you learned:
Film and literature terms and constructs (things that are used in film and literature)
Gladiators and ancient Rome.
Structure of Roman society.
Reasons for the Fall of Rome
How the fall of Rome lead to the Dark Ages.
Why the Dark Ages were called "dark"
Urban planning and structure in the Dark Ages (how the cities and villages closed in upon themselves w/o Roman support, learning, and innovation)
Reasons for quests and crusades.
The significance of the "holy grail" legend in history
Connections to the historical King Arthur and the King Arthur of literature legend
Reasons for the European and American witch trials
How the Renaissance saved Europe from the Dark Ages
All about the holocaust and genocide
About the story of Oskar Schindler
Why genocide still occurs
About other genocides in the world.
About Civil Rights from Gandhi to America.
About Gandhi's connection to Indian freedom, African decolonization, world freedom movements, and the peace movement
About "satyagraha"--Gandi's philosophy of peaceful noncooperation involving sit ins, boycotts, prayer, fasting, and civil disobedience.
about conditions of colonization at the end of World War II
How MLK brought Gandhi's methods of resistance into the American Civil Rights Movement
How college groups like SNCC and CORE used these methods in the struggle for Civil Rights
How the women's movement evolved out of Civil Rights
About the split in the Civil Rights movement between those advocating peace, and those advocating militancy (Black Panthers, Nation of Islam)
About Malcolm X's role in the Civil Rights movement
About how Malcolm X's philosophy changed after his hajj
To compare and contrast Nation of Islam and traditional Islam
We compared the Bobby Kennedy presidential race to the race for President in 08
We discussed campaign issues that were pressing at the time of RFK and compared them to issues today.
We speculated about what might have happened if RFK had won.
Period 4:
You additionally looked at Forrest Gump and discussed special effects, the historical events in Gump, the Vietnam War, "ping pong diplomacy" and many other Gump issues.
Thank you Andrew for bringing such an extensive list of learning to the top of my mind in time for this review.
Don't forget to review notes about anything you might have forgotten and place those notes in your notebook for this week's quarter 2 notebook check and for the midterm!
Midterm Review Sheet Essay Questions
I strongly suggest you pick one of these questions and research it well. Incomplete essays will result in deductions. Do not give vague words, use pronouns to cover up a lack of knowledge or vague descriptions thinking I am too stupid to realize you are covering up for a lack of knowledge. Also, do not print up website information and regurgitate it. I reserve the right to quiz you on your answer and make sure you understand. All this because I am giving you a good honest head start to research and prepare. In case you have forgotten, an essay is at least 5 paragraphs, though I hate to limit you to just five on questions of such seriousness.
Essay Questions to study:
Make sure you answer all parts of the question. You should check off the parts as you prepare them. Do not miss any. If it says "seventy examples" make sure you have seventy. 'nuff said.
Discuss the role of the Gladiator in ancient Rome. Who exactly made up the core of the gladiators and how was competition conducted? Give at least three historical facts about gladiators in your essay.
Medieval Europe, or the Dark Ages, was not considered “dark” because of a lack of intelligence. Explain the events that caused the “Dark Ages” to be dark, and talk about at least three events that occurred during the Dark Ages.
Write about a genocide other than the Holocaust. Explain why your choice qualifies as a genocide according to the United Nations definition of genocide. Explain when and why the event occurred and why it was not stopped. How would you prevent genocide from continuing throughout the world?
Discuss the ways that Gandhi influenced American civil rights and world freedom. Provide at least three examples.
Discuss Malcolm X’s evolution in thought about Civil Rights. Explain the events that made him change his thinking and predict the actions he might have taken had he lived.
Forrest Gump took real historical events and some serious special effects to present the world through “Gump’s eyes.” Discuss three of the events that occurred in the movie giving Gump’s perspective AND the real historical deal.
List each of the movies we have seen that had something to do with freedom and civil rights. How do the events in each movie fit into the larger picture of world freedom? Provide at least three examples.
Essay Questions to study:
Make sure you answer all parts of the question. You should check off the parts as you prepare them. Do not miss any. If it says "seventy examples" make sure you have seventy. 'nuff said.
Discuss the role of the Gladiator in ancient Rome. Who exactly made up the core of the gladiators and how was competition conducted? Give at least three historical facts about gladiators in your essay.
Medieval Europe, or the Dark Ages, was not considered “dark” because of a lack of intelligence. Explain the events that caused the “Dark Ages” to be dark, and talk about at least three events that occurred during the Dark Ages.
Write about a genocide other than the Holocaust. Explain why your choice qualifies as a genocide according to the United Nations definition of genocide. Explain when and why the event occurred and why it was not stopped. How would you prevent genocide from continuing throughout the world?
Discuss the ways that Gandhi influenced American civil rights and world freedom. Provide at least three examples.
Discuss Malcolm X’s evolution in thought about Civil Rights. Explain the events that made him change his thinking and predict the actions he might have taken had he lived.
Forrest Gump took real historical events and some serious special effects to present the world through “Gump’s eyes.” Discuss three of the events that occurred in the movie giving Gump’s perspective AND the real historical deal.
List each of the movies we have seen that had something to do with freedom and civil rights. How do the events in each movie fit into the larger picture of world freedom? Provide at least three examples.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Forrest Gump
In Forrest Gump, we get a glimpse of many different periods in history. You will select one and produce a posterboard. There must be ten pictures or images with a caption attached to each one. You may not print large pieces of text and attach them. Each must be hand-crafted.
Due Thursday!
Due Thursday!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Gandhi, Mississippi Burning, and Malcolm X
We finished Mississippi Burning and discussed the Civil Rights movement. This movie, while having excellent action, did not really give you an overview of the whole movement. This movie was based on the murder of three civil rights activists, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. A link to the complete story is below:
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/spring00humanrights/chaney.html
In our Civil Rights Trio, traced the origin of the philosophy of passive nonresistance as used by Gandhi to help free India from British colonization. This philosophy, satyagraha, was used by Martin Luther King to organize boycotts and demonstrations that were instrumental in the American Civil Rights movement. The work of Gandhi inspired movements all over the world, from Africa, to Ireland, and the United States. However, there came a point in the American movement where nonviolence was not accepted by everyone. This point is generally considered to be 1965, where the Civil Rights movement splits into a violent direction.
The following link is footage of the Watts riots in Los Angeles. Damage occurring during these riots exceeded 200 million dollars.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=safari&rls=en&q=watts+riots&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
Because of racial tensions, violence in cities, and Klan violence in response to voter registration drives in the South, many people rejected the idea of peaceful noncooperation as promoted by Martin Luther King. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Riders, and SNCC/CORE/COFO campaigns had not cured the system, and many people expected race riots.
A year later, in 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. This group used grass-roots organizing techniques and paramilitary features to organize blacks in the event that race relations continued to break down.
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm
Malcom X began his reformation through the Nation of Islam, also a black separatist group. Throughout his life, he crusaded for separation of blacks and whites. After his hajj to Mecca, his philosophy changed abruptly. We have discussed this and will continue to discuss this philosophy.
Read more on the following issues and people:
Marcus Garvey:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/garvey.htm
W.E.B. Dubois:
http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
SNCC/CORE/COFO:
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/
http://www.core-online.org/History/history.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004391F/cofo.htm
Critical Questions:
1. How did Gandhi influence Civil Rights and decolonization throughout the world?
2. What two philosophies about Civil Rights existed in America post 1965? Which organizations and people aligned with non-violent philosophies, and which aligned with philosophies that permitted militarism and violence?
3. How did the evolution in Malcolm X's thinking about Civil Rights affect the United States? Explain his thinking about Islam both before and after his hajj?
4. What role did the student organizations play in Civil Rights? How prepared for the situation were these students? What actions did they take to help others secure rights?
5. Explain how the role of women in the Civil Rights movement affected the women's rights movements of the 1970's.
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/spring00humanrights/chaney.html
In our Civil Rights Trio, traced the origin of the philosophy of passive nonresistance as used by Gandhi to help free India from British colonization. This philosophy, satyagraha, was used by Martin Luther King to organize boycotts and demonstrations that were instrumental in the American Civil Rights movement. The work of Gandhi inspired movements all over the world, from Africa, to Ireland, and the United States. However, there came a point in the American movement where nonviolence was not accepted by everyone. This point is generally considered to be 1965, where the Civil Rights movement splits into a violent direction.
The following link is footage of the Watts riots in Los Angeles. Damage occurring during these riots exceeded 200 million dollars.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=safari&rls=en&q=watts+riots&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
Because of racial tensions, violence in cities, and Klan violence in response to voter registration drives in the South, many people rejected the idea of peaceful noncooperation as promoted by Martin Luther King. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Riders, and SNCC/CORE/COFO campaigns had not cured the system, and many people expected race riots.
A year later, in 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. This group used grass-roots organizing techniques and paramilitary features to organize blacks in the event that race relations continued to break down.
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm
Malcom X began his reformation through the Nation of Islam, also a black separatist group. Throughout his life, he crusaded for separation of blacks and whites. After his hajj to Mecca, his philosophy changed abruptly. We have discussed this and will continue to discuss this philosophy.
Read more on the following issues and people:
Marcus Garvey:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/garvey.htm
W.E.B. Dubois:
http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
SNCC/CORE/COFO:
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/
http://www.core-online.org/History/history.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004391F/cofo.htm
Critical Questions:
1. How did Gandhi influence Civil Rights and decolonization throughout the world?
2. What two philosophies about Civil Rights existed in America post 1965? Which organizations and people aligned with non-violent philosophies, and which aligned with philosophies that permitted militarism and violence?
3. How did the evolution in Malcolm X's thinking about Civil Rights affect the United States? Explain his thinking about Islam both before and after his hajj?
4. What role did the student organizations play in Civil Rights? How prepared for the situation were these students? What actions did they take to help others secure rights?
5. Explain how the role of women in the Civil Rights movement affected the women's rights movements of the 1970's.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Civil Rights
We will discuss how Gandhi's freedom movement affected people in the United States by watching Mississippi Burning and Malcolm X. You will be asked to compare and contrast the movies and to decide which one better represents the issue in your mind.
After watching Mississippi Burning, you will research one person, issue, or organization pertaining to Civil Rights. You will hand in your research or present it to the class.
After Malcolm X, we will discuss the two branches of resistance that emerge in the mid to late 60s in response to the Vietnam War, riots, and the delay of civil rights. We will discuss Malcolm X's role in this resistance and watch how his philosophies change over time. We will then take a look at groups that promote peace as well as separatist groups.
For those of you looking to get ahead, research the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a hatewatch group. They keep track of hate in the United States, expose it where possible, and lend legal services to those affected by hate crimes.
After watching Mississippi Burning, you will research one person, issue, or organization pertaining to Civil Rights. You will hand in your research or present it to the class.
After Malcolm X, we will discuss the two branches of resistance that emerge in the mid to late 60s in response to the Vietnam War, riots, and the delay of civil rights. We will discuss Malcolm X's role in this resistance and watch how his philosophies change over time. We will then take a look at groups that promote peace as well as separatist groups.
For those of you looking to get ahead, research the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a hatewatch group. They keep track of hate in the United States, expose it where possible, and lend legal services to those affected by hate crimes.
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