Friday 28 March 2014

The Age of Napoleon

Learning Goal: Students will be able to discuss the political conflicts that transformed Europe during the 1800s.

Today's Objective: Students will be able to discuss how military conquests by Napoleon helped spread French Revolutionary ideas. 

We will read chapter 35 sections 1&2 today.  Students need to answer questions 2&3 on page 565, and question 2&3 on page 572.


Tuesday 25 March 2014

Study Questions for TEST

1) List two reasons why Europeans were interested in the Americas?
2) What did Portugal find it difficult to rule their territories?
3) What was Portugal's big colony in the Americas?
4) What happened to the Native Americans who lived in Brazil when the Portuguese claimed the land?
5) Why did the Spanish have trouble transporting gold and silver from the Americas to Spain?
6) What was the "Lost Colony"?
7) What was the English's first permanent settlement in North America?
8) Who was John Smith?  John Rolfe?
9) Why were the Pilgrims called Separatists?
10)  Why did colonists set up the House of Burgesses?
11) What group founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
12) What was France's first permanent settlement in North America?
13) How did France lose it North America possessions?
14) Discuss how the English Civil War and Glorious Revolution, The American Revolution, and the French Revolution changed history.
15) What did James I do?
16) Who was Oliver Cromwell?
17) Who was the last Tudor monarch?
18) What did John Locke write and how did it influence the American Revolution?
19) What was the Stamp Act?
20) Why did the American Revolution end?
21) Discuss the three estates of France before the Revolution.
22) What was the Reign of Terror?
23) Why were Europeans rulers afraid of the ideas of the French Revolution?
24) Who was Galilei?  Issac Newton?
25) Discuss how the Industrial Revolution changed peoples lives?
26) What countries led the Industrial Revolution?
27) ho was Samuel Morse? Thomas Edison? Gottieb Daimler?

Wednesday 19 March 2014

Chapter 33 - Rise of Industry

Learning Goal: Be able to Trace the Rise of Science and Industry in Europe and N. America during the 1700 and 1800s. 

Today we will read chapter 33 sections 1-3.  You will answer questions 1-2 on page 525 and 2 and 3 on page 530. 

HW: Review chapter 32 - and how the English, American and French Revolutions changed the world.  Quiz tomorrow? 

Tuesday 18 March 2014

Presentations

After your presentations of your group projects, you need to answer questions 1-6 on page 521.

Friday 14 March 2014

Projects

You group will create a poster of one of the following "revolutions":

The English Revolution, The American Revolution, and The French Revolution.

Your poster must contain three pictures that represent your revolution; a time-line; a list of things that happened during your revolution; and, most importantly a brief paragraph on how your revolution changed history.

Learning Goal: Discuss why revolutions happened in America and Europe during the 1600s and 1700s, and how these revolutions changed the course of World History.

Thursday 13 March 2014

Homework: French Revolution

Page 520 - questions 2-5 (post these on your blog)

Watch Crash Course


Tuesday 11 March 2014

Political Revolutions

The English Revolution, The American Revolution, and The French Revolution.

Learning Goal: Discuss why revolutions happened in America and Europe during the 1600s and 1700s, and how these revolutions changed the course of World History.

Today we will read chapter 32 section 1 and 2 and answer study questions 2-4 on page 508.

Sunday 9 March 2014

Class work for Monday

Read chapter 31 answer questions for understanding at the end of the chapter.