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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Group #2- Blog Assignment 3.13.14

Each Student needs to make at least 3 blog posts. 
Documents
  • Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899
  • Jules Ferry (1832-1893)
  • Nietzche, The Gay Science, 1882 
  • Emile Zola, J'accuse!, 1898  
Sydonne 
Libby 
George 
Kelly 
Kaylee 
Sara Catherine 
Reagan 
Ralph 
Caleb 

Group #1- Blog assignment 3.13.14

Each student needs to make at least 3 posts.

Documents:
  • British Missionary, Urging the Annexation of The South Sea Islands, 1883
  • On French Colonial Expansion
  • Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899
  • Records of the Maji-Maji Uprising
Margaux 
Caroline 
Jacob Michael 
Tucker 
Bikel 
Dylan 
Dilys 
Kil Huan 

Monday, February 10, 2014

Test #11- readings Rise of the Nation state

Group #1- Look at Gladstone's Speech at Blackheath and Disraeli's speech at the Crystal Palace.  Both men were Prime Ministers at one time.  Think about all the changes going on in Great Britain during the 1800s and how both whigs and tories dealt with the changes.

Group #2- Look at Parnell on Home Rule and the Peoples Will
Think about the people that didn't prosper during the early 1800s Industrial Revolution and how they looked to change their position.

Each student needs to make three comments.

Group #1- Margaux, Libby, Jacob, Sydonne, Kelly, Kaylee, Ralph, George, Caroline
Group #2- Michael, Caleb, Dilys, Kil-hwan, Sara Catherine, Tucker, Bikel, Dylan, Reagan

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Test #10 Readings Romanticism vs. Nationalism

I do not care which group you are in, but there only needs to be 9 of you in each group.
Group One will make comments on the Romantic Poetry (Blake, Lord Byron) The other 9 will comment on the Nationalism documents of Mazzini, the National Song of Hungary, and the Goya painting the Third of May 1808).  Please make 3 comments for your group.  This assignment is due Friday.


Friday, January 17, 2014

Industrial revolution Blog Posts 1.17.2014

You guys will comment as three groups and need to make 3 posts per person.  Everyone needs to read all the documents under the A.P. Readings for Test #9- Industrial Revolution.

Group #1-
The Work Year in 17th Century Lille, France
Testimony of an Agricultural Worker's Wife

Group #2
La Rochefoucauld Describes the Putting-Out System
The Peterloo Massacre

Group #3
The Clothier's Delight
Allom, Thomas (1804-1872)
Swainson Birley Cotton Mill near Preston, Lancashire, 1834. This interior view of the mill shows men and women operating power looms.