HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS QUIZ ON SATURDAY!

QUIZ SATURDAY! (for serious)

Hey guys, a quick reminder, there will be a quiz on the Colonization of Hispanola on Saturday. It will have 2 id's and an essay, very simmilar to our formative trial run this week. Make sure you review your class notes and readings from both the Colonial Model Handout and the Eric Williams book. Be sure you are familiar with the following terms and can readily use them to analyze the historic period we are studying:
Crisis of Expectations
Hegemony
Imperialism
Free Market Economy
Hacienda
Tribute System

See you all on Saturday! Cheers and Ramadan Kareem

TOKers PAPER ASSIGNMENT

Hey TOKers... here is your 2 page paper assignment and guidelines.

Please choose one thing that you think (at first glance) is completely useless to mankind's main priority (to survive and propogate). Then please write a 2 page paper logically and clearly explaining the benefits and contributions of that object in furthering mankind's main priority.

Your paper may contain outside research coupled with your own ideas.

Your paper should be 2 pages (max) 12 pt. times new roman font, and no variations on the boundaries. Your paper should be submitted to me on Wednesday. No later. You may submit your paper electronically if you so choose through my email address -- JSchnei2@gmail.com

Hopefully you would choose something of similar apparant uselessness as these two rabbits on a skateboard.

HUMANITIES REVIEW

HUMANITIES 10 TEST REVIEW
hey all, here it is again, the second attempted post!!!!
Some Terms to know for Vocab: (if you don't know them and have them in your notes, you can allways check on wikipedia.com!
Civilization
Scribe
Cuneiform
Dynasty
Polytheism
Hammurabi
Fertile Crescent
City-State
Pharaoh
Ziggurat
Mandate of Heaven
Cultural diffusion
Oligarchy
Hieroglyphics
Empire
anarchy
silt
barter
SOME POSSIBLE LONG ANSWER (short essay) Topics:
What role did rivers have in the development of government?

What should be the main purpose of laws: to promote good behavior or to punish bad behavior?

Please prioritize the following based on which of them has the greatest impact on your personal culture: family, media, school or government.

If you cannot find your post check the september archives!!!!

if you know your post is here... but it isn't here, then look in the september archives on the right hand side bar... you can do it! i promise its not hard.

IB Presentation schedule:

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Over the next week we will be dealing with primary sources. YOUR JOB is to present both these sources for what they are, but also to research and provide them in their Historical context. By doing so you will be able to respond to the opinions and facts within these sources. Be sure to cover the following in your presentations:
1. What is this document? (a paper, letter, interview) When was it produced and what lead to its production?
2. Who is the author of this document? What is their history? WHAT IS THEIR BIAS and WHAT CREATED THEIR BIAS?
3. What can we learn from this document?
4. What can we learn about this historical occurance from this document?

Please bring in an outline or your notes for us to look at while we listen to your presentation.
You will be assessed on both the factual and analytical content of your presentation, as well as the audience assesed on their invovlement in discussion, so make sure you are ALL prepared for class!

Here is the following presentation schedule for our primary sources on the Industrial Revolution:

THIS ALSO DOUBLES AS YOUR SYLLABUS. BE SURE TO HAVE READ EACH SECTION EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT PRESENTING ON IT. THIS WILL FACILITATE DISCUSSION!

Sept. 25: Yasmeen on "The Factory System: Working Conditions" pp. 124 to 131

Sept. 27: Ali on "Living Conditions" and "Defense of the Factory System" pp. 131 to 138

Oct. 1: Yasmine on "Reaction and Reform" UP TO "THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO"!!! pp. 138 to 148

Oct. 2: Hishem on "The communisy manifesto" 148 to 158

RAMADAN KAREEM

Ramadan Kareem all!

IB 2's review questions

You should be able to intelligently answer the following questions from your Mandelbaum reading!

1. What were England's 2 main security concerns in the early 19th century and how did they shape England's foreign policy?

2. What is the eastern question? How did it impact the efforts of the concert of europe?

3. Why was the Concert of Europe (specifically England) unconcerned about the Unification of Germany? Why was this unification not destabilizing?

Humanities 10 Homework due Sept. 17 (18th for block c)

Hey homes-
TONIGHT for homework please think about (and write down a list) of what would be needed to create a perfect ANCIENT villiage. Think about geography, politics, economics and social needs. For my C blockers think about what the first villiage of Myceanea might have looked like before it became the home of a civilization. What would Hamorabi's towns have looked like? What would they have needed?
You may DRAW an image of your villiage, but this is not necessary, please MAKE A LIST of things that are needed for this villiage.
cheers,
jeff

History of the Americas Syllabus

Beunas! Here are your next 4 homework assignments... make sure you keep track of these so you don't fall behind!

(assignment 1 begins the night of Sept 11)

Assignment 1: Read Ch. 3 of Eric Williams (Gold and Sugar), prepare for questions on your reading in class

Assignment 2: Read Chs. 4 and 5 of Eric Williams (White Capital, Coloured Labor/Spanish Colonialism)

Assignment 3: The Colonial Model Handout. Make sure you FULLY understand both What the Colonial Model IS, and how we can use it as a tool.

Assignment 4: Using you colonial Model Handout AND Chs. 1 to 5 of Eric Williams, write a paragraph for each colonial model step describing (using specifics) the Spanish Conquest of the Caribbean.
Your paper should be TYPED in Microsoft Word, 12pt Times New Roman, and 1.5 spaced lines. Make sure to hand it in at the beginning of class!

IB2 20th Century

REMINDER! Journal Entry 1 is due THIS WEDNESDAY!!! (the 13th) Please submit a printed copy of your entry in class.
Journals should be typed in Microsoft Word, 12pt font, 1.5 spaced with no fiddling of the margins. They should be from 1 1/2 pages to 2 pages long. Make sure to SAVE your journals on a disk or a computer!
good luck (vaya con dios!)

IB2 History of the 20th Century Syllabus 1 (issued sept. 3, 2006)

IB 2 History of the 20th Century Syllabus (issued sept. 3, 2006)

Assignment 1: Ikenberry, G. John, After Victory, The Problem of Order pp. 0-20

Class 1: An introduction to European Political Theory and overview of the 19th century

Assignment 2: Resources on the Congress of Europe
Web links at end of post!!

Class 2: Napoleon and his impact on Europe, the coming crisis of the 20th century

Assignment 3: Ikenberry, G. John, After Victory, The Settlement of 1815 pp 80-116

Class 3: QUIZ on the Congress of Europe and the Settlement of 1815

Assignment 4: Mandelbaum, Michael, The Fate of
Nations, Managed Balance of Power and Great Britian, part I

Class 4: DISCUSSION of Mandelbaum

Assignment 5: Mandelbaum, Michael, The Fate of Nations, Managed Balance of Power and Great Britian, part II

Class 5: DISCUSSION of Mandelbaum

Assignment 6: Mandelbaum, Michael, The Fate of Nations, Managed Balance of Power and Great Britian, part III

Class 6: Review of Mandelbaum and the politics of the early 20th century Europe

WEB LINKS ON THE CONCERT OF EUROPE:

http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/concert/concessy.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_of_Europe

HUMANITIES 10: HMWK Assigned Sept. 10

Humanities 10: Homework Sept. 10 (Due Sept 11 for C BLOCK. Sept 12 for D BLOCK
I hope everyone listened to me in class today, since I told you there that you would need to go to the blog and read the following article. I have attached it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Hammurabi&printable=yes#External_links

Read the article (and print it out), then answer the following questions and bring them with you to class tomorrow.
1. If a person broke the law could he claim ignorance of the law and get away with it? Why or why not?

2. What was one problem the average person might have with understanding and obeying the laws?

3. Why did Hammurabi write the codes out?

4. How was Hammurabi different from rulers that came before him?

5. Why is the Code of Hammurabi considered so important? Why do we still think about it today?

6. Read through the laws that are listed at the bottom of the article. Please pick five of them the you think would still be useful today. Pick five that you think are of no relevance to today's world. Be ready to discuss in class your choices.

THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE hmwk 1 (sept 6)

Hey guys --
here is a syllybus for the next four assignments (they are all from the same webpage!) PLEASE PRINT OUT THE PAGE AND BRING IT WITH YOU TO CLASS!!!

All readings are from the following web address:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/

Due Sept. 9: Sections 1 and 2 of The Analysis of Knowledge entitled "Knowlege as Justified Truth" and "The Gettier Problem"

Due Sept. 10: Sections 3 and 4 (An Alternative Approach: Reliablism AND Internalism and Externalism)

Due Sept. 12: Sections 5 and 6 (Why Internalism? Why Externalism)

Due Sept. 16: Section 7 (Two Analyses of Knowlege)
ON SEPT 16 the is an IN CLASS ASSESMENT!!!! (use the weekend to study up)