Aug 19 2009


Bubonic Plague

Filed under Middle Ages

View Video Clips 1 & 2 & answer the following questions – bring to class

Clip 1

  • What percentage of a particular town was expected to die from the plague? Calculate how many survivors there would be in your classroom or school if it were infected by the plague.
  • Why was quarantining a household considered a death sentence?
  • What did historian, Justin Champion, discover?
  • Clip 2

  • How was the plague introduced to Eyam?
  • How did the villagers survive the quarantine?
  • Was the rector’s decision to quarantine the village a wise one? Explain your answer.
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    Aug 12 2009


    Pre-Session Announcement

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    When: Friday August 14
    @ 12:30 pm
    Where: School Library

    Email Mrs.K with any questions!

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    Jul 28 2009


    Writing Terms – Glossary

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    The writing assignment may include many terms we need to be familiar with.

    Below, you’ll find a glossary of some of those terms.

    Attribute / Attribution - Acknowledgment of a source. This is not citing the source, simply stating that the information comes from a source.

    Bibliography - A list of sources used in preparing your writing. We use MLA format.

    Citation - Short indication of the source of your information or quote. Example: At the end of my sentence, I’ll provide the source of my information (MrsK p.1).

    Cite - Indicating a source of information or quoted material in a short, formal note.

    Common Knowledge - Information that is readily available from a number of sources, or so well-known that its sources donot have to be cited.

    Copyright - Law protecting the intellectual property of individuals, giving them exclusive rights over the distribution & reproduction of that material.

    Endnotes - Notes at the end of a paper acknowleging sources & providing additional references or information.

    Facts - Knowledge or information based on real, observable occurrences.

    Footnotes - Notes at the bottom of a paper acknowledging sources or providing additional references or information.

    Fair Use - Guidelines for deciding whether use of a source is permissible or constitutes a copyright infringement.

    Intellectual Property - Product of the intellect, such as an expressed idea or concept, that has commercial value.

    Notation - Form of a citation; system by which one refers to cited sources.

    Original - Not derived from anything else, new & unique.

    Paraphrase - Restatement of a text or passage in other words.

    Peer Review - Turnitin.com’s teaching tool that allows students to anonymously review the work of their peers. This gives students a chance to build critical skills while helping them to see the strengths & weaknesses of their own writing.

    Plagiarism - Reproduction or appropriation of someone else’s work without proper attribution; passing off as one’s own work of someone else.

    Public Domain - Absence of copyright protection; belonging to the public so that anyone may copy or borrow from it.

    Quotation - Using words from another source.

     Self-plagiarism - Copying material you have previously produced & passing it off as a new production. This can potentially violate copyright protection, if the work has been published, & is banned by most academic policies.

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    Jul 10 2009


    Worldviews Compared Chart

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    Hi All, Worldviews compared chart! (Sorry it took so long, I had to find it & retype it)

    Let’s see if the LINK works

     

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    May 29 2009


    Chapters 11-13 ID

     

    “little ice age”

     

    Black Death

     

    bubonic plague

     

    Yersina pestis

     

    pneumonic plague

     

    Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron

     

    flagellants

     

    pogroms

     

    Statute of Laborers

     

    the Jacquerie

     

    Wat Tyler and John Ball

     

    the ciompi

     

    the longbow

     

    the battle of Crecy

     

    Henry V

     

    the battle of Agincourt

     

    Joan of Arc

     

    Orleans

     

    Charles VII

     

    gunpowder

     

    the gabelle and the taille

     

    dukes of Burgundy and Orleans

     

    Golden Bull of Charles IV

     

    Italian communes

     

    the Visconti and the d’Este

     

    condottieri

     

    grandi and popolo grasso

     

    Council of Ten and the doge

     

    Pope Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam

     

    Avignon

     

    Catherine of Siena

     

    Great Schism

     

    Antichrist

     

    Conciliarism

     

    Marsiglio of Padua

     

    Council of Constance

     

    purgatory

     

    good deeds and pilgrimages

     

    Meister Eckhart

     

    Modern Devotion

     

    Brothers of the Common Life

     

    William of Occam and nominalism

     

    the vernacular

     

    Dante’s Divine Comedy

     

    Petrarch’s sonnets

     

    Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

     

    Christine de Pizan

     

    Giotto

     

    the “four humors”

     

    clocks and paper

     

    Renaissance

     

    Jacob Burckhardt

     

    Leon Battista Alberti

     

    Hanseatic League

     

    House of Medici

     

    Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier

     

    Francisco Sforza

     

    Cosimo d’Medici

     

    the Papal States

     

    Isabella d’Este

     

    Peace of Lodi and balance of power

     

    1527 sack of Rome

     

    Machiavelli’s The Prince

     

    civic humanism

     

    Petrarch

     

    Bruni’s The New Cicero

     

    Lorenzo Valla

     

    Marcilio Ficino and neoplatonism

     

    Renaissance hermeticism

     

    Pico della Mirandola’s Oration

     

    “liberal studies”

     

    Francesco Guicciardini

     

    Johannes Gutenberg

     

    Masaccio

     

    Lorenzo the Magnificent

     

    Botticelli’s Primavera

     

    Donatello’s David

     

    Brunelleschi

     

    High Renaissance

     

    Leonardo da Vinci

     

    Raphael

     

    Michelangelo

     

    Sistine Chapel

     

    Bramante and Saint Peter’s

     

    Giorgio Vasari

     

    Northern Renaissance

     

    Jan van Eyck

     

    Albrecht Durer

     

    madrigals

     

    “new monarchies”

     

    Louis XI the Spider and Henry VII

     

    Ferdinand and Isabella

     

    Spanish Inquisition

     

    the Habsburgs

     

    Ivan III

     

    Constantinople and 1453

     

    John Wycliffe and John Hus

     

    Pius II’s Execrabilis

     

    Renaissance popes

     

    Leo X

     

    Christian humanism

     

    Desiderius Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly

     

    Thomas More’s Utopia

     

    pluralism and absenteeism

     

    Thomas a Kempis’ Imitation of Christ

     

    the sacraments

     

    Martin Luther

     

    salvation by faith

     

    priesthood of all believers

     

    Johann Tetzel and indulgences

     

    Ninety-Five Theses

     

    the Edict of Worms

     

    the Peasants’ War, 1524

     

    transubstantiation

     

    the Protestant minister

     

    Charles V

     

    Pope Clement VII

     

    Suleiman the Magnificent

     

    Peace of Augsburg

     

    Gustavus Vasa

     

    Ulrich Zwingli

     

    Marburg Colloquy

     

    Anabaptists and Munster

     

    Menno Simons

     

    Henry VIII’s wives

     

    Act of Supremacy

     

    Book of Common Prayer

     

    Edward VI and “Bloody Mary”

     

    John Calvin

     

    predestination

     

    Geneva

     

    the Protestant family

     

    Protestant education

     

    Puritans

     

    Catholic Reformation

     

    Saint Teresa of Avila

     

    Ignatius Loyola

     

    Jesuits

     

    Francis Xavier

     

    Pope Paul III

     

    Council of Trent

     

    Huguenots and Saint Barthomew’s Day

     

    Henry IV and the Edict of Nantes

     

    Philip II

     

    battle of Lepanto

     

    New World

     

    the Netherlands

     

    Union of Utrecht

     

    Elizabeth

     

    Spanish Armada

     

     

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    May 05 2009


    European Leaders – Italy (by date)

    Filed under HUB Dates,Monarchy

    All, copy the entire list from the previous comment into your comment, then add your information.

     

    1450 -

    1492 -

    1517 -

    1588 -

    1648 -

    1688 -

    1750 -

    1815 -

    1848 -

    1870 -

    1914 -

    1939 -

    1945 -

    1956 -

    1968 -

    1989 -

     

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    Apr 17 2009


    What are Historians saying?

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    So, remember at the Conference up north, the speaker said, include what historians think about blah, blah, blah…

    So, here’s what distinguished historian, Peter Gay, says about modernism:  Peter Gay maintains that modernism and its practitioners had two defining characteristics: “the lure of heresy that impelled their actions as they confronted conventional sensibilities” and “a commitment to a principled self-scrutiny.”

    Concerning the start of World War I,  “Europeans of all stripes,” according to Yale historian, Peter Gay, “joined in greeting the advent of war with a fervor bordering on a religious experience.” link

    The pacifist philosopher Bertrand Russell writes of discovering, “to my amazement,” as he wandered the streets of London, “that average men and women were delighted at the prospect of war.” link

     

    Peter Gay on Germany in the interwar years (between WWI & WWII): ”…by 1925, the German atmosphere was calmer than at any point since the war and revolution; …” Source: Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (New York: Harper & Row, 1968).

    What can you find about major stuff (Wars, Eras, Movements, etc.)?

    Post as a comment & initial it.

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    Apr 07 2009


    Essential Questions

    Filed under Review,Uncategorized

    Follow the link to find the basic question to answer on each era we’ve covered.

    Post your answers (sentence, bulleted, paragraph, etc.) as a comment — I expect to see some thoughts from everyone, though you needn’t write a full essay for each — if you do write a full essay for each, you have an advantage :)

    Our deadline is approaching — it’s a sprint to the finish?

     

    Commercial Revolution is pre-Industrial, follow the link to a review sheet — we talked about mercantilism, we just didn’t call mercantilism and exploration a “Commercial Revolution”

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    Mar 18 2009


    Ch. 26, 27 ID

    Filed under Uncategorized

     

                1.   League of Nations

     

                2.   Little Entente

     

                3.   Dawes Plan

     

                4.   Treaty of Locarno

     

                5.   Kellogg-Briand pact

     

                6.   Great Depression

     

                7.   John Maynard Keynes

     

                8.   Popular Front

     

                9.   the New Deal

     

               10.   Benito Mussolini

     

               11.   Fascio di Combattimento

     

               12.   squadristi

     

               13.   Il Duce

     

               14.   “Women into the home”

     

               15.   Weimar Republic

     

               16.   Adolph Hitler

     

               17.   Mein Kampf

     

               18.   NSDAP/Nazis

     

               19.   Lebensraum

     

               20.   Fuhrerprinzip

     

               21.   the Enabling Act

     

               22.   Germany Awake”

     

               23.   Aryanism

     

               24.   Hitler Jugend

     

               25.   Nuremberg laws

     

               26.   Kristallnacht

     

               27.   “war communism”

     

               28.   New Economic Policy

     

               29.   Joseph Stalin

     

               30.   five-year plan

     

               31.   Stakhanov cult

     

               32.   kulaks

     

               33.   collective farms

     

               34.   General Francisco Franco

     

               35.   Spanish Civil War

     

               36.   “wireless” and the BBC

     

               37.   Birth of a Nation and The Blue Angel

     

               38.   Dopolavoro and Kraft durch Freude

     

               39.   Oswald Spengler

     

               40.   Marie Stopes’ Married Love

     

               41.   Dadaism and Surrealism

     

               42.   Bauhaus School and Walter Gropius

     

               43.   Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera

     

               44.   “degenerate art”

     

               45.   Socialist Realism

     

               46.   Arnold Schoenberg and atonal music

     

               47.   James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

     

               48.   Carl Jung

     

               49.   Werner Heisenberg

     

               50.   Ernest Rutherford

     

               51.   Aryans

     

               52.   Lebensraum

     

               53.   “diplomatic revolution”

     

               54.   Anglo-German Naval Pact

     

               55.   Rhineland

     

               56.   Rome-Berlin Axis

     

               57.   appeasement

     

               58.   Neville Chamberlain

     

               59.   Sudentenland

     

               60.   Munich Conference

     

               61.   “peace in our time”

     

               62.   1939 non-aggression pact

     

               63.   Blitzkrieg

     

               64.   Maginot Line

     

               65.   Dunkirk

     

               66.   Winston Churchill

     

               67.   Battle of Britain

     

               68.   Pearl Harbor

     

               69.   Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

     

               70.   Grand Alliance

     

               71.   El Alamein

     

               72.   Stalingrad

     

               73.   Battle of Midway

     

               74.   Normandy

     

               75.   Battle of Kursk

     

               76.   New Order

     

               77.   Claus von Stauffenberg

     

               78.   the Holocaust

     

               79.   Madagascar Plan

     

               80.   Final Solution

     

               81.   Einsatzgruppen

     

               82.   Auschwitz

     

               83.   Wannsee Conference

     

               84.   gas chambers

     

               85.   “land girls”

     

               86.   “Dig for Victory”

     

               87.   Great Patriotic War

     

               88.   “Night Witches”

     

               89.   Albert Speer

     

               90.   Giulio Douhet

     

               91.   Luftwaffe

     

               92.   the Blitz

     

               93.   Arthur Harris

     

               94.   Dresden

     

               95.   Allied Strategic Bombing Survey

     

               96.   Hiroshima and Nagasaki

     

               97.   Big Three

     

               98.   Yalta

     

               99.   Potsdam

     

             100.   “an iron curtain”

     

     

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    Mar 16 2009


    How to Read Political Cartoons

    Filed under Images

    This link, though exploring a U.S. political cartoon, guides you in analyzing pc’s.

    Scroll over different sections of the cartoon to read the analysis

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