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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
In
Class Activity:
1) Discussion of last night's reading
2) White Man's Burden (click on link)
3) King Leopold's Ghost (click on link)
4) European Enlighted Thought, 17th-18th Centuries:
The main components of Enlightenment thought are as follows:
1)The universe is fundamentally rational, that is, it can be understood through the use of reason alone.
2)Truth can be arrived at through empirical observation, the use of reason, and systematic doubt;
3)Human experience is the foundation of human understanding of truth; authority is not to be preferred over experience;
4) All human life, both social and individual, can be understood in the same way the natural world can be understood; once understood, human life, both social and individual, can be manipulated or engineered in the same way the natural world can be manipulated or engineered;
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5) Human history is largely a history of progress;
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6) Religious doctrines have no place in the understanding of the physical and human worlds; |
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Thursday,November 12, 2009
In
Class Activity:
1) Finish Things Fall Apart: Ch 25
2) Find subtle references in the last two
chapters to Kipling's "White Man's Burden"
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke (1) your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
3) Review Principles of the Enlightenment
see above (Nov. 10th)
4) Harkness Discussion on Christianity, Science,
and Imperialism
5) Read about Philosophy of the 18th century
see link above (Nov. 11th)
Assignment
for Friday:
 The Sun King, 1643-1715
Biography of Louis XIV (click on link)
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Friday, November 13, 2009
In
Class Activity:
1) Quiz on Louis XIV
2) Palace of Versailles (click on link)
3) The Old Regime
1) How the King Lived and Where
2) What did the King do?
3) Social Class System?
4) Why the nation La France, was rich?
5) Who ran the government?
6) What about Religion in France?
7) What were Parlements?
8) Who were there Philisophes? What did they do for a living?
4) The Philisophes (click link) 
Assignment
for Monday:
Document on the
Causes of the French Revolution
and
The Estates General
Look on the G Drive for the Document
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Monday,
November 16, 2009
In
Class Activity:
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (click link)
 
Storming of the Bastille (click link)
July 14, 1789
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
August 26, 1789
(click link)
Assignment
for Tuesday:
1) Rewrites on "Okonkwo, Achebe's Hero" due this week:
B Block, Tuesday at 9;30 PM
A Block, Wednesday at 9:30 PM
2) Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Legal status of the Church in France under the Civil Constitution
As noted above, even prior to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, church property was nationalized and monastic vows were forbidden. Under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy:
- There were 83 bishops, one for each Department, rather than the previous 135. [Kagan et al. 2001, 643]
- Bishops (known as constitutional bishops) and priests were elected locally; electors had to sign a loyalty oath to the constitution. There was no requirement that the electors be Catholics, creating the ironic situation that Protestants and even Jews could elect the nominally Catholic priests and bishops.
- Authority of the pope over the appointment of clergy was reduced to the right to be informed of election results.
The tone of the Civil Constitution can be gleaned from Title II, Article XXI:
- Before the ceremony of consecration begins, the bishop elect shall take a solemn oath, in the presence of the municipal officers, of the people, and of the clergy, to guard with care the faithful of his diocese who are confided to him, to be loyal to the nation, the law, and the king, and to support with all his power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly and accepted by the king.[1]
In short, new bishops were required to swear loyalty to the State in far stronger terms than to any religious doctrine. Note also that, even in this revolutionary legislation, there are strong remnants of Gallican royalism.
The law also included some genuine reforms supported even by many within the Church. For example, Title IV, Article I states, "The law requiring the residence of ecclesiastics in the districts under their charge shall be strictly observed. All vested with an ecclesiastical office or function shall be subject to this, without distinction or exception.".[1] In effect, this banned the practice by which younger sons of noble families would be appointed to a bishopric or other high church position and live off of its revenues without even moving to the region in question and taking up the duties of the office.
3) Flight to Varennes (click link)
  
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Tuesday,
November 17, 2009
In
Class Activity:
Dr. Richard Davies will take your class
In class Writing Assignment on the
French Revolution
Film:
Marie Antoinette
Assignment
for Wednesday:
BRING FRANKENSTEIN to Class 
TOMORROW
 Reign of Terror (click on link)
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
In Class Activity
William Godwin (Click Link)\\
1756-1836
Mary Wollstonecraft (click link)
1759-1797
Romantic Authors
 
Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
1797-1851 and 1792-1822
Lord George Byron
1788-1824
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Assignment
for Thursday:
1)Maximilien Robespierre (click link)
2) Thermidorian Reaction(click link)
::Assignment
for Wednesday: July 27, 1794
3) History of the Guillotine (click link)
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
In
Class Activities
1) What is a ROMANTIC?
"Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" 1818,
by David Casper Friedrich, 1774-1840
2) Captain Walton's Letters from Frankenstein
pp. 7-17
Jacques-Louis David
1748-1825
Assignment
for Friday:
Chapters 1 & 2
Frankenstein,
pp. 17-28
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Friday,November 20, 2009
In
Class Activity:
Assignment
for Monday
Chapters 3 & 4
Frankenstein
pp. 28-38 |
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Monday, November 23 , 2009
 (true or false?)
In
Class Activity:
Happy Thanksgiving!
Assignment
for Tuesday:
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
In
Class Activity:
Assignment
for Wednesday:
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
In
Class Activity:
Assignment
for Thursday:
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
In
Class Activity:
Assignment
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Friday, October 23, 2009
In
Class Activity:
WEEKEND LEAVE
Assignment
for Monday:
Return to Culver Happy and Healthy
Bring Guns, Germs and Steel to class on Monday
We will begin reading
 Things Fall Apart
by the end of the week |
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Monday, October 26 , 2009
Class Activity:
Chapter 3
pp. 67-81
"Collision at Cajamarca"
Peru, 1532
The Battle of Cajamarca, 1532
G u 
Atahuallpa, Incan Sun Emperor and Francisco Pizzaro, Spanish Conquistador
Pizzaro berg Bible , 1450
Assignment
for Tuesday:
Finish Reading Chapter 3 of Guns, Germs, and Steel
and
Prepare for a Harkness Discussion
on the Nature of Mankind
Begin Reading Chapter # 4
"Farmer Power" pp. 85-92
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Tuesday, October 27 , 2009
Class Activity:
1) Harkness Discussions
2) Journal Writing
3) In Class Reading and Research
Assignment
for Wednesday:
Chapters 4 and 5 ("History's Haves and Have Nots")
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Wednesday, October 28 , 2009
In
Class Activity:
Journal Writing
Discussion of Agriculture and
Haves vs Have Nots
Assignment
for Thursday:
African Geography
the
Dark Continent
  
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
In
Class Activity:
1) Finish Geography
2) Why Africa is called the "Dark Continent"
 3) Joseph Conrad's 
Heart of Darkness 1902
Assignment
for Friday:
Things Fall Apart, Part 1, Ch. 1, 2, & 3
pages 3-25
Chinue Achebe 
Biography (click on link)
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Friday, October 30 , 2009
In
Class Activity:
Assignment
for Monday:
Things Fall Apart, Chapters 4, 5, 6
pages 26-51
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Monday, September 28, 2009
In
Class Activity: Elizabeth at Tilbury (Video)
We will Read Act 3, Scenes 1,2, & 3 Today
Assignment
for Tuesday:
1) History of Bartoleme de Las Casas
2) Devastation of the Indies
James I of England
James VI of Scotland
Devastation of the Indies |
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