Tuesday 12 September 2017

Major Error Patterns + Strategies to improve them.

Major Error Patterns + Strategies to improve them.
  1. Not studying:
    1. Nightly review of notes. 
    2. highlight information you don’t understand in your notes and schedule a time to ask your teacher to go over it with you.
    3. test yourself: If you can teach it to someone else, you know it.
  2. Restating information a few different ways:
    1. question 3: “M. was the president of the National Assembly and he was important because he represented the National Assembly”
      1. it is understood in the term ‘president’ that he represents the National Assembly.
  3. Not knowing the names for events: 
    1. Estates General is not the National Assembly.
  4. Wasting space with unnecessary words:
    1. “All men are created equal. That one is a good one. It attacks the law because for example back then not everyone had equal rights…”
  5. Not reading the question correctly:
    1. Question 1: 
      1. Listing events out of order.
      2. listing events that happened AFTER the Constitution was created.
      3.  Repeating info that will receive no points:
        1. "Answer: When the king realized that the financial problems could be solved by taxing the nobles, he went and did that"
    2. Question 2: 
      1. no examples were given. 
        1. “one point stated that you cannot resist arrest if there was a proper reason. This one attacks feudalism again because the upper estates barely had arresting and killing done against them”  
          1. good point, it answers the 2/3 of the question. But you missed out on vital points by not giving an example.
        2.  "Everyone has the same taxes to pay: That tackles the feudal system because of how the nobles didn't have to pay taxes. ex: They didn't need to pay the tax for making wine with a press, but the 3rd estate had to."
          1. Much better: all parts of the question are answered.

Monday 11 September 2017

“Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare”

  The World’s Famous Orations.
Continental Europe (380–1906).  1906.
I. “Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare”
Georges Jacques Danton (1759–94)
(1792)
Born in 1759, died in 1794; led the attack on the Tuileries in 1792; implicated in the “September Massacres”; helped to organize the Revolutionary Tribunal; Member of the Committee of Public Safety; overthrown by Robespierre.
It is gratifying to the ministers of a free people to have to announce to them that their country will be saved. All are stirred, all are excited, all burn to fight. You know that Verdun is not yet in the power of our enemies. You know that its garrison swears to immolate the first who breathes a proposition of surrender.
  One portion of our people will proceed to the frontiers, another will throw up intrenchments, and the third with pikes will defend the hearts of our cities. Paris will second these great efforts. The commissioners of the Commune will solemnly proclaim to the citizens the invitation to arm and march to the defence of the country. At such a moment you can proclaim that the capital deserves well of all France.
  At such a moment this National Assembly becomes a veritable committee of war. We ask that you concur with us in directing this sublime movement of the people, by naming commissioners who will second us in these great measures. We ask that any one refusing to give personal service or to furnish arms shall be punished with death. We ask that a set of instructions be drawn up for the citizens to direct their movements. We ask that couriers be sent to all the departments to notify them of the decrees that you proclaim here. The tocsin we are about to ring is not an alarm signal; it sounds the charge on the enemies of our country. To conquer them we must dare, dare again, always dare, and France is saved!
Note 1. Delivered in the National Assembly on September 2, 1792. Translated for this edition by Scott Robinson. Danton’s speeches offer a notable exception among the speeches of the orators of the French Revolution, in that they were delivered without previous preparation. The other orators carefully wrote out and read their speeches and then had them printed, “but Danton,” says Mr Stephens, “always improvised; he never drew up a report or published a single speech.” For the text of Danton’s speeches, we have to rely entirely on the reports in the Moniteur. 
Note 2. Verdun surrendered on the day this speech was made. 

Wednesday 12 April 2017

I-Search assignment

Assignment: I-Search paper

Due: Friday, April 28th at 4 pm

Topics:

Topic
WH A
WH B



Leon Trotsky
Alek
Collectivism
Julionn

Politburo
Paolo
Samir
Tsar Nicolas II
Ashley
Alexa
Rasputin
Sebastian H.
Nellann
Joseph Stalin
Sasha
Father Gapon
Tiffany
Cheka Secret police
Alixia
Alexander Kerensky

Tsarina Alexandra
Neissa
Arielle
Cossacks
Abby
Annaelle
Vladimir Lenin
Sebastien D.
Philippe
Karl Marx
Gabby
Albert
The White army
Brodie
Debora
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Michel
Communist symbols
Bryanna
Ange
Tolstoy
Raina
Russo-Japanese war
Christopher
Naomi



  • Turn in

    • The paper will be worked on at home. 
    • Students will have due dates for
      • First section
        • I-Search Chart
        • first paragraph
      • Second section
      • Third section
      • final draft
        • 5-page paper:
          • Format:
            • Uploaded on Classrooms
            • MLA
            • Bibliography/Works Cited
            • you may use the pronoun 'I'

Thursday 30 March 2017

Excerpts from "Mein Kampf"

On The Use Of Propaganda [Chapter 6]: Bouchereau - Joseph, Esperance, Martinez

  1. Propaganda is teaching new, significant info to people that is in their field of vision.
  2. Propaganda is to be made for all levels of intelligence
  3. The goal of propaganda is to influence people. But also avoiding intellectual demands
  4. The higher level of intellectuality, the more effective propaganda will be
  5. The art of propaganda is to understand the emotional  ideas of the  great majority
  6. It is necessary to understand how useful it is for the propaganda to be adjusted to the broad majority
  7. Propaganda is not to be made many-sided
  8. Propaganda is to serve the right of the people who are using it
  9. The use of propaganda is to argue for the right that it is set out for
  10. The whole point of propaganda is get into people’s head in a good way

On the Weapon of the Jews: Emmanuelle Rocourt, Alisha Loiseau

  1. The Jews feel enmity towards the people that are not like them, they are seen as the ‘attackers’, and they are unjust towards them. 
  2. Ignorant and narrow-minded people are victims to the lies of the Jews, who are seen as the devil.
  3. The upper classes are seen as stupid cowards, by Hitler, for falling for lies being told to them by Jews.
  4. Some of them realize that they are foreigners but are still comfortable in the country; people are scared of them.
  5. Zionists try to protect them by convincing others that they are truly interested in the Palestinian state, but really, they are only interested in the money.
  6. Jews mixed races by marrying and becoming family and destroying the racially pure
  7. They replace democracy with dictatorship over the lesser people
  8. They gain control of social enterprises and revolutionizes economic and political systems.
  9. Corrupts and contaminates major cultural and religious aspects.
  10. Hitler blamed the Jews for everything that happened in Russia, such as the starvation of many people, and decides that an end must come to the oppression by the Jews.


Fighting Jewish as defending God (p.60) Isaac Lee, Guitchina, Alexa

  1. All From Hitler’s Point of View.
  2. Hitler is against communism
  3. Believed that Communism rejects the purpose of nature.
  4. The Jewish Doctrine is not helping Hitler’s belief of power and strength.
  5. Hitler describes the Jewish Doctrine as “Dead weight” it has no value.
  6. He believed that it causes the importance of man to decrease
  7. Not only for men but for race, culture, and the existence of humanity.
  8. Hitler thinks that it will bring an end to society, even the world.
  9. He thinks it’s so bad that it could bring chaos and destruction to the world.
  10. Hitler believes that he’s preforming the work of God, and doing all this for a good cause

On the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Sami


    1. Protocols of the Elders of Zion says that the Jews are liars because they don’t have the five points of nationalism  
    2. Newspaper say that the book is fake and according to Hitler that makes it real.
    3. If people know about this book the Jews are not going to be very strong.

    On the “Big Lie”: Rodney Michel, Olivia Labossiere


    1. In the big lie, there is forced evidence to believe the lie
    2. The big lie causes corruption in society
    3. People fall for the big lie rather than the small lie because they tell small lies
    4. Because of the lies they will have doubts and think that there are other explanations
    5. The people who lie know how to manipulate others with their lies
    6. Jews say they are a religious community, but Hitler says they are a race
    7. Jews were called ‘The Great Master of Lies’
    8. Those who don’t accept that statement will not help the truth triumph




    Thursday 23 February 2017

    Trench warfare assignment

    Due: Monday, March 6th
    Format: One page analysis


    Prompt:

    "If General Bouchereau decided to declare war on General Dorlus during WWI, how would you advise him to proceed?"

    Based on what we learned about trench warfare and preparing for our reenactment:

    1. What vital supplies (weapons and ammunitions, medical supplies and rations) would he need to win?  list at least 15
    2. What kind of terrain would he need to find? Explain why terrain is important.
    3. What weapons will he need and how will he have to use them?
    4. What things other than General Dorlus and his army, does General Bouchereau need to worry about? (List 3 and explain them)
    5. Give one piece of personal advice to him: Be specific about the war. State something that went wrong in our reenactment and give him advise on how to avoid that problem.

    Wednesday 1 February 2017

    Propaganda in WWI


    For each of the following posters write down the following:

    1) What country produced it?
    2) Describe the picture.
    3) Who is it trying to influence? 
    4) What does it want the reader to do/feel?

    Hand in one sheet of paper, typed 
    (can be single-spaced but all other MLA rules apply)
    Do not include posters, just use their number.

    Hand in on Google Classroom  

    (Analyzing the language and imagery will give you important clues)

    1)

    2)



    3)

    4)



    5)

    6)

    7)



    Tuesday 17 January 2017