World History

Check this link for a good review of the impact of the industrial revolution.


The Industrial Revolution began in the 1700s and continued through the early 1900s.

This time was one of the most important periods in the history of human society. Since the discovery and use of agriculture eight to ten thousand years ago, no other event has affected humankind more.

The results of this revolution would completely change the way humans acted. How they worked, the amount and type of goods they bought, the family structure, the social structure, and the way individuals thought were all changed.

Eng 10 romeo and juliet

Pick a quote and discuss what you think it means, whether or not you agree with it, and tell why it is important. You can also find your own quotes to discuss - from the novel, or other sources. Just be sure to copy the quote in your entry.
"For success, attitude is as important as ability."

"We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them."

"You earn respect by what you live, not by what you demand."

"Make an effort, not an excuse."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

"Build bridges, not walls."

"Let the choices you make today be choices you can live with tomorrow."

"Money is the root of all evil."

"Walk your talk."

"You can teach what you believe, but you will reproduce who you are."

"You are responsible for your own actions and the consequences which follow, be they positive or negative."

"Clothes do not make a man (or woman)."

"Mud thrown is ground lost".

World History

Try this quiz on French Revolution and Napoleon

Napoleon is remembered not only for his military victories, but
also as a ‘Great Reformer’, bringing about improvements to France and
French Society.

Napoleon himself said: “I intend to keep the Revolution’s
useful changes, but not to abandon the good institutions it mistakenly
destroyed.”

How did France change under Napoleon? And did it change
for the better? Look at France
before, and during Napoleon’s rule.

1.Research changes to education

2.The governing of France

3.Individual rights and Freedoms

4.The catholic church

Describe these topics as they were before napoleon and how they worked after.

The Code Napoleon, 1804

• All people were declared equal before the law.
There were no longer any special privileges for
Nobles, Churchmen or rich people

• Feudal rights were ended.

• Trial by Jury was guaranteed.

• Religious Freedom was guaranteed.

• Parents were given powers over their children.

• Wives were not allowed to sell or give away
property.

• A wife could only own property with her
husband’s consent in writing.

• Fathers were allowed to imprison their children
for any time up to a month.

List the points of the code which you think are:
a. Fair?
b. Unfair?

Give reasons for your choices.

World Issues Globalization

Examine this website

And this one on vanishing cultures

Consider the effects of globalization on modern culture in "developed" countries and on indigenous cultures, use the Internet to get information on this topic, and list the ways in which globalization has affected various cultures. conclude by writing paragraphs assessing whether globalization is positive, negative, or a combination of positive and negative.

Take notes on the effects of globalization that the author cites in this article. Which country's culture seems to be impacting the world the most? What does the author say about U.S. culture? How does she feel about globalization in general?

Make a four-column chart with "American culture" in the left heading, "European culture" and "Japanese culture" in the middle columns, and "Indigenous cultures" on the right. Define indigenous cultures as cultures like the ones they saw on the "Vanishing Cultures" site.

List all the impacts they think globalization might have on these cultural groups. List both positive and negative impacts and write a plus or minus sign next to each one. Conduct some basic research on these cultures before making their lists.

Write paragraphs answering the question "Is globalization a good thing, a bad thing, or a combination of good and bad?" They should provide specific examples from their research.

List all the ways that globalization has affected them personally. Then have them write short paragraphs explaining whether they think these changes are positive or negative.

1. Which American products/corporations have spread to other countries around the world? What is it about American products/corporations that have caused them to spread (as opposed to other products/corporations)?

   
   

2. What positive and negative impacts do these products/corporations have? How could they alter local cultures?

   
   

3. Why is the American market is so dominant?

   
   

4. What role do other countries play in cultural globalization? How do other countries contribute to American culture?

   
   

5. Do you feel uncomfortable or threatened by foreign products? Why or why not? Do you think other Americans are? Why or why not?

Globalization does more than simply increase the availability of foreign-made consumer products. It also increases international trade in cultural products and services, such as movies, music, and publications.

Thus, one of the criticisms of globalization is that exposure to foreign cultural goods frequently brings about changes in local cultures, values, and traditions. Concern centers in particular on the influence of U.S. companies. Answer the discussion questions, record the answers. Choose a spokesperson to report its findings to the rest of the class.

World History Napolean

Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica in 1769. His family had received French nobility status when France made Corsica a province in that year, and Napoleon was sent to France in 1777 to study at the Royal Military School in Brienne. I

n 1784, Napoleon spent a year studying at the Ecole Militaire in Paris, graduating as a Second Lieutenant of artillery. Sent to Valence on a peacetime mission, Napoleon whiled away the hours there educating himself in history and geography.

During the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon fought well for the Republic, helping to defeat the British at Toulon. For his services there, he was made a Brigadier General. Napoleon married Josephine de Beauharnais and gained command of the French army in Italy.

As First Consul, Napoleon began a program to consolidate his power. He ended the current rift between France and the Church by instituting the Concordat of 1801.

France was then involved in several wars. In 1802, Napoleon signed the Peace of Amiens, a temporary peace with the British. In order to be able to concentrate solely on his European affairs, he sold France's Louisiana territory to the U.S. in 1803. And in 1804, he set the foundation for much of Europe's legal system by establishing the Napoleonic Code. In 1804, Napoleon did away with the Consulate and crowned himself Emperor in an extravagant coronation ceremony.

In 1805, Napoleon was planning an invasion of England when the Russian and Austrian armies began marching towards France.

Napoleon's forces defeated them at Austerlitz, but not before the British fleet had destroyed Napoleon's navy at Trafalgar.

At this time, Napoleon expanded his Empire. By now, Napoleon controlled almost all of Western Europe with the exception of Spain. He decided to try and destroy the economy of his major enemy, Britain, by instituting the Continental System, under which all European ports would refuse to accept British shipments.

He failed in this task, and in trying to force Spain to comply touched off the Peninsular War. Russia and Prussia, however, did cooperate with Napoleon for a few years under the Treaty of Tilsit (1807).

Around this time, Czar Alexander I withdrew Russia from the Continental System. In 1812, Napoleon's Grand Army entered Russia in order to punish Alexander, but the ravages of the deadly Russian winter decimated his army. Meanwhile, affairs in France began to look unstable. Napoleon rushed back to Paris and raised a new army, only to be defeated by a coalition of European forces at Leipzig in 1814.

Napoleon was then exiled to the isle of Elba, where he plotted his return. With the great powers of Europe deep in negotiations over how to redivide the continent, Napoleon escaped from Elba, sneaked into France, and raised a new army in the period known as the Hundred Days. In June 1815, the armies of Wellington and Blucher defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Napoleon was again exiled, this time to distant Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died in 1821.

Science Unit 3

Motion, Transportation, Electricity, Optics, Nuclear Physics, Waves, Communication

Find domestic and international publications posted on the Internet.

Consider a series of examples of newspaper and magazine articles that deal with a physics concept. The examples should be current and deal with several physics topics. As a homework assignment, obtain a current newspaper or magazine article.

Focus on the physics concepts dealt with in the article. Discuss each presentation summary and place them into one of three categories – perhaps “Career Based”, “Motion Based”, or “Interesting Physics for Next Year”

Examine the impact motion has on daily life - from walking and driving, to blood flow and nerve impulses. Construct your understanding of motion through examples of distance and time questions.

What is distance?

· What makes one location further away than another?

· What does it mean to travel from here to there in less time each trip?

· How would you compare travelling to the same location on two separate trips, one trip taking half the time of the other?

· A starter’s pistol fired 100 m away shows smoke first, then a sound is heard. Why?

· Describe the terms distance, speed, and time.

· How could you measure the speed of a river?

Using stopwatches and tape measures determine how far they travel in a given amount of time. Then determine how long it would take to travel a different distance. The distance values that require speculative work cover simple extensions (e.g., 10 m) to more complex values (e.g., 1.0 km or 18.3 m). Develop a sense of the relationship between distance, time, and speed as well as error and approximation.

Here are 2 games to introduce physics:

Game 1

Game 2


Game 3

a) A student walks three steps in 1 s. How fast is the student travelling?

b) The student travels six steps in 2 s. How far does the student travel in the first second? How far does the student travel in the final second? How fast is the student travelling?

eng 10 book report

English 10 book report project Due Friday october 12

Choose 2 of the following:

1. Interview a character from your book. Write at least ten questions that will give the character the opportunity to discuss his/her thoughts and feelings about his/her role in the story. However you choose to present your interview is up to you.

2. Make several sketches of some of the scenes in the book and label them.

3. Imagine that you are the author of the book you have just read. Suddenly the book becomes a best seller. Write a letter to a movie producer trying to get that person interested in making your book into a movie. Explain why the story, characters, conflicts, etc., would make a good film. Suggest a filming location and the actors to play the various roles. YOU MAY ONLY USE BOOKS WHICH HAVE NOT ALREADY BEEN MADE INTO MOVIES.

4. Write a letter (10-sentence minimum) to the main character of your book asking questions, protesting a situation, and/or making a complaint and/or a suggestion. This must be done in the correct letter format.

5. If the story of your book takes place in another country, prepare a travel brochure using pictures you have found or drawn.

6. Read a book that has been made into a movie. (Caution: it must have been a book FIRST. Books written from screenplays are not acceptable.) Write an essay comparing the movie version with the book.

7. Create a mini-comic book relating a chapter of the book.

8. Write an obituary for one of the characters. Be sure to include life-time accomplishments.

9. Write an ad for a dating service for one of the characters.

10. Rewrite the story for younger children in picture book form.

The Salem Witch Trials

Research life of a Puritan in New England

What a puritan is?

The Salem witch trials.

The causes of the paranoia and hysteria.


Choose an important person in the Salem witch trials:

1. How old was the person?
   
2. What was the person's occupation?
   
3. What do we know about the person's family?
   
4. Why do people think this person was accused of witchcraft and/or accused others of witchcraft?
   
5. What is most remembered in about this person in current popular culture, if anything?
   
6. Was this person wealthy or poor?
   
7. Where did this person live?

Write a story, letter, or diary entry from the
perspective of one of the afflicted. The writing should involve some or
all of the following: personal feelings of the historical figure,
description of 'fits' and other sensations experienced by the
'afflicted', an accusation, a court trial or recollections from a court
trial, remorse.

If you prefer, you may write a story, letter, or
diary entry from the perspective of one of the accused, or from a judge
or other court official. Again, the writing should be relevant to the
historical event. Make sure
historical evidence supports their viewpoint?

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Galileo Questions Wednesday

1. What institution did Galileo come into conflict with? Why?

2. What was the popular belief about the sun and the Earth at the time of Galileo?

3. The apparent movement of the Sun was both a ____ and a ____ at the time of Galileo.

4. What subject did Galileo leave medicine to study instead?

5. What did Galileo invent from the lenses of the spectacles?

6. What was one of the first practical uses for the "spyglass" Galileo invented?

7. What "heavenly" body did Galileo first study and chart?

8. What planet did Galileo first study? What details did he find?

9. Why did Galileo become famous in Europe shortly after 1600?

10. What view of Copernicus did Galileo adopt?

11. What was the second planet for Galileo to study?

12. Describe the opposition that Galileo encountered.

Part II

1. What did Galileo reason (hypothesize) about inclined planes?

2a.What number progression did Galileo discover with inclined planes?

2b. What did he call it?

3a. Distinguish between Galileo's major scientific contributions as a young man vs. when he was aged.

3b. What book did Galileo write that would influence Sir Isaac Newton?

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world history Unit 2: Revolution and Change, 1715–1815

The Enlightenment is viewed here as a time when individuals questioned the state of the human condition, and subsequently, a theme for the unit might be: “Most citizens of the Modern Western World did not benefit from new ideas and technologies derived from the Enlightenment, or from radical change as a result of the revolutionary events which occurred during the 18th Century.”

Enlightenment thinkers believed that new knowledge and information would result in changes to the political, social, economic, and intellectual realities of European society and the world beyond. However, technological advances and artistic expression as well as other world events spurred on the demands of the people of Europe.

What became viewed as desirous and necessary conflicted with the existing structure of the ancien régime. Students investigate the forces that led to the conflict and violence of the French Revolution. Students examine the events that propelled western civilization into a new stage of human development, and challenge myths and stereotypes concerning this period of world history. Some guiding questions that may assist students in this unit are:

· What are the ways in which a society can be governed?

· What is the relationship between the state and its citizens?

· Did social, economic, and technological change lead to revolutionary ideals?

· What role did the expansionist interests of the Western world vis-a-vis the non-Western world play in their economic and political development?

· What impact did issues such as slavery and regional trade have on the growth of non-Western societies?

· How did artistic expression in Neoclassicism indicate a rejection of the excesses of aristocratic life during the 18th Century?

· Was Napoleon a great leader who was able to mould forces to achieve his goals, or simply a leader who effectively took advantage of existing circumstances?

world history

Video on Galileo

Introduction to the Scientific Method

The scientific method is the process by which scientists, collectively

and over time, endeavor to construct an accurate (that is, reliable, consistent
and non-arbitrary) representation of the world.

Recognizing that personal and cultural beliefs influence both our
perceptions and our interpretations of natural phenomena, we aim through the
use of standard procedures and criteria to minimize those influences when
developing a theory.

As a famous scientist once said, "Smart people can come up with very good explanations for mistaken points of view."
In summary, the scientific method attempts to minimize the influence of bias or
prejudice in the experimenter when testing an hypothesis or a theory.

I. The scientific method has four steps

1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.

2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the
hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical
relation.

3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to
predict quantitatively the results of new observations.

4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent
experimenters and properly performed experiments.

Induction and Deduction are two different reasoning strategies. In
other words, they are two different ways to figure out the solution to
a problem.


With induction - you start with your own experience and then generalize
a rule. For example, The last ten times I touched the hot stove I
burned my hand. I bet every time I touch the hot stove my hand will be
burned. Another example, The last few times I eat green peppers I got
bad gas. I think eating peppers gives me bad gas.



With deduction - you start with a rule and then apply it to new
situations. For example: The sign at the amusement park says "Adult
Admission- $5" Therefore, I bet if I, an adult, try to enter I will be
charged five dollars. Another example: The law of gravity says that
what goes up must come down, so I bet if I throuw this ball up it will
fall back down.

“Why was new knowledge such a challenge to
traditional views?”

Research he following scientists: Ptolemy, Bacon, Descartes,
Vesalius, Galileo, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Newton, Robert Hooke

Who	When	What Was Discovered	Method Used	Challenge to Old World View	Consequences

Research the
trial of Galileo versus Cardinal Bellarmine and the Inquisition.

What are the particulars of the primary document (who, what, when,
where, why, etc.)?

What was the process of the trial?

What were the main arguments of Galileo and of Cardinal Bellarmine?

Why were Galileo’s views considered heresy?

What did this trial say about the Church’s authority?

How did the Church try to suppress Galileo and the Copernican Theory?


Two students present the arguments of Galileo
and The Church. The others represent the Clerical Jury and the
Secular Jury on the trial. Questions and answers and debate should represent
the point of view and use all available evidence.