THIS WEEK IN WORLD HISTORY
Important To Know Features in Ch. 30 Americas in the Age of Independence.
U.S. Expansion: "Manifest Destiny" • Wars against the First Nations • Mexican-American War • US Civil War
Canadian Expansion: War of 1812 • British relations
Latin America: Political fragmentation after independence • Caudillos • La Reforma in Mexico • Mexican Revolution and class conflict
Migration to the Americas • Capital and the US + Canada • Raw materials and dependency economies in Latin America
White resistance to nonwhite peoples' rights • Rise of women's suffrage • Northwest Rebellion in Canada • Castas in Latin American societies and politics
Important To Know Features in Ch. 31 Societies at Crossroads
ESSENTIAL: Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, Japanese responses to Western Ind Rev + Enlightenment reforms (elite and/or peasant resistance variations)
Ottoman Empire: Decline • Muhammad Ali • Capitulations • Tanzimat reforms/resistance • Young Turks
Russia: Quest for Mediterranean port • Failures of serf emancipation • Clash between elites and workers • Russo-Japanese War
Qing China: Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion, Self-Strengthening Movement, Boxer Rebellion
Japan: 1853 Admiral Perry • Meiji Restoration • Speed of reforms • Zaibatsu
MUST LEARN: European imperialist spheres of influence
Introducing Part 3 of Things Fall Apart: Part 1 is life as it was in Umoufia, Part 2 is exile in Mbanta, and Part 3 is Okonkwo's return to a changed homeland. Helpful video overview.
FINISH THE NOVEL FOR TOMORROW!
WTFA? (What? Things Fall Apart?)
WORLD HISTORY
You will need your textbook each day for this 30-point Formative DBQ assignment
TODAY: Reading and Annotating the Documents.
Finished!
Let's try this: We very much need to discuss the ending of Things Fall Apart.
What struck you?
How do you feel about Okonkwo in the end?
What did reading this book do to your understanding of the history of this time?
What is unclear?
What is a great line / important quote?
You can either discuss in our regular group Meet.
Or in a breakout without me there. Yay! No teacher!
Or, you can just record some thoughts on a Flipgrid for me to watch later.
Things Fall Apart Summative will be assigned Friday in class.
WORLD HISTORY
You will need your textbook each day for this 30-point Formative DBQ assignment
TODAY: Formulating a Thesis. Constructing Contextualization.
1: 40 - 2: 10
Need help? Have a question? You can pop into these to talk with a real live teacher. You don't have to stay.
WORLD HISTORY
You will need your textbook each day for this 30-point Formative DBQ assignment
TODAY: Outside Evidence. Writing a Winning Outline.