OK, this is not due for some time, but I wanted to talk a bit about it now to give you some time to think and plan and just live with the idea a bit: DUE MARCH 8
FORMAT: TYPED, DOUBLE-SPACED, 3-4 PAGES, TURNED IN TO TURNITIN(more on this later)
The basic idea for the essay is that it is about slavery in the antebellum (pre-Civil War)period. To be more specific, you will be writing about some specific theme, taken from Celia or Frederick Douglass, or the WPA Narratives, or our guest lecture on friday the 5th. You should think about this as an opinion and argument piece more than an essay that traces a bunch of facts.
HERE ARE FOUR OPTIONS SO FAR. MORE WILL FOLLOW. ALSO, THINK ABOUT MAKING YOUR OWN TOPIC BASED ON SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YOU:
1. What was the significance of gender on the slave plantation?
2. Considering Celia, A Slave, and at least two of the Slave Narratives from the American Memory Project what role did violence play in maintaining order on the plantation?
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
3. Compare and contrast Sally Hemmings and Celia.
Here are some good sources on Hemmings:
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/lives/sallyhemings.html#
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings-jefferson_contro.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/
4. Compare and contrast the experience of Celia or Frederick Douglass with Primo Levi during the Holocaust.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
(as per our discussion of fur and blood and boycotts)PETA proposes robotic groundhog for Pa. festival
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. – An animal rights group wants organizers of Pennsylvania's Groundhog Day festival to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a robotic stand-in.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it's unfair to keep the animal in captivity and subject him to the huge crowds and bright lights that accompany tens of thousands of revelers each Feb. 2 in Punxsutawney, a tiny borough about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. PETA is suggesting the use of an animatronic model.
But William Deeley, president of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, says the animal is "being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania." The groundhog is kept in a climate-controlled environment and is inspected annually by the state Department of Agriculture.
Deeley says PETA isn't interested in Phil from Feb. 2 on, and is looking for publicity.
Monday, January 25, 2010
MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
--BRING A BLUE BOOK TO THE EXAM—
I. KEY TERMS: (50%) Identify and give the significance of 5 terms from a list of 6.
A good answer to this section would be a full paragraph, would have sufficient detail identifying the term(who is it, when was it, what was it, etc), and would clearly explore the significance of the term. In your answer you should state, “This is significant because…” To find the significance of an term, link it to the larger theme of that time.
THE SIX ON THE TEST WILL COME FROM THIS IDENTIFICATION POOL:
Hernan de Cortes
John Winthrop
"Modelle of Christian Charity"
Town Meeting
Tituba
William Berkeley
House of Burgesses
Middle Passage
Indentured Servitude
Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
George Whitefield
The Junto
South Carolina Regulators
North Carolina Regulators
Susquehannah Company
Paxton Boys
Boston Fire of 1760
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Boston Massacre
Battle of Yorktown
Sons of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty
Burning the Gaspee
Articles of Confederation
II. ESSAY: There will be two choices; you will write on one of them. (50%)
The two choices may come from the same theme, so you could easily have two questions on one of the topics, meaning, study all themes.
The essays will be drawn from the following themes:
1. Causes and course of the American Revolution: To study for this question, consider the key ideas, people, and events that caused the revolution.
2. Founding of Virginia and Massachusetts up to and including the Great Awakening.
To study for this question, make a simple outline that has sections covering the following:
Founding of Virginia and Massachusetts
Political Life of Virginia and Massachusetts
Economic Life of Virginia and Massachusetts
Religious Life of Virginia and Massachusetts
3. Mid-Century Challenges and their Impact on the Nation:
(don’t forget our good citizen BF in there)
Remember with this question, the whole point of these “challenges” is that they challenge British rule. Link them, eventually, to the revolution.
Here are some actual essay questions from previous exams:
1. What were the most important challenges to British authority leading the British colonists to break from England?
2. You are British to the core. Many of your family members live in London. As a longtime resident of Philadelphia and a writer for Benjamin Franklin's newspaper, The Gazette, you often discuss political subjects. The "Declaration of Independence" was just delivered to the King (1776), yet many of your readers are unsure of their allegiance: to the Crown or the colonies? Franklin wants you to write an editorial giving what you feel is the correct opinion on this matter. Should you go against England and support the Revolution? Should you be loyal to your British roots? What will your newspaper column say?
HOW TO STUDY:
1. Separate your thinking on the studying into two realms, the essay and the terms, but be willing to link up the two later. Too many students learn tons of info for the terms and then fail to include that same detail in the essay.
2. For the terms, write out each with bullets. Even though you cannot use bullets on the exam, it’s easier to see the information in that form during your studying. There’s much more success when people write out each term and its details rather than simply highlighting your notes.
3. Make outlines for the essays. Make sure that your outlines have way too much detail, way more than any normal human could ever remember.
4. Try to memorize the outlines. Try to write them word for word without looking at the original. Fill in the gaps where you did not recall something. Do it again. Walk around your study area speaking the outline, looking down only when you need to for a quick reminder of the detail. Speak it again. Write it again…and most of all, have fun.
5. Follow Napoleon’s advice: “In planning a campaign I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible.”
I. KEY TERMS: (50%) Identify and give the significance of 5 terms from a list of 6.
A good answer to this section would be a full paragraph, would have sufficient detail identifying the term(who is it, when was it, what was it, etc), and would clearly explore the significance of the term. In your answer you should state, “This is significant because…” To find the significance of an term, link it to the larger theme of that time.
THE SIX ON THE TEST WILL COME FROM THIS IDENTIFICATION POOL:
Hernan de Cortes
John Winthrop
"Modelle of Christian Charity"
Town Meeting
Tituba
William Berkeley
House of Burgesses
Middle Passage
Indentured Servitude
Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
George Whitefield
The Junto
South Carolina Regulators
North Carolina Regulators
Susquehannah Company
Paxton Boys
Boston Fire of 1760
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Boston Massacre
Battle of Yorktown
Sons of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty
Burning the Gaspee
Articles of Confederation
II. ESSAY: There will be two choices; you will write on one of them. (50%)
The two choices may come from the same theme, so you could easily have two questions on one of the topics, meaning, study all themes.
The essays will be drawn from the following themes:
1. Causes and course of the American Revolution: To study for this question, consider the key ideas, people, and events that caused the revolution.
2. Founding of Virginia and Massachusetts up to and including the Great Awakening.
To study for this question, make a simple outline that has sections covering the following:
Founding of Virginia and Massachusetts
Political Life of Virginia and Massachusetts
Economic Life of Virginia and Massachusetts
Religious Life of Virginia and Massachusetts
3. Mid-Century Challenges and their Impact on the Nation:
(don’t forget our good citizen BF in there)
Remember with this question, the whole point of these “challenges” is that they challenge British rule. Link them, eventually, to the revolution.
Here are some actual essay questions from previous exams:
1. What were the most important challenges to British authority leading the British colonists to break from England?
2. You are British to the core. Many of your family members live in London. As a longtime resident of Philadelphia and a writer for Benjamin Franklin's newspaper, The Gazette, you often discuss political subjects. The "Declaration of Independence" was just delivered to the King (1776), yet many of your readers are unsure of their allegiance: to the Crown or the colonies? Franklin wants you to write an editorial giving what you feel is the correct opinion on this matter. Should you go against England and support the Revolution? Should you be loyal to your British roots? What will your newspaper column say?
HOW TO STUDY:
1. Separate your thinking on the studying into two realms, the essay and the terms, but be willing to link up the two later. Too many students learn tons of info for the terms and then fail to include that same detail in the essay.
2. For the terms, write out each with bullets. Even though you cannot use bullets on the exam, it’s easier to see the information in that form during your studying. There’s much more success when people write out each term and its details rather than simply highlighting your notes.
3. Make outlines for the essays. Make sure that your outlines have way too much detail, way more than any normal human could ever remember.
4. Try to memorize the outlines. Try to write them word for word without looking at the original. Fill in the gaps where you did not recall something. Do it again. Walk around your study area speaking the outline, looking down only when you need to for a quick reminder of the detail. Speak it again. Write it again…and most of all, have fun.
5. Follow Napoleon’s advice: “In planning a campaign I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible.”
THE REVOLUTION
John Locke:
2nd Treatise on Government:
"Government has no other end but the preservation of property."
"Man should be free from all taxes but what he consents to in person or by his representative."
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
THE ROAD TO WAR
I. Changing Policies: (ending “salutary neglect”)
A. Navigation Acts:
B. Sugar Act (1764)
C. Stamp Act (1765)
D. Townshend Duties (1767)
II. Escalation:
A. The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)
B. Burning of the Gaspee (1772)
C. The Boston Tea Party, 1773
D. Intolerable Acts (1774, also called The Coercive Acts)
1. Boston Port Bill
2. Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act
3. Impartial Administration of Justice Act
--RELATED BUT NOT CALLED INTOLERABLE EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE INTOLERABLE. HUH?--
The Quartering Act
The Quebec Act
III. Events plus Ideas=Revolution
A. Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” 1776
"But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain...let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING."
"Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and as England and America, with respect to each Other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems: England to Europe- America to itself."
B. Declaration of Independence=war
2nd Treatise on Government:
"Government has no other end but the preservation of property."
"Man should be free from all taxes but what he consents to in person or by his representative."
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
THE ROAD TO WAR
I. Changing Policies: (ending “salutary neglect”)
A. Navigation Acts:
B. Sugar Act (1764)
C. Stamp Act (1765)
D. Townshend Duties (1767)
II. Escalation:
A. The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)
B. Burning of the Gaspee (1772)
C. The Boston Tea Party, 1773
D. Intolerable Acts (1774, also called The Coercive Acts)
1. Boston Port Bill
2. Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act
3. Impartial Administration of Justice Act
--RELATED BUT NOT CALLED INTOLERABLE EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE INTOLERABLE. HUH?--
The Quartering Act
The Quebec Act
III. Events plus Ideas=Revolution
A. Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” 1776
"But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain...let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING."
"Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and as England and America, with respect to each Other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems: England to Europe- America to itself."
B. Declaration of Independence=war
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN READING NOW DUE ON MONDAY
We are not quite ready to discuss the reading on Friday. We'll continue discussing other mid century challenges on Friday and then talk all about your BFFBF on Monday. Now you have the weekend to finish this fabulous book.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Mid-Century Challenges to British Authority
I. Great Awakening and American Enlightenment
II. French and Indian War
III. Economic Shift
IV. Land Conflicts
A. Susquehannah Company(Pennamite Wars)
B. Paxton Boys
C. South Carolina Regulators
D. North Carolina Regulators
E. The Boston Fire of 1860
V. FOCUS ON BEN FRANKLIN:
II. French and Indian War
III. Economic Shift
IV. Land Conflicts
A. Susquehannah Company(Pennamite Wars)
B. Paxton Boys
C. South Carolina Regulators
D. North Carolina Regulators
E. The Boston Fire of 1860
V. FOCUS ON BEN FRANKLIN:
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