1889 Paris World Exposition - Your job is to pretend that we are all
at the 1889 Paris World Exposition. We're focusing on the material from
Chapter 26, Section 4, "Nineteenth-Century Progress." (Don't forget
that we are playing fast and loose with time, as some of these
developments came AFTER 1889...)
For each of the presentations, I'd like to see the following elements:
Please read Chapter 27, Section 1: "The Scramble for Africa." It's pages 773 - 778. The quiz will be true/false.
For each of the presentations, I'd like to see the following elements:
- something visual (PowerPoint or video clip or whatever)
- background on the development or invention
- consideration of both the economic and social consequences of the idea/invention
- mention of key developments/impacts since the original idea/invention
Here are the people and ideas/inventions about which we will learn:
- Thomas Edison - phonograph and light bulb (others?)
- Alexander Graham Bell - telephone
- Guglielmo Marconi - radio
- Henry Ford - automobile
- Wright Brothers - human flight
- Louis Pasteur - germ theory of disease
- Joseph Lister - antiseptics
- Charles Darwin - evolution
- Gregor Mendel - genetics
- Dmitri Mendeleev - periodic table of the elements
- Marie and Pierre Curie - radioactivity
- Sigmund Freud - psychology
- Herbert Spencer - Social Darwinism
Here's information on the "real" 1889 World's Fair if you are curious.
If we
should happen to finish early, we can pick your brains a bit about the
recent news. Otherwise, we'll be starting our look at imperialism
tomorrow.
HOMEWORK for tomorrow - Friday, December 18th
Please read Chapter 27, Section 1: "The Scramble for Africa." It's pages 773 - 778. The quiz will be true/false.
Your WWED? blog comment is due to be posted to Lesson #27's blog entry before the start of class Friday.
Your
Cartoons:
Industrialization and Imperialism assignments are due on Friday,
January 8th. Instructions for that are found back on Lesson #24.
