NOTE: 2nd hour won't have class on Wednesday. (4th will.) The opposite happens NEXT Wednesday, which is Grandparents and Special Friends Day. I'll keep doing the single blog entry, but 2nd hour will be a day behind for a week beginning on Wednesday...
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...)
If you are interested, here's where where today's visitors rank in The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History." Remember, this is the opinion of the author, Michael H. Hart, but it still makes for interesting browsing.
Here are the people and ideas/inventions about which we will learn:
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...)
If you are interested, here's where where today's visitors rank in The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History." Remember, this is the opinion of the author, Michael H. Hart, but it still makes for interesting browsing.
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 - Tuesday, October 11th
Your WWED? comments should be posted to Blog Entry - Lesson #27 by the end of today.
Please continue your reading in Chapter 27 with Section 2, "Imperialism - Case Study: Nigeria." (pp. 779 - 784)
Please continue your reading in Chapter 27 with Section 2, "Imperialism - Case Study: Nigeria." (pp. 779 - 784)
Just a
reminder that your Cartoons: Industrialization and Imperialism
assignments are due on Monday, October 24th. You can find the directions for that
back on Lesson #24.
