We'll begin with the quiz.
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:
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:
- 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 - Thursday, December 15th
Please start your reading in Chapter 27 with Section 1, "The Scramble for Africa"
(pp. 773 - 778).
Your WWED? comments should be posted to Blog Entry - Lesson #26 by the end of the week.
Your WWED? comments should be posted to Blog Entry - Lesson #26 by the end of the week.
Just a
reminder that your Cartoons: Industrialization and Imperialism
assignments are due on Friday, January 6th. You can find the directions for that
back on Lesson #25.
