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We do not have school today. I know that you are saying, "YEA"

Well ok, celebrate then get to work... below are assignments for your classes.

Tuesday, November 20, 2013

12 History:

I have seen in your posts from the last two days. Most of you are understanding Marx's political theories and Darwinian theory of Natural Selection. From yesterday's post most of you understand the perversion of Darwinian theory in the form of Social Darwinism. Now pull the concepts of politics, genetics, and social change together into a field we call Economics. Europe had a moral compass that most followed, that did not make them "bad" people. They needed a justification to do what they did in places like China. Use what you researched about China and take the theory of Social Darwinism and combine the two. Do you see a justification for the acts that the Europeans did as a part of their Imperialist movements? Try to post an application of this Social Darwinism as it applies to Economics and Imperialism. If you see one of your classmates not "getting it," help them out with suggestions in your responses. These were our lectures for the week. By the way, those of you who saw Spangler as the key to this, you are getting more points. Well done!!

11 History:

I have been impressed with all the posts yesterday, although many were very late. Today lets get this done early. I told you in my posting I was going to ask you to look at another culture that we are not going to have the time to spend looking at in detail. Over the next two posts, today's and a Question of the Day in a few days, I would like for you to look at the Phoenicians. They are a culture which started on the very eastern edge of the Mediterranean in what is today Lebanon. Their alphabet, the first truly symbolic alphabet, not pictograms or based off pictograms, was the basis of all symbolic alphabets in the world. This includes ancient and modern Greek, ancient and modern Cyrillic (Russian), Roman languages, (all Western European languages) to name just a few. They also colonized and settled much of the Mediterranean. One of their colonies was Carthage. The Carthagians fought with Rome for control of the Western Mediterranean. As you did with the Minoan culture, I would like you to do simple research and post something you find interesting about the Phoenicians.

International Relations: Continue working on your paper that I assigned on Monday.

Monday, November 19, 2013

12 History:

Most of you have posted your concepts on Marx. I would like to know how much you know about the theory of Social Darwinism. Use the PowerPoint, the book and any research to answer this question. Discuss your ideas and thoughts as you did yesterday. This also will be due before school Wednesday.

11 History:

We will be discussing the Minoan culture of Knossos. Read your book about Knossos and Phaistos. This culture gave us the worshipping of the Bulls, the Minotaur, and bull vaulting. Do some research and write in the Question of the Day page what your first impressions of the Minoan culture is. This was yesterday's question, today I would like you to elaborate on one of the interesting facts you learned in your reading or research. This could include the huge palaces of Knossos and Phaistos or any part of their culture.

Film Studies:

This unit has been based upon the application and use of sound in films. We have used the movie Jaws to show why sound is so effective. I would like for you to post on your Wiki what you think would happen if the director chose NO SOUND at all.

Monday, November 18, 2013

12 History:

I would like to make sure you are understanding Marx theory before we move on to Darwin. There is a question in the Question of the Day page. This is assigned today and due before school tomorrow morning.(now due on Wednesday before school)

11 History:

We will be discussing the Minoan culture of Knossos. Read your book about Knossos and Phaistos. This culture gave us the worshipping of the Bulls, the Minotaur, and bull vaulting. Do some research and write in the Question of the Day page what your first impressions of the Minoan culture.

International Relations:

We are talking about realism theory. This will be the lecture on Wednesday. So today I would like you to read about the next theory we will be talking about, Liberalism. This is in your book, pages 23 through 30. When finished reading please answer the question in the question of the day, on paper, and turn in on Wednesday.

You can use the links below to access your posting page for your class:

11th History Discussion Posting Page

12th History Discussion Posting Page

@Film Studies Discussions

International Relations Discussion Posting