Reading for Tuesday, January 4th

I hope everyone is enjoying the remainder of the holidays. Before we come back to school, please read Merriman 360-375 and 513-523. We will be studying the Industrial Revolution over the next three weeks and we'll skip around a little bit in the textbook because of the broad time span impacted by industrialization. See you soon.

Assignments for week of Dec. 13th

For class on Wednesday, please read the Napoleonic Footsoldier handout and begin preparing for the exam on Friday. In class Wednesday we will discuss the impact of Napoleon on Portugal and Brazil, the handout, and save some time for a review before the exam. Please bring any questions that you may have, and prepare as much as possible before then, as we will only have time to discuss a select few terms, and briefly discuss the essays.

exam 2 review sheet

Homework for Friday and Tuesday

On Friday Dec. 3rd, you will be writing a DBQ essay in class. The following Tuesday we will begin to discuss the French Revolution in earnest. Toward that end please read chapter 12 in Merriman. It's a dense chapter, so leave some time to read it in more than one sitting. We will try to save some time to discuss the Cat Massacre reading, and for those who expressed interest in Marie Antoinette I have provided some links below to materials related to a PBS documentary about her. The check out the timeline on the first, and the second is the entire 2-hour movie available in 10-minute clips on YouTube.

http://www.pbs.org/marieantoinette/
YouTube - Marie Antoinette