Week 11 assignments...

Monday:  Work in Computer Lab on Project

Tuesday:  Work in Computer Lab on Project

Wednesday:  Work in Computer Lab/Classroom

Thursday:  Project Presentations

Friday:  Project Presentations

From last week...
With a partner, you are going to begin to create a project to focus on information found in chapters 19 and 21 in your book (The Industrial Revolution Begins and Life in the Industrial Age). Your job is to: #1 create an honors level poster for this topic (sketched on scrap paper first of course!) #2 A PowerPoint presentation that will include a 3-5 minute presentation #3 3 documents related to your topic and write a question based on the document #4 A 10 question quiz that is either true or false or fill in the blank that will go in the order of your presentation.



You should use your textbook as a guide for what topics to focus on and more specifically look at the learning objectives found in the beginning of each section to guide you. Whenever possible, use primary sources!! Most of all, make this a project that you enjoy and have fun with. We will discuss in class who we will invite to see our projects, so make sure you're thinking!!

Group #1 = Chapter 19 Section 1 pp 608-611, Chapter 19 Section 2 pp 612-615
Group #2 = Chapter 19 Section 3 pp 616-621
Group #3 = Chapter 19 Section 4 pp 622-27
Group #4 = Chapter 21 Section 1 pp 660-666
Group #5 = Chapter 21 Section 2 pp 667-673
Group #6 = Chapter 21 Section 3 pp 674-680
Group #7 = Chapter 21 section 4 pp 681-684

Self-Created Partner Project for Chapters 19 & 21

With a partner, you are going to begin to create a project to focus on information found in chapters 19 and 21 in your book (The Industrial Revolution Begins and Life in the Industrial Age).  Your job is to: #1 create an honors level poster for this topic (sketched on scrap paper first of course!) #2 A PowerPoint presentation that will include a 3-5 minute presentation  #3 3 documents related to your topic and write a question based on the document  #4 A 10 question quiz that is either true or false or fill in the blank that will go in the order of your presentation.

You should use your textbook as a guide for what topics to focus on and more specifically look at the learning objectives found in the beginning of each section to guide you.  Whenever possible, use primary sources!!  Most of all, make this a project that you enjoy and have fun with.  We will discuss in class who we will invite to see our projects, so make sure you're thinking!!

Group #1 = Chapter 19 Section 1 pp 608-611, Chapter 19 Section 2 pp 612-615

Group #2 = Chapter 19 Section 3 pp 616-621

Group #3 = Chapter 19 Section 4 pp 622-27

Group #4 = Chapter 21 Section 1 pp 660-666

Group #5 = Chapter 21 Section 2 pp 667-673

Group #6 = Chapter 21 Section 3 pp 674-680

Group #7 = Chapter 21 section 4 pp 681-684

More Sharia in the news from the US...

'Westernized' Woman Allegedly Hit by Dad's Car Dies

Week #9 Assignments

Monday: French Revolution/Robespierre

Tuesday: Napoleon

Wednesday: Napoleon. Review

Thursday: French Revolution & Napoleon Exam, HW projects due with a partner

Friday: Industrial Revolution work in computer lab.

Old Cartoon on The French Revolution

Let this video load and then skip to about 1:47 for the meat of the video.  Part 2 will finish.

Week #8 Assignment

Monday: Begin Poster Project with small group on The French Revolution

Tuesday: Finish Poster

Wednesday: Notes/Discussion on French Revolution.

Thursday: Vocab due.  Notes/Discussion "The Terror" Video

Friday: Finish the French Revolution Video. 

Next Week look at Napoleon's Rise and Fall...End of Section Questions Due...Exam Wednesday or Thursday?

Nick Wilson Memorial Skatepark. Nike Banksgiving 6.0

Nick was a former student here in Newark Valley, class of 1998.  Great kid who died serving his country.  I miss him and thank him for his ultimate sacrifice!

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Sharia in the news...More Examples

Journalist to Receive 60 Lashes for Involvement With Saudi Sex Talk Show

Saturday, October 24, 2009

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia —  A Saudi court on Saturday convicted a female journalist for her involvement in a TV show, in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex, and sentenced her to 60 lashes.
Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The charges against her included involvement in the preparation of the program and advertising the segment on the Internet.
Abdul-Rahman al-Hazza, the spokesman of the Ministry of Culture and Information, told The Associated Press he had no details of the sentencing and could not comment on it.
In the program, which aired in July on the Lebanese LBC satellite channel, Mazen Abdul-Jawad appears to describe an active sex life and shows sex toys that were blurred by the station. The same court sentenced Abdul-Jawad earlier this month to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes.
The man's lawyer, Sulaiman al-Jumeii, maintains his client was duped by the TV station and was unaware in many cases he was being recorded.
On Saturday, he told the AP that not trying his client or al-Yami before a court specialized in media matters at the Ministry of Culture and Information was a violation of Saudi law.
"It is a precedent to try a journalist before a summary court for an issue that concerns the nature of his job," he said.
The case has scandalized this ultraconservative country where such public talk about sex is taboo and the sexes are strictly segregated.
The government moved swiftly in the wake of the case, shutting down LBC's two offices in the kingdom and arresting Abdul-Jawad, who works for the national airline.
Three other men who appeared on the show, "Bold Red Line," were also convicted of discussing sex publicly and sentenced to two years imprisonment and 300 lashes each.

Court Expected to Send Runaway Teen Home Despite Muslim Honor Killing Fears

Friday, August 21, 2009
By Joshua Rhett Miller

 YouTube

Rifqa Bary

Rifqa Bary

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A 17-year-old girl who fled to Florida after converting from Islam to Christianity will almost certainly be forced to return home to Ohio, experts say, despite her fears that she will become the victim of an honor killing for abandoning her parents' faith.
Rifqa Bary, who hitchhiked to an Ohio bus station earlier this month and took a charter bus to Orlando, remains in protective custody with Florida's Department of Children and Families. A judge is expected to rule Friday on the jurisdiction of the case, but several legal experts contacted by FOXNews.com say the girl is bound to be sent back to Ohio.
"She'll be returned to the original jurisdiction," said Katherine Hunt Federle, professor of law and director of the Justice for Children Project at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law.
"She probably doesn't have a lot of options other than to return home."
Bary, a native of Sri Lanka who turned 17 earlier this month, is neither a U.S. citizen nor a resident of Florida, so if her parents want her returned to their home in New Albany, Ohio, that likely will occur, experts said.
"She's living and residing in Ohio," Federle said. "Typically, what happens is, if a child runs away and goes to another jurisdiction, she'll be returned to the original jurisdiction."

 

If she is sent back to Ohio, Bary will not be allowed to live on her own, since the state does not have an emancipation statute.
Florida has such a statute, but it requires parental consent, according to Fred Silberberg, a family law expert based in California who is familiar with the case.
Given that legal hurdle, Bary likely will be returned to Ohio, where authorities could intervene if they believe there is a threat or a basis to act, Silberberg said.
Rifqa fled to Florida after her parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, learned that she was baptized earlier this year without their knowledge. The parents reported her missing to Columbus Police on July 19. Weeks later, using cell phone and computer records, police tracked the girl to the Rev. Blake Lorenz, pastor of the Orlando-based Global Revolution Church. FOXNews.com's calls to Lorenz were not returned.
In an emotional six-minute interview with WFTV in Florida, Rifqa, who met Lorenz through an online Facebook group, said she expects to be killed if she is forced to return to Ohio.
"If I had stayed in Ohio, I wouldn't be alive," she said. "In 150 generations in family, no one has known Jesus. I am the first — imagine the honor in killing me.
"There is great honor in that, because if they love Allah more than me, they have to do it. It's in the Koran," said in the interview, which has been posted on YouTube.
Rifqa, who is seen wearing a large diamond cross during the interview, said she had to hide her Bible "for years," and she repeatedly "snuck out" to attend Christian prayer meetings. She referred to previous victims of so-called honor killings, in which young Muslim women were murdered for bringing dishonor to their families.
"They love God more than me, they have to do this," Bary told WFTV. "I'm fighting for my life. You guys don't understand. … I want to worship Jesus freely, that's what I want. I don't want to die."
Contacted by FOXNews.com, Mohamed Bary said he has no intentions of harming his daughter.
"I love my daughter and I want her to come back to the family," he said, declining further comment.
The Barys reportedly emigrated from Sri Lanka in 2000 to seek medical treatment for Rifqa, who lost the sight in her right eye following an accident at home.
Barbra Joyner, Mohamed Bary's lawyer, declined to comment on Rifqa's interview with WFTV but said transferring the case back to Ohio will be in the "best interest" of the girl.
Craig McCarthy, an attorney for Aysha Bary, agreed that the case should be moved back to Ohio and added that the girl's mother is afraid for her safety.
"[Aysha Bary] has shifted to downright frightened, scared of what might confront her publicly on Friday," McCarthy told FOXNews.com. "She is scared for her family, of losing her daughter, of never knowing the truth of what happened and for her own safety."
McCarthy said Rifqa's account of how she traveled to Florida has "holes in it," but declined to elaborate. He also declined to respond to allegations that Bary's father abused the girl when he learned of her conversion to Christianity.
Dr. Phyllis Chesler, an author and professor of psychology at the Richmond College of the City University of New York, said she believes Bary will be in danger if she is sent back to her parents.
"Anyone who converts from Islam is considered an apostate, and apostasy is a capital crime," Chesler wrote FOXNews.com. "If she is returned to her family, if she is lucky, they will isolate her, beat her, threaten her, and if she is not 'persuaded' to return to Islam, they will kill her. They have no choice."
Chesler, who wrote "Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?" for Middle East Quarterly, said the tradition of such slayings is not fully understood by most Americans, including those in law enforcement.
"She escaped from her family's brutal tyranny and shamed her family further through public exposure," Chesler said. "Muslim girls and women are killed for far less."

Week 7 Assignments

Monday: Finish Enlightenment, Review for Exam.  Reference Blog for Review
Tuesday: Take Enlightenment Exam
Wednesday: Review independently for the French Revolution
Thursday:  French Revolution Pre-Quiz, then begin chapter
Friday:  The French Revolution--Project Day 1/2 the period

Chapter 17 Multiple Choice Questions

Multiple Choice Questions

Chapter 17 Enlightenment Vocab Review

Terms, People, and Places

Complete each sentence by choosing the correct answer from the list of terms below. You will not use all of the terms.

• natural rights
  
• John Locke
  
• laissez faire
  
• rococo
  
• baroque
  
• Joseph II
  
• Montesquieu
  
• federal republic
  
• Yorktown, Virginia
  
• Frederick the Great
  
• Treaty of Paris
  
• Rousseau
  

1. In a                      , power is divided between the federal government and the states.

2.                      advanced the idea of separation of powers.

3. The                      style influenced by the Enlightenment was personal, elegant, and charming.

4. The enlightened despot who ended censorship was                      .

5. The American Revolution ended when George Washington forced the surrender of the British at                      .

6.                      believed in                      , which are the rights to life, liberty, and property.

Chapter 17 The Enlightenment DBQ Review

Enlightenment Thought

Enlightenment thinkers believed in the possibility of social, political, and economic change. Often critical of society during this time, they were driven by the power of human reason and progress.

Document A

“Common sense is not so common.”

—From Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

Document B

“A prince ought not to deem it beneath his dignity to state that he considers it his duty not to dictate anything to his subjects in religious matters, but to leave them complete freedom.”

—From What Is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant

Document C

“A strange consequence that necessarily follows from the use of torture is that the innocent person is placed in a condition worse than that of the guilty, for if both are tortured, the circumstances are all against the former. Either he confesses the crime and is condemned, or he is declared innocent and has suffered a punishment he did not deserve.”

—From On Crimes and Punishments by Marchese di Beccaria

Document D

Diderot and Catherine the Great

Document E

Analyzing Documents

Use your knowledge of the Enlightenment and Documents A, B, C, D, and E to answer the questions below.

1. Kant believes in                      based on Document B.

1. freedom of religion
2. freedom of speech
3. the government making a religious choice for its people
4. dignity

2. In Document C, the author condemned

1. capital punishment.
2. religion of any kind.
3. torture.
4. the Inquisition.

3. Catherine the Great and Diderot pictured in Document D are most likely

1. sharing war stories.
2. sharing Enlightenment ideas.
3. planning the American Revolution.
4. discussing population growth in France.

Writing Task

4. Which of the above documents do you think best exemplifies the spirit of the Enlightenment? Why? Use your knowledge of the Enlightenment and specific information from the documents to support your opinion.

Overview of the Enlightenment in 1.5 minutes. Could you do something better???

Doing a video presentation like this but focusing more specifically on an issue of the Enlightenment, a person or event in the Enlightenment could be a fun project and get you extra credit!!!  Think about it and see me if you're interested!

Hobbes vs. Locke--The hit you won't hear on the radio

Where did it all begin?

What was there before?

Test pushed back due to technical difficulties...

Due to the technical problems we experienced this week getting our accounts up and running, I've decided to move our test back to Tuesday. Still need to comment with your name on one of the posts, so don't forget! Send me any questions you may have at kwilliams@nvcs.stier.org or post a comment.

Absolute vs. Relative--A discussion

Can something be "right" or "wrong" or can it be neither or both? What makes something right? What makes something wrong? Can people have opinions that are not right?

Easy Homework Grade 10-14-09

All you need to do is comment on this post with your name. I see your name, you get a 100. No name by 10/16 = 0 for the assignment.

Homework for Week 6...

Homework:  Finish the Enlightenment with an exam on Friday...Exam will cover the Age of Absolutism through the Enlightenment.
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                 Blog entry on the Enlightentment period.  Topics--Why did it begin when it did?  Where it did?  Why were the ideas so controversial?  If you were forced to give up one right, what would it be?  What right would you NEVER give up??  Why does it take close to 100 years for these ideas to take root?  What do you think these ideas will lead to? You need to answer 4/6.

Assignment Annoncement

Starting this week, all of your assignments will be posted and updated right here on this blog.  Be sure to check back as the week progresses to look for changes!