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__**HIS 10-S01 (61567) Homework Assignments Page **__ __**For Saturday, 28 May 2016: **__** Final Essay Question: **In an essay of no more than six-hundred (600) words, please answer the following driving question. Please remember to include a clear thesis statement, using the "I am studying" format, and specific details from class notes. Many of the visuals used in class may be found on the class visuals page, the link to which may be found on the home page for this class. In addition, please find below links to two other sources of information that may prove useful in answering the driving question. Your essay MUST be submitted no later than 10:00 am on Saturday, 28 May 2016. You may submit your paper directly to your instructor on that date or may submit it earlier in the week by leaving a copy of your essay in your instructor's mailbox in Colston 347.

Documentary: [|The Children Who Built Victorian Britain] Webpage: [|Coal and the Industrial Revolution]

__**Driving Question:**__ How did the Industrial Revolution contribute to the creation of a modern global world? In what ways did it improve the lives of people living in Great Britain and the United States? At what costs were these improvements made? Please remember to include specific evidence to support your statements.

__**For Saturday, 7 May 2016: **__ Please watch __ Mill Times __ and, Using information from the documentary and class notes from 16 April 2016, please answer the following driving question. Your answer should be in the form on a written response of no more than three hundred (300) words. Remember to include specific details in your response. Your written response must be typed and double-spaced and submitted in person on May 7th.

__**Driving Question:**__ What were the major technical innovations in the textile industry during the second half of the eighteenth century to the early years of the nineteenth century? What were the societal changes brought about by these innovations?

__**For Saturday, 16 April 2016: **__** Written Response #2: ** Using the information from your class notes and WHW sheets, please answer the following driving question in a written response of no more than five hundred (500) words. Your written response must be typed and double spaced and be submitted in person in class on the 16th of April. There is no need to include illustrations or fancy fonts or consult sources beyond those discussed in class. Unless previous arrangements have been made, no late assignments will be accepted.

__**Driving Question:**__ How do the American War for Independence and the French Revolution illustrate the ideals of the Enlightenment? What were the limits of the application of these ideals? Who were included in the changes brought by these wars? Who were excluded from these changes? Why were they included or excluded?

__**For Saturday, 9 April 2016: **__ Please read pages 667 to 677 in chapter 29 of //Traditions and Encounters// and, using a WHW sheet, answer the following driving question and "why box" question. Please remember to include specific details from the reading.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Driving Question:**__ What are the primary characteristics of the Industrial Revolution? Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Great Britain and later spread to the United States? How did American entrepreneurs and businesses innovate the production process and structure and ownership of businesses?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Why Box Question:**__ At what costs were the innovations of the Industrial Revolution implemented? At whose costs?

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">For Saturday, 2 April 2016: **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Please watch The History Channel's The French Revolution and, using a WHW sheet, answer the following driving question. Remember to include specific supporting information in your "what" box and to answer the "why" box question. (See assignment for 19 March.)

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Driving Question:**__ What were the different causes of the French Revolution? What were the different phases of the French Revolution? To what extent did the ideas of the Enlightenment influence these causes and phases?

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">For Saturday, 19 March 2016: **__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;"> Please watch //Crash Course: The French Revolution// and, using a WHW sheet, answer the following driving question. Remember to include specific supporting information in your "what" box.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">If you wish to read a transcript of the above video, please click here.

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Driving Question: **__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;"> What were the principal phases of the French Revolution? How did the objectives of the revolution change over time? What role did the following characters play in the revolution?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Three Estates
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Estates General
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">National Assembly
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Paris Crowd
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Jacobins
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Committee of Public Safety
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Austria & Prussia
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Napoleon Bonaparte

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Why Box Question:**__ How do the events of this revolution reflect the ideas of the Enlightenment?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">AND

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Please read the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and, using a WHW sheet, answer the following driving question. Remember to include specific details in your what box and to answer the above "why" box question.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Driving Question:**__ What is the reason expressed for the writing of the Declaration? What are the main rights being guaranteed? What are the limits of these rights?

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">For Saturday, 12 March 2016: **__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;"> Please read the American [|Declaration of Independence] and [|Part III "Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs of Thomas Paine's Common Sense] and, using WHW sheets, answer the following driving question. Please remember to include specific details, especially quotations, in the "what" box of your WHW sheets.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Driving Question:**__ What are the audiences (the people meant to read the two documents)? What evidence do you have to support your claim? What are the arguments made for American independence in each of the two documents?

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">For Saturday, 5 March 2016: **__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;"> Written Response #1: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;"> Using information from your class notes and WHW sheets, please write, edit, and revise a 500-word response to the following driving question. Your response //**must**// include a thesis statement that conforms to the "I Am Studying" format and paragraphs that comply with the I.D.E. template. There is no need for an introduction or conclusion paragraph. Your response must be typed and double-spaced and use an 11- or 12-point font. Please do not include any illustrations or information from sources other than the ones we and your research team used. //Your response must be submitted in person on March 5th; no late or emailed responses will be accepted.//

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">__**Driving Question:**__ How would you describe the zeitgeist of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment? Please select two (2) topics discussed so far in class and explain how they exhibit this zeitgeist?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">__**ZEITGEIST:**__ "the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time." (Google)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">For Saturday, 27 February 2016: **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Using the QFT method and the Boolian operators discussed in class, please research and answer the questions generated by your research team during class on 20 February 2016. Remember to provide evidence for your answer on a WHW sheet, which you will bring to class on 27 February 2016. Along with the information and questions you gathered, you should include information on the sources you used to answer the questions. N.B. The document on Catherine, The Great read in class may be found on this class's homepage under the "Important Links" heading. Remember to be as specific as you can with your information; you will be sharing it the other members of your research team.

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">For Saturday, 20 February 2016: **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Please watch the first section of //Heroes of the Enlightenment//, Part Two on Frederick, The Great of Prussia

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;"> and listen to the podcast, Russian Minerva: Catherine the Great and the Enlightenment and, using a WHW sheet, answer the following driving question. Please remember to include specific details from both the documentary and the podcast in the "what" box of your WHW sheet.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Driving Question:**__ In what ways were Frederick, The Great of Prussia and Catherine, The Great of Russia enlightened despots? How did their decisions and actions reflect the ideals of the Enlightenment? What were the limits of their belief in these ideals?

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">For Saturday, 13 February 2016: **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Please watch the section of Heroes of the Enlightenment on Isaac Newton and, using a WHW sheet, answer the following driving question and "why" box question. Remember to include specific supporting evidence from the documentary.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Driving Question:**__ How "revolutionary" were the ideas of Isaac Newton discussed in the documentary? How much effort did Newton put into spreading his ideas among the general population? How were his ideas interpreted by the leadership of the Church of England?

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">AND **//

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Please read [|"The Internet in a Cup"] and, using a WHW sheet, answer the following driving question. Remember to answer the "why" box question. Detailed information from the document should appear in your "what" box.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Driving Question:**__ What similarities do you find between the contemporary internet and 17th-century English coffee house?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**"Why" Box Question:**__ Why is the information in these documents important to understanding the role of ideas and the changes in European societies of 17th and 18th centuries of the Common Era?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**For Saturday, 6 February 2016:**__ Please read chapter 28 (pages 635 to 663) in //Traditions & Encounters// and, using a WHW sheet, answer the following driving question. Remember to include specific details from the chapter in your "what" box and sufficient explanation in your "how" box to answer fully the driving question.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">__**Driving Question:**__ What are some of the key ideals of the Enlightenment? How do these ideals influence the conflicts of the Age of Revolution and the emergence of modern nation states?