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IB1 - HOME WORK
To Thursday 3/9: Your homework is to fill in the class document about what you want to study more in detail, what kind of study methods you want to use, how much homework you should have, and how you want to be evaluated. Try to also fill in some criterias for grading.
To Thursday 10/9: You need to define the expression "Civilization" in a historical context...
To Wednesday 16/9: You still need to define the expression "Civilization" in a historical context. You also need to be able to say "When", "Where" and "Why" it started. Make sure you know the different criteria for human "Civilization". Finally make some "moral judgment" - Was the establishment of the first civilizations something good?
To Thursday 17/9: You need to order the following topics from 1 to 10. I means that you really want to work with that topic - 10 means that you don't! Here are the topics (and their numbers):
  1. Ancient Greece
  2. The Roman Empire
  3. Rise of Christianity + fall of Rome
  4. Feudalism and Crusades
  5. Medieval towns
  6. Byzantine and Russian Empire
  7. Development of Nations
  8. The Renaissance
  9. The Reformation + conflicts
  10. Exploration – the Age of Discoveries
E-mail your choices to me before 20.00 tonight (Wednesday 16/9). I will then put you in pairs and publish this list here (and mail it to you - if you have mailed me so I have your address). Your work before and during lesson time tomorrow;
  • Contact each other
  • Choose 2-3 netsources (not wikipedia) and send links to me
  • Google "Western Civilization" and see what you can come up with...
  • If I OK the links - start working.
Here you can find the details around this written assignment. Please read them and ask if you don't understand: LINK TO WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT

To Wednesday 23/9: As soon as you have got my OK about the net sources you use - work together with your “workmate” on your written assignment - LINK TO WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT. Remember that the written presentation has to be with me latest Thursday in class 1/10 (week 40)! If you for some reason can’t come to class - send it by e-mail to: macgregorishistory@gmail.com I will look at the time and date and make sure it has arrived before the deadline 13.30 – Thursday 1/10 2009 (this is the time this class ends).

To Thursday 24/9: Most of you have got your links evaluated - If I did not approve it you need to find some other links and if I approved it - get to work! Here is a LINK TO WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT. Remember that the written presentation has to be with me latest Thursday in class 1/10 (week 40)! If you for some reason can’t come to class - send it by e-mail to: macgregorishistory@gmail.com I will look at the time and date and make sure it has arrived before the deadline 13.30 – Thursday 1/10 2009 (this is the time this class ends).
To Wednesday 30/9: Remember that the written presentation has to be with me latest Thursday in class 1/10 (week 40)! If you for some reason can’t come to class - send it by e-mail to: macgregorishistory@gmail.com I will look at the time and date and make sure it has arrived before the deadline 13.30 – Thursday 1/10 2009 (this is the time this class ends). Here is the link to the assignment: LINK TO WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT.
To Thursday 1/10: Today is the deadline for your Written Assignment! I should receive it in class or if you for some reason can’t come to class - send it by e-mail to: macgregorishistory@gmail.com I will look at the time and date and make sure it has arrived before the deadline 13.30 – Thursday 1/10 2009 (this is the time this class ends).
To Wednesday 7/10: No homework!
To Thursday 8/10: Please browse through the pages 382-391 in the paper you received today
To Thursday 15/10: Study the pages 382-391
To Thursday 22/10: Work on your questions and identifications...
To Wednesday 4/11: Work on your questions and identifications. Look at the comments on your Written Assignment and make necessary changes - deadline Thursday 5/11!
To Thursday 5/11: Work on your questions and identifications. Today is the deadline of your Written Assignment!
To Wednesday 11/11: Work on your questions and identifications. Prepare for the test tomorrow!
To Thursday 12/11: Prepare for the test today!
To Wednesday 18/11: Test!
To Thursday 19/11: We will work on the following questions about the "Congress of Vienna";
  1. Why was a Congress necessary?
  2. Who participated in the Congress and how was the Congress set up?
  3. Who were the dominating countries/representatives?
  4. What questions/issues did each of the dominating countries/representatives favour?
  5. What were the main problems the Congress focused on?
  6. How did the Congress solve these problems?
  7. What other decisions were taken at the Congress?
  8. How did the countries continue to work after the Congress of Vienna?
  9. Was the Vienna settlement a success or a failure?
Two students were not in class today. You can pick the papers about the Vienna Congress up in the class pigeonhole in the South Building (I think it's alot number 14...). Make sure you make two identical papers with the answers to these questions. One you will keep - the other one I want at the beginning of the first lesson next week (Wednesday 25/11).
To Wednesday 25/11: Your homework is to answer all the questions (1-9). Make sure you make two identical papers with the answers to these questions. One you will keep - the other one I want at the beginning of the first lesson next week (Wednesday 25/11). - Since I'm not in school today - please send it to me!!!
To Wednesday 2/12: No Homework!!!
To Thursday 3/12: Choose the country, event or world part you most want to work on. Make a whole list from 1-13 and put the countries/the event/world parts in the order you prefer - with 1 as the country/event/world part you mostly prefer and 13 as the country/event/world part you prefer the least;
  1. Italian States - Italy
  2. German Confederation - Germany
  3. Industrial Revolution
  4. Great Britain
  5. France
  6. Russia
  7. USA
  8. Ottoman Empire
  9. India
  10. China
  11. Japan
  12. Latin America
  13. Africa
To Wednesday 9/12: Work on your presentations (Here is a link to the MODULE and the criteria)
To Thursday 10/12: Work on your presentations (Here is a link to the MODULE and the criteria)
To Wednesday 16/12: Finish your presentations (Here is a link to the MODULE and the criteria). Then either send them to me or bring them to class on a memory stick!
To Thursday 17/12: No homework - we will continue the presentations.
To Thursday 7/1: No homework - we will continue the presentations.
To Wednesday 13/1: Finish the "schedule" of the situation in Europe and in different European countries before WW!. We will then discuss the "causes" of WWI! If you still have not made your presentation make sure you are prepared to do it at this lesson...
To Thursday 14/1: You have no homework. If you still have not made your presentation make sure you are prepared to do it at this lesson...
To Wednesday 20/1: Your homework to the next class is to read "Imperialism threatened peace" and "Europe split into two armed camps" - pages 559-564. Read through the two sections:
  • Make bullet points about the different conflicts between countries; which countries, what the problem was and how it was solved.
  • Then make bullet points about the development of the "Triple Alliance" and the "Triple Entente". I will go through these parts with your help next time...
If you still have not made your presentation make sure you are prepared to do it at this lesson...
To Thursday 21/1: If you did not do your homework to yesterdays class - then do it to this class: read "Imperialism threatened peace" and "Europe split into two armed camps" - pages 559-564:
  • Make bullet points about the development of the "Triple Alliance" and the "Triple Entente". I will go through these parts with your help next time...
To Thursday 28/1: Read the continuing sections in Chapter 25 - "Some conditions that favored peace" and "Strong forces led to war" (pages 564-571) and the text on pages 572-575 (up to "The powder keg exploded") to the next lesson.
To Friday 29/1: No homework...
To Thursday 4/2: Your homework is to read the rest of Chapter 26 about WWI (pages: 575-589)
To Friday 5/2: No homework
To Thursday 11/2: Prepare for the "Role Play" by repeating Chapter 25 and 26 plus the papers you received from me...
To Friday 12/2: No homework
To Thursday 25/2: Read through the paper about "Peace Treaties"...
To Friday 12/2: No homework
To Thursday 4/3: Read Chapter 27 "The League of Nations and the Search for Peace" (especially pages 595-601)
To Friday 5/3: No homework but make sure you bring your paper in to this lesson!!!
To Thursday 11/3: Study the Chapters 25, 26 and 27 so that you can answer the essay questions...
To Friday 12/3: No homework
To Thursday 18/3: Prepare for the in-class-essay by reading Chapter 25 "Drifting Toward War", Chapter 26 "World War I", Chapter 27 "The League of Nations and the Search for Peace" and Chapter 28 "The Rise of Communism in Russia".
To Friday 19/3: If you did the test yesterday (Thursday 18/3) you will be off during this lesson. For you that didn't do it yesterday - Prepare for the in-class-essay by reading Chapter 25 "Drifting Toward War", Chapter 26 "World War I", Chapter 27 "The League of Nations and the Search for Peace" and Chapter 28 "The Rise of Communism in Russia".
To Thursday 25/3: No homework!
To Friday 25/3: Try to bring some suggestion of a topic about Germany 1919-1945; Italy 1919-1945 or WWII to class tomorrow...
To Thursday 1/4: No homework...
To Thursday 15/4: Start with your specific topic...
To Friday 23/4: Deadline for the Written Assignment!
To Thursday 29/4: No homework
To Wednesday 5/5: I want you to look at the very first episode "COMRADES" before next class! We will discuss the origin of the Cold War then.