You will need to know about everything in the current unit: from the causes of World War I to life in the trenches, life on the homefront, the Treaty of Versailles, and the League of Nations.
Below are some of the more salient points: (keep checking the blog, more will be added over the week-end)
Triple Alliance
What:
• Alliance among
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy
• Agreement to defend each other if attacked by Russia
Why: Bismark (leader of Germany) didn't trust Russia
Triple Entente
What:
• Understanding of mutual cooperation among
Britain
France
Russia
Why: Initially to settle disputes about colonies, it grew into military cooperation
NB: note how the two above differ from one another, one is a formal agreement, the other is not.
Assassination remember: there are two asses in assassination
• Who: archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne) and his wife Sophia
• What: shot while riding in an open car by Gavrillo Princip (a member of the Serbian nationalist group The Black Hand)
• When: 28 June 1914
• Where: Sarajevo (capital of Bosnia)
• Why: Serbian nationals were angry that
Austria had annexed Bosnia
The merry road to war
• Bosnia: Franz Ferdinand is killed
• Austria: more than a little upset
• Germany: will support whatever Austria does
• Austria: sends ultimatum to Serbia
• Serbia: says "Nah"
• Austria: says "Krieg!" German for "See you? We're gonnae thump you!"
• Germany: says "Ja!" German for "See you? We're gonna help you!"
• Russia: says "Nyet" Russian for "You just try it bucko!" Russia
mobilizes its army
• Germany: says "Nein!" German for "Back off, pal!"
• Russia: says "Nyet!" Russian for "Aye, right! You and what army?"
• Germany: says "Krieg!" German for "Us and THIS army, smart a**e!"
• Germany: two days later, says "Krieg!" again,
but this time to France
• France: says "Quoi?" French for "Oh that's right, Russia is our pal."
• Germany: takes a shortcut through Belgium to
get at France. Oops!
• Britain: says "It's war!" English for "Right, now, hang on. Um, just a minute Germany, you know perfectly well that Belgium is a boring, flat, and neutral country with nothing really interesting except great chocolate. But the operative word here is NEUTRAL. If you're going to be that way, and not respect it's neutrality, we'll just have to come over and teach you nasty Huns a proper lesson!"
• Britain, Germany, France, Russia, and just about everyone else who gets dragged into this: say "It'll all be over by Christmas!" English, German, French, Russian and every other language for "Boy, did WE underestimate to capabilities of our enemies."
Major Oops!
Keep checking the blog for:
Life on the home front
Life in the trenches
Treaty of Versailles
What:
• A dictated, NOT negotiated peace settlement between
the allies:
Britain represented by PM Lloyd George
France represented by Georges Clemenceau
The United States represented by Pres. Woodrow Wilson
and Germany
Main points: Germany
• Lost land Alsace-Lorraine to France, land in the east to Poland• lost their colonies given to the League of Nations
• was disarmed Army reduced to 100,000 men, Navy reduced to
6 battleships, submarines disallowed, air force disbanded
• was forced to accept "The Guilt Clause" had to accept blame
for starting the war
• was forced to make reparations had to give huge sums of money
to the Allies because they were blamed for starting the war.
• was forbidden The Anschluss: not allowed to unite with Austria
Unpopular with everybody:
• Germany: felt humiliated, unjustly punished, economically ruined
• France: wanted revenge, felt it didn't punish Germany enough
• Britain: didn't want a potential trading partner economically ruined
• The US: didn't get the "just and stable peace" it sought
League of Nations
3 reasons it was set up :
•
provide for international cooperation
•
settle boundary disputes
•prevent future wars
3 main aims :
Collective security – if one member
country is attacked then all others will help defend it.
Peaceful settlement of disputes –
international court set up to do this
International disarmament – all
members were to reduce their armed forces.
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Stages of actions against offending member nation:1. Talking - the country(ies) involved in disputes were referred to the Council which would make recommendations.
2. Sanctions - The League could ask member states to stop trading with the offending countries (this would lose the offending country money).
3. Military intervention -Council could ask members to provide
troops for military action.
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Successes:
žResettled refugees
žReduced the drug and slave trades
žSettled minor disputes
Failures:
žUSA did not join - afraid of being dragged into another war
žGermany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Bulgaria, and Turkey not allowed to join at first.
žGermany did not trust the league.
žThe League did not have the military recourses to support armed intervention.
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Due Friday 22 June by the end of the school day: 1st drafts of your media essays.
Due Monday 25 June: redrafts of your "Seagull" and Abomination essays.
Due Tuesday 26 June: redrafts of your media esssays. We will put all final drafts with cover slips into folios. Students whose folios are complete, begin watching the film. Those whose are not, finish the essays with Mrs Carmichael.
Wednesday & Thursday: watch the rest of the film.
IF YOU HAVE MISSED CLASS: below is the writing frame. Get a picture of the establishing shot from one of your classmates or go to the following website: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/comparisons/comparisons/u_z/untouchables/
for the image we are studying. I do not have the copyright to be able to put it on the blog. Get the notes from a classmate.
Media Essay Frame The Untouchables
Task: How does Brian DePalma create meaning through camerawork and various aspects of mise en scene in the establishing shot of his film The Untouchables?
In your essay, you will examine the following:
Camerawork:
· Identify the type of camera angle and describe its effect.
Aspects of mise en scene:
· Identify how and where characters are placed and arranged and comment on the meaning this conveys.
· The effect of costuming: Identify what the various costumes tell you about the characters
· The effect of the set: describe the set and comment on the effect of it.
· The effect of props: Identify the various props and comment on their effect.
Intro: follow the usual class models as per the above task.
Summary: see below
Body: Structure – work from the outside to the focal point
P 1 discuss the camerawork and its effect
P2 examine the set and comment on its effect (relate its meaning)
P3 combine discussion of character placement and costumes together and what they mean. Begin with the outer characters first. Discuss the men by the door according to their costumes and body language. You should come to two different conclusions about them.
P4 examine all the characters closer to the focal point, the main character, and comment on the meaning implied. Examine how their placement and their props tell you who they are. Comment on the effect of their presence.
Conclusion:
Draw together all the aspects of what you have examined in your essay to tell me everything you can about the main character based on everything surrounding him.
For the summary: AFTER YOU HAVE WRITTEN THE BODY
Go to the following website
Read the various plot summaries to get a sense of the plot and come up with your own five or six lines of a summary of the film.
Homework for Wed 7 Dec:
Be prepared to address the following question: If the outcome of the trial of Tom Robinson is essentially predetermined, how does Harper Lee create a sense of suspense in it?
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Homework for Tuesday 6 December:
Choose topic for discursive essay from the following list of criminal justice issues:
•Capital punishment
•mandatory sentencing
•determinate vs. indeterminate sentencing
•the effects of race, gender, or socio-economic status on sentencing disparities
•punishment fitting the crime
•prosecuting minors as adults
•incarceration vs. rehabilitation
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Homework for Tuesday 20 December:
Be prepared to submit the following:
• evidence from the text that indicates Scout is not likely to grow up to be a hypocrite.
• an explanation of what Atticus does to increase the tension already established by Bob Ewell's threat.
ALSO- be prepared to continue solo talks.
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Homework for Tuesday 17 January:
Hand in first drafts of Mockingbird essays addressing one of the following questions:
1.Choose a novel in which the narrative point of view is a significant feature in your
appreciation of the text.
Show how the writer’s use of this feature enhances your understanding of the central
concern(s) of the text.
2.Choose a novel in which a character experiences a moment of revelation.
Describe briefly what is revealed and discuss its significance to your understanding of
character and/or theme.
3.Choose a novel with a central character you consider to be heroic.
Show how the heroic qualities are revealed and discuss how this portrayal of the
character enhances your understanding of the text as a whole.
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