Homework

• Start writing your essay.
• (Email me your essay topic  if you were absent today.)
• Your essay should
  • be between 800-1,500 words
  • be in academic format (double-spaced),
  • have at least 5 paragraphs (introduction, body and conclusion)
  • have a bibliography – a list of all the books, articles, websites, movies, videos, etc. you read or watched in your research.

Today’s class

1. Presentation on chapter 29 “Black Americans”  (pp 112-5).by Ms. Kishi, Mimura and Nakagawa Yumi.
2. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs
3. Presentation on chapter 22 “The Roaring Twenties” (pp 92-5) by Ms Nakagawa Mai, Ohashi and Shibata
4. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc7c8ZNy4f4

Key ideas:

• non-violent resistance (also called non-violent protest or non-violent non-cooperation). From the English wikipedia page: “The modern form of non-violent resistance was popularised and proven to be effective by the Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi in his efforts to gain independence from the British.” (Read about it in Japanese here).
• Life, liberty and property (later changed in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. constitution to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”).
• the free market ((in Japanese here) also known as “laissez-faire” (in Japanese here).
• small government

Homework

• Prepare your presentation.
• Read the textbook chapter 22 “The Roaring Twenties” (pp 92-5).
• Read the textbook chapter 29 “Black Americans”  (pp 112-5).
• Choose your essay topic.

NB: the makeup class for cancelled week 6 will be on January 10th, not December 13th or 20th.

There will be an exam at the end of the semester, on the last day of class January 23rd. It will be similar to the exam in the first semester, but a little shorter and with more choices.

Today’s class

1. Presentation on chapter 11  “North and South” (pp 44-49) by Ms. Kiyokawa, Takagi and Tange.
2. Presentation on chapter 29 “Balance of Terror”  (pp 120-123) by Ms. Kitano, Kori and Sasaki.

Homework

• Prepare your presentation.
• Read the textbook chapter 11  “North and South” (pp 44-49).
• Read the textbook chapter 29 “Balance of Terror”  (pp 120-123).
• Start thinking about your essay topic.

December 12th. Presentations on “North and South” (about slavery) and on “Balance of Terror” (about the Cold War).

NB: the makeup class for cancelled week 6 will be on January 10th, not December 13th or 20th.

There will be an exam at the end of the semester, on the last day of class January 23rd. It will be similar to the exam in the first semester, but a little shorter and with more choices.

Today’s class

There was no presentation today due to the absence of one of the presenters.

• Mini-lecture from Sheffner about
  • Thomas Paine and “Common Sense“
  • the 3 basic rights of life, liberty and property (and in Japanese here)

Homework

• Prepare your presentation.
• Read the textbook chapter 29 (pp 120-123).
• Start thinking about your essay topic.

December 5th. Presentation on “Balance of Terror”.

NB: the makeup class for cancelled week 6 will be on January 10th, not December 13th or 20th.

Today’s class

1. Presentation on The American Revolution by Ms. Furukawa, Kano and Muraoka.
   1. The American Revolution was a war between Britain and the 13 colonies in North America which lasted from 1775-1783.
2. Presentation on Crash and Depression by Ms. Takeda and Tanaka
   1. The Crash was a sudden fall in share prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929.
   2. The Depression was a serious economic depression which followed the Wall Street Crash and lasted from 1930 to the beginning of WWII in 1941.

Homework

• Prepare your presentation.
• Read the textbook chapter 7 (pp 28-31) and chapter 23 (pp 96-99).

November 28th. Presentations on Fighting for Independence and Crash & Depression.

NB: the makeup class for cancelled week 6 will be on January 10th, not December 13th or 20th.

Today’s class

Three presentations

1. Inoue, Nishimori, Tahira – The American Century
2. Okano, Sakaue, Yokoo – Cold War and Korea
3. Hashimoto, Kashihara – Puritan New England

Homework

Start preparing your presentation.

Today’s class

1. Look at these pictures. Do you like them? Have you seen any of  them before? How do you feel about them? Write your response.
2. “The Great Experiment”. What does that mean?
3. Watch these scenes and answer the questions:
4. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjqe6cmvzPY
   1. Howard Roark is ….
   2. Peter Keating is …
   3. Henry Cameron is …
   4. Why is Roark expelled?
   5. Who tells Roark to compromise? Does he?
   6. Why does Roark refuse Keating’s help and money?
5. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i6tr2foVtQ

Class cancelled. See you all November 7th.

Homework

• Choose a topic for your presentation.
• Choose a partner for your presenation
• Choose a date for your presentation
• Start preparing your presentation
• Presentations should be about 10-15 minutes, should include both English and Japanese, and should be interesting and easy to understand.

Today’s class

1. Where would you look for accurate information about the past, if you were making a movie like “Far and Away”?
   1. Museums (to see what kind of clothes people wore, what tools they used, what houses they lived in, what food they ate, etc.)
   2. Newspaper archives
   3. Old posters
   4. Old photographs
   5. Diaries
2. How do you know? Don’t trust any single source, but check your facts with other sources.

Homework

• Choose a topic for your presentation.
• Choose who you will do the presentation with.

Today’s class

1.  Why do we study history?
2. How do we learn the truth?
3. Is the movie that we watched true?
4. Essay writing practice:
   1. What kind of house does Joseph live in? -> What kind of houses did Irish peasants live in the 19th century?
      1. They lived in stone houses with grass, straw or earth roofs (Howard; McDowall, 150)
   2. Bibliography:
      1. Far and Away. Dir. Ron Howard. Perf. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman. Universal Studios, 1992. DVD.
      2. McDowall, David. Illustrated History of Britain, An. Edinburgh: Longman, 2010.
5. How accurate is the movie? Did many Irish people really go to America in the 19th century? Did Irish people in New York have their own communities with “ward bosses” like in the movie? Did America really give land away for free? Did people really have duels with pistols? Would a gentleman like Chase really have a duel with a peasant like Joseph?

Homework

Why does Joseph NOT want to go to America with Shannon?

Today’s class

1. Watch the video: what happened?
2. Why does Mrs. Christie look after Joseph?
3. Describe Mr. Chase
4. Why does Shannon want to go to America?