Homework

Watch the British history movie that you have chosen. Take notes. You will write a report about it (due June 14th).

Today’s class

1. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) poem, “The Battle of Maldon”(see video on YouTube)
   1. What words can you recognize as modern English words?
   2. What letters are not used in modern English?
2. How to cite a YouTube video in your “References” list. Here are the guidelines:
   1. Author, A. A. [Screen name]. (year, month day). Title of video [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.someaddress.com/full/url/
3. Alfred the Great. Why was he called “Great”?
   1. How to cite a Wikipedia page using Microsoft Word’s citation function
4. Excalibur (the movie) – how Arthur was born and why there’s a sword in the stone.

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Homework

1. Read chapter 2 for a quiz next time.
2. Start preparing your book and movie presentation. All presentations must be done by Nov. 30th. There is no class on Nov. 23rd.
3. All presentations should
   1. be 4-5 minutes long,
   2. use Powerpoint or handouts
   3. include 3-5 key points
   4. include a summary of the presentation contents (given at the end)
   5. include a glossary (Japanese explanation) of key words
   6. include a list of references
   7. include some sample scene(s) from the movie and sample quotes from the book.

Today’s class

• 2 book-and-movie presentations
• Textbook, chapter 2 and Comprehension questions on p. 24.
• Topics mentioned today:
  • Manifest Destiry (and in Japanese here)
  • Wall Street (Also a 1987 movie, famous for the line “Greed is good” said by Gordon Gecko.
  • the Appalachian Mountains
  • The Oregon Trail across the Rocky Mountains
  • The purchase of Manhattan: “Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals roughly US$1050 in current terms.”
  • The murder of John Lennon outside the Dakota Apartment House.

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Homework

• Prepare your presentation for Nov. 24th.
• Presentations can  be made with a poster or with PowerPoint.
• Each student should present, even if you are doing a group presentation.
• Each student’s presentation should be 3-5 minutes long.
• The topic MUST be some topic of USA history.
  • I understand some students would like to research about present-day America – you will have a chance to do that, but not for this presentation.
• Read chapter 5 of ITHOTR.
  • Request: to help me make suitable reading for you, I ask you to underline or mark on your copy of chapter 5  words and expressions that you need to use a dictionary for, and then show me your copy of the chapter next time. Thanks in advance.

Today’s class

• Mini-lecture about the first Americans, the first Europeans and why so many Americans feel strongly about the right to have guns.
  • I mentioned the movie “The Seven Samurai”. This is a Japanese class. If you have not seen it, you’re missing something!
  • Here is a commercial for gun control. If you were the woman in this video, would you prefer to have a gun, or just wait for the police?

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Homework

Prepare a 2-3 minute presentation on one of the British books you’ve read or British movies you’ve watched this semester. Your presentation must include:

• information for your classmates to find the book or movie themselves
• a brief description of the main points of the story (but don’t tell the ending)
• what we can learn about Britain from watching/reading this.

Today’s class

1. Read chapter 3, section “Plauge, Fire and Revolution” and answer these queseitons:
   1. Why were many building srebuilt after 1666?
   2. Why did Parliament invite William of Orange to be king in 1688?
   3. Why was Bonnie Prince Charlie a problem?
   4. What was the Glorious Revolution and why was it glorious?
2. Read chapter 3, section “England + Wales + Scotland + Ireland” and answer these questions:
   1. What two acts were passed before 1710 and why were they important?
   2. What is 10 Downing Street and why is it important?
   3. When was the Union Jack designed and why?
   4. Whose statue is in Trafalgar Square and why?
3. Mini-lecture on the causes of the Civil War.
   1. Royalists vs Parliamentarians
   2. the idea of a parliamentary system vs a royal (monarch) system
   3. Thomas Paine was the American who went to Paris in 1790 and argued for the release of the King.
   4. The parliament and the king or queen (monarch) each want more power, so there is a constant battle between them in British history.

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