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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Homework

1. Prepare a short (1-2 mins) presentation about the topic assigned to you from chapter 3 of the textbook. Use maps, photos, illustrations, etc. Use the textbook information but also find something new that is not in the textbook.
2. Answer the questions about the movie “Far and Away”
   1. Why does Joseph want to kill the landlord Mr Christie?
   2. Is he justified?
3. Presentation topics
   1. Robert de Niro and Woody Allen
   2. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island – how are they connected? (1 bridge, 1 tunnel, 1 ferry)
   3. Manhattan – Wall Street, Twin Towers, Ground Zero
   4. Chinatown
   5. Lower East Side
   6. Little Italy
   7. Garment District
   8. Greenwich Village
   9. Edith Wharton
   10. Henry James
   11. Mark Twain
   12. Edgar Allen Poe
   13. Harlem
   14. Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx

If you were absent today, please choose from these topics in the textbook:

1. Central Park
2. Rockefeller Center
3. Times Square
4. Broadway
5. Lincoln Center
6. Madison Square Garden
7. Fifth Avenue & Upper Midtown
8. Empire State Building
9. Famous New York food

Today’s class

1. Cause and effect.
   1. Why did Joseph’s father die?
   2. Why did large stones and timbers fall?
   3. Why did the horses hit the timbers?

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Homework

• Using your notes from today’s presentation on “Oliver Twist” and “Elizabeth the Golden Age”, write a short paragraph for each presentation . You may need to do a little research before you write.
• Choose another book from the Easy Reading list, borrow it from the library and start reading. (Download the list here:  AS1_Easy_reading_library_list
• Read the textbook chapter 2, pages 16-19 for a quiz next week.
• Prepare your presentation.

Today’s class

1. Presentations about “Oliver Twist” and “Elizabeth the Golden Age”.
2. Quiz on the Tudor Period (p. 23-4).

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