Update: I have now sent everyone my corrections and comments to your “Tortoises’ Picnic” writing. Re-write your first draft, save it as “WS1 Tortoises Picnic Draft2 YourName” (without the quotation marks) and post on Manaba by 11 a.m. Friday June 7th.
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?
Read chapter 5 and answer the MCQs. You can download them here: MN_MCQ_ch6
Today’s class
Checked answers to chapter 4 MCQs.
Discussed the relationship between Polly and Digory in this story and especially in this chapter.
Questions:
The reader learns something about the character of the two children from what they do and say. What have you learned about their characters from chapter 4?
Write your English grammar or vocabulary questions.
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
Read chapter 3, section “Plauge, Fire and Revolution” and answer these queseitons:
Why were many building srebuilt after 1666?
Why did Parliament invite William of Orange to be king in 1688?
Why was Bonnie Prince Charlie a problem?
What was the Glorious Revolution and why was it glorious?
Read chapter 3, section “England + Wales + Scotland + Ireland” and answer these questions:
What two acts were passed before 1710 and why were they important?
What is 10 Downing Street and why is it important?
When was the Union Jack designed and why?
Whose statue is in Trafalgar Square and why?
Mini-lecture on the causes of the Civil War.
Royalists vs Parliamentarians
the idea of a parliamentary system vs a royal (monarch) system
Thomas Paine was the American who went to Paris in 1790 and argued for the release of the King.
The parliament and the king or queen (monarch) each want more power, so there is a constant battle between them in British history.