Week of March 27th

Here is an outline of this week's activities:

Monday, March 28th

• finish watching Gallipoli
• assign 2-page essay due Friday
• The Gallipoli Campaign was a military failure, but it was important for several reasons. Explain how it was significant, and to whom.
• distribute Gallipoli reading due Wednesday

Wednesday, March 30th

• reading due: Gallipoli article
• WWI lecture
• work on essay development (time permitting)

Friday, April 1st

• complete WWI unit lecture
• begin Depression/Fascism unit
• 2-page essays due

Exam on Tuesday, March 22

Our next exam will be held on Tuesday. Please use the weekend to prepare. If you have not turned in your preparation please email me questions over the weekend for feedback.

Reading and Homework for Friday, March 18th

Please read Strayer 625-632 and write a one-paragraph, typed response to the following prompt.

Identify at least three ways in which WWI was significantly different than previous conflicts.

Homework for Wednesday, March 16

Your homework for the long weekend is to prepare for our next written exam. The test will cover Chapter 20. Write identifications for the following terms in bullet form, and prepare outlines for the essay questions below. Please type these. You will hand them in on Wednesday and I will return them Friday with feedback.

Chapter 20 Written Exam

Identification terms

1. Indian Mutiny
2. Leopold II
3. Swami Vivekananda
4. Igbo & Nyakyuso
5. Berlin Conference of 1884
6. Gendered division of labor


Essay questions

1. Describe the various ways that Europeans integrated non-Europeans into their colonial economies during the nineteenth century.


2. How did nineteenth-century imperialism bring about changes in the identities of colonized peoples?

Reading and Homework for Thursday, March 10th

Please read Strayer 604-614 and answer the following question in one-two page typed response (double-spaced, 12 pt font, 1" margins).

How did European ideas about education, religion, race and tribe bring about new identities for colonized peoples?

Reading for Tuesday, March 8th

Please read Strayer 598-603.

Reading for Friday, March 4th

Please read Strayer 594-598.