Hungry Planet

It is the end of the year....

We have worked really hard....

Now the learning is going to get REALLY fun!

Guided Questions

Guided Questions 

for 

Gone With The Wind

1. How did the war affect Scarlett, her family, her community, the former slaves, and the South in general?

2. Think of all the different female characters...

     Scarlett

     Melanie

     Mammy

     Prissy

     Mrs. O'Hara

     Scarlett's sisters

     Belle Watling

     Aunt Pittypat

Discuss the general attitude towards women and their roles in society according to the film.

3. Consider....
settings, characters & situations before the war vs. settings, characters & situations after the war....

How did the war affect what Southerners thought of as important?  Do you think this was this same in both rich and poor communities? 

4. Judging by what you have learned in class, was this as accurate depiction of the Civil War?  Is the movie told from the Northern of Southern perspective?  Explain

5. How are slavery and black people depicted in Gone with the Wind? Can the novel be labeled racist?

6. Is Scarlett O'Hara a hero or a villain?  How does she compare to Cinderella?

7. In what way does Scarlett represent the Old South and in what way does she represent the New South? How does her transformation reflect the changes the South undergoes during and after the Civil War?

CST Review

To look at the PowerPoint time-line we went through today in class click HERE!

To look at the handout I put together for CST review click HERE!

CST Review: The Spanish Inquisition

CST Review: Johannes Gutenberg

CST Review: The Renaissance

CST Review: The Magan Carta

CST Review: Monty Python on the Middles Ages

CST Review: The Middle Ages (Medieval Europe)

CST Review: China

CST Review: The Wisdom of Socrates

CST Review: Buddhist Reincarnation

CST Review: How Inventions Change History

CST Review: Teenage Life in Ancient Rome

CST Review: Ancient History

CST Review: Ancient History

CST Review: Constantinople

CST Review: Mesopotamians

Jim Crow Laws

Reconstruction

13th Amendment: Freed the slaves
14th Amendment: Declared all African Americans to be free and full citizens
15th: Amendment:Said that a citizen's right to vote cannot be denied because of race

For more videos on Reconstruction and JIm Crow Laws click HERE!

The Terms of Surrender

Robert E. Lee

Grant's terms of surrender were generous.  Confederate solders could go home if they promised to fight no longer.  They could take with them their own horses and mules, which they would need for spring plowing.  Officers could keep their swords and weapons.  Grant also ordered that food be sent to Lee's half starved men.  Lee accepted the terms.

As Lee returned to his headquarters, Union troops began to shoot their guns and cheer wildly.  Grant told them to stop celebrating.  "the war is over," he said, "the rebels are our countrymen again."

Total War

With Lincoln's support, Grant pursued a policy of total war -- attacking not only Confederate soldiers but also civilians and the Southern economy. Destroying Southern cities, farms, and factories, Lincoln and Grant understood, would destroy Southerners' will to fight.

Ulysses S. Grant

William Tecumseh Sherman

The Massachusetts 54 Regiment

The Battle for Vicksburg, Mississippi

In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. Grant's successes in the West boosted his reputation, leading ultimately to his appointment as General-in-Chief of the Union armies.

To learn more click HERE!

The Monitor and the Merrimac

Ironclad ships that fought a famous battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1861. The Merrimack was actually a sunken Union castoff, dredged up by Confederates and renamed the Virginia. The Monitor was a new Union ship. The ships fired at each other all day, but their iron shells prevented damage.

The Gettysburg Address

The Battle of Gettysburg

The Draft Riots

The Emancipation Proclamation

Antietam

Scene from the movie Glory
History Channel documentary

Civil War photography

The Battle of Bull Run

The Anaconda Plan

The Strengths & Weaknesses of the North & the South/ The Anaconda Plan

America: The Story of Us... The Civil War

Civil War Lecture

Here is a series of lecture videos on the American Civil War.  They were designed for a high school class, but they are very easy to follow.  Each video covers a different aspect of the war and is about 5 minutes long.

Video 1: Strategy and Strengths
Video 2: Technology
Video 3: Southern Home Front
Video 4: Northern Home Front
Video 5: The Battles
Video 6: Gettysburg
Video 7: The War Ends

The American Civil War

Click HERE for a PowerPoint overview of the American Civil War

Dred Scott

A student film.

Lincoln, Westward Expansion and the Causes of the Civil War

Bleeding Kansas

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Here are links to listen to the audio books version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. 

Click on the following...

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8

The Fugitive Slave Law

The Compromise of 1850

The Missouri Compromise 1820

Lynching

Strange Fruit

Composed by Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan)
Originally sung by: Billie Holiday

Southern trees bear strange fruit

Blood on the leaves
Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

Classwork from Friday, April 12, 2013

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

1. I gave a powerpoint lecture and the students participated in the discussion as I went through the slides.

2. Then the students gave written answers to 3 questions concerning John Brown's raid.

3. I suggest you check some online sources to read more about John Brown. 

Click HERE for the John Brown PowerPoint

Click here for PowerPoint notes that can be used while researching on the Internet

Click HERE for the John Brown worksheet

This assignment is worth class point towards your overall grade.

Classwork From Thursday, April 11, 2013

An Overview on the Events that Lead Up to the Civil War.

1. Students completed an Entrance Ticket concerning the term "Civil War".  VERY few students had a correct understanding of this term.  I suggest you look it up in the Longmen Dictionary. 

Click HERE for the Entrance Ticket

Click HERE for the Longmen Dictionary

2. Read the essay entitled, "Overview of the American Civil War".

Click HERE for the essay

3. Read each of the events that lead up the the American Civi War and then complete the worksheet.

Click HERE for the Events that Lead to the American Civil War

Click HERE for the worksheet

4. Study the chart entitled, :Economics & Culture of the American Civil War and then complete the worksheet.

Click HERE for the chart

Click HERE for the worksheet

All these assignments are worth points and should be completed for class.

John Brown's Body Lies a Mouldering in the Grave

Frederick Douglass

  
     Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War.
A brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in 1845. Two years later he began publishing an antislavery paper called the North Star.
     Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.

For more information click here.

Slavery

Slavery

Slavery

Slavery

Slavery

The Erie Canal

How a Canal Works

How canals work


The Erie Canal


The Panama Canal (Timelapse)

Lowell Factories in the North

The Plantation System

All We Got Is Cotton, Slaves, and Arrogance!

How the Cotton Gin Contributed to Slavery

The North and the South before the Civil War

The North before the Civil War

The South before the Civil War

Northern Cities (Gangs of New York)

Southern plantations (Gone with the Wind)

The Gold Rush

William S Dean Californio Geneaology

A photo essay of this man's (William S. Dean) Californio family ancestors back to c. 1840s; most of the ancestors lived in Santa Ana and San Juan Capistrano areas of Southern California.

The Last of the Californios

Lewis and Clark

From left to right: French fur trapper and Sacagawea's husband, Toussaint Charbonneau;  York; Clark's slave; Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea

CHECK THIS OUT

Ken Burns Documentary: The West

Click here and journey through this amazing 8 part mini series.

THE WEST is an eight-part documentary series which premiered on PBS stations in September 1996. This multimedia guided tour proceeds chapter-by-chapter through each episode in the series, offering selected documentary materials, archival images and commentary, as well as links to background information and other resources of the web site.

James K. Polk "Napoleon of the Stump"

James K. Polk

America in Motion

Oregon

Oregon Trail


A Pioneer Story

Pee Wee Herman Visits The Alamo

The Alamo

Black Seminoles and the Largest Slave Revolt in U.S. History

Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution

The Louisiana Purchase

Manifest Destiny in 10 Minutes

Archie Bunker Learns Manifest Destiny

Manifest destiny in Leggos

Westward Movement

Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study, U.S. Capitol)
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 - 1868)

"This dramatic image of westward expansion is a study for a mural in the United States Capitol, one of the most ambitious statements of cultural nationalism during the mid-nineteenth century. Leutze combined pioneer men and women, mountain guides, wagons, and mules to suggest a divinely ordained pilgrimage to the Promised Land of the western frontier. In the border, medallion portraits of explorers Captain William Clark and Daniel Boone flank a vista of the San Francisco Bay -- the ultimate western destination. Above, a bald eagle holds a scroll on which is lettered Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way -- while Native Americans escape in a maze of winding plant tendrils."

Manifest Destiny

John Gast - "American Progress," (1872)

"...To state the truth at once in its neglected simplicity, we are free to say that were the respective cases and arguments of the two parties, as to all these points of history and law, reversed - had England all ours, and we nothing but hers - our claim to Oregon would still be best and strongest. And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us." 

~  John L. O' Sullivan, "Manifest Destiny" editorial, New York Morning News on December 27, 1845

Andrew Jackson, racist murderer or great voice of the common man?

GREAT Andrew Jackson Video!!!

What Should Monroe Do To Protect To Support The New Latin American Nations

• Who were three of the leaders of the Latin America Revolutions? How did they inspire their people?
• What is the Monroe Doctrine?    

The Monroe Doctrine