Revolution! Day 5 - Class Recap

Today we watched part of an episode of The Office in class, while looking for different aspects of a revolution in it. This is me jumping for joy at finding the set of The Office, while on vacation in California in 2007. It is one of my favorite TV shows ever!

Dear class,

Welcome back to another week! We looked more into what makes up a revolution in class, and also had some time to work on late assignments. Here's what happened in class:

Learning Targets:
Critical Thinking LT 1: I can explain multiple perspectives and viewpoints.

Knowledge LT 20: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.

Soundtrack: "Marry the Night" by Lady Gaga. Selected for today because of turning the clocks forward an hour over the weekend, meaning that it was dark out this morning! Lyrics here.

AGENDA 3/10/15:

News Brief - Jonathan

Russian Revolution Work
Conditions for Revolutions
The Coup

Homework: Read the blog! Turn in late/missing/incomplete/make up work by next class, for updated progress report grade. Anju has the next news brief.

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News Brief: Jonathan had the news brief today and selected this article to talk about: CNN.com - Top French athletes among 10 dead after 2 helicopters collide in Argentina. A tragic story involving Olympic athletes and a French reality TV show. I have flown in a whole lot of airplanes, but never a helicopter, yet!

We checked in about the weekend and also watched VICE News for the day.

Anju was selected for the next news brief.

Russian Revolution Work: I wanted everything from the unit turned in, including:

1) The Russian Revolution Pre-Assessment/Newsflash activity
2) Vocabulary Notes
3) OPVL activity
4) Propaganda Poster assignment
5) Vocabulary Quiz

Please get these in as soon as possible, if you did not do so in class! They will be another grade opportunity for the learning target on revolutions.

Conditions for Revolutions: This PowerPoint was about the main ways that revolutions start. You will absolutely need to know the political, social, and economic reasons for the revolution you are studying for the historical investigation. An easy way to think about this is: political = people want power; social = people want to find others that agree with them; economic = people want money and resources.

Here's the PowerPoint, if you wanted to check it out again, or if you missed class and need to do notes:

Google Drive: Historical Conditions for Revolutions

If you are at all confused about what makes up a revolution (in the sense of a government), please let me know!

The Coup: At the end of the class, we started watching the episode of "The Office" called The Coup. A "coup" (or coup d'etat) is pronounced "coo" and is a French word for the overthrow of a government, usually from a small group of insiders. Thus, this episode is a perfect way to showcase the elements of a revolution (political/social/economic reasons for why Dwight is trying to overthrow Michael as boss) while also being a humorous way to start thinking about how revolutions happen. We finished the episode and then had a bit of time at the end of class to work on incomplete work. Next class, you will start the big historical investigation assignment. Be ready! :-)