European Humanities
Spragins
Spring 2006 Second Semester Topics:

 

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David, Jacques-Louis
Death of Marat1793
Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique

 

 

The French Revolution



 

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Blake, William
The Ancient of Days 1794
British Museum, London

 

Romanticism (Intellectual Backgrounds) 
English Romantic Poetry (Table of Contents)

 

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Manchester Factory Kids (1836)

 

 

Nineteenth Century Ideologies  
The Industrial Revolution

Poe  
Holmes 
Gogol

 

 

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Africa in 1885 from Black's Atlas of the World 

 

The Modern Era:

 

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Hitler Campaign Poster 1932

The Origins of World War Two 

 


detail from Picasso Guernica (1937)

 

 

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway

Final Exam Review

 


 

Month Day Cycle Assignment

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23 2 Mon Exam Make-up Day

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24 3 Tues

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Delacroix, Eugene
Liberty Leading the People 1830
Musee du Louvre, Paris

Beethoven's 5th Symphony 
1st Movement
 
2nd Movement 
3rd Movement 
4th Movement

Writewell Report: Mid-Year Exam
Usage Pretest

Second Semester Preview: Artifacts Essay Site

The French Revolution:

Homework:

Read: The French Revolution and Rousseau from Enlightenment Political Thought: Study Guide

For further reading: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Forced to Be Free! and Rousseau's Ideal Form of Government from The Social Contract, or The Principles of Political Right

To prepare for the Final Exam:

Read Isaiah Berlin:

 

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25 4 Wed

 


John White Roanoake Watercolor (1586)

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David, The Tennis Court Oath (1789)

 

Usage Pretest

The French Revolution:

Homework:

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26 5 Thurs

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Francois Rude, La Marseillaise, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1833-1836.

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The Execution of Louis XVI (1793) 

 

The French Revolution:

Beethoven

Homework:

Presentations: Reports on the French Revolution

Resources: 

 

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27 6 Fri

 

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Gericault, Theodore
An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging 1814
 

 

 

 

Presentations: Reports on the French Revolution:

In-Class Thesis: Voltaire and Rousseau on the French Revolution

Napoleonic Empire Map 

Homework:

Essay: Voltaire and Rousseau on the French Revolution due at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday

 

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30 7 Mon

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Napoleon at St. Bernard 1800

Beethoven's Third Symphony (Eroica) 
First Movement 
Second Movement 
Third Movement
 
Fourth Movement


Napoleon's Conquests

Presentations: Reports on the French Revolution:

The Radical Revolution

Outline of the French Revolution (Powerpoint)

Homework:

Essay: Voltaire and Rousseau on the French Revolution due at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday

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31 8 Tues

Beethoven's Sixth Symphony (Pastoral)
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement
Fourth Movement
Fifth Movement

Final Presentations: Reports on the French Revolution:

Napoleon

Outline of the French Revolution (Powerpoint)

Napoleonic Empire Map 

Homework:

Essay: Voltaire and Rousseau on the French Revolution due Thursday at 3:30

2 1 9 Wed Parents Conference Day

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2 10 Thurs

 

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Fussli, Johann Heinrich (Henry Fuseli)
The Nightmare 1781

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Friedrich, Caspar David
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog 1818

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony  
First Movement 
Second Movement 
Third Movement 
Fourth Movement

 

Essay: Voltaire and Rousseau on the French Revolution due at 3:30

Philosophical Crisis: Notes on The Collapse of the Enlightenment Dream: Carl Becker from The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932) and Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism (1967) 

Homework:

Hume, Kant and Hegel: Intellectual Backgrounds to Romanticism (Perry)
Backgrounds to Romantic Poetry: Study Guide

For further reading:

Sophie's World (Gaarder), pp. 322-341 Kant
Sophie's World (Gaarder), pp. 342-359  Romanticism

 

 

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3 1 Fri

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Friedrich, Caspar David
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog 1818
 

Piano Sonata #14 Moonlight
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement
Fourth Movement

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Blake, William
The Ancient of Days
1794 British Museum, London
 

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Blake, William
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun c. 1806-1809
Brooklyn Museum, New York

Romanticism:

 

Homework:

William Blake (1757-1827) Introduction 
Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789) The Blake Archive (website)

Write a paragraph about one of the poems:

  1. Read the poem carefully. Look up any unfamiliar words in the dictionary.
  2. What is the poem's theme? What point is being made?
  3. What symbols does the poet use to make his point?
  4. Read your poem out loud. What musical devices does the poet use to help make his point?
  5. What makes the poem Romantic?
 

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6 2 Mon.

Piano Sonata #8 Pathetique
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement
Fourth Movement

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"London" from Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789) William Blake 

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"The Sick Rose"  from Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789) William Blake 

 

 

 

 

 

Multi-Media Essay on Romantic Poetry due Wednesday 2/15 at 3:30 pm

William Blake (1757-1827) Introduction 
Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789) The Blake Archive (website)
Definition of Lyric Poetry

Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789)

Creative Writing Exercise

Homework:

Write a paragraph about one of the poems:

  1. Read the poem carefully. Look up any unfamiliar words in the dictionary.
  2. What is the poem's theme? What point is being made?
  3. What symbols does the poet use to make his point?
  4. Read your poem out loud. What musical devices does the poet use to help make his point?
  5. What makes the poem Romantic?

 

 

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7 3 Tues
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The Gleaners Millet (1857)

English Folk Songs and Ballads

 

 

Lesson Plan:

Old English Popular Ballads:

Sophie on Romanticism 
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) 

Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"(1798)
Essay Topic on Coleridge 
Romantic Paintings: Ballad Prompts

Gustave Dore's Illustrations to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Homework:

 

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8 4 Wed
Mozart 40th Symphony
1st Movement: Allegro (Sonata)

Beethoven's 5th Symphony 1st Movement

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Friedrich, Caspar David
The Sea of Ice
c. 1823-25

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Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhon coming on ("The Slave Ship") 1840

 

Lesson Plan: Multi-Media Essay on Romantic Poetry
Romantic Paintings: Ballad Prompts

Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798)
Study Guide

Homework:

Coleridge: "Kubla Khan"

For further reading: "Frost at Midnight

 

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9 5 Thurs

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Delacroix, Eugene
The Death of Sardanapal (1827)

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Village Proposal (1761)

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Constable, John
The Cornfield
1826 National Gallery, London

 

Multi-Media Essay on Romantic Poetry

Close Analysis: Coleridge: "Kubla Khan" (1797)

Discussion:

  • How do both "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan" express Coleridge’s understanding of human nature?
  • How does Coleridge use symbol in each poem?
  • How does the sound of each poem contribute to its meaning?
  • What makes these poems “Romantic”?

Close Analysis: Wordsworth's Ballads: "We are Seven" (1798)   Landscapes by John Constable

Homework:

Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads (1798): "Goody Blake and Harry Gill"; " The Mad Mother"; " The Idiot Boy"

Group Reports on Wordsworth

For further reading: Wordsworth's Meditative Poetry: 

 

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10 6 Fri.

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John Constable, The White Horse, 1819

Beethoven's Sixth Symphony (Pastoral)
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement
Fourth Movement
Fifth Movement
 

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John Severn Keats Listens to a Nightingale (1845)

William Wordsworth:
 

Keats:

Homework:

 

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13 7 Mon.

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The Parthenon Marbles (447BC - 432BC)

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The Parthenon Marbles (447BC - 432BC)

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Dionysus and Maenad 486.bc

Keats Odes: Study Guide 
Keats Lecture Notes

The Life of John Keats (Powerpoint)

11- 03-Chopin (M. Pollini, piano) _ Etudes Op.10, No.3 E-dur Lento, ma non troppo
12-Chopin (M. Pollini, piano) _ Etudes Op.10, No.12 c-moll Allegro con fuoco
13-Chopin (M. Pollini, piano) _ Etudes Op.25, No.1 As-dur Allegro sostenuto

Homework:

Keats Creative Writing
Choose Essay Topic: Multi-Media Essay on Romantic Poetry

Write a Rough Draft of Your Essay

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14 8 Tues.

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Winter Landscape 1811 FRIEDRICH, Caspar David 1774 - 1840

Lesson Plan: 

Essay Workshop: Multi-Media Essay on Romantic Poetry

Computer Lab/ Fenimore Library/ Litfinder (Online Database)

Homework:

(Essay Due on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.)

English Romantic Poetry (Table of Contents

 

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15 9 Wed.

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Friedrich, Caspar David
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog 1818

Lesson Plan: 

Essay Workshop: Multi-Media Essay on Romantic Poetry

Computer Lab/ Fenimore Library/ Litfinder (Online Database)

Painting from the Enlightenment to Romanticism (Powerpoint)

Homework:

(Essay Due on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.)

English Romantic Poetry (Table of Contents

 

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16 10 Thurs.

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Delacroix, Eugene
Liberty Leading the People 1830

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Gericault, Theodore
The Raft of the Medusa 1819

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Europe in 1815

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Revolutions of 1848 

 

Romanticism Essay Due at 3:30 p.m.
Political Backgrounds to the Industrial Revolution:

  1. Review: Ideologies of the French Revolution

  2. Europe in 1815: Reassertion of Conservatism at The Congress of Vienna

  3. But was the genie out of the bottle?

  1. Revolution in Spain (1808)
  2. England: Peterloo Massacre (1819) (see Spartacus)
  3. Germany: Carlsbad Decrees (1819)
  4. Revolution in Naples (1820)
  5. Revolution in Greece (1821-29)
  6. Latin America: Monroe Doctrine (1823)
  7. Russia: Decembrist Revolt (1825)
  8. France: July Revolution (1830)
  9. England: Reform Bill of 1832
  10. England: Chartist Movement (1840's) (see Spartacus)
  11. The Communist Manifesto (1848)
  1. The Failure of Liberal Revolutions in 1848: Revolutions of 1848

  2. The Zeitgeist of the Early 19th Century: 
    Hegel: History, Dialectic and Progress  
    Sophie on Hegel

Homework:

Nineteenth Century Ideologies (excerpted from An Intellectual History of Modern Europe by Marvin Perry pp. 203-242) 
Nineteenth Century Ideologies Study Guide  

 

 

2 17 0 Fri Professional Day
2 20 0 Mon Professional Day

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21 1 Tues

 

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Fighting Temeraire
1838 National Gallery, London

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Rain, Steam and Speed -The Great North-Western Railway 1844 National Gallery, London

 

Nineteenth Century Ideologies (excerpted from An Intellectual History of Modern Europe by Marvin Perry pp. 203-242) 
Nineteenth Century Ideologies Study Guide

Industrial Revolution Group Projects 
Industrial Revolution Links 
Presentation Ground Rules

Homework:

Backgrounds to the Industrial Revolution: 
Industry and Invention (BBC History)

Industrialization (BBC History)

For further reading:

The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England (Kreis)
Sophie's World (Gaarder), pp. 360-371 Hegel
Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England (1884) Arnold Toynbee
 

 

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22 2 Wed.

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Fighting Temeraire
1838 National Gallery, London

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Stephenson's Steam Locomotive: "The Rocket" (1828(Animation)  

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Spinning Jenny by T. E. Nicholson (1835)

Nineteenth Century Ideologies (excerpted from An Intellectual History of Modern Europe by Marvin Perry pp. 203-242) 
Nineteenth Century Ideologies Study Guide; Ideologies Quiz!

Political Compass

Industrial Revolution Group Meetings to divide up responsibilities and to determine group main idea.

Industrial Revolution Links 
Presentation Ground Rules

Homework:

Industrial Revolution Group Projects
Industrial Revolution Links 
Presentation Ground Rules

 

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23 3 Thurs.
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Industrial England Early 19th c.

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Industrialization in Europe 1850

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Gustave Dore, Houndsditch (1872)

Nineteenth Century Ideologies (excerpted from An Intellectual History of Modern Europe by Marvin Perry pp. 203-242) 
Nineteenth Century Ideologies Study Guide; Ideologies Quiz!

Imperialism: The British Century: 1815-1914

The Impact of the Industrial Revolution: Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization

 

Homework:

Industrial Revolution Group Projects
Industrial Revolution Links 
Presentation Ground Rules

 

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24 4 Fri.

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Manchester Factory Kids (1836)

Industrial Revolution Class Meeting to Determine Thesis Statement 

Homework:

Industrial Revolution Group Projects
Industrial Revolution Links 
Presentation Ground Rules

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27 5 Mon.

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The Crystal Palace at The Great Exhibition of 1851

Industrialization and Imperialism: The Great Exhibition of 1851 (Mosaic)

Industrial Revolution Presentations Begin: 
Origins of  the Industrial Revolution
What Happened During the Industrial Revolution? 
A. Industrial Technology

Homework:
 

 

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28 6 Tues.

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Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Poster (1885)

 

Industrial Revolution Presentations: 

Homework:

 

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1 7 Wed.

 


DAUMIER, The Third-Class  Carriage, ca. 1862.

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Honore Daumier The Uprising c. 1860

Industrial Revolution Presentations: 

Homework:

 

 

 

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2 8 Thurs.

 


Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 

 

More Industrial Rev Presentations

Industrial Revolution Links 
Presentation Ground Rules

Homework:

Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat (1843)
Poe Study Guide
Edgar Allan Poe Links

For Further Reading:

 

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3 9 Fri


Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 

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Goya, Francisco
El sueno de la razon produce monstruos
The sleep of reason produces monsters
1797-98


from Gustave Dore's London (1860)

Final Industrial Rev Presentations

Industrial Revolution Links 
Presentation Ground Rules

Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat (1843)
Poe Study Guide
Edgar Allan Poe Links  

Homework:

 

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6 10 Mon

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Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes

The Death of Sherlock Holmes from "The Final Problem" (1893) illustrated by Sidney Paget

 

Nineteenth Century Short Stories:

Poe Creative Writing 
Introduction to Sherlock Holmes: The Liberal Super Hero

Homework:

Sherlock Holmes: The Liberal Super Hero 
Read: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"(1892) (Speckled Band Links) or "The Final Problem " (1893) (Final Problem Links)
Holmes Links

For further reading:

Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (biographical sketch)

 

 

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7 1 Tues.

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Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes

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The Death of Sherlock Holmes from "The Final Problem" (1893) illustrated by Sidney Paget  

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Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)

Homework:

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8 2 Wed

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St. Petersburg 1760

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Illustrations to The Nose (by Gennadii Spirin)

 

Nikolai Gogol, "The Nose" (1846)
"Nose" Guide 
"Nose" Outline

Homework:

Creative Writing: Holmes, Poe and Gogol 
Write a story on  
"Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Nose"

 

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9 3 Thurs

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Freiderich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)

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Karl Marx 1818-1883

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Sigmund Freud 1856-1939

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Charles Darwin 1809-1882

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Nose

Humanities Essay 2006: The Test of Liberalism: (Introduction)

Modern Art: The Revolt Against Representation

The Test of Liberalism: Intellectual Backgrounds: 
Marx, Freud, Darwin and Nietzsche

Homework:

The Test of Liberalism: 
Intellectual Backgrounds: 
Marx, Freud, Darwin and Nietzsche

Prepare Presentations: the Intellectual Backgrounds to Modern Consciousness

3 10 4 Fri.

The Rhodes Colossus Punch 1892 (Getty Images)

History of the 19th Century in Political Cartoons (Zwick)


"New Crowns for Old Ones" John Tenniel Punch 15 April 1876 (Victorian Web) 


British Empire 1920

Group Presentations on Modern Consciousness:

Homework:

 

         
3 11 0 Sat Spring Break
3 20 0 Mon Spring Break
3 21 5 Tues

The Rhodes Colossus Punch 1892 (Getty Images)

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Colonial Rule in Africa


British Expansion in India (1805-1885)


Imperialism in South East Asia

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European Imperialism in Asia (1907)

Modern Consciousness:

The New Imperialism

Extent of Colonialism (tables) (Mt. Holyoke)
Theories of Imperialism (Mt. Holyoke College) 
Rudyard Kipling: The White Man's Burden, 1899 
Cartoons: 
The White Man's Burden (Detroit Journal, rpt. Literary Digest 18 (Feb. 18, 1899)
The Poor Man's Burden The Broad Axe (St. Paul,Minn.) (March 9, 1899).
The White (?) Man's Burden Life 33 (March 16, 1899)

Advertisement:
Lightening the White Man's Burden Pears' Soap McClure's Magazine 13 (Oct. 1899).

Homework:

The Rhodes Colossus Punch (Dec. 10, 1892) (Zwick)  
Extent of Colonialism (tables) (Mt. Holyoke)
The New Imperialism (outline)

Herbert Spencer, Survival of the Fittest Applied to Human Kind ,1851

For further reading:

 

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22 6 Wed.

 


King Leopold II of Belgium

Colonial Rule in Africa

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Jeffrey Taylor traveling up the Congo in 1995 Congo Claims 1000 Lives Daily (PBS)

Be prepared for a Quiz on Backgrounds to Modern Consciousness

Homework:

Imperialism Map Work: The World in 1914

World Maps (Civilization in the World)
World Map (History Teacher)

For further reading:

 

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23 7 Thurs.

 

Colonial Rule in Africa

 

The New Imperialism (outline):

Homework:

Finish 1914  Map

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24 8 Fri.

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From Dobbertin, Walther. Ca. 1906. 


Prisoners at work, Belgian Congo c. 1912

 

Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness  
Introduction to Heart of Darkness 

Introduction to Conrad (Powerpoint)
Introduction to Heart of Darkness 
Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness  

Homework:

Heart of Darkness (Reading One
Study Guide: part one
Conrad Critical Resources

For further reading:

Sophie's World, pp. 385-446: Marx, Darwin, Freud

3 27 9 Mon  

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Africa in 1885 from Black's Atlas of the World 

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The Thames from London to the sea

Heart of Darkness: Lesson Plan One:

Marlow, the Un-named Narrator and 
Conrad's Intricate Frame for Heart of Darkness

Body Paragraph One: The Purpose of Conrad's Frame

Homework:

Heart of Darkness (Reading TwoStudy Guide Two
Conrad Critical Resources

For further Reading:

Racial Attitudes in Victorian England (Victorian Web)
Newman on The British Gentleman (Victorian Web)

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28 10 Tues.

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West Africa


Leopoldville: The Outer Stations


Kamba "type," Niari River region, French Congo Jean Audema c. 1900, postcard,
Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness   
Heart of Darkness: (Reading TwoLesson Plan Two

Body Paragraph Two: Marlow in Brussels

Conrad's Method: Symbols as Signposts on the Trail of Kurtz

Body Paragraph Three: The Outer Station

 
Marlow's Voyage to Africa 
The Outer Station 
Death in the Shade of a Tree
The Accountant in White

Film: The Outer Station in Apocalypse Now (1979)

Homework:
 

Heart of Darkness (Reading Three) (Reading Three continuedStudy Guide Three
  • The Trek to the Middle Station 
  • The General Manager 
  • The Second in Command 
  • The Overheard Conversation

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29 1 Wed..
   

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The Congo

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Fisherman pole their boat out into the Congo River (ca. 1950). CORBIS/Otto Lang.

 

Body Paragraph Four: The Middle Station

Body Paragraph Five: The Overheard Conversation

  • The Trek to the Middle Station 
  • The General Manager 
  • The Second in Command 
  • The Overheard Conversation

Homework:

3 30 2 Thurs.

                  


Congo Riverboat

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A man poles a canoe on the Congo River (ca. 1950).

Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness 

Body Paragraph One: The Purpose of Conrad's Frame Body Paragraph Two: Marlow in Brussels

Conrad's Method: Symbols as Signposts on the Trail of Kurtz

Body Paragraph Three: The Outer Station

  • Marlow's Voyage to Africa 

  • The Outer Station 

  • Death in the Shade of a Tree

  • The Accountant in White

Body Paragraph Four: The Middle Station
 

Body Paragraph Six: The Voyage to the Inner Station 
What saves Marlow from completing his transformation into Kurtz?

 

Homework:

Heart of Darkness, Reading Five: The Inner Station  Study Guide Five

For further reading:

 

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31 3 Fri.

The Congo River

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Jonestown,1978 (Transcript of Jones' Speech on the Night of the Mass Suicide final recording from Jonestown. 1978. [Real Audio]

Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness  

Discussion: Kurtz and The Inner Station 
(Reading Five) Study Guide Five 

Paragraph Seven : Describe the Inner Station. What has happened to Kurtz there?

Homework:

Heart of Darkness: (Reading Six) Study Guide Six

For further reading: Chinua Achebe on Heart of Darkness 
"Out of Africa":
Caryl Philips vs. Chinua Achebe on Conrad as Racist (Guardian 2/22/03)
Conrad Critical Resources

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3 4 Mon..


Mask (kibwabwabwa)
Kete or Mbagani peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th-20th c.


Picasso Self-Portrait (1907)

Heart of Darkness Essay Due Friday at 3:30 p.m.

Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness: (Reading Six) The Return  Study Guide Six

Paragraph Eight: Whose ending should we believe, Marlow's or Conrad's?

Discussion: The Return

Conclusion: IS progress possible?

Homework:

Heart of Darkness Essay Due Fri at 3:30 p.m.

Conrad Critical Resources

 

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4 5 Tues
Paris:

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Monet, Claude
Impression, Sunrise
1872

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Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
The Luncheon of the Boating Party 1881 

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Pablo PICASSO
The Three Dancers

Heart of Darkness Essay Due Friday at 3:30 p.m.

Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness

The Zeitgeist of Modernism
Artifacts Essay Links

Sharper Key Presentations

Homework:

 

 

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5 6 Wed..

 

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German Expressionism
Otto Dix, Prager Straße, 1920

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Art Nouveau! Klimt The Kiss (1907)

 

Heart of Darkness Essay Due Friday at 3:30 p.m.

Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness

The Zeitgeist of Modernism
Artifacts Essay Links  

Sharper Key Presentations

Homework:

Heart of Darkness Essay Due Friday at 3:30 p.m.

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6 7 Thurs.

 

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Russian Constructivism and Suprematism
Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions

1915;  State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

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Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel (1913)

 

Heart of Darkness Essay Due Friday at 3:30 p.m.

Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness

The Zeitgeist of Modernism
Artifacts Essay Links  

Lesson Plan: Sharper Key Presentations

Class Notes: Smartboard Notes

Homework:

Heart of Darkness Essay Due Friday at 3:30 p.m.

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7 8 Fri.

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Surrealism Max Ernst, The Beautiful Season, 1925

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Dada! Marcel Duchamp Fountain (1907)

Heart of Darkness Essay Due at 3:30 p.m.

Essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness

The Zeitgeist of Modernism
Artifacts Essay Links  

Sharper Key Presentations

 

4 10 9 Mon  

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Europe 1898

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Lesson Plan:

Introduction to The Metamorphosis (1912) by Franz Kafka

Czech-ing Account (A History of Czechoslovakia) 
Czech-ing Account (notes)

Czech History Maps (Powerpoint)

Homework:

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, part one  Study Guide

4  

11 10 Tues.
kafka _passport_1915.jpg (65794 bytes) Franz Kafka in 1915 Kafka's Metamorphosis: part one (notes)  Quiz 1

Discussion questions:

  • Why has Gregor turned into a bug?
  • Might Gregor have unconsciously chosen this route?
  • What pressures in Gregor’s life have driven him to such a desperate measure?
  • Did he have any other options?
     
    Look for clues in the details of the text for answers to these questions.

Homework:

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, part two  Study Guide

4  

12 1 Wed.

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from Vladimir Nabokov's copy of The Metamorphosis (Nabokov's Lecture)

Kafka's Metamorphosis: part two (notes) Quiz 2
(Gregor Freaks Out

Discussion questions: 

  • Can Gregor be saved?
  • What habits drove Gregor into this terrible situation?
  • Has the metamorphosis changed his pattern of behavior?
  • How does the family adapt to Gregor's metamorphosis?

Homework:

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, part three  Study Guide

4  

13 2 Thurs.

 

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Prague Ghetto 1898


Max Beckmann, Family Picture, 1920, Sprengel Museum: Germany

Kafka's Metamorphosis, part three (notes) Quiz 3

  • What causes Gregor’s death? 
  • Why has Gregor’s radical strategy failed? 
    What was his original goal? Why did it go so terribly awry?
  • How has the family adjusted financially and emotionally to Gregor’s strange transformation?

Essay Questions:

1. What does The Metamorphosis teach us about the dangers of the developmental hurdles that we all must face as we enter adulthood?
2. Also, how does The Metamorphosis describe the political situation of the Central European Jew in the years leading to the great wars of the first half of the twentieth century?

Creative Writing Brainstorm

Homework:

 
 

4  

14 0 Fri.. Good Friday

4  

17 7 Mon. Professional Day

4  

18 3 Tues.

Anonymous artist] "Come into the ranks" Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London,1915 

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Erler, Fritz. "Help UsWin!" Poster. 1917  Hoover Institution.

Share Kafka Creative Writing Projects

Introduction to World War One Poetry

World War One (intro) 
World War One (Powerpoint)

World War One Animation (BBC History) 

Homework:

"Never Such Innocence Again" Paul Fussell 
"Birth of the Modern Age?"  Modris Ecksteins

4  

19 4 Wed.

 

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John Nash, Over the Top, oil on canvas, 79.4 x 107.3 cm, Imperial War Museum, London.

 

Fussell Quiz

The Grand Illusion

Rudyard Kipling "Danny Deever"; "Tommy"; "Recessional"; "Shillin’ a Day"; Gunga Din
Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Charge of the Light Brigade" 
Henry Newboldt, "Vitai Lampada"; "Clifton Chapel"  
Robert Browning, "Home-Thoughts, From Abroad" 

Paths of Glory Clip

Homework:

4  

20 5 Thurs.


French Infantry Attack
War Films: The Battle of the Somme (Mosaic)

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Max Beckmann, Die Granate (Shell), 1915

Paragraph on one of the following poems:
Thomas Hardy "The Darkling Thrush", "Drummer Hodge""The Man He Killed", "Channel Firing" (1914)

Homework:

4  

21 6 Fri.

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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, La mitrailleuse en action (The Machine-gun in Action), 1915, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris.

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Otto Dix, Lichtsignale (The Flare), 1917, 40.78 x 39.4 cm, Städische Galerie, Albstadt
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Homework:
 

4  

24 7 Mon.

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Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906)

hokusai_great_wave.jpg (142898 bytes) Katsushika Hokusai  The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, from "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"; 1823-29  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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The Figure 5 in Gold 1928 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Poem Presentation Project

The Zeitgeist of Modernism

Modernist Poetry:

Gertrude Stein "If I Told Him" (audio)
Ezra Pound and Imagism "A Station in the Metro" 
William Carlos Williams "The Red Wheelbarrow"; "The Great Figure"

Al Filreis Stein Links (UPenn) 
Al Filreis Mini-Lecture on "The Red Wheelbarrow" (UPenn) 
The Armory Show of 1913 
The Possibilities of Modernism: 1925: The Year in Review (Artchive)

Homework:

 

4  

25 8 Tues.
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Schinkel, Karl Friedrich. "Medieval City on a River." Oil oncanvas. 1815.  Nationalgalerie, Berlin.


"Hitler at the Feldherrnhalle, August 1, 1914."  Photograph. 1914


Europe 1914

Lesson Plan: Share Modernist Creative Writing

German Nationalism:

Romanticism and German Nationalism (Powerpoint)
German Modernism (notes from "Berlin", in Rites of Spring by Modris Ecksteins)

4  

26 9 Wed.
   

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The Big 4 met in Paris to negotiate the Treaty Lloyd George of Britain, Orlando of Italy, Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the U.S.

germany_muzzled.gif (171192 bytes) "Muzzled" from the Literary Digest 9/13/1919
 

The Origins of World War Two:

World War One: 1917-18
Conclusion of The War in the East
 
The Final German Offensive
German Defeat

Treaty of Versailles PowerPoint
Versailles vs. Vienna (Powerpoint)

Congress of Vienna  (1815) 
Metternich, from The Carlsbad Decrees

 

For further reading:
Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 [At ACUSD] Full text, with many accompanying maps and cartoons.
The War Reparations Clause (Mosaic) 
The Congress of Vienna and the Rise of German Nationalism 
A New Thirty Years War: (Mosaic) 
 

Homework:

Artifacts Essay Work

 

4  

27 10 Thurs.
streltsy.jpg (97076 bytes) The Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy (1881) Surikov

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture 

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The Countess

Nineteenth Century Russian Radicalism

Russia: 1825-1917

Homework:
 

 

4

28 1 Fri.
   
Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870) Ilya Repin
 

Backgrounds to the Russian Revolution (Powerpoint)

The Impact of 1848:

Turgenev, "A Country Doctor" (1855) (Class Discussion)

Homework:

 

Artifacts Essay Work

For Further Reading:

Evaluating 1848 (Mosaic)
Isaiah Berlin, Liberty: Freedom from? or Freedom to?  
Alexander Herzen, "Paris 1848, After the June Days"
Introduction 
Alexander Herzen, "A Voice for the Russian People"  
Belinsky, Letter to Gogol (1846) (full text)

 

5

1 2 Mon.

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Surov, Lenin

Film Clip: Storming the Winter Palace from "October" (1927) Eisenstein

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Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions
(1915) State Museum, St. Petersburg
 

 

From Socialism to Marxism to Leninism:

Review: Utopian Socialists  
Review: Marx and Engels 

Leninism: What Is to Be Done?, 1902 (Mosaic) Quiz 

Yeats, "The Second Coming" (1920)

The Revolutions of 1917

For further reading:

 

Homework:

Artifacts Essay Work 

5

2 3 Tues.

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From Moor, Dmitry "Have You Volunteered?"
 Poster. 1920.

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The Civil War (1918-1921)

"The Twelve" (Blok)

What Was Done (answers)

from Socialism to Marxism to Bolshevism:

Homework:

Artifacts Essay Due at 3:30 p.m. on Friday 
MLA Format at Purdue

5

3 4 Wed.

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The Collective Farm Voron, Maria. "For Shock-Brigade Reaping and for a Bolshevik Harvest." Poster. 1934

stalin_flowers.jpg (40344 bytes) Boris Ieremeevich Vladimirski: "Roses for Stalin" 1949.

collective_worker.jpg (34386 bytes) "Worker and Collective Farm Girl." 

red_warrior.jpg (65322 bytes) The Great Fatherland War  

The Soviets Under Stalin:

What Was Done (outline)
 
Socialist Realism (Powerpoint)  
Life's Getting Better (1934) (Mosaic)  
Life is Not Easy!(1937) Mosaic

"Requiem" (1935-61) Anna Akhmatova (Mosaic)

For further reading:

And further viewing:

Russia During WWII 

Stalin's Call to Arms (Mosaic)
The Great Fatherland War
(Mosaic)
 
Operation Barbarossa (Spartacus)
Ehrenburg, "Retribution"(1944) (Mosaic)
The New Soviet Anthem (Mosaic)

Historical Interpretations

from The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick 
from A Concise History of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes  

Homework:

Artifacts Essay due Friday at 3:30 p.m. 
MLA Format at Purdue

5

4 5 Thurs.

schinkel.jpg (165419 bytes) Schinkel, Karl Friedrich. "Medieval City on a River." Oil oncanvas. 1815.  Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

grosz_heartfield.jpg (72293 bytes) George Grosz:  Der Monteur John Heartfield, 1920.

The Weimar Republic and the Rise of Nazis

The Rise of Modern Germany:

Homework:

Artifacts Essay due Friday at 3:30 p.m.

Bismarck and the Unification of Germany 
The Kultur of late Nineteenth Germany

For further reading: 

 

 

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5 6 Fri..

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Otto Dix, The Journalist Sylvia Von Harden
1926

Expressionism (Pace Powerpoint) user name: pb20s password: nov1118

 

 

Lesson Plan:

Bismarck and the Unification of Germany 
The Kultur of late Nineteenth Germany 

Nationalist Anthems (Mosaic)
Max Schneckenburger: The Watch on The Rhine, 1870 

Homework:
 

Artifacts Essay due Friday at 3:30 p.m.
MLA Format at Purdue

 

5

8 7 Mon.

 

fagus bauhaus.jpg (97790 bytes) The Fagus Shoe Factory, Alfeld-an-der-Leine, 1910-12 (above) by Walter Gropius

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National Socialist Poster 1921
"National Socialism or the Sacrifice was in Vain"


From Riefenstahl, Leni. "Triumph of the Will." Film still. 1934.

 

 

Weimar Death Throes

Homework:

5

9 8 Tues.

 


Schweitzer, Hans. "Our Last Hope: Hitler." Poster. 1932

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Hitler Campaign Poster 1932

Hitler Speaks to the Youth of Germany (video)


From Riefenstahl, Leni. "Triumph of the Will." Film still. 1934.

Hitler's Last Speech April 1945

Churchill Speeches: "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" (Mosaic)

 

Lesson Plan: 

Presentations on Weimar Germany

Review for Final Exam Essay on The Failure of Liberalism in Russia and Germany After World War One

Homework:

Outline for Final Exam Essay on The Failure of Liberalism in Russia and Germany After World War One

 

5

10 9 Wed.
europe_1939.jpg (90700 bytes) Europe 1939

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Sargent, John Singer
El Jaleo 1880
Oil on canvas
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Flamenco Guitar

Lesson Plan:

Between the Wars (Grolier Encyclopedia Online) (1919-1939)
(Table of Contents
Hemingway Biography 
The Spanish Imagination (Powerpoint)

Homework:

Begin For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Read Chapters 1-3, pp. 1-47 (Study Guide)

Physical Map of Spain (Excel)
Political Map of Spain 
Map of Spain 1937
Civil War Map Simulation (Historical Atlas of the 20th Century)

For Further Reading

Hemingway Resources

audio: Al Filreis and Shawn Walker on Hemingway's and Stein's cubist language, including a reading by Shawn Walker of Stein's "Any one doing something and standing" 

 

5

11 10 Thurs.
 

Art Field Trip to Washington

5

12 1 Fri.

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Sargent, John Singer
El Jaleo 1880 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Flamenco Guitar

hemingway.jpg (82767 bytes) Aires de Cuba (Mark Taylor) Flamenco Guitar

Flamenco at MP3.com


Velazquez, Diego The Feast of Bacchus ("Los Borrachos")[detail]
1629 Museo del Prado, Madrid
 

CUDGELS.jpg (57357 bytes) Goya, Fight with Cudgels  (1823)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway  
Chapters 1-3, pp. 1-47 (Quiz1) (Study Guide)

Final Exam Essay: 

Robert Jordan comes to Spain ready to fight and die for a revolutionary cause: the vision of social justice promised by Marxism. Over the course of his year fighting the fascists, he discovers the brutal reality of revolution and comes to understand the naiveté of his utopian beliefs. He risks degenerating into a “reliable revolutionary” like the Russian propagandist/assassin Karkov.

How does Jordan avoid descending into nihilism? How does he instead learn to affirm humanity, despite all of its contradictions, through the relationships he develops with the Spanish peasants?

Physical Map of Spain (Excel)

Thesis: Note the very beginning (1) and the very end of the novel (471).

Characters: 

  • Jordan: the problem of the bridge (4) (35) = the problem of the Spanish peasant (16); Jordan's Point of View
  • Pablo, the fox (9)
  • Maria, the virgin (22)
  • Pilar, the palm reader (30)
  • Anselmo, the hunter (39)
  • Augustin, the curser (45)
  • Rafael, the gypsy (18)

Hemingway's Style:

  • Jordan's Point of View: Spare Descriptiveness (Journalism: "Just the facts, ma'am."): the bridge (4, 35); the monoplanes (38); yet, the same passages resonate with metaphorical meaning. (On the surface is just the tip of the iceberg.)
  • Imagism: Hemingway's New Symbolism: Ezra Pound and Imagism
  • Dialogue: Anselmo, the hunter: on the sentries to be killed (38-41)
  • Soliloquies and Asides: Planning the Bridge (35-36); on sacrificing himself and the others (43)
  • Bravura Action Sequences: Raphael the gypsy at the train (29-30)

Homework:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Read Chapters 4-9, pp. 48-96 (Study Guide)

 

5

15 2 Mon.


Velazquez, Diego The Feast of Bacchus ("Los Borrachos")[detail]
1629 Museo del Prado, Madrid
 


The Immaculate Conception
, ca. 1678 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617– 1682) Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid


Image from
The Cave at Lascaux

 

 The Spanish Imagination (Powerpoint)

Characters: 

  • Jordan: the problem of the bridge (4) (35) = the problem of the Spanish peasant (16); Jordan's Point of View
  • Pablo, the fox (9)
  • Maria, the virgin (22)
  • Pilar, the palm reader (30)
  • Anselmo, the hunter (39)
  • Augustin, the curser (45)
  • Rafael, the gypsy (18)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Chapters 4-9, pp. 48-95 (Quiz 2) (Study Guide) Hemingway Resources

Final Exam Essay: How does Jordan avoid descending into nihilism? How does he instead learn to affirm humanity, despite all of its contradictions, through the relationships he develops with the Spanish peasants?  

Today's reading:

  • Pablo gone bad. (16)
  • Anselmo's New Morality (39-41)

The Debate in the Cave: Pablo vs. Jordan:

  • The Cave (49)
  • Pilar's Coup (54)
  • The Meaning of Courage (54-55)
  • Pilar's Moment of Hesitation (58)
  • From Human Nature to the Natural World  (59)
  • Jordan's Soliloquy (62-63)
  • Augustin's Advice (94-95)

Maria and Roberto:

  • Death of their Fathers (66-67)
  • Maria's Shame Absolved (70-71)
  • Mechanized Doom (75)
  • Pilar's Valencia (85-86)

Homework:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Chapters 10-11, pp.96-152 (Study Guide)
 

 

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16 3 Tues.

 


El Greco, The Burial of Count Orgascz, 1586 The Prado Madrid


Velazquez, Diego The Feast of Bacchus ("Los Borrachos")[detail]
1629 Museo del Prado, Madrid
 


Diego Velázquez,
Water Carrier of Seville, ca. 1619.

 

 

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Chapters 10-11, pp.96-152 (Quiz 3) (Study Guide)

Essay Topic: How does Jordan avoid descending into nihilism? How does he instead learn to affirm humanity, despite all of its contradictions, through the relationships he develops with the Spanish peasants?

Review:

  • Anselmo's New Morality (39-41)
  • Pilar's Moment of Hesitation (58)
  • From Human Nature to the Natural World  (59)
  • Jordan's Soliloquy (62-63)
  • Pilar's Moment of Hesitation (58)
  • Maria's Shame Absolved (70-71)
  • Mechanized Doom (75)
  • Augustin's Advice (94-95)

The Day of Revolution:

Spain's Political History: 
Chronology of the Spanish Civil War
(Powerpoint) 
Civil War Map Simulation
(Historical Atlas of the 20th Century)
The Crisis of Liberalism (Backgrounds)

  • The High Mountain Meadow (96)
  • The Death of the Civil Guards (100-01)
  • The Purpose of the Gauntlet (105-06)
  • Don Benito (108)
  • Don Faustino (112-14)
  • Drunkenness (115) (Anarchism)
  • Don Guillermo (118)
  • The Priest (125-26)

El Sordo's Camp:

  • Jordan's Resolution to Write (134-36)
  • Joaquin and the new definition of family(139-40)
  • Earning El Sordo's Trust (147-50)

Paragraph on the Day of Revolution

Homework:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Read Chapters 12-17, pp. 153-224 (Study Guide

 

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17 4 Wed.

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Picasso Guernica (1937)


details from Picasso Guernica (1937)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Chapters 12-17, pp. 153-224 (Quiz 4) (Study GuideHemingway Resources

Jordan's New Politics and The Problem of the Bridge 

  • Pilar's Coarseness (154-55) (173-74)
  • The Earth Moves (159)
  • The End of "Bigotry" (161-63)
  • The Snow (178)
  • Finito's Banquet at the Cafe Colon (185)
  • Anselmo's Choice (191)
  • 2nd Confrontation with Pablo (213)

Paragraphs:

Paragraph: Describe the changes that take place in Jordan's character and politics after he falls in love with Maria.

Paragraph: Is there a word which can encompass the contrasts of the Spanish Peasant’s character in all its aspects, both noble and sordid? (Think not only of Pablo, but of Pilar, Anselmo, Maria, El Sordo, Joaquin, Rafael, Augustin, and Fernando.)

Paragraph: Why is Pablo so indispensable to Jordan's mission despite his potential treachery?

Homework:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway  Read Chapters 18-21, pp. 225-270 (Study Guide)

 

 

 

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18 5 Thurs.
 

Final Exam Essay: How does Jordan avoid descending into nihilism? How does he instead learn to affirm humanity, despite all of its contradictions, through the relationships he develops with the Spanish peasants?

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway  Read Chapters 18-21, pp. 225-270 (Quiz 5) (Study Guide)

The Smell of Death/The Fir Bed

  • The Smell of Death (255-56)
  • The Fir Bed (258)

Paragraph: Jordan's Experiences During the First Year of the War; The Hotel Gaylord

Paragraph: The Smell of Death and the Spruce Fir Bed

Homework:

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19 6 Fri.
Socialist Art: 

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Miro, Head of a Catalan Peasant 

 

Jordan's New Politics and The Problem of the Bridge:

The Hotel Gaylord: Marxism Marxist-Leninism Nihilism

  • The Defense of Madrid (235)
  • The Hotel Velazquez vs. The Hotel Gaylord (236)
  • The Peasant Movement Co-Opted (229)
  • The Wounded Russians (237)
  • Assassination (244-46)

Homework:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Read Chapters 22-27 , pp. 271-322 (Study Guide)

 

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22 7 Mon.

saltimbanques.jpg (63935 bytes) Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Picasso

Summer Reading Requirement 2006
Summer Reading List 2006
Elizabeth Woolsey Gilman Prize

Final Exam Schedule

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
Read Chapters 22-27 , pp. 271-322 (Quiz 6) (Study Guide

Jordan's New Character:
  • The Extra Sacrament (286)
  • Never Hungrier (288)
  • El Sordo Jodido (293)
  • The Dead Fascist (303-305)
  • El Sordo Prepares for Death (vs. Joaquin) (312-13)

Paragraph: The Fifth Sacrament and Human Nature

Paragraph: Look at Jordan's thought process as he reads the papers of the cavalryman he killed. How has loving Maria changed his moral character?

Paragraph: How does El Sordo face death?

 

Hemingway's Ideological Point: The New Liberalism

Homework:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Chapters 28-35, pp. 323-372 (Study Guide)

 

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23 8 Tues.

La Gloria:

Francisco De Zurbarán, Saint Serapion, 1628.

El Greco View of Toledo (1597) 

Summer Reading Requirement 2006
Summer Reading List 2006
Elizabeth Woolsey Gilman Prize

Final Exam Schedule

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
Chapters 28-35, pp. 323-372 (Quiz 7) (Study Guide)

Jordan at the Action's End:

  • Jordan on the Eve of Battle: Grandfather's Pistol (336-340)
  • The Wedding (348)
  • Jordan on the Spanish Character (354-55)
  • Pablo's Betrayal

Paragraph: Jordan thoughts on the eve of battle: grandfather vs. father

Paragraph: Jordan and Maria Wed: How has Robert’s desire for social justice become intertwined with his love for Maria? 

Hemingway's New Liberalism 
Compare to The Zeitgeist of Modernism

Civil War Map Simulation (Historical Atlas of the 20th Century)

Homework:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
Read Chapters 36-42, pp. 372-430 (Study Guide)  

Final Exam Schedule

 

 

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24 9 Wed.
The Bridge to the Enlightened  Utopia:

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Iron Bridge at Coalbrookdale, Darby and Pritchard (1779)

 

Summer Reading Requirement 2006
Summer Reading List 2006
Elizabeth Woolsey Gilman Prize

Final Exam Schedule

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
Read Chapters 36-42, pp. 372-430 (Study Guide) (Quiz 8
  • La Gloria (379) (380-81)
  • The Handshake with Pablo (390) (404) (455)
  • Farewell to Maria/ Memory of Father (405-406)

Paragraph: La Gloria; The Farewell

What is Hemingway's political point in For Whom the Bell Tolls? How has Jordan's whole conception of himself changed during his three days in the mountains? 

Hemingway's New Liberalism 
Compare to The Zeitgeist of Modernism
Rejection of Fascism and of Marxism

Homework:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
Read Chapter 43, pp. 431-471 (Study Guide)

Final Exam Questions 
Final Exam Schedule

 

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25 10 Thurs.
The Bridge to an Enlightened  Utopia:

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Iron Bridge at Coalbrookdale, Darby and Pritchard (1779)

Summer Reading Requirement 2006
Summer Reading List 2006
Elizabeth Woolsey Gilman Prize

Final Exam Schedule

Exam Review: Grammar and Usage 
Exam Review: Vocabulary 

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Chapter 43, pp. 431-471 (Quiz 9) (Study Guide)

How does Jordan justify his decision to fight for a losing cause in Spain? Describe Jordan's new understanding of the elaborate web of reality. (431-432)

Essay Question: What is Hemingway's political point in For Whom the Bell Tolls? How has Jordan's whole conception of himself changed during his three days in the mountains? 

Homework:

Isaiah Berlin on Pluralism and on Freedom from, My Intellectual Path (1975)   
Final Exam Schedule
 

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26 1 Fri.
The Bridge to an Enlightened  Utopia:

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Iron Bridge at Coalbrookdale, Darby and Pritchard (1779)

 

Summer Reading Requirement 2006
Summer Reading List 2006
Elizabeth Woolsey Gilman Prize

Final Exam Schedule

Hemingway's New Liberalism 
The Zeitgeist of Modernism
Hemingway’s Eulogy “On the American Dead in Spain”

The New Liberalism: Notes on Isaiah Berlin: Pluralism and on Freedom from My Intellectual Path (1975)  

The Crisis of Liberalism 
Rejection of Fascism and of Marxism

Paragraph: Describe the changes that take place in Jordan's character and politics after he falls in love with Maria.

Paragraph: Is there a word which can encompass the contrasts of the Spanish Peasant’s character in all its aspects, both noble and sordid? (Think not only of Pablo, but of Pilar, Anselmo, Maria, El Sordo, Joaquin, Rafael, Augustin, and Fernando.)

Paragraph: Why is Pablo so indispensable to Jordan's mission despite his potential treachery?(390) (404) (455)

Paragraph: What disillusioned Jordan about Marxism? Review his experiences during the first year of the war: The Hotel Gaylord. (244-45)

Paragraph: The Smell of Death (255-56) vs. the Spruce Fir Bed (258)

Paragraph: The Fifth Sacrament and Human Nature (286)

Paragraph: Look at Jordan's thought process as he reads the papers of the cavalryman he killed. How has loving Maria changed his moral character?(303-305)

Paragraph: How does El Sordo face death?(312-13)

Paragraph: Jordan thoughts on the eve of battle: grandfather vs. father (336-339)

Paragraph: Jordan and Maria Wed: How has Robert’s desire for social justice become intertwined with his love for Maria?(348)

Paragraph: La Gloria (379) (380-81); The Farewell  (405-406)

Paragraph: How does Jordan justify his decision to fight for a losing cause in Spain? Describe Jordan's new understanding of the elaborate web of reality. (For Whom the Bell Tolls) (431-432)

Homework:

 

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29 0 Mon. Memorial Day

5

30 2 Tues.  


ANDY WARHOL, Marilyn Diptych, 1962. Oil, acrylic, and silk screen enamel on canvas. Tate Gallery, London. 


FRANK GEHRY, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1997.

Exam Review: Grammar and Usage 
Exam Review: Vocabulary

Post Modernist Art

Summer Reading Requirement 2006
Summer Reading List 2006
Elizabeth Woolsey Gilman Prize

Final Exam Schedule

5

31 3 Wed  

Final Exam Essay Due

6

1 4 Thurs.  
6 2 5 Fri.
6 5 6 Mon.  
6 6 7 Tues.  
         
6 7 8 Wed.  
         
6 8 9 Thurs.  
         
6 9 10 Fri.  
         
6 12   Mon. Founder's Day
         
6 13   Tues Faculty Meetings
         
6 14   Wed. Faculty Meetings
         
6 15   Thurs.  
         
6 16   Friday