29-30 April - Draft Expectations and Apartheid

Announcements: 
1) Your draft of your Reporting for the British Empire will be due to the editor (me) during the next class. Today we will go over the requirements for that draft. The final draft of this paper will be due on the 7th (A) or 8th (B) of May. It will need to be typed and emailed or submitted electronically to me. I have reserved the 7th and 8th of May in the computer lab for this purpose.

2) Current Event maps will be due in the next class. You should have at least 8 current events!

3) On the 9th and 10th of May, we will have a test on the British Empire and all content that we have covered during this term thus far. We will review for this test before taking it.

Current Event > 

Colombia tops IDMC internally displaced people list

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22341119

Draft to Editor Requirements: 

1) Headline (Title for your article) - Try to make it catchy! A headline tells what will be contained in the article, but also tries to draw the reader in.

Examples: 
Syrian PM survives car bombing

Cycling one of the world's most famous pilgrimages

Richard III's  head to go on tour

Defending Shakespeare from doubters

Earth's core far hotter than thought 

2) Illustration - Remember we are writing for The Illustrated London News, so you need to provide an illustration with your article. This can be a chart, a map (a really good way to bring one of your 5 themes of geography into the article!), or an image.

Examples: 

People

Places

Maps 

Chart Example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13361934

3) Newspaper style article - A newspaper article starts with a lede (or lead) paragraph, which summarizes the story and hooks the reader, but doesn't provide a ton of detail. The detail comes in the rest of the article, given in short paragraph that keep the article moving.

Example:

George Jones public funeral to be held in Nashville

The funeral of country music legend George Jones will be held at the famous Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville and is open to fans, it has been announced.

"George would have wanted his fans and friends everywhere to be able to come and pay their respects along with his family," publicist Kirt Webster said.

The ceremony will be held on Thursday, a day after a private visitation for family, friends and fellow performers.

Jones' hits included He Stopped Loving Her Today. He died on Friday aged 81. ...

4) Citations in APA style - Check your bibliography cheat sheet for this format. List these at the bottom of your article. There is no need for internal citation (a.k.a. don't list your sources in the middle of the article). Remember that Wikipedia is not an acceptable source for citation!!

Example: 

Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896.

Other requirements:

 - One of the 5 themes of geography - You will need to tie one of the 5 themes of geography into your story about the location or region you are writing about.

- Your assigned cultural trait - Please write your assigned cultural trait at the bottom of the page. Remember that your article must be relevant to this cultural trait.

- Relevance to the British Empire - Remember that your article must be relevant to the British Empire. Try to tie the article back to this theme somehow. 

- The correct time period - Remember that we are writing about the British Empire from approximately 1700-1913. Slightly earlier than that time period is fine, but there should not be any reference to any time after 1913! 

- The correct heading on your paper!

British Expansion Map (15 minutes)

Apartheid in South Africa

Apartheid - Afrikaans for "the status of being apart"

Roots of Apartheid - Discovery of Gold (1886)

Most Africans in South Africa were independent peasant farmers. They made enough to live on doing this, but as a need for gold miners increased, the government helped the gold mine owners to force cheap black labor into the mines.

Why would they do this?
How did they do this?

Taxation of Africans - hut tax, poll tax

1910 - South Africa is united as the Union of South Africa

1913 Land Act - forced Africans to live on reserves, undermining their ability to be independent farmers and making it illegal for them to be sharecroppers (farmers living on land owned by someone else and paying for it by giving half or more of their crops to the landlord). This made it more likely that Africans would seek out work in the mines, where conditions were bad, in order to pay taxes and support their families.

By 1923 over 126,000 Africans were living in cities, which concerned white citizens. Jan Smuts (Prime Minister of South Africa at the time) supported residential segregation and passed the Native (Urban Areas) Act. This act called for the clearing of slums in the city and the relocation of native Africans to areas outside or on the edges of the cities.

"Natives - men, women and children - should only be allowed in urban areas when their presence is demanded by the wants of the white population."

 - The Stallard Commission, 1922 (investigated the presence of Africans in cities)

Influx Control - Every African allowed in the cities was required to carry a pass identifying him or her. The only people allowed to have passes were people that were employed in the cities, so people took jobs for lower wages in order to get passes into the cities. 

Pass raids - Police would conduct pass raids, during which natives would be searched for their passes and kicked out or arrested if they did not have them. This happened so often that most Africans had been arrested at some point, making the majority of the population criminals in the eyes of the government. 

What are some similarities between this situation and the situation we saw Gandhi deal with in South Africa? 

25-26 April - Intro to South Africa and Peer Editing

Announcements:

1) Reminder: 1-2 May, I will be collecting the current event maps. You should have at least 8 current events at that time. Today's current event should be at least #7.

2) I will be grading journals toward the end of class, while you are working on peer-editing.

Current Event > Follow up on Al-Nusra and the Syrian Government:

Syria government makes opposition jihadist claim

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22286125


Intro to South Africa

 

Relative Location: Southern tip of the African continent
Absolute Location: 29 degrees S 24 degrees E 

Area: 1,219,090 sq km, which is just less than twice the size of Texas 

Population size: 48,601,098 (July 2013 est.), mostly urban 

compared with Texas: est. 26,059,203 (July 2012)

Physical characteristics: Large interior plateau surrounded by rugged hills and a narrow coastal plain

Region: The history of South Africa is considered to be what happened within the modern borders, but also in the entire region of countries surrounding it, in which the Boers, native Africans and British interacted.

Movement:

South Africa was first used by Europeans (the Dutch) as a stopping point on the way to India for the spice trade (late 1600s). It became settled by the Dutch and Europeans of various other ethnicities. These people became known as the Boers.

Human-Environment Interaction: An Increase in Interest

The British started to take over in the early 1800s. Diamonds were discovered in 1867, which increased interest and immigration to the area.

Some of South Africa's Natural Resources:

gold, coal, iron ore, nickel, tin, rare earth elements, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, salt, natural gas Why were the British and other European settlers interested in controlling South Africa? Peer Editing Pair up with a partner and fill out the peer editing sheet by reading their article and answering the questions.

23-24 April - Catch-all Class

Announcements:

1) I will be collecting the current event maps on 1-2 May for grading. You should have 8 current events on the map at that time.

2) Next class period your first draft of your article for "Reporting for the British Empire is due. You should include:

- Proper heading
- A title for your article
- Article length 450-500 words
- You must include one of the 5 themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region) 
- At least 2 citations listed after the article (see bibliography cheat sheet for help)
- At the bottom list your assigned cultural trait

3) After TA presentations, today we will continue working on the British Expansion maps from last class. If you have finished your map, please find some work to do that will increase your grade in this class. Consider:

- showing me notes you have made up for past journal grades 

- working on writing or revising your Deadliest Warrior Paragraph 

- writing your RBE: Topic, if you have neglected to turn it in, or revising it for a higher grade 

- writing your first draft of your RBE article (due 25-26 April for peer editing)

Current Event > 

E. coli bacteria 'can produce diesel biofuel'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22253746

Pop Quiz Retake!

TA PRESENTATIONS! - Note taking required!

Expanding Empire Map

Copy the Red Areas on the Map and Label the Major Countries/Regions

Major Countries/Regions:

Canada	Honduras, Caribbean	13 Colonies
West Africa	South Africa	East Africa
India	Australia	New Zealand
Singapore	Middle East	Indonesia
Hong Kong (trade from China)

Use a Goode's Atlas (Old: pages 40-48, 50, 58-59; New: pages 59-67, 74, 76) to find which of the countries/regions could supply these major resources:

Wheat	Tea	Corn	Coffee
Oats	Cocoa	Rice	Cane Sugar
Citrus/Fruit	Tobacco	Peanuts	Cotton
Rubber	Cattle	Sheep	Timber
Petroleum

15-16 April - Topic Preparation

Announcements: Remember your topic proposal is due next class.

Current Event > 

Venezuela poll: Maduro opponent Capriles demands recount

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22153667Q 

Pop Quiz!

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How to Turn in Your Topic:

Name 

Date

Period

RBE: Topic

1) My assigned cultural trait is (politics, economics, social, belief, aesthetic or communication)

2). I would like to write a (national news, international news, feature or editorial) article.

3) I would like to write my article about... (2-3 sentences)

4) The location/region my topic pertains to is...

5) I plan on including information about (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement or region) in my article.

Two sources for my topic: (citations)


Keep researching and narrowing down your topic. You will need to write a 450-500 word article on this topic. Meet with me if you have questions, want to talk about your possible topic.

11 - 12 April - Research Day

Announcements: 

No Current Event Today!

Types of Newspaper Articles:

National News: Focuses on facts about events in the nation

In our case, this will be England.

International News: Focuses on facts about events around the world.

In our case, this will be about countries that are part of the British Empire.

Feature Article: Focuses on human interest events/people and are slightly less formal, for example, a profile of a person who works in the community, a movie review or a piece on a local art show and gallery owner.

Editorial: Articles that contain the writer's opinion, often explicitly meant to be persuasive.

Possible Locations to Research (not a complete list):

South Africa	Malaysia	Singapore
Ireland	Somalia	Egypt (occupied)
Gambia	Gold Coast	Rhodesia
Sierra Leone	Sudan	Uganda
Canada	13 British Colonies	Caribbean Islands
Honduras	Cuba	India
Burma	Indonesia	Pacific Islands
Hong Kong	Kuwait	British East Africa (Kenya)

6 Cultural Traits

1. Economic  (resources, scarcity, production, distribution, types of economy, technology, division of labor, transportation)

2. Social  (family life, customs, class, roles, education)

3. Belief  (religion, philosophy, myth, ritual)

4. Political  (citizenship, leadership, institutions)

5. Aesthetic  (art, music, dance, literature, food, fashion)

6. Communication  (language, symbols, body language)


Journal Notes Check! (2 days)


To Library!

Empire

Annoucements: Next class we will be going to the library.

Current Event> Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in as Kenyan president: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22074481

Return Writing Assignments and Reminders:

When building an argument should you use all possible evidence available to you?

- Do not list all of the possible evidence! Pick the pieces of evidence that best support your thesis and use them to build and support claims.

- When writing an argument, there will be many claims you can use to support your thesis. Pick a few of the strongest claims to write about. It is better to have a few strong claims backed up by well explained evidence, than to write many claims that do not strongly support your thesis.

- USE COMPLETE SENTENCES WHEN COMPLETING WRITING ASSIGNMENTS!!!

ALSO, please make sure that you are taking notes carefully so that all of your facts are accurate. There were some blatant mistakes in the homework paragraphs.

Guided Analysis (Handout)

Bad Example: 

What is the thesis statement in the paragraph?
What are the claims?
What is the conclusion?
What are some problems with the argument?

Okay Example: 

What is the thesis statement in the paragraph?
What are the claims? Are they clearly stated?
What is the conclusion?
What are some weak points in this example?

Good Example: 

What is the thesis statement?
What are the claims? Are they clearly stated?
Are they well supported by evidence?
Do they all support the thesis?
What is the conclusion?

The British Empire
"the Empire on which the sun never sets"

European Empires - c. 1700



Reasons the British built their empire:

Economic - Industrial revolution (manufacturing)
- India and China were among their competitors (ex.
cotton)
- Expanding for trade (companies gaining local power, if
possible, government using military force if necessary)
(ex. East India Trading Company, Triangular Trade)

Political - Safety for British military and commercial ships
- Power over other governments that benefit Britain
(influence)
- The creation of nation states after the European fashion

Social - Brits saw this expansion as bringing civilization to
uncivilized parts of the world
- Social Darwinism and world wide social progress

Acculturation - How did the British influence their colonies? How did the colonies influence Britain?
Results:

Movement - British citizens moved to colonies; Colonial natives
moved to Britain
- Goods were moved faster and more efficiently around
the world

Aesthetics - Goods from colonies created new European trends

British Empire - 1920s

In 1909 the British Empire encompassed 20% of the land area of the Earth and 23% of its population. Although the first industrial power, by 1900 Britain had been surpassed by both United States and by Germany; but Britain was still the financial center of the world and the premier merchant carrier.

Project: Reporting for the British Empire!

It is 1913 and Britain has been building its Empire for over a century to great success, but now finds itself entangled in a vast web of political and economic struggles all over the world. You all will be reporters for The Illustrated London News. You have been given the assignment to write an article and provide an illustration for a special issue, which would help inform our fellow British citizens about our Empire and what the growing political tensions are.

Think about the 6 cultural traits and which one you might be interested in writing about with regards to the British Empire. Next time in class, you will choose which of the 6 cultural traits you are going to focus on for your article.

27-28 March - Self Assessment and Research Sources

Announcements: Remember I will be checking journals during the next class period.

New requirement for current events: If you have a current event, please bring a headline with a brief summary and a source to me at the beginning of class to receive extra credit. 

Example:

N Korea goes 'into combat posture No 1', says state TV

North Korea has pointed its artillery toward US targets, which is being called "combat posture" after third incident of nuclear testing in February.

Source: BBC World News, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21938671

Current Event > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21928277

Current Event World Map!

Writing Self Evaluation

Pull out your homework that was due today. Make sure it is headed correctly with all information in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Reread what you wrote and answer the following questions on the bottom or back of your paper:

1.       Is the writing legible (neatly written or typed), a.k.a. am I able to read it?

2.       Is the thesis statement clearly written?

3.       Does the argument contain three or more claims that support the thesis?

4.       Is the assignment interesting to read?

5.       Did you provide enough evidence to main the ideas understandable?

6.       Do the sentences relate to each other?

7.       What grade would you give yourself on this assignment?

8.       Do you have the citation written at the bottom of the assignment?

Turn in the homework to the basket!

Research Sources

	Print	Internet
Publication Process	Generally go through editing and article review process to check for quality and accuracy	Almost anyone can publish on the internet
Authorship/Affiliations	Tend to clearly indicate the author and the author’s affiliations (employer, education, etc)	Anyone can publish and they don’t need to present their affiliations to do so
Sources and Quotations	In academic publications, it is required that sources be cited and quotations specifically noted	Sources and quotations may be used, but they may not be clearly marked or cited
Bias	As traditional publication is harder and more expensive, strong biases and work for special interest groups is mostly weeded out or are more likely to be acknowledged	Publishing on the internet is free and authors can publish opinion as though it is fact without any repercussions. Websites may be deliberately deceptive.
Author qualifications	Author qualifications are almost always required for the publication before text is published.	When an author can be determined, the qualifications of that author are not always provided.
Publication Information	Date of publication, publisher and author/editor information is almost always provided.	Dates of publication are often hard to find, as is the case with authorship.

Source: Driscoll, Dana L. and Brizee, Allen. (2013, February 15). “Evaluating Print vs. Internet Sources” Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/04/.

How to Choose a good source or 

Evaluating an Internet Source:

1.      Try search sources that are likely to be reliable.

a.      Internet sources that have equivalent print sources (like newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias)

b.      Internet sources associated with educational institutions (ending in .edu)

2.      Use sources that have offer much of the below information:

a.      Author’s name

b.      Author’s title, position

c.      Author’s organizational affiliation (university, employer)

d.      Date of page creation or edit

e.      Author’s contact information

f.      Recognized peer-review process or other quality control (such as the editing process with newspaper sites or websites that post information from print sources with similar quality control standards)

Source: Harris, Robert. (2010, November 22). “Evaluating Internet Research Sources.” Retrieved  from <http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm>.

If in doubt, check information you get off of the internet in a print or reliable source (fits the criteria above). If you find a website with consistent information with a reliable source, it may be a valid source for research.

DO NOT use Wikipedia as a source of information. If you start your research by looking at Wikipedia, use the citations at the bottom of the page and assess those sources!

Guided Practice: Evaluate the Resources

Write the following information for each of the sources:

a.      Author’s name

b.      Author’s title, position

c.      Author’s organizational affiliation (university, employer)

d.      Date of page creation or edit

e.      Is there author contact information? Yes or no

f.      Recognized peer-review process or other quality control? Yes or no

24-25 March - Classroom. Assignments and Building an Argument

Announcements: This week we will be going over classroom set up, assignments and expectations for this class moving forward. We will also start to build skills and tool kits for addressing geography and social studies.

Seating Changes

Current Event >

Classroom Set Up

1. Assignment Baskets
2. Returned Work
3. How to Head Your Paper
4. Assignment Expectations
5. Journals

Building an Argument

Thesis Statement - What you're trying to prove or the main idea of the writing

Example: Lawrence of Arabia is a deadlier warrior than Teddy Roosevelt.

Claim - an assertion about your thesis statement or an explanation supporting your thesis statement

Example: Lawrence of Arabia's understanding of Arab culture and resources allowed him to better use his terrain.

Evidence - data or information used to support your claims and thesis statement

Example: He used camels for desert transportation, which was more effective than other pack animals.

Conclusion - the closing argument; usually sums up the claims and how they support the thesis statement; a restating of the thesis statement

Example: Due to his cultural awareness and ability to harness the local culture to his advantage, Lawrence of Arabia was a deadlier warrior.

Guided Practice: "Teddy Roosevelt vs. Lawrence of Arabia"

 vs. 

Please write down claims and evidence about both warriors as we watch the episode. We will be building an argument about who is the deadliest warrior.

How to Cite a Television Show (Recorded)

"Name of Episode." Name of Television Series, Season. Writ. NAME OF WRITERS. Dir. NAME OF DIRECTOR.DISTRIBUTOR'S NAME, YEAR. MEDIUM.

"Teddy Roosevelt vs. Lawrence of Arabia." Deadliest Warrior: Aftermath, Season 3. Dir. Tim Prokop and David Hogan. Spike, 2011. Video Stream.

Homework: Write a paragraph (FULL SENTENCES) about who was the deadliest warrior. Use the writing guide to help you form a thesis statement and at least 3 claims about your thesis supported by evidence. Conclude your paragraph with a sentence summing up your argument.