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Tues day , February 26, 2013

Tues day , February 26, 2013. Today’s Agenda: *HW Packet #3: Week of 2/25 – 3/1 1. No Bellringer 2. Build Background: The Moderns 3. Notes: Build Background – Political and Social Milestones 4. Tree Map: Elements of Modernism HW: 1 ) Tree Map: Elements of Modernism.

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Tues day , February 26, 2013

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  1. Tuesday, February 26, 2013 • Today’s Agenda: • *HW Packet #3: Week of 2/25 – 3/1 • 1. No Bellringer • 2. Build Background: The Moderns • 3. Notes: Build Background – Political and Social Milestones • 4. Tree Map: Elements of Modernism • HW:1) Tree Map: Elements of Modernism

  2. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Bellringer: Week of 2/25 – 3/1

  3. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Bellringer: Week of 2/25 – 3/1 • Monday (2/25): • 1. modernism (n.) – a term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first and third of the twentieth century. • 2. American Dream (n.) – A uniquely American vision of the country consisting of three central ideas (America as a new Eden—land of beauty, bounty, and unlimited promises) • 3. Marxism (n.) – the political and economic philosophy developed by Karl Marx and his followers in the mid-nineteenth century. • 4. psychoanalysis (n.) – A method examining the unconscious mind, developed primarily by the Austrian physician Sigmund Freud (1865-1939) • 5. stream of consciousness (n.) – A style of writing that portrays the inner (and often chaotic) workings of a character’s mind. • 6. symbolism (n.) – A literary movement that originated in late-nineteenth-century France, in which writers rearranged the world of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version of reality. • 7. imagism (n.) – A twentieth-century movement in European and American poetry that advocated the creation of hard, clear images, concisely expressed in everyday speech. • 8. Harlem Renaissance (n.) – A cultural movement of the early 1920s led by African American artists, writers, musicians, and performers, located in Harlem.

  4. Vocabulary Words: “The Moderns” • 1.modernism (n.) – a term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first and third of the twentieth century.

  5. Vocabulary Words: “The Moderns” • 2. American Dream (n.) – A uniquely American vision of the country consisting of three central ideas (America as a new Eden—land of beauty, bounty, and unlimited promises)

  6. Vocabulary Words: “The Moderns” • 3. Marxism (n.) – the political and economic philosophy developed by Karl Marx and his followers in the mid-nineteenth century.

  7. Vocabulary Words: “The Moderns” • 4. psychoanalysis (n.) – A method examining the unconscious mind, developed primarily by the Austrian physician Sigmund Freud (1865-1939)

  8. Vocabulary Words: “The Moderns” • 5. stream of consciousness (n.) – A style of writing that portrays the inner (and often chaotic) workings of a character’s mind.

  9. Vocabulary Words: “The Moderns” • 6. symbolism (n.) – A literary movement that originated in late-nineteenth-century France, in which writers rearranged the world of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version of reality.

  10. Vocabulary Words: “The Moderns” • 7. imagism (v.) – A twentieth-century movement in European and American poetry that advocated the creation of hard, clear images, concisely expressed in everyday speech.

  11. Vocabulary Words: “The Moderns” • 8. Harlem Renaissance (v.) – A cultural movement of the early 1920s led by African American artists, writers, musicians, and performers, located in Harlem.

  12. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: The Moderns • 1914- The Panama Canal • The Panama Canal is one of the most strategically important artificial waterways in the world. • The 50 mile long canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the narrowest part of the Central American isthmus, shortens the voyage between the east and west coasts of the United States by about 80,000 nautical miles.

  13. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: The Moderns • 1914- The Panama Canal • Construction of the canal was begun in 1881 by a French company but was halted in 1889. • The United States became interested in the canal project at the turn of the century, at a time when Panama was a dependency of Colombia. • When the Colombian Senate delayed ratifying a canal treaty, the United States lent its support to the Panamanian separatist movement.

  14. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: The Moderns • 1914- The Panama Canal • Following an insurrection in November 1903, Panama declared its independence from Colombia. • Shortly after, the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was concluded, granting the U.S. control over the Panama Canal Zone. • Construction resumed under U.S. supervision in 1904, and the canal was opened to traffic on August 15, 1914. • After years of conflict and negotiation with the United States, Panama assumed complete control over the canal in 2000.

  15. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: The Moderns • 1920- Prohibition • Even fervent supporters gradually became disenchanted with Prohibition. • The 18th Amendment resulted in a rise in criminal alcohol production and sale and restrictions on individual freedoms.

  16. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: The Moderns • 1920- Prohibition • A new kind of criminal came into being—the bootlegger. • The infamous gangster Al Capone bootlegged on a massive scale: At his peak, his earnings approached 60 million dollars annually. • The rise of bootlegging gangs led to an increase in gang wars and murders, which further undermined support for Prohibition.

  17. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: The Moderns • 1927- Charles Lindbergh • Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris on May 20-21, 1927, took 33.5 hours and made him an international hero overnight. • In 1932, Lindbergh’s two year old son was kidnapped for ransom and subsequently found dead. • The kidnapping became the most notorious crime of the 1930s, remaining a newspaper staple until 1936, when German immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptmann, was executed for the murder.

  18. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: The Moderns • 1933- Eleanor Roosevelt • In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted polio. • He recovered but was never again able to walk more than a step or two, leaning heavily on crutches. • During Roosevelt’s four terms as president of the United States (1933-1945), Eleanor Roosevelt took on responsibilities unprecedented for a president’s wife.

  19. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: The Moderns • 1933- Eleanor Roosevelt • She traveled widely, giving speeches and lectures and holding press conferences, and she often represented her husband on occasions when he was unable to appear. • She also spoke out for the rights of minorities and the poor. • In 1941, she briefly held public office, serving as co-director of the Office of Civilian Defense.

  20. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: The Moderns • 1933- Eleanor Roosevelt • After FDR’s death in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt was appointed to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations by President Truman. • She served until 1952 and was reappointed by President Kennedy in 1961. • As chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights, she played an important role in drafting the UN Declaration on Human Rights.

  21. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: Political and Social Milestones 1914-1939 • 1914- 1918- The Great War • World War I was fought between the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy after it switched sides, Japan, and the United States).

  22. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: Political and Social Milestones 1914-1939 • 1914- 1918- The Great War • The Central Powers waged a land war on two main fronts: against France and Great Britain in the west and Russia in the east. • The western front in France was the largest and bloodies theater, but the eastern front also claimed enormous casualties, mainly among the Russians.

  23. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: Political and Social Milestones 1914-1939 • 1914- 1918- The Great War • Russia’s terrible losses and lack of success I the war led to widespread discontent and ultimately to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917; • The Russians withdrew from the war shortly after. • That loss to the Allies, however was offset by the United States’ entry into the war the same year.

  24. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: Political and Social Milestones 1914-1939 • Women’s Suffrage • Two of the most influential reformers in the women’s suffrage movement was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who together formed the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. • Between 1890 and 1918, American women won the right to vote in many state and local elections.

  25. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: Political and Social Milestones 1914-1939 • Women’s Suffrage • The major role played by American women in World War I helped weaken opposition to their enfranchisement. • American women were not the first to get the vote: New Zealand (1893, Australia (1902), Finland (1906), Norway (1913), Soviet Russia (1917), Canada (1918), and Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia (1919) all granted suffrage to their female citizens before the United States did.

  26. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Build Background: Political and Social Milestones 1914-1939 • 1929 The Great Depression • The Depression began in the United States but quickly spread around the world. • The American and European economies were closely connected after World War I. • The European economies had been greatly weakened by the war itself, by war debts, and (in the case of the defeated nations) by war reparations, and the United States became the major creditor and financier of those countries

  27. Read Ch. 5 The Moderns • Turn to Page 564, read “Popular Entertainment” • Read Elements of Modernism p. 565 • Read Freud and the Unconscious Mind p. 566 • Read “The New American Hero” p. 567

  28. Take out a sheet of paper and title: Tree Map: Elements of Modernism Modernism Rejection Interest Emphasis Traditional themes, subjects, & forms Inner workings of human mind Bold experimentation in style and form Sentimentality and artificiality Stream of consciousness Disillusionment and loss of faith in the American dream The ideal hero as infallible flawed and disillusioned hero but shows “grace under pressure” Spiritual debasement of the modern world

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