StoryOfTheWorldBlog

SOTW 4: 27B - Germany's invasions

2012-09-26T19:19:00.000-07:00

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

Podcast: Flight from invading Germans (Poland, Sept 1939) written transcript included
Podcast: Life after the German invasion of Poland written transcript included
Historical Film Footage of the invasion of Poland

Secondary Sources:

World War II Timeline
Polish Refugees
WWII Encylopedia Britannica - interactive

Video Enrichment:
Blitzkrieg unleashed: 2 minutes (depicts war)
PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Online Lectures (full series):

World War II - An Open Harvard Course, Historical Study B-54 with professor with Charles S. Maier, PhD, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University

SOTW 4: 27A - Spanish Civil War

2012-09-25T19:00:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

George Orwell on the state of Anarchy in Barcelona, 1936
Hemmingway's Dispatches from Spain NY Times Archives
Pablo Picasso's Guernica

Secondary Sources:

Franco and the Spanish Civil War

Video Enrichment:
Anarchists in the 1936 Spanish Civil War (8 minutes)

American involvement in the Spanish Civil War (10 mins)

SOTW 4: 26B - Hitler's Rise to Power

2012-09-24T18:26:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

Mein Kampf - unabridged, translated into English by James Murphy in 1939, extensive translators introduction

Secondary Sources:

Summary and questions for thought

Video Enrichment:

Video exploring Hitler's path from mediocre student and failed artist to totalitarian dictator. -45 minutes

Part 2 -45 minutes

SOTW 4: 26A - Black Tuesday

2012-09-23T18:01:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of strife and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

A series of Financial Headlines spanning 1929
FDR's Fireside Chat address - scroll to the bottom

Secondary Sources:

A readable summary of the cause of The Market Crash

Video Enrichment:

30 second preview of The Crash of 1929 -American Experience
PBS clip about the Crash of 1929 - 10 mins:

Student presentation summary of the crash: (3 min)

6A - The Triple Alliance

2012-09-19T10:42:00.001-07:00

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

The New Vulgate (none available, read why)

Secondary Sources:

The War that Changed South America Forever

Board Game: Strategy Game: War of the Triple Alliance: Paraguay - 1865-1870
Video Game: Age of Empires: Triple Alliance Mod for Age of Empires III

5B Abraham Lincoln is Shot!

2012-09-12T06:10:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

Newspaper Article Reporting Lincoln's Assassination
Newspaper Article Reporting on Lincoln's final hours.
Newspaper Article Reporting on the Death and Funeral of Lincoln
Photo depicting the execution by hanging of those charged in the death of Lincoln
13th Amendment abolishing slavery.

Secondary Sources:

Interactive Website on Lincoln's Office

Video Enrichment: (82 minutes)

Edu-tainment Nonsense: (2 minutes) Disney's Hall of Presidents- Lincoln.

Blank Timeline

2012-09-11T18:57:00.001-07:00

I've put together a timeline document which can be used for tracking events during modern history times.

I recommend printing it on card stock, or heavy paper so you can print double page spreads of 100 years each, back to back like a booklet.

First, print pages 1, 2 and 3. Then feed page 2 back in to print page 4 on its back and feed page 3 back in to print page 5 on it's back. Finally print page 6.

(You can do this in 2 steps: Printing pages 1,2,3 and then replacing 2 and 3 in your page feeder and printing 4,5 and 6.)

For events that span decades, color in a bar representing the time and lable it directly on the colored bar. For events that are brief mark an asterisk or other symbol on the timeline and note the details in the lined section at the bottom. You can color code the bars and events by region. This chart has enough space to place 30 concurrent events.

SOTW 4: 5A - The American Civil War

2012-08-30T02:00:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

Civil War - Extensive Primary Sources on the American Civil War
Photographs of the Civil War
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Secondary Sources:

Video Enrichment:

History.com
The American Civil War Video Playlist - created by Hampton Middle School NOTE:some videos contain graphic depiction of war. Parental discretion advised.

On-Line Course - for older students or Civil War Enthusiasts who wish to learn more about this period in history and want to watch university lectures, there is a FREE lecture series from Yale University - The American Civil War this series contains 27 lectures, indexed here. The lectures and downloadable course materials are all free! (You can locate lecture "chapters" on the right side of the video window.)

Edu-tainment:

Horrible Histories - American Civil War - HD 1080p (3 mins)

Playmobil: Civil War 1862 (5 mins)

SOTW 4: 4B - The Taiping Rebellion

2012-08-05T23:30:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Notebook/Outline Page: Link

Primary Sources:

Excerpts from The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom, Taiping Economic Program -Primary Source Documents with Questions

Secondary Sources:

Liang Fa’s Quanshi liangyan and Its Impact on the Taiping Movement - This is a Doctoral Dissertation, it's an extensive document. Excellent for reviewing dissertation format and presentation. Read a few tidbits of this document, consult the table of contents and examine a few pages.

Video Enrichment:
A student project summarizing the causes of the Taiping Rebellion (5 mins)

SOTW 4: 4A -Italy's Resurrection

2012-08-05T04:55:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Outline/Narration/Notebook Page : Link

Primary Documents:

Podcast Lecture:

Revloutions of 1848 scroll down to lecture 9 - engaging podcast.

Interesting Tidbit:
Garibaldi's influence on Emancipation of American Slaves (5 min)

SOTW 4: 3B Wandering Through Africa

2012-08-04T23:30:00.000-07:00

Notebooking/Narration/Outline page: Link

Primary Sources:

David Livingstone: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
David Livingstone: A Popular account of Dr. Livingstone's expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries

Secondary Sources:

How I found Livingstone, Sir Henry M. Stanley, 1871

Video Enrichment:

Video depicting Stanley's motivation to search for Livingstone.

(3 mins)

SOTW 4: 3A - The Great Game

2012-08-04T04:50:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Outline/Narration/Notebook page: Link
Wikipedia page on Dost Mohammad: Link

Primary Sources:
I have found none so far, please let me know if you find any!
Closest time-related document I found was an account of a pilgrammage to Mecca in 1853 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Video Enrichment (for older/mature audiences)
A video which presents Afghanistan's war ridden history. The first half of this video references modern Afghanistan (and the war with the Americans.) It then begins referencing Alexander the Great's invasion of Afghanistan, Budism, Gengis Khan...

warning: depicts war

Part 2, continues with the Mongol invasion, Mogul Empire, Persian Empire, Russians, British both invasions.
Watch 7 minutes of this one to complete coverage of the material covered in the lesson book.

depicts war

SOTW 4: 2B - The Crimean War

2012-08-03T22:00:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Notebooking/Outline Form: Link
A Florence Nightingale Activity Book Grade 4 (Grammar Stage) Link

Primary Sources:

Photographs from the Crimean War

A Web of English History Extensive Primary Documents found here. (scroll down 1 page)

Secondary Sources

Many Extracts from Christopher Hibbert's The Destruction of Lord Raglan, (Longmans, 1961)

Extract from Cecil Woodham Smith's The Reason Why (New York , McGraw-Hill 1953), pp.242-59.

the Charge of the Light Brigade (25 October 1854)

Maps of the Crimea
More....much more~

A Crimean War Monument we've visited before: Link

Podcast:
Crimean War - University lecture from iTunes; David Wetzel.

Video Enrichment:
Accounts assembled from primary sources:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Edu-tainment Nonsense:

A Horrible History Video showing the horrible state of medicine during the Crimean War:

Another Horrible History about nursing during the Crimean War:

SOTW 4: Chapter 2A - Japan Re-Opens

2012-08-03T04:30:00.000-07:00

Narration/Notebooking/Outline Page: Link

Primary Sources:

A list of gifts Matthew Perry took with him to Japan
The Treaty of Kanagawa, March 31, 1854

Secondary Sources:

Video Enrichment:
A video presentation done by some high school students: This might give you an idea of one way to create a presentation on a topic of your own someday...

SOTW 4: Chapter 1B - The Sepoy Mutiny

2012-08-02T18:39:00.000-07:00

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline Sheet: Link
Brief article on Imperialism in India: Link

Primary Sources:

Queen Victoria's response to the Sepoy Mutiny - and some questions to consider
An Account of the Opening of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut, 1857 -( Firsthand account of the Sepoy Mutiny) Letters Written During the Siege of Delhi by H. H. Greathed, Esq., Late of the Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner and Political Agent of Delhi, edited by his widow. (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858)

India under the British, multiple documents

Secondary Sources:

The 1857 Indian Mutiny - also quotes primary sources
More complicated than gun cartridges - commentary by William Dalrymple

Video Enrichment:

A brief summary of the causes and events of the Sepoy Mutiny: (2 mins)

A scene depicting the discovery that cow and pig fat was being used for artillery manufacture (Subtitled, depiction of slaughtered animals, 5 minutes)

Additional Resources:
Webpage with a brief summary and photos: Link

SOTW 4: Chapter 1A Queen Victoria's England

2012-08-01T04:20:00.000-07:00

Printable page for narration/outline: Link
Coloring Page for Grammar Stage: Link

Primary Documents:

Victorian Publications - multiple Victorian publications including Arnold, Browning, Darwin, Tennyson and many more.

Secondary Documents:

Extensive Authoritative Website dealing with Victorian England: Victorian Web
Interactive Scrapbook - includes some primary documents:

Video Enrichment:

Video Documentary about Queen Victoria from the Kings and Queens Series:

3 parts, 10 minutes each
Part 1: Link
Part 2: Link
Part 3: Link

Edu-tainment Nonsense:
Queen Victoria: Horrible Histories Music Video (3 mins)

StoryOfTheWorldBlog

SOTW 4: 27B - Germany's invasions

SOTW 4: 27A - Spanish Civil War

SOTW 4: 26B - Hitler's Rise to Power

SOTW 4: 26A - Black Tuesday

6A - The Triple Alliance

5B Abraham Lincoln is Shot!

Blank Timeline

SOTW 4: 5A - The American Civil War

Horrible Histories - American Civil War - HD 1080p (3 mins)

Playmobil: Civil War 1862 (5 mins)

SOTW 4: 4B - The Taiping Rebellion

SOTW 4: 4A -Italy's Resurrection

SOTW 4: 3B Wandering Through Africa

SOTW 4: 3A - The Great Game

SOTW 4: 2B - The Crimean War

Secondary Sources

SOTW 4: Chapter 2A - Japan Re-Opens

SOTW 4: Chapter 1B - The Sepoy Mutiny

SOTW 4: Chapter 1A Queen Victoria's England