EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY –

My blog website, http://jstrebler.blogspot.com/ has a number of lengthy essays on controversial issues.  If you find one that interests you, write a critique of the essay.  To earn extra credit, you must respond to the specific points and evidence in the essay. You may, of course, also mention other points that are relevant, but DON'T just ramble on with your opinion on the topic without responding to what the essay says.  DON'T just say the essay was great, or it sucked, or whatever without giving specific reasons why you say that.  And DON'T use informal, texting-style writing without proper punctuation, capital letters where appropriate, etc.   If you do those things (ramble, don't respond to specific points in the essay, improper writing style), you will get zero extra credit. 

Submit a hard-copy of your critique to the instructor, AND post a short summary of your comments on the website.  You must do both to earn extra credit.  The amount of extra credit you earn depends on the difficulty of the essay you critique, and the quality and length of your critique.  Typical critiques earn 10-15 points extra credit, but some earn more and some less.  There is no limit on the number of essays you can critique for extra credit, so put on your thinking cap and boost your grade! 

PRE-IB WORLD HISTORY

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 (A day)

HW – Study for exam

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 (B day)

HW – Study for exam

Unit III: Industrial Revolution

                                 KEY CONCEPTS

1. What were the sources of increased worker productivity?
   

2. What were the consequences of the development of the factory system?
   

3. Why was Great Britain the greatest source and beneficiary of the Industrial Revolution?
   

4. How did the evolution of Britain’s textile industry affect the American South?
   

5. How did children benefit from the factory system?  Suffer from it? How about women?
   

6. What factors explained the U.S. overtaking Britain in leading the Industrial Revolution?
   

7. Whose inventions proved the most influential in the long run, those of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, or Thomas Edison?
   

8. Was the discovery and application of electricity more or less revolutionary than that of computers some 100 years later?
   

9. Were people better off in 19^th century cities than they had been in the country?
   

10. How does this relate to low-paid workers in 3^rd world countries today?
    

11.  “Darwin’s theories were the most influential & controversial of the last 150 years.”  Do you agree or not?  Why?
    

12. What was the source of Marx and Engels’ disillusion with 19^th century society?

 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 (A day)

Today – News,Unit III Exam, Introduce Unit IV

HW – Read Pp.680-693 and define terms; work on research paper sources

IB ECONOMICS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

HW – Work on GCW #1

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Today – News, Ch. 3.5 KCs, Standard Deviants video

HW – Finish and turn in GCW #1

TOK

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