APWH – Final Project – Book Report           

You will read a historical novel and write an analytical book report.

Report format:

-       The report should be written in question and answer format.

-       2-4 typed pages in length. (font size 12 pt)

-       Double-spaced

-       Have a cover page – use your selection title as your paper title

Title choices:

-       Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

-       Tale of Genji – Shikibu Murasaki

-       Girl with the Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier

-       Kim – Rudyard Kipling

-       The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan

-       Nectar in a Sieve – Kamala Markandaya

-       Still Life with Rice – Helie Lee

-       Palace Walk – Naghib Mahfouz

-       Cry the Beloved Country – Alan Paton

-       One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

-       The Adventures of Ibn Battuta – Ross Dunn

-       Germinal – Emile Zola

-       The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Emmuska Orczy

-       The Death of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuentes

-       The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

-       My Name is Red – Orhan Pahmuk

-       Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See

Questions: You must type the question or prompt before you answer the question.

            Background of author

1.     Give a brief biographical sketch of the author

2.     Why did the author write the book? (Motivation?)

3.     Is there a definite point of view or bias expressed in the book?

Setting

4.     Describe the historical and geographical setting.

5.     Discuss important world history events that surround or influence this story.

Summarize

6.     What is the story in brief?

Application

7.     What do you think can be learned in terms of world history and culture from reading this book?

Evaluation

8.     What part of the book, or quotation from the book, will be indelibly etched in your mind and heart?

9.     What historical or human connections did the book help to make for you with other places and peoples, and other times?

10.  What makes this story a “classic”? What makes this story part of all of our histories and of your life today?

Each of the above questions should be discussed in at least a paragraph. Try not to be vague. Use specific parts of the book to explain your points and give a complete, specific and detailed picture of the historical context. Give definite dates, places, dynasties or epochs, events in the dynasty that relate to the material in the book.

APWH – CH33 Study guide           

1. Characteristics of First, Second and Third World countries – examples
2. Arevalo and Guatemalan reforms
3. United Fruit Company
4. Guatemalan Revolution of 1954
5. United States and Cuban imports – 1950
6. Batista reform promises
7. Fidel Castro – Cuban revolution, barbudos
8. Ché Guevara
9. Results of Cuban revolution
10. Cuban economic dependency
11. Castro reforms
12. Communist countries
13. Liberation theology
14. Military coups of 1960’s, 1970’s
15. The Dirty War
16. Similarities of military regimes
17. Manuel Noriega
18. Problems of Latin American govts
19. Augusto Sandino
20. Banana Republics
21. Good Neighbor Policy
22. Jimmy Carter and Latin America
23. Status of women in Latin America
24. Latin American population after 1950
25. LA religion
26. LA literary figures of late 20^th c

APWH – Ch34 study guide

1. Reasons for ethnic rivalries and communal violence in Africa
2. Results of Pakistan fragmentation
3. Results of Biafran struggle
4. Attitudes of African leadership with regards to colonial boundaries
5. Post-colonial barriers to econ growth in Africa
6. Factors of high birth rate in Third World
7. By-products of population growth in 3^rd World
8. 3^rd World finance of industrialization
9. Neocolonialism
10. Nkrumah’s political and economic policies
11. Military regimes in 3^rd World – worst example
12. Muslim Brotherhood practices
13. Gamal Abdul Nasser
14. Cornerstone of Eyptian development – post 1952
15. Reforms of Egyptian govt after 1952
16. Legacies of Anwar Sadat
17. Indian social and political successes as 3^rd world country
18. Ayatollah Khomeini
19. Reasons for postponed development in Iran
20. African “homelands”
21. Nelson Mandela

 World History – CH31 Sec.4&5 q.1-2 due Friday

APWH – CH34 Discussion Questions

1. Why did new African and Asian states have such difficulty in establishing national identities?
2. What accounts for high population growth rates in new Asian and African nations?
3. How are cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America different from those of the West?
4. Define “neo-colonialism.”
5. In what ways did Nasser’s military government differ from other military regimes?
6. Discuss the differences and similarities in post-independence policies in India and Egypt.
7. What influences contributed to Islamic fundamentalists gaining power in Iran?
8. Discuss whether the problems in newly independent Asian and African nations were the creation of imperialism or the result of indigenous factors.
9. Compare and contrast the political, social, and economic development of Asian and African countries after independence with the countries of Latin America.

 World History – Sec.4 & 5 questions 1&2 will be due Friday.

APWH – Ch32 Study guide   – Answer on separate sheet of paper

1. British, French v. Egypt – 1956
2. Algerian independence – when, from whom
3. French colonization of Vietnam
4. Iron curtain
5. Cold War center immediately after WWII
6. Eastern Bloc
7. Marshall Plan
8. U.S. military spending after WWII
9. Christian Democrats
10. Germany after WWII
11. Welfare State – programs, role of govt
12. Technocrat
13. The Green Movement
14. Margaret Thatcher
15. European Economic Community – members
16. Post 1950 European economy – characterisitics
17. Late 20^th c European peasantry
18. Achieved women’s rights
19. Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan
20. Eastern European nation – western ideals
21. Eastern European nations under Soviet control, not under Soviet control
22. Solidarity
23. Orthodox religion in Stalinist Russia
24. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
25. Characteristics of Soviet economy
26. Women in Russian society
27. Soviet govt after Stalin’s death
28. Nikita Khrushchev – who, contributions
29. Mikhail Gorbachev

 World History – Ch28 quiz tomorrow. 

 

French II – Lesson 19 vocab list is due tomorrow. 

1. Govt. responses to depression – 1929
2. Great Depression – trigger
3. 1935 – Italian invasion
4. New Deal
5. Causes of fascism – Germany
6. Anschluss
7. Sudetenland
8. Hitler – govt. economic planning
9. Totalitarianism
10. The Falange
11. Downfall of 1^st Peron govt
12. Import substitution industrialization
13. Corporatism
14. Juan Peron
15. Liberal govts – Latin America vs European
16. Kulaks
17. Stalin and collectivization and five year plans
18. Japan and economic depression
19. Tojo Hideki
20. Politburo
21. Socialist realism
22. Kemal Ataturk
23. Persia – 1935

 Ch. 31

1. WWII – beginning                                                
2. Axis Powers                                                            
3. National Socialist Party                                    
4. Hitler’s rise to power                                              
5. Benito Mussolini                                                           
6. Spanish Civil War                                                
7. Tripartite Pact                                                           
8. Nonaggression pact
9. Nazis and Poland
10. Blitzkrieg
11. Henri Pétain, Vichy, collaborators
12. Final Solution
13. Normandy invasion
14. Battle of the Bulge
15. McArthur, Patton, Le May, Eisenhower
16. Germany and the Soviet Union
17. Peace treaty results at WWII end
18. UN charter members
19. Zionists post-WWII
20. Apartheid
21. Algerian Independence movement
22. End of African colonization
23. Muslim/Hindu split in India
24. Atlantic Charter, Truman Doctrine
25. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia