Lecture Slides from the Start of Unit

I finally managed to get the file uploaded without stalling out. These slides were from the first lecture before we studied Forms of Government.

Political Science Spectrum Project – The Requirements

POLITICAL SPECTRUM RESEARCH PROJECT

OBJECTIVE I.  To research one point on the political spectrum.

OBJECTIVE II.  To improve and increase your research skills.

OBJECTIVE III.  To make a product or presentation that accurately and comprehensively explains your point on the political spectrum while meeting all the criteria for an excellent grade.

TOPICS:

Each group will research one point on the political spectrum, chosen by drawing

Each group member will choose 2-3 subtopics from a list to do their individual research

RESEARCH REQUIREMENTS:

Research and the creation of products or presentations are two separate phases of the project and are graded separately. The research grades are individual assignments.

Topics:  Each group member will research 2-3 Spectrum Point subtopics

Sources:  Eight (8) sources per group member, minimum. Four (4) must be non-reference sources

Bibliography:  Each group member must turn in a Bibliography of their sources ( use NoodleBib)

Source          Pages/URL       Copyright Date                        Heading for Card  3 – 5 significant pieces of information in bullet point format, or A single quoted paragraph

Note Cards: Each group member must complete forty (40) correctly completed note cards

                                                                                         

                                                                        Do not write on both sides of the card

                                                                        Note cards should be legible

                                                                        Note Cards need to follow the example  format

                                                                        Points are given only for 100 % completion

 

DUE DATES and POINT VALUES:

Subtopic choices   11/13         10 points

Note Cards             11/23         40 points

Bibliography           11/23         25 points

Product/Present.    TBA            25 points

 

Modern News for the Father of History

This post is just for fun and to show how history can touch the present day.

Herodotus, the “Father of History” has received some new props in terms of his reliability from archaeologists digging in Egypt.

Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.

Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.

….”We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus,” Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News.

According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt.After walking for seven days in the desert, the army got to an “oasis,” which historians believe was El-Kharga. After they left, they were never seen again.

“A wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them wholly to disappear,” wrote Herodotus.

A century after Herodotus wrote his account, Alexander the Great made his own pilgrimage to the oracle of Amun, and in 332 B.C. he won the oracle’s confirmation that he was the divine son of Zeus, the Greek god equated with Amun.The tale of Cambyses’ lost army, however, faded into antiquity. As no trace of the hapless warriors was ever found, scholars began to dismiss the story as a fanciful tale.

Herodotus was long disparaged by historians as an entertaining and unreliable mythologizer, who instead upheld his younger and envious rival Thucydides as the model of ancient historical purity and accuracy. The empirical basis for this position is eroding fast and while Thucydides has his own greatness that can never be denied, the shadow he long cast over Herodotus has waned.

Confucius and Machiavelli

Questions are due on Friday

Political Spectrum Part II. Lecture Slides

QUIZ

On Forms of Government on Monday

ANARCHY

MONARCHY

TYRANNY

ARISTOCRACY

OLIGARCHY

DEMOCRACY

REPUBLIC

History, Forms of Governmet and Politics

Yesterday’s lecture focused on the contributions of the ancient Greeks and Romans and then the French Revolution to our understanding of government and the political spectrum.

Running Tab for Social Studies Assignments

Last Friday: Top 10 Terrible Tyrants List

Monday 10/19:  Tyranny Past & Present Questions

Wednesday 10/21 One Late Night Play Questions

Will be updated as the week proceeds.

New Unit Vocabulary

We are starting a new unit on Forms of Government & the Political Spectrum. This unit draws from political science, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, philosophy and world history.

Unit Vocabulary:

State of Nature    Social-Contract    Society    Sovereign   Government    Law

Rule-set    Law-Giver   Populary Sovereignty   Right of Revolution  

Hunter-Gatherer     Tribe     Chiefdom    Kingdom    Agricultural Revolution

Anarchy     Tyranny    Monarchy   Aristocracy   Oligarchy   Democracy 

Demagogue    Direct Democracy   Representative Democracy    Republic

Subject    Citizen    Hierarchy   Market    Network   “Mixed Government”

Cycle of Constitutions    Authoritarian    Totalitarian    Libertarian   

Dictatorship

Philosophers:

Plato     Aristotle     Polybius    Cicero      Ibn Khaldun    Machiavelli    

Montesquieu     Hobbes    Locke     James Madison   

8th Grade Worldview Project

Students are working on a worldview project this week in Social Studies that will culminate in a poster or 3-D object that illustrates and explains the 8th grade LJHS worldview.

The project is due Monday, October 5th and is worth 100 points.