16th June (tuesday)

Hello everybody I'm Amalia!

Today in Social Sciences lesson we have learnt about how did Nazis reach power but first Paqui has given the make up exam to the people who has failed.

We knew from last day that Hitler founded a party calles NSDAP

NSDAP logo

Source:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NSDAP-Logo.svg

This party has two paramilitary groups:

SA: ,Assault Sections, also known as Brownshirts

SS:  Security Sections, personal Hitler´s guard directed by Himmler. During WW2  run the concentration and extermination camps

SA and SS uniforms

Source:www.elholocausto.net

We have also spoken about the BEER HALL PUTSCH In November 1923 the Nazis tried to seize power with a coup d´État (putsch) inMunich. The Nazis surrounded the Bürgerbraukeller, a beer hall where Bavariapolitical authorities were celebrating a meeting. The putsch failed because thearmy didn´t join the Nazis. 14 Nazis died and their main leaders were arrested.

Hitler was also arrested and condemned to 5 years of jail but he didn't complete his stay.

They dind't won the elections of 1933 but the conservative forces convince Hidemburg to appoint Hitler Prime minister.

The Nazis committed arson against theReichstag (Parliament) and accused thecommunists. The government issued an emergency decree restricting liberties.Many opposition leaders were arrestedand sent to detention camps.

When Hitler won the March elections (He convinced Hiddemburg to make new elections)he demanded full powers in the Reichstag.The Gestapo (Secret Police) was created and in July the NSDAP became the only legal party.They burned books of forbidden autors and persecution against the Jews started immediately . 

Adolf Hitler addressing the Reichstag on 23 March 1933

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power 

Then whe have also talked about concentration camps and also  exterminationa camps about their situation and that no one from other countries knew about them.

We have added some new vocabulary as;

Hall beer- cervecería

Marshal- Mariscal

arson- incendio intencionado

quarry- cantera

And this have been all for today, see you!

08 May 2015 (friday)

Hello everybody! It’s Amalia.

I’m going to tell you what I have done today in social sciences lesson.

At first some students have asked to Paqui if we could watch a video that they have made in French lesson and she accepted.

Then we have corrected some activities sent for today, they where about tsarist Russia and the  1905 revolution:

The main features of Tsarist Russia were  the following:

-At the beginning it was an autocracy

-Tsar Nicholas II concentrated a lot of power

-Political parties were forbidden and peasants were most of the population

-only in some cities were some industries and workers

-Some parties appeared: constitutional democrat party (liberal ideology)Russian social democratic party (Marxist party divided into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks)socialist revolutionary party(defended the rights of peasants)

The first revolution was in 1905 after Russia’s defeat in the Russian-Japanese war and there were strikes and protests

There was a demonstration of workers asking for better conditions which was brutally repressed by the army. The revolt extended to other parts of the country and soviets appeared (council of workers, peasants and soldiers that appeared to organize the revolts they wanted the end of the war and autocracy)

The Tsar promised to make some reforms but he didn’t keep the promises

WW1 was one of the causes of a new revolution in 1917: the constant defeats of the Russian army .This mean a mobilization of peasants because they wanted low prices, more lands and also more food.

We have to make the scheme about 1917 revolution at home and we have to include the causes, the stages that were: February, April, July and August,  and October .And also the consequences of that revolution

Then we have copied a small scheme about the RSDLP and its division into Mensheviks (moderate Marxists, social democrats, they wanted to participate in the elections and institutions. They were the majority until October 1917) and into Bolsheviks(radical Marxists , revolutionary, they wanted to take the state and to impose the dictatorship of the proletariat. They were minority until October 1917)

At the end of the lesson Paqui has told us that if we wanted to see an exposition about mauthausen,she will be there .I  have seen the exposition and I like it.

1905 revolution

source: google

26th march 2015 (thursday)

Hello everybody!!!

Yesterday was my turn to do the journal but I didn't know so I'm doing it today.

We were very few in class so Paqui didn't explain any new point. We have continued watching the projects the first was Debora and Camila's project about Isabel II's reign  : They used a whiteboard to explain all the content and they draw a lot. The next project was a comic made by Inés,Cristina and Lucía about the reign of ferdinand VII and the regencies but they couldn't explain it  because of some technical problems.
Later paqui explained us aproject that we have to do for the next term: We have to make a kind of travel's journal abot the art styles of the 18th and 19th centuries. It has to be done in a notebook or in sheets of paper but using our imagination to make it as well as possible.We have to do something like this:

Source:

http://es.paperblog.com/diario-de-viajes-travel-journal-681061/

Later we have seen many ideas for the projects. 

I like this kind of proyects because you can do whatever you want you are not oblied to make it in a concret way and you learn better than if you have to study for an exam

This is what we have done in social sciences lesson 

Goodbye and Happy Easter!!

                                                 Source: http://forums.psychcentral.com/

20th of February (friday)

Hello everybody:
 Today in social sciences lesson we have learnt about the Labour Movement:
This refers to all the actions the workers prepared to improve their working and living condition, which had got worse with the Industrial revolution

 • The first workers protests were not well organized. Workers destroyed the machines because they considered them to be responsible for their bad working conditions. This process was called Luddism. They sent letters to the owners of the factories to threaten them and an imaginary figure signed the letter: Ned Ludd The workers who were discovered destroying the machines were sentenced to death

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Ludism
source:churchandempire.blogspot.com






                                    Capitain Ned Ludd
                                                                                  source:www.guardian.co.uk

• Workers became aware of their situation and the need for organizing themselves and they created the Mutual Benefit Societies to improve their working conditions.


 •  They were associations who helped workers in case of illness or unemployment, but only those who were well paid could afford themit.

Mutual Benefit society

source:www.kilduffs.com

 •  The next step was creating trade unions: associations of workers to defend their rights and improve their working conditions. They were illegal in the UK until 1824. There was also an attempt of creating a union of unions.

• The Chartist movement it was a political movement that demanded political rights for the workers. They presented a charter to the Parliament with their demands but they didn’t get what they wanted Then we have spoken about the utopian socialism and about the political ideologies and we have to make a scheme with this information.

Chartist demostration

Source:ww.phoenixmasonry.org

We have also copied some vocabulary:
-Ballot box. urna de votación
-to unionize: apuntarse a un sindicato
-mutual benefit society: sociedad de socorros mutuos
-charter: carta de peticiones

At the end of the Lesson Paqui has told us that we have two more days for the project and even if she has told us that we  are so lazy, we are happy.

That was all, see you next week!

16th January 2015 (Friday)

Hello everybody!!

As Gustavo was taking the make up exam today is my turn to write the Journal.
At the beginning of the lesson some people have started taking the make up exam, and the rest of the group has corrected a scheme for today :

It was about the Napoleonic Era: Napoleon Bonaparte reached power when he gave a coup d'Etat the new government was called consulate and it was divided into two stages the Triumuirate and the Consulate in which Napoleon was first and only consul for life. After that the main facts where the administrative reform or the concordat with the Pope
His empire: the French empire expanded and it had many allie countries as Spain, part of Italy, Denmark... The enemy countries were Great Britain, Portugal, and Russia. He proposed a continental blockade that means that buying or selling products to Great Britain was forbbiden and the countries wich didn't obey were punished whith the invasion: The invasion of Portugal was stopped by the peninsular war in Spain and it was his 1st defeat and later the invasion of Russia was also adisaster because the russians used techniques as the scorched-earth tactic in wiche they burnt cities and in that way the french didn't have resources and then they were atacked it was also extreme cold.
The  Empire ended with the battle of Waterloo where he was defeated and confined in the island of Saint Helena.

Then Paqui has given us to do at home a scheme about the congress of Vienna and Restoration at home.
After that we have spoken about the trouble in France and about the Islamic state

At the end of the lesson we have seen a very funny video about th French Revolution .
Today we have learnt many words and they boys have laughed a lot with them:
To suck up to: hacer la pelota
Butt-kisser (you can imagine)
cattle: ganado

Napoleon Bonaparte 

Source:http://www.theguardian.com/

                                         

2nd December (Tuesday).

Hi, It's me again!
 I'm going to tell you what I have done today in social sciences lesson. At  first we have corrected the homework: A scheme about the War of Spanish Succession, the main causes of that were that as Charles II died without direct descendants in his testament and he appointed Philip of Anjou as king but other European countries didn't like this idea because of the French Absolutism and they proposed another candidate to the throne: Archduke Charles of Austria. In the peninsula Castile supported Philip and Aragón supported the archduke Charles
The development of the war was the following:

• There were equal forces for both sides 
• In 1705 The British invaded Gibraltar and Minorca
• In 1707 the French Castilian Army defeated those who opposed the archduke Charles in Almansa
• In 1713 The archduke Charles became emperor and fearing Austria´s reinforcement, the European powers looked for an agreement to end the war and they signed the treaty of Utrecht.
• The war continued in Catalonia until 1714, when Barcelona was bombed by Philip v´s order. finally they surrendered 
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Battle of Almansa 

Source:http://www.reprodart.com/kunst/ricardo_balaca/battle_almansa_troops_philip_hi.jpg

Later we have spoken about the king Philip V, who abdicated in his son Louis I, but later he had to come back again to the government because his son died.
We have spoken also about other kings as Ferdinand VI, who became crazy after the death of his wife and who tried to impose a unique tax depending on the properties that the people had. In Valencia that was called equivalente, in Catalonia Cadastre and in Aragón única contribuciónIn order to try to impose this tax in Castile, the Marquis of Ensenada ordered a big survey. The Ensenada cadastre was a survey that contains a lot of information about the properties in Castile.
Finally Paqui has read us some quotes from a book called ''Las anécdotas de los Borbones''about Philip V and Ferdinand VI. And she has explained us that when Charles III came from Italy to reign, he changed the wearing customs of that ages , and in a museum there is a portrait of Philip V upside down because the people of that place didn't like him , because he ordered to burn the city during the War of Spanish Succession

We have copied some vocabulary :

Report card: Boletín de notas 

Upside down : boca abajo 

Brim: ala del sombrero

Cloack: capa

                                                      Philip V's painting in the Xativa museum

                                                       Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulets_

Tuesday 28th october 2014

  Hello everybody!!

 Today, at the begining of the lesson Paqui has given to the people who has repeated their projects, she has given their marks, only a group has failed and this group is going to have a part of Renaissance art in their exams.

 After that, we have reviewed the part of demography, economy and society in which we have learned that population decreased due to bad harvests, wars, migration to the Indies and the expulsion of the Moorish. Due to this, an economic recesion started, but also for negative political decisions, inefficient farming tecniques and competition for cheaper and better quality products. About society we have learned that as nobility was the main social model, people started to think that manual  work  was considered shameful and dishonest.

 The conclussion about that, is that people wanted to live without working and Paqui has told us that this continues to happens nowadays and she give us the example of Belén Esteban.

Source: http://www.eldebat.cat/

After this she has asked us to  raise our hands if : If we were rich , would we  continue working? Only five of us have raised their hands.

  She has told us also that when a new king arrived to the peninsula from Napples, Charles III, he had to issue a law  saying that manual work is not dishonest, but even whith this law, people continued to think that it was.

  Later we have started with the point c, about culture and art in the 17th century .We have copied as a chronologic scheme about the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, it is about the secularization process (the progressive liberation of knowledge from religion):

 In the Middle Ages religion stopped the progress of science and thinking ,then on the 15th and 16th centuries, during the Humanism, human beings became center of interest and scholars tried to separate thinking from religion and the Protestant Reformation started. After that ,in the 17th century the Scientific Revolution started and about this we have to define two concepts: Empiricism and rationalism .

We have also learned that the 17th century was the golden age for literature

We have also decided the date for the exam that will be next friday .
We have added some new words in the glossary :
Survey- encuesta
The swidler- El buscón
Rogue- pícaro
Schdar- sabio, erudito 

And that was all we have done today .

source:http://www.classicspanishbooks.com/img/gallery/cervantes.jpg

(Miguel de Cervantes belongs to the golden age)

BYE!!

                                  I found this video about the 17th century in europe

25th September 2014 (Thursday)

Hello everybody!! I’m Amalia.

Today in Social sciences’ lesson we have continued doing our group projects: In my group we have selected the information and also the picture that we are going to use, we are going to start writing tomorrow.

Later Paqui has showed us in the whiteboard the famous Michelangelo’s  Sistine Chapel pictures , and she has also explained us curious things about them:

-The ceiling of the basilica : We know that Michelangelo spent three years painting this ceiling. The ceiling is about the Old Testament . There we can see other ‘’smaller’’ famous paintings as the creation of Adam. He painted that alone.

                                                 Sistine Chapel Ceiling by Michelangelo

Source: http://allmyfriendstravel.com/vatican-city-italy/sistine-chapel-ceiling-michelangelo/

-The last judgement : This great painting is found behind the altar. It’s about the New Testament and there are three parts: In  the center we can find Christ , on the left there is the heaven, and on the right the hell. In the hell we can see a man who has donkey ears and a snake is bitting him , this man criticised Michelangelo's work and he took revenge. Many years later the Vatican hired a japonesse company to clean the drawing because it became too dark.

                                                   The last judgement by Michelangelo 

Source: http://www.italian-renaissance-art.com/Last-Judgement.html

Michelangelo was protect by the pope ,who commissioned  the works of  art, as he was protected he could do whatewer he wants,  thats why he draw naked people and the pope had to hire another painter to hide the genitals .This painter was called Il Braguettone which means ''taparrabos'' in spanish.
We have also seen a virtual tour around the chapel.

After that, she has left us to work again in our proyects and later she has shown us  a really funny video about Rennaissance man.

                             
                               Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRX_mqpzdU
At the end of the lesson Paqui has told us to bring some famous quotes and she also  has read us some of them.
BYEE!!