Tuesday, 9th of June 2015

Hello!
Today in Social Sciences we've continued with Nazi Germany. Paqui has started talking about the NSDAP which was the National Socialist German Workers Party founded by Hitler in 1920. Its ideology was very similar to Italian Fascism and there were three specific ideas:
-Anti-Semitism: they hated jews and they were considered to be the responsibles for all the bad things.
-Superiority of the "Arian" race and a need for vital space
-Demand of the abrogation of Versailles treaty.

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Then we have seen the Nazi Paramilitary Groups:

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SA: STURMABTEILUNG

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SS: SCHUTZSTAFFEL

Paqui has told us about the Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923, when the Nazis tried to reach power in Munich.

And finally, we've seen "Mein Kampf" book, which means "My struggle" or "My battle" in German. It was the book which includes all the ideas Hitler had. Hitler and the people with him were condemned to jail because their failed Coup D'État killed a 14 people. With a very short sentence of 5 years, and after 8 months they were out again. 

New vocabulary:

Scapegoat: chivo expiatorio 

Gypsy: gitano

Arian: ario

Brownshirt: camisas pardas

Beer Hall Putsch: Putsch de dervecería

Mein Kampf: mi lucha

Van: furgoneta

source: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRASRETV5IKBVUPi32rn48zyV0vKoD1TsBKiLwVPfItZGjeRf0xwnStioG3Oi2cjVcm9LHA8WNmrpSwiLNuG6MfVYyfCFg253tZugbL_YoOolt0uo1NHJzQoO9FiPMU5HEfICvivspsIEM/s320/munich.jpg

And that's all for today's class! See you on the exam! Study hard and good luck :)

Thursday, 23th April 2015

Hello!
Today we've had a talk about the World War 1.
We have first gone to the assembly hall and given her our projects. I've liked this project even if it's a little bit long, I've enjoyed a lot doing it and I've learnt a lot. But then we've moved to the Social Sciences classroom. María and me have gone to look for Manuel but we haven't found him. Secondly, when we were in the Social Sciences Room, the talk has started. Paqui has spoken us about the World War 1, as I've said before,  not about the history or the battles but about novels and comics that reflex information that we didn't know about the World War 1. She has given us different letters from soldiers of the WW1 and we have commented on them . Mine talks about a British soldier who writes to his girlfriend or wife and he tells how bad the life is there. I think that with this letters, we can almost feel what they felt, it's very emotional.

Source: http://www.sinembargo.mx/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/private-harry-lewis-lincoln-26-1st-bedfordshire-regiment.jpg

Paqui has recommended us some novels, the main one was "The Fear", which I would like to read if I find the book somewhere.

Source: https://jackmoreno.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/el-miedo.jpg?w=625

And she has also shown us two comics about this War but I haven't had time enough to see them. I'd like to read also "¡Puta Guerra!". 

She has told us some facts such as starting the WW1, people went there happy. I knew this because yesterday I've started watching a film Paqui has recommended us to see: Feliz Navidad. I haven't finished it yet because it was late and I fell asleep, but I'm going to finish it today. I've seen the children in schools learning to hate the others, how happythey were about the WW1 because they were bored, how the brother dies just at arriving at the war, how they become friends for just Christmas Night, I've learnt that the Scottish supported the British and the French and the Germans, the artist boy singing and declaring peace or something like this, the blonde girl singing... I'll continue watching the film soon.

I think WW1 is a very interesting event in history. In my opinion, it was amazing. 

Finally, we've listened to a song sung in French that they composed in the WW1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iGEiY6wvDo

I've found this video which summarizes the WW1 in 6 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3UjJ5kxiLI

I let you an interactive game to improve your knowledge about the WW1. It's simple and interesting, you have to choose one period and place it in its chronological place: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/worldwarwhen.shtml

If you fail it gives you three clues. When you complete it, you receive a certificate. I've got a DONKEY, what about you?

Tuesday, 20th January 2015

Hi there!

Today in Social Sciences we've argued about the date of the exam of this unit and finally, Paqui has won the battle. We have it on the 5th of January.
Then we've started the lesson. We have started the new unit: The Intustrial Revovlution and labour movement. Paqui has told us that we had to complete the first point, definition of the industrial revolution and its stages, and the first part of the 2nd point (The demographic and agrarian revolution), so we have done this almost until the end of the lesson. I haven't finished it yet. The definition of Industrial Revolution is that it was a deep charge in the way of producing products due to the increase of the population, and it led to important charges in economy and society. It had two stages: the first and the second industrial revolutions.

Then, we have seen some videos about how to do the project. I like the idea of this project, it seems interesting.

It was an interesting lesson today, but we haven't copied almost any word in our glossaries.
Labour movement: Movimiento obrero
Utopian: utópico.

(source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Philipp_Jakob_Loutherbourg_d._J._002.jpg )

Thursday, 20th November

Hello everybody! I hope your projects about the Baroque Art are nice ;)

Today, when we passed to the class, Paqui was checking the projects that some of us have uploaded the night before.

First of all, she has told us that Mary Wollstonecraft was the woman who made the vindication of the rights of the women (the 1st important document in feminism. Then, we have checked the scheme about the Enlightenment and we've talked a little bit about it. After that, Aza has read the point three and we've started (and finished) a new summary about it, the Enlightened despotism. I've added to my summary that:

• Some European monarchs received the influence of Enlightenment.
• They made some reforms in education, administration and economy, but they didn't make political or social reforms beause this would have meant reducing their power so they continuedto rule as absolute monarchs (despots) and privileged were preserved.
• The reforms that they made ere insufficient.
• Its slogan was "Everything for the peopole, but without the people".
• Some examples of Enlightened despots:
• Catherine II of Russia
• Frederic II of Prussia
• Charles III

Paqui has told us that the Rulers (government) were as people's parents because they told them what to do, if not, people wouldn't know what to do. At the end, Paqui has explained a little bit about the independence of the USA (no taxaion without representation).

And finally some new words to our glossary:
-Virtual: virtual
-Vindication: reivindicación
-Free trade: libertad industrial o librecambio
-Free industry: libertad industrial
-Pioneer: pionero
-Subject: súbito (the opposite of citizien)
-Civil servants: Funcionarios

source: http://www.history.org.uk/library/1211/0000/0027/Catherine_the_Great_295.jpg

source: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091227035317/althistory/es/images/b/bd/Retrato_de_carlos_iii.jpg

source: http://s1.hubimg.com/u/6858796_f248.jpg

Oh, and don't forget to do the homework! Exercises 13, 14 and 15 of the review of the page 11.

Bye!

The Forge of Vulcan

Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Vel%C3%A1zquez_-_La_Fragua_de_Vulcano_(Museo_del_Prado,_1630).jpg

This painting was created by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez in 1630 in Rome in his first trip to Italy with oil painting above a canvas. Its measure is of 223cmX290cm. You can find it now in the Prado Museum, in Madrid.

The God Apollo met Vulcan to tell him that Venus, his wife and Goddess of the Beauty was unfaithful and she was lying him with Mars (God of the war). This is the moment of the shouting, that’s why the other  men who are with Vulcan have that expression, it's as they were surprised, because actually they are. The fact of represent the infidelity is so characteristic of Spanish painters of the Golden Century. When he received the news he got jaleous and furious.

Now, I’m going to tell you a secret about this painting. On the right down corner, you can see like a rectangular shaped Stone. Well, it contains a supposed secret self-portrait which Velazquez made of himself. That’s because he went to Italy and tried to copy the style of Michelanchello. Velazquez prove that Michellangello felt more a sculptor tan a painter. In the Final Judgement, Michelangello made a self portrait in a piece of an animal skin so Velazquez copied him (you can see it better but now you know where it is). This is not the only self portrait he made. He made another one also in the Meninas

(Source: by me)

This painting was made in the Baroque because the technique used in this paiting is the use of foreshortened and realistic figures because people aren’t looking at the receptor so this creates realism, Velazquez used oil painting, warm colours in Apollo and in the clothes, there’s a lot of contrast and shadows (chiaroscuro). If you look at the photo, it contains a lot of figures:

And finally, this is a portrait of Velazquez.

(Sources: https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/galeria-on-line/obra/la-fragua-de-vulcano/

http://arte.laguia2000.com/pintura/la-fragua-de-vulcano-de-velazquez )

(Source: http://www.paintingportraittips.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/767px-Vel%C3%A1zquez_-_La_Fragua_de_Vulcano_Museo_del_Prado_1630.jpg )

Saint Longinus by Bernini

It is clearly a Baroque work art because it represents a fleeting moment (the conversion of Longinus to Christianity, as I’ve said before) that makes the people amazed and it has a lot of details: in his face, his expression, his clothes, the decoration… The columns of this sculpture are solomonic columns Bernini added to this sculpture four relics related to Saint Peter:

-A piece of cranium of Saint Andrew (his brother).

-A piece of the Vera Cross (found by Saint Elena).

-The veil of Saint Verónica.
-A piece of the Lance of Passion of Christ.
It had a great influence on his disciples Alessandro Algardi and François Duquesnoy, who opened an important school dedicated to his genres and registers.

Some curiosities:

The author of this sculpture was Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1628 and 1638 (Italy), an Italian sculptor, architect and painter. He was the most prestigious sculptor of the Baroque.

It is made up of marble, polychrome wood and bronze. It’s 300 cm high. It is nowadays in the Basilica of Saint Peter, in Rome. He made over twenty proves of Saint Longinus in mud. Bernini used to represent the most important part of the life of the people in his works, for example, in the Bible that explains Longinus was one of the Roman centurions who took Jesus Christ to the cross. When Jesus Christ was on the cross, he looked at him and said: “he was the real God’s son” so that is what the sculpture represents, his transformation to Christianity (and that’s why Bernini made him looking at a celestial light which passes through the dome). As we can see, Saint Longinus face represents the victory.

(Source: http://arte.laguia2000.com/escultura/san-longinos-de-bernini )

(Source of the photo: http://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/gian-lorenzo-bernini/st-longinus(1).jpg )

                                         

(Source: http://www.romeartlover.it/Andrea6.jpg )

Bernini liked to play with the mixture of materials to create shadows, movement and realism.

(Source: http://html.rincondelvago.com/escultura-de-gianlorenzo-bernini.html )

(Source of the self portrait http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini,_self-portrait,_c1623.jpg

(Source: http://www.lahornacina.com/semblanzasbernini.htm ) 

Thursday, 9th of October 2014

Hello everybody! How is it going? I'm going to write my first journal of the year.

Today in Social Sciences we've been talking about the economy and the price revolution. Paqui has told us that the arrival of precious metals (which came from the Indies) provoked a huge inflation because prices increased so much. That was because there was not enough production to satisfy the demand. Many products were imported from Europe and the wealth of the Indies wasn't used to develop a productive economy. We also know that the Indies were a Castilian Monopoly. The Aragonese economy couldn't take advantage of the Empire.

Then we've started another scheme about the conquest, organization and explotation of the Indies. Before starting it, we've read page 95 on our books and then Paqui has allowed us time to copy the information to our summaries while she was checking Pablo and Debora's journals. Most of us haven't got time to finish it in class so we're going to finish it at home. We have to add to our summary:
-The conquest of the Indies and its stages.
-The administration and its institutions.
-The colonization and explotation.
-The colonial society.

Paqui has given us the demographic impact of the colonization of the Indies, which means that the indigenous people of the Indies died because European people trasmitted them illnesses from the Indies.

We have also seen some Castilian conquistadors from the Modern Era like: Hernando Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Juan Ponce de León and Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (who has inexplicably made us laugh such a lot).

We've added some new words to our glossary:
-Fulfill: completar
-Gunpowder: pólvora
-Default: suspensión de pagos, quiebra
-Bankrupcty: bancarrota

And finally, Paqui has shown us some products which came from the Americas:

http://www.cocina.es/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/alimentos-venidos-de-america.jpeg