Thursday, 26th of March 2015

Hello classmates!!!

Today, in our lesson of Social Sciences, we've done many things:

-Firstly, Paqui has shown us the Art Project of the 18th and 19th Centuries that Dani Carmona, a partner from 1st of Bachillerato, made last year. On the project, he talked about Imperialism and Historicism. Also, Paqui has explained us how he made it: he made the project with a croma, a green background and then he put images of the paintings behind him. She has told us that doing it isn't difficult. I wanted to include the video but I can't find his channel on YouTube :(

-After this, Paqui has shown us different examples of Travel Journals, which is what we have to do for our projects of Art of the 18th & 19th Centuries. I think it's original and an interesting way of developing our creativity. There are some very original projects, and more or less I have an idea of how mine is going to be.

-Later we have talked about Goya: Paqui has explained us, with a presentation that he was a painter
between two periods: he was between Classicism and Modernity. He was born in Fuendetodos, Zaragoza in 1746. He moved to Madrid in 1775 and started working for the Royal Tapestry Factory. His style was luminous and colorist. In this same year, he became court painter. In 1792 he suffered a serious illness and became deaf. The deafness completely changed his personality: his painting turned more critical. He painted a series of Etchings that included Fantasies and Bullfighting. When Ferdinand VII came back, his ideas about Joseph I put him in trouble. He lost his job and became isolated. He painted the Black Paintings on the walls of his house. In 1823 he exiled to France and died there in 1828.

Here are some famous paintings by Goya:

THE NAKED MAJA



Source: https://filodivague.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/la-maja-desnuda-goya/

SATURN DEVOURING HIS SON


Source: http://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/saturn-devouring-his-son-1823-1

Here you have the link for the Goya's presentation:

I hope you liked my journal and I wish everyone to have a wonderful holidays.
See you in two weeks!

Tuesday 10th of march of 2015

Hello everybody!
Today was the last lesson before the exam. We haven't had any doubt, so we have continued with the new unit: Europe in the second half on the 19th century. Today we have started with the causes of colonialism. There were three causes: economic reasons, Political reasons and democraphic reasons.
We have studied they and we have copied the definitions on our notebook from the presentation that Paqui have put on the digitalboard. This presentation help us to learn more. After we have understood this, we have started with the justification of imperialism. White people justified their ambitions saying that they had the responsability if civilizing the leasts developed territories of the colonies. This was called the civilizing 'mision' or the 'white man's heaven burden'. But this wasn't true, in reality it was racism.This ideas were based on social Darwinism. For homework we have to search information about Darwinism. On the last part of the lesson, we have studied the attitudes toward colonialism. There were three attitudes:
-Most of the people were indiferent, with any opinion.
-Politicians: the most were colonialists and the others anti-colonialism
-trade unions and socialists,

Representations of countries on the white man's heaven burden

Also in class we have copied some words on the glossary:
-Summit: Cumbre
-The white man's heavy burden: ka pesada carga del hombre blanco
-Uncle Sam: Tío Sam
-To stand: Soportar
-The survival of the best fitted: La supervivencia de los mas aptos