Monday, 9/5/2011

Today in social sciences, I have had a problem with Paqui because I didn't write on Friday and Paqui was kicked out me of class.

When I came back to the class, Javi has told me that Paqui has written on the blackboard the scheme of point 5 and Kelly has reviewed our schemes. The point 5 is about economy and society in the 15th century in Castile and Aragon.

Paqui has written in the blackboard the scheme of point 6 (religious policy) and point 7 (foreign policy) and Kelly has explained the points.

After, I came back to the class. Then, Paqui has showed us a video with contents about the Spanish Inquisition, here is the video:

 The majority of the class like the video, the song is very catchy!!

See you tomorrow, Juan Carlos

P.S. Study hard for the exam on Wednesday.




Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/historyteachers#g/u

20,000 visits!!

Source: http://www.roblox.com/20-000visits-item?id=52953223

Hello!!

TEACHER AND CLASSMATES, this post is a commemorative post, because we have reached 20,000 visits!!

Come on, this has to cheer us up to continue participating in this interactive blog, and to continue being interested about the things we study in Social Sciencies. I'd like that all of us participate more and on this way, we will learn a lot of things, and we will review what we have done in class.

I hope that the visits of this blog continue increasing because it would mean that, each time, more people is interested in this, and we encourage people from everywhere to take part in this. I'm sure you will learn a lot of interesting things which will be very useful for you!

CONGRATULATIONS FOR EVERYONE WHO MAKES THIS BLOG!

Bye, bye! See you!!

Remembering the Black Death

Last day we reminded different concepts we studied last year, such as the big crisis in the 14th century and the more serious consequences of the Black Death plague in the Crown of Aragon. We also remembered that the high mortality caused by the Black Death allowed the people who survived to improve their working conditions. If you like to refresh you minds about the Black Death, here you have an interesting video. It´s been made by a group of U.S.A history teachers who use music and very famous songs to explain different history topics. In this case, they used Gwen Stefani´s song Holloback girl to explain the Black Death. It´s a good idea for a future project ;)

Here you have the link to the History Teachers´ channel on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=historyteachers#g/u

If you have a look on the videos, you will discover many interesting things. All the videos are subtitled. 

Friday, 7th May 2011

On Friday, in the Social Sciences class we read the point 5 "Economy and society in the 15th Century in Castile and Aragon" and we copied from the blackboard who were the "pagesos de remensa", catalan peasants linked to land and submitted to a lot of unfair rules called malos usos. These peasants revolted against their lords and the "pagesos de remensa" revolt finished with the Sentence of Guadalupe (1486).

We also read the point 6 "Religious policy" and Paqui told us her idea about a new challenge: In this week's challenge there aren't questions, the challenge is to do a glog about the Inquisition and we have to have it for next Friday, it's a good idea to improve our glog skills but the problem I see is that this week we have a lot of homework and two exams... we'll see.

The Inquisition did this, but why? Discover it doing the challenge!

Remember that the homework Paqui gave us on Friday is to do a scheme of the point 5.

I have written the journal because Juan Carlos didn't write it.

Please check my mistakes.

Bye!!

PS: Study for the exams!

Challenge number 18

Auto-da- fé presided by Santo Domingo of Guzmán (c.1493-1498) Pedro Berruguete

Source: http://www.museodelprado.es/enciclopedia/enciclopedia-on-line/voz/auto-de-fe-presidido-por-santo-domingo-de-guzman-berruguete/?no_cache=1

As we have talked this morning, this week´s challenge will be a little different. You will have the opportunity of improving your glog skills by creating a new glog on the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, mostly known as the Spanish Inquisition. Here you have the links you can use to get the basic information: 

Some links in Spanish:  

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisici%C3%B3n_espa%C3%B1ola

http://www.almendron.com/historia/moderna/inquisicion/inquisicion.pdf

http://www.gabrielbernat.es/espana/inquisicion/index.html

Some links in English: 

http://history.howstuffworks.com/european-history/spanish-inquisition.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Spanish_Inquisition

Some useful links about medieval tortures, from which you can extract some pictures of the devices used to torture the Inquisition prisoners: 

http://ateismoparacristianos.blogspot.com/2010/07/metodos-de-tortura-durante-la.html


http://www.medievality.com/torture.html

And this is a BBC programme on the Spanish Inquisition you can listen to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003c1bw

A good glog should include this information: 

- When the Tribunal of the Holy Inquisition was created and what its purpose was.

-  Crimes they persecuted.

-  How it was organized.

-  How it worked.

-  What punishments they imposed.

-  How the Tribunal was used with political purpose sometimes. 

Remember that your glog would be more interesting if you include pictures, links to enlarge some information and some video (if you are able to find one). You could also include the origin of some Castilian expressions related to the history of the Inquisition, such as "to wear the sambenito".

These are the instructions to do a good work:  

1. Read the information and make sure that you understand everything. The links in Spanish will be very useful for you. 

2. Prepare a good scheme on paper and use it as a reference for your glog design. 

3. When you start writing, use simple sentences and don´t translate word by word and, of course, don´t use the Google translator. You have different links that will provide you with all the vocabulary you need in English. Forget about copying and pasting.

4. Don´t write too much information and think in the readers. The possible readers have to feel attracted by your work and be able to understand and get the possibility of learning more (if they want) through links.

You will have time to solve this challenge until next Friday, the 13th May. If you need any help or advice, you can use the Glogster Edu message platform or contact me by e-mail. 

4th May 2011

Today Ana Margarita has been in the class with us. At the beginning of the class Paqui has givethe marks of our glogs, also she has told us that for the exam we are going to have a question about the projects of our mates, we have to choose one project and said the purpose, the members... When she has finished with that we have started to correct the exercises that she has given to us on Monday. These exercises were from 6 to 10. After that we have started the point 4:REFORMS THEY MADE:AUTHORITARIAN MONARCHY. We have copied a scheme about the authoritarian monarchy that we have divided into two parts: Purpose and decisions. This last part have two parts: in Castile and in Aragon. When we have finished coping it the bell has rang so for homework we don't have exercises. Also Paqui has also said to us that if someone want an explanation of the mark of his project we can speak to her in the break time and she has said to the people that on friday we are not going to go to her class the exercises for Monday. This was the class of today. Bye Bye

Image: http://granadapedia.wikanda.es/wiki/Real_Chanciller%C3%ADa_(Granada)

The Holy Brotherhood and green sleeves

Source: http://ciudadreal.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/la-santa-hermandad-de-ciudad-real/

The Holy Brotherhood was a militia created (refounded, in fact) by the Catholic Monarchs in Castile to restore peace in the countryside after the chaos of the Succession War (1474-1479). This was one of the reforms they made to reinforce their authority over their subjects, especially over the nobles. On the picture below you can observe the uniform the members of the Holy Brotherhood wore. As Kelly has explained today, there is a Spanish expression related to the Holy Brotherhood that we still use to refer to people doing things too late. We say "A buenas horas, mangas verdes". This expression comes from the green sleeves of the Holy Brotherhood members´ uniform. People started using this expression to refer to this police force arriving too late to the places where a crime had been committed. This expression could be similar to the English expression "Too little, too late". 

There is another interesting expression in Dutch related to the Holy Brotherhood. As we´ll study in a few days, Holland belonged to the Hispanic Monarchy for more than hundred years. The Dutch don´t have a good opinion of the Hispanic rule in Holland, but they have preserved the expression "Heilige Hermandad" (Holy Brotherhood) to refer to the Police in a positive way. 

These two examples show us how history is present in many situations of our ordinary life. 

Friday, 29th April

Today, we have only been four persons in the class because the rest of the people have gone to the library because they come to the class late. They have been with Teo cheeking the exam mark's. We have only been Yolanda, Andrea, Dani and me.

Paqui has been very angry. In the class we have learnt the point two of the unit: How did the Catholic monarchas become king and queen? As we have been very few people we could ask a lot of questions. we have copied from the blackboard two schemes about that, Enrique IV had a daughter called Juana.His sister Isabella became Queen of Castille because she had the support of Aragon and some Castilian nobles. Juana got married with the king of Portugal and then she went to the convent. Isabel got married with Fernando.

Paqui has also explained us questions about the next point that we have asked her. She has showed us photo about a really unactractive king. Today has been a very interesting class and I have learnt a lot.

Source: http://www.innowhere.com/audioturismo/index.jsp?st=products.granada#!st=products.granada

2nd of May of 2011

When Paqui has enter in the class she has been a ``little´´ angry with us and have said us that we have to look for our live and summerize the points that they read last Friday...

Today in Social Sciences we have checked the five exercices that Paqui gave last Friday. Before explaining it I want to thank to our classmatess for say us the homework. Well, the exercices were about the Catholic Monarchs.

Exercice 1>It was about the situation of the Iberian Peninsula at the beggining of the 15th century:

-There were 5 kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula, four of them were Christians (Castile, Aragon, Portugal and Navarre) and one was Muslim (Granada).

Exercice 2> We had to write the causes of the civil war:

-The civil war occured because after Enrique's IV death the throne would be for Juana but the rumors of Spain said that Enrique couldn't have children and Juana was dauther of Beltrán de la Cueva, so Isabella would be the queen. Portugal support Juana and Aragon and some castillian nobles support Isabella.

Exercice 3> In this exercice we had to explain the main decitions of the Treaty of Alcaçovas:

-Isabel, queen of Castile.

-Portugal get the control of exploration of the african costs of the Atlantic Ocean.

-Juana was confered in a convent.

Source: http://descubriendoamerica-andrea.blogspot.com/2009/11/viaje-la-isla-de-puerto-rico.html

Exercice 4>We had to explain why the marriage of the Catholic Kings was a dynastic union:

They could control a big part of the Peninsula, but each crown will be continue being independent.

Exercice 5>We had to explain the motto ``Tanto monta, monta tanto, Isabel como Fernando´´ and how it determinated the Catholic King's policy:

Isabel and Fernando gave powers to each other, in order that one could rule in the kindom of the other one, but only Fernando used his power to rule Castile. Isabel never showed interest in Aragonece affairs.

After checked the exercices Kelly has read about territories conquered by the Catholic Monarchs and the reforms made by the Catholic Monarchs to reinforce their authority.

Then Paqui has written in the blackboard a scheme about we have already read while has shown us a powerpoint about it.

Finally Kelly has going to explain us about the Holy Brotherhood but the bell has rung...

PS: Classmates I hate you!!!Muak!

The last corrected glogs

Here you have the last glogs that have passed the "quality" control. They appear in alphabetical order:

- Yolanda Abad worked on the African Union:

- Beatriz Antequera´s project is about the NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization:

- Laura Bustamante worked on UNASUR:

- Silvia Castiblanque´s project was about the International Criminal Court:

- Carlos Galindo´s work is about the International Monetary Fund:

- Juan Carlos Huertas worked on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries:

- Ana Isabel Lucas´s project was about the World Trade Organization:

- Isabel Naranjo´s work was about the Council of Europe:

- Daniel Pintado worked about the International Organization of Atomic Energy:

-Enrique Vázquez´s work is about the International Labour Organization:

- And last, but not least, Beatriz Yuste´s project was about the League of Arab States:

Judge by yourselves. What´s, in your opinion, the best work?