17th of november

Today in Social Sciences we have learnt a lot.

At first Paqui has asked for a volunteer to write the reflective journal here in the blog, and all the class has been saying my name....THANKS....so Paqui has thought in me and she has said: YOU HAVE TO WRITE DE JOURNAL...I have answered her because I couldn't write the journal today....

After this dramatic moment for me.... =( we have checked two exercices of the review:

5.-What important events took place in the summer of 1789? Why did the Ancien Régime disappear in France after these events?

-Storming of the Bastille(14th july 1789): popular attacked to the Bastille prison, symbol of absolutism.

-Great fear: in the countryside many peasants attacked castles and manois and they destroyed the property of the lands.

-4th August (1789): The National Constituent Assembly made 2 important decisions:

• Declaration of the Rights of men and the citizen.


• Abolition: seigmeurial rights and they were abolished.

The Ancien Régime ended, because estates disappeared, all the citizens had to pay taxes and peasants had to pay for working.

6.-What were the most important decisions of the National Constituent Assembly and the legislative Assembly?

• National Constituent Assembly:

-Declaration of the rights of men and citizen
-Abolition: seigneurial rights and they were abolished.

• Legislative Assembly:

-The Constitutional Monarchy
-The democratic Republic
-The Directory
-The Napoleonic era.

Afterwards, we have copied a scheme about the political factions in the assembly which included:


-Constitutional Monarchists: limited monarchy.


-Girondists: they wanted a free market economy and exporting the revolution. Representatives of a commercial bourgeoisie.

-Jacobins: they wanted a Republic, universal suffrage and more reforms. They were supported by the sans culottes.

Paqui has explained us a project of the french women in the revolution in which we have to explain our life in 1st person us if we were a woman.

We have read in the book and Paqui has explained as this with representations between us.We have learnt new words:

• To pass a law: aprobar una ley


• Flight: huída


• To flee: huir


• To brind back: devolver


• Treason: traición


• Traitor: traidor

Finally Paqui has gave as homework: exercice 9 from the review.
This is all we have done!

Sources of photographs:
1ª:http://www.tfo.upm.es/ImperialismoWeb/Prise_de_la_Bastille.jpg
2ªhttp://www.laguia2000.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/ropa-de-los-sans-culottes.jpg

Summer of 1789

Today in Social Sciences, we have started checking the exercises about the beginning of the French Revolution. Yolanda Rubio has checked the exercise 2 and Paqui has continued explaining it. She has said that the reason which King Louis XVI decided to call the Estate General was because the privileged demanded the call of Estate to discuss the tax reform. The exercise 3 has been corrected by Laura Muñoz, while she has been saying that the main discussions in the initial meetings of the Estates General were that every estate had to meet separately, had to have similar number of representatives and had to have a vote, Paqui has had to move from seat to Manuel and Juan Carlos, because they were talking. After that, Yolanda Rubio has explained that, she had an argument with her mother, and Paqui has compared their parents with the privileged and she with someone of the Third Estate (hahahaha). To finally check the exercises, Silvia has corrected the last exercise, that it was about what did the members of the Third Estate do when the king closed the Estates General meeting room. Paqui has explained us that they looked for an alternative meeting place, the Tennis Court Oath and they formed a National Assembly where they declared themselves as the legitimate representatives of the French people and they promised to stay there until France had a Constitution.

When we have finished to check the exercises, we have continued reading the beginning of the revolution. First, Paqui has explained us what was tithe (diezno), it means the people who had to pay to the Church (10%) and she has also translated us some words as:

· seigneurial -> señoral

· in force -> vigente

· manor -> casa solariega/casa de campo

· to storm -> asaltar en grupo

Later, Paqui has started writing on the blackboard what had we read about the Summer of 1789 to copy it in our notebooks and then, she has explained it comparing the situation with us. There were two important events where took place in this summer: Storming of the Bastille and Great Fear.

- Storming of the Bastille, the people of Paris attacked the prison of the Bastille and they decided to fight to defend the reforms. (14th July 1789)

- Great Fear: in the countryside many peasants attacked castles and manors and destroyed the property titles of the lands. Paqui has explained it comparing Laura Muñoz with a peasant.

Then we have seen that on the 4th of August of 1789 the National Constituent Assembly made two important decisions: the declaration of the Rights of Men and the Citizen and the Abolition of feudalism, seigneurial rights and tithe were abolished. It means that everybody had to be equal, everybody had to pay taxes and the peasants became happy. To understand it we have started acting the action in the class. Paqui has said that in her opinion it is a very important event in history, a big progress. After that, we have started the different stages can be divided the revolution, and we have seen a little bit of the Constitutional Monarchy (1789-1792). To explain it, Paqui has divided the class into 3 groups as the last day, one of them was the nobles, other the clergy and the last one the peasants and she has been the king. The situation has been do:

· King: "What do you prefer in your country? I want an Absolute Monarchy"

> Clergy: "We want a monarchy!"- except one of them (Isabel) who wanted a revolution.

* Nobles: "We want an Absolute Monarchy!" - except one of them (Alejandro) who wanted a limited monarchy.

# Peasants: "We want the voting per person!!!"

[IT WILL CONTINUE...]

At the end of the class Paqui has given us two exercises to do at home, on page 22 (5 and 6) and the last two minutes has been dedicated to see the videos about the French Revolution.

Two music videos about the French Revolution

Here you have two music videos about the French Revolution made by the Honolulu History Teachers for Music Lovers. They used Lady Gaga´s Bad Romance and the Violent Femmes´ Gone, daddy, gone songs. The first one is a general overview of the French Revolution and the second one is about Napoleon Bonaparte. 

14th of November

http://www.google.es/imgres?q=beginning+of+FRENCH+REVOLUTION&hl=es&sa=X&gbv=2&biw=1280&bih=880&tbm=isch&tbnid=IupDWf9LOj6lxM:&imgrefurl=http://timerime.com/es/periodos/494246/The%2BFrench%2BRevolution/&docid=raQrRz3k43xZeM&imgurl=http://timerime.com/user_files/44/44158/media/french%252520revolution.jpg&w=489&h=453&ei=AlHBTsqAEc6g8gPFvIWHBA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=428&sig=111542651397469364758&page=1&tbnh=159&tbnw=173&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&tx=120&ty=36
http://www.google.es/search?tbm=isch&hl=es&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=880&q=tennis+court+oath&gbv=2&oq=tennis+court+oa&aq=0&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=3054l12311l0l13305l14l14l0l1l1l0l362l2424l0.10.2.1l13l0

Today we have started the class checking exercise 1 from page 22, Daniel Pintado has done it. The exercise was about the causes of French Revolution.

- Economic crisis (bad harvest, increase of food prices)

- Constant wars and money waste.

- Discontent of the bourgeois

- Influence of the ideas of Enlightenmen.

Paqui has explained, that Maria Antoinette was called Madame Dèficit because she waste money in stupid things

After that we have contiuned with the unit Mariluz and Beatriz Antequera have read THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION:

Turgot, Nester, Calome, Brienne decided, privileged paid but all of them were dismissed. Louis XVI, advised by his finance ministers, started thinks about reforming tax system and eliminating privileges.

Call of the Estates General ( Parliament) 5th of May in 1789, the privileged met to discus the tax reform, and the book of grivances (cuaderno de quejas) were written to collect the demands of every Estate. They met by a traditional way:

- every estate met separately

- every estate had similar number of representatives

- every estate had a votte.

But the third Estate demanded double representation and voting per person, and the King gave double representation:

- Third Estate 578 deputies

- Clergy 291 deputies

- Nobles 270 deputies.

Discontent was boiling peasants nobles, clergy and bourgeois were discontent. The third Estate went on protesting and the king closed the Estates General.

TENIS COURT OATH (20th June 1789)

The representatives of the third Estate+ some nobles+ some members of the clergy

-declared themselves as the legitimate representatives of France

- created a National Assembly

- swore staying together until France had a constitution.

The king reluctantly accepted and ordered the nobles and clergy to join the third Estate and start writting a Constitution (National Constituent Assembly)

To explain that Paqui has divided the class into three parts: nobles, peasants, clergy and Paqui was the King. Also We have learnt new words:

-Swear (jurar)

- Oath ( juramento)

- Reluctantly (a regañadientes).

At the end of the class Paqui has given us for homework exercises 2,3,4 from page 22.

2011-2012 Challenges. Number 8

This week´s challenge will make you discover some interesting facts about Charles III´s reign and the origins of the French Revolution: 

Charles III of Spain

Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Charles_III_of_Spain.jpg

QUESTION 1

The colonization of new lands was one of the reforms made during Charles III´s rule. Charles III decided to repopulate some sparsely populated regions of Spain, such as Sierra Morena and the Guadalquivir Valley. He wanted to enlarge the cultivated areas and end with banditry. New settlements were created and the consequences of this repopulation are still evident in these places even today. Write at least three of these new towns and explain where the new colonists came from. 

QUESTION 2

The person in charge of this settlement project was one of the most important Spanish enlightened thinkers. Who was this person? Why did he lose his post in 1775? Why was he in France in the first moments of the French Revolution?

QUESTION 3

As we have studied today, France was going through a big economic crisis in the years before the Revolution. Some Louis XVI´s ministers proposed reforms to collect more taxes and reduce the increasing deficit. Who were these ministers and why weren´t their projects put into practice?

QUESTION 4

Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI´s wife, was partly responsible for the dismissal of one of the ministers who proposed  a reform of the economic system of the Ancien Régime. He was also an important economist and he´s considered to be one of the precursors of economic liberalism. Who was this minister?

Queen Marie Antoinette of France

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marie167.jpg

QUESTION 5

Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI´s wife, belonged to an important dynasty. Which one?

QUESTION 6

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette got married in 1770, but they didn´t consummate their marriage until 1777. Why? 

QUESTION 7

Why did Marie Antoinette become so unpopular in France? How was she called by the people?

10th November 2011

Today in Social Sciences Paqui has got angry at the beginning of the class because we came into the class but after we went out again to the corridor and then in the class some people were standing up. Then Paqui has reminded us the things we saw yesterday about the Esquilache Riots.

Afterwards Alejandro has checked the exercise 22, it was about the reforms of Charles III's reing. The reforms he did weren't enough for all the people of the time.One of the reforms he did is very curious, he declared the honesty of all the professions, this means that handworks have the same value as the rest of professions.Then Laura Meco has checked the exercise 23 that asked about the limitations of these reforms, one of the problems of these reforms was that most of the people continued being poor so there wasn't enough demand, so the industries didn't develop. This created a vicious circle.

After the correction of the exercises Paqui has talked to us about Charles IV, who looks like our actual king, Juan Carlos I. When Paqui has finished explaining Charles IV we have started checking the crossword from unit 2 starting from Dani.

As some people were talking while we checked the crossword Paqui has said that maybe she will change our seats so we have kept silence.

After the correction of the crossword we have started the new unit called "The French Revolution and the Restoration". We have copied the index from the blackboard. Later Enrique has started reading the Introduction in the book and the Causes of the Revolution. After Paqui has explained us all that.
Today for homework we have to do the exercise 1 in page 22.

Some new words we have learned today is:
-to issue a decree: hacer público un decreto
-vicious circle: círculo vicioso
-to be gifted to: estar dotado para

Source: http://aquileana.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/eric-hobsbawm-la-era-de-las-revoluciones-1789-1848-la-revolucion-francesa/

Bye!!

Wednesday, 9th November

Today in social science we have started checking the exercises twenty and twenty one.
We have seen The Esquilache Riots, it was a revol in 1766.
it was to cut out colacks and hats to avoid criminals' umpunity. This decree was the excuse used by the privileged to instigate the people to revolt against Esquilache, thaking advantage of their discontent, due to the high prices of wheat.
Also we have been the absolute monarchy of Philip V and Ferdinand VI, it was created in the 18th centuy their main features were:
- Absolute monarchy
-Cortes with only consultive functions and they were barely caleed Cortes of Spain
-King helped bysecretaries, who formed the cabinat
-Consultive councils
-Castilian laws and institutions were extended to all the territory
-The territories were divided into provinces, ruled by Capitains generals.

And the last thin we have seen was the Enligtened Reformism.
Charles III was the king of Naples during 20 years.
-At first, Italian ministers. ESQUILANCE started the reforms: the privileged were afraid of the fact that these reforms threatened their privileged.
This finished with the Esquilache's dism sal.
At the end of the class, Paqui has given us the exams, I pass the exam but I don't have a good mark because I didn't study art! such us I have said why do I have to study art? If I am of science! jaj
kisses sorry because I am late!

Two interesting art exhibitions

For those who love art, there are two current exhibitions both in Madrid and London that you may like: 

- "Leonardo da Vinci, painter at the court of Milan" at the London National Gallery : this is an exhibition of some of Leonardo da Vinci´s most important works, painted when he worked for Duke Ludovico Sforza in Milan at the end of the 15th century. Visitors will be able to see nine Leonardo´s most important paintings in the same place. One of the most interesting aspects of this exhibition lies on the possibility of comparing the two versions of The Virgin of the Rocks (the one that belongs to the National Gallery, recently restored, and the one that makes part of the Louvre collection). Here you have two links, where you will find some of the paintings you analyzed last year, such as The lady with an ermine:

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-painter-at-the-court-of-milan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13334287

Portrait of a musician, Leonardo da Vinci

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_a_Musician

- "The Hermitage in El Prado": this exhibition offers the possibility of visiting 120 works of art of Saint Petersburg´s Hermitage Museum. The Russian tsars started an art collection that includes works of art from different periods. If you go to Madrid, you will be able to visit some Caravaggio, Titian or Velázquez ´s paintings never seen before in Spain. The exhibition also includes some sculptures, such as the terracota study made by Bernini before sculpting his Ecstasy of Saint Theresa. This is also a unique opportunity of watching some paintings of the 20th century in El Prado. Here you have some more information about the works of art on display: 

http://www.museodelprado.es/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/at-the-museum/tesoros-del-hermitage/exposicion/

Tavern scene or The Luncheon, Velázquez

Source: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_3_1_2b.html

The Lute player, Caravaggio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lute_Player_(Caravaggio)

Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (terracota model), Bernini

Source: http://www.artrenewal.org/commerce/customorder.php?artworkid=13345

If you go to Madrid, don´t miss the opportunity of watching these and other masterpieces.

7th November 2011

Hello!!

Today in Social Science we have done the exam of units 9 and 1, in the unit 9 we have to study: the Absolute Monarchy, the definition of Baroque, demography, society and economy, the Thirty Years' War, The English Revolutions and the Decline of the Hispanic Empire and in the unit 1 we have to study: the Ancien Régime, the changes in the 18th century, Enlightenment, Political and Economy thinking, the independence of the 13 colonies of North America and the fundations of the U.S.A. and the War of the Spanish Succession.

In the exam we have got five questions, first to put the correct name with it definition, second one, to explain the Enlightenment and two of its philosophers, the third one, to choose two of these options:

a) Explain the Ancient Regime: Main features

b) Explain The Enlightened Despotism

c) Explain the War of the Spanish Succession.

In the exercise four, we have to choose five words and define it when and where they happened, and the last exercise we have to explained the Foundation of the U.S.A.

In my opinion the exam has been a little bit long.

This is all for today.

Hot Potatoes activities to review for the exam

Here you have some interactive activities I´ve prepared, so that you can review for the exam on Monday. Click on the pictures to go to the correspondent websites: