4º - Challenge 1!

CHALLENGES ARE BACK!!! So rewards are...

Double task in this challenge!

1- What is the meaning of the 3 colours flag of France??



2- Could you describe briefly the republican calendar of the French revolution??



We will check this challenge nex Wednesday... you have time enough to investigate!

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4º - Unit 2 - French Revolution

Hi!
Here you have the TEDx video about the French revolution we are going to use in the next class activity. So you can watch it first at home with english subtitles to better understand it... 



And I link also the song for you... enjoy it! (read the lyrics!)

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4º - Unit 2 - The American Revolution

Here you have some videos to study the American Revolution:

The crash course by Mr. Green: (high level)



These are easier...

"A Brief History of America's Independence: Part 1" (Revolutionary War):

"A Brief History of America's Independence: Part 2" (Revolutionary War): 

 

The Boston Tea Party:

A Brief History of the USA:

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4º - GOYA, Unit 1, art.

 Here you have the presentation (if it asks you to log in, use your educa.jcyl.es access data).

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4º - Unit 1 - Old Regime

Hi there!

For those who want to practice English while reviewing Unit 1... We have this video, not easy, not difficult... try it! (es un poco denso... pero ahí queda, totalmente voluntario...).

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4º - Enlightment videos - Unit 1

Hi,

Here you have the 2 videos... so you can wacht it at home paying attention... (you can activate subtitles in ENGLISH...).

The first one is about the Enlightenment philosophers:



And the second one about one of them, Rousseau: Click here to watch it.

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Unit 2 - Unification of Italy & Germany

Here you have two videos explaining the italian and the german unification processes in just 3 minutes... Not easy, not so difficult... you can use the subtitles.

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Unit 2 - Music & history

Here you have the challenge solution... songs related to the French Revolution...

Waterloo by Abba, about Napleon's defeat...



... and Viva la vida by Coldplay about Louis XVI's life... and death... This last activity is inspired in another teacher's blog, you can visit his activity in this link.

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Unit 2 - American revolution

Hi,
Here you have Mark's presentation for the topic...

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Project 1 - Unit 1 Art

Each group will present to the class their work in a speaking presentation.
You can use different resources (storyteller, narrator, online presentations, videos, poster...).
You have to choose and divide the different parts, so each member of the group participe equally.

GROUP 1 - GOYA

Ideas:
Biography
Work by stages:   1- First years (Zaragoza). 2- Tapestry cartoons (Madrid), 3-Portraits (Madrid), 4- Last works (History paintings, black paintings)

GROUP 2 - NEOCLASSIC MADRID

Ideas:
Carlos III - role
Tourist guided route: different monuments in Madrid made in that period, in neoclassic style (for example the Prado museum, the Puerta de Alcalá, the Royal Observatory, the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Basilica of San Francisco el Grande...
     

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Welcome to History!

Hi everyone and welcome to our class blog!

Next week we'll be starting a new course... this year we are going to study CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, a new subject for you... so be ready to start!

The methodology we're going to apply is called CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning.

So... we're going to study a content (history) in a different language from our mother tongue (english)...

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