Dear level 9 students,
This is our blog page. This is not just any blog... this is our way to express our opinions in a free and welcoming environment outside the classroom!
Here you will be talking and giving your opinions about controversial topics in class and posting about other topics that you find relevant and interesting.
Now, this is not just rainbows and colors... you will be also graded for this.
Here is what you need to do.
1) For every unit that we cover in class, you need to do at least 2 post of a piece of news or a reflection on your own.
2) You need to comment your classmate's posts as well, you will be given points for opinions and reflexions
So at the end of the level you will have:
Unit 1: World History: 2 posts and corresponding comments
Unit 2: Science and Technology: 2 posts and corresponding comments
Unit 3: Gender Roles: 2 posts and CC (corresponding comments)
Unit 4: Music, Art and Literature: 2 posts and CC
Unit 5: United States and its history: 2 P and CC
Unit 6: Great Britain and Englishes: 2P and CC
Total: 12 posts + corresponding comments
Grade: Blog posts and comments will have an extra grade in the written section.
I will be evaluating the following:
1) Puntuation (according to the rules that will be covered)
2) Arguments (content)
3) Structure (intro, body and conclusion)
Incredible as the industrial revolution changed the lives of everyone. Many people had to organize, create, discover, experience and change the way they live forever in a positive way in some cases, and in others with a high cost to them.
ReplyDeleteI am passionate about reading how reorganized working time, as they left the seasonal routine of the fields to work in industries, the first foremen as direct heads of the working class, along with this training and specialization of men to make them feel participants of the goals achieved.
This made that they could fight for the things they considered unjust, forming the first trade unions and receive fair wages and reduce working hours. Somehow they thought they were able to learn and do something different to field work.
But, this modernity also brought sad things such as epidemics of tuberculosis when working in confined places, the introduction of children and especially girls to work in textiles between 10 and 14 years of age, also they were sent to big cities for work in the homes of the wealthy people in exchange for food and lodging.
Fluctuations in the economy left without work these girls who already released from their parents ended up working in prostitution.
What caught my attention is that I consider the higher cost must be paid by women, as always, who were multifunctional and responsible for the full life of the family, from then until now.
The most important idea for me is not to give everything for granted, there were millions of people through the centuries that made this industrial organization it is today, girls who died at an early age, emotional deprivation, loss of innocence and many things that today we must respect and thanks.
We can relate this to the Chilean reality, in an oral conversation. Agree??
Thanks for your comment, Cata!
DeleteThat is a hgreat reflection. I agree with it completely, especially when you mention that there were millions of people, workers and industrialists, not only in England or in the US, but also many other people throughout the many revolutions that this world has been through, many people that have worked hard to have a better life and better conditions, and that they fought to what they thought was fair.
In our last class we discussed about the film Quentin Tarantino, Django-unchained. A very shocking story very Tarantino style, developed in the United States in 1858, two years before the Civi War.
DeleteThis is a kind of revenge against slavery and racism. I tell you a little, without going into deeper analysis because you must see the entire movie.
Django, a Southern slave who join to a german dentist Mr. Schultz to hunt the murderers Brittle brothers, in exchange for his release.
When they do, they continue their way together, and Django sets out to find his wife Broomhilda. Following the clues , they reach 'Candyland', where Monsieur Candie lives and retain slaves and train them to fight among themselves. Mr. Schultz and Django must infiltrate and escape with the wife of Django. You can´t loose the awful and amazing details and plot of this movie.
The story wanders through stormy situations experienced by the protagonists, witnessing injustice and contempt for human life and a sight of the horrors of the Ku Klux clan.
No doubt for me the most important character in the film is Django, his evolution is surprising since the calm of the first scenes to his rawness and vindictive force at the end.
However, the role of the negligibly charming Monsieur Candie is magnificent( played by , Di Caprio).
Magistral contradiction shown in the act of the dentist who uses a slave to achieve his goal , although He declares himsef icontrary to slavery, finally he kills Monsieur Candie sickened by his actions.
Commentary aside for Stephen, the black butler of Monsieur Candie, who despised blacks and had no mercy with them .
This man acted like a “white father “ with his employer, he was invested with full power to manage, punish and kill the slaves . He defends his boss with his life
Finally he dies in the hands of Django exactly as it deserved.
If you agree we can share our comments here, when all of us, must-have seen this movie.
I did my best to hook you!