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In this activity, students
work in groups to create a series of 19th century European
newspaper pages—not necessarily all the same date—that
the esteemed Russian chemist Mendeleev
might have read while he was developing his periodic
table of the chemical elements.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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Students will work in groups of at least
four during this culminating activity, which will take about
a week.
Procedure
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- If you will be using the activity as
an assessment of student knowledge of the unit's content,
share with them the grading rubric when you give the assignment.
- The activity may be introduced by having students examine
a current newspaper to identify the various types of content
and format. The front page(s) will include
descriptions of, or references to, significant world events.
- Hand out copies of the student activity.
- Content, as outlined in the student activity, should include
the following:
- Articles discussing liberal politics or trends in social
science and philosophy
- Editorial pages which should include several "Letters
to the Editor"
- Advertisements about new products available and transportation
tren
- Culture page which should include reference to famous
people, including politicians
- Discuss what you can tell about a
culture by looking at each portion of their newspaper.
- Students will need access to their
unit notes and to other references.
The final format for the newspaper pages
will be your decision. You may specify, based on their technology
skills, that they may handwrite and draw each section, that
the text should be typed, or that the whole newspaper should
be formatted electronically.
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Curriculum
Connections
World History Standards and Benchmarks Addressed
Grades 9-12
Understands
how Eurasian societies were transformed in an era
of global trade and the emergence of European power
from 1750 to 1870. |
- Understands events that shaped the social structure
of Russia in the 19th century (e.g., relations between
the Russian peasantry and land-owning aristocracy,
and the persistence of serfdom; the czarist reform
movements of the 1820s and how they appealed to different
social sectors: Czar Nicholas I's positions on the
creation of a constitution, freedom of the press, the
Decembrist uprising, the Polish rebellion, and the
process of Russification).
- Understands events that shaped the expansion and
development of Russia in the 19th century and early
20th century (e.g., the causes of the Crimean War and
its consequences for Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain,
and France; the limits of Russian expansion eastward
across Siberia and southward beyond the Caspian Sea;
why Russia invaded the Ottoman territory in the early
1850s; how Crimean War led to political and social
reform for Russia; how Pan-Slavism affected Russian
foreign policy in the late 19th century; what Trans-Siberian
and other railroad routes tell about Russian development
and expansion from 1801 to 1914).
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Understands
patterns of nationalism, state-building, and social
reform in Europe and the Americas from 1830 to 1914. |
- Understands the factors that led to social and political
changes in 19th-century Europe (e.g., the interconnections
between labor movements, various forms of socialism,
and political or social changes in Europe; the influence
of industrialization, democratization, and nationalism
on popular 19th-century reform movements; the extent
to which Britain, France, and Italy became broadly
liberal and democratic societies in the 19th century;
the broad beneficial and detrimental effects of the
industrial revolution on specific European countries).
- Understands the status of different groups in 19th-century
Europe (e.g., the changing roles and status of European
Jews and the rise of new forms of anti-Semitism; the
goals of the women's movement in the 19th century,
and the essential ideas outlined by Mary Wollstonecraft
in Vindication of the Rights of Women; support for
and opposition to women's suffrage in the late 19th
century).
- Understands the status of education in 19th-century
Europe (e.g., how expanded educational opportunities
and literacy contributed to changes in European society
and cultural life, what countries enacted compulsory
education by the end of the 19th century, how school
attendance figures were affected by the industrial
age).
- Understands the emergence of new social thought in
the 19th century (e.g., ways in which trends in philosophy
and the new social sciences challenged and reshaped
traditional patterns of thought, religious understanding,
and understanding of social organization).
- Understands how different movements and ideas influenced
society in the 19th century (e.g., the effect of the
continental revolutions on the Chartist movement in
England, and how the ruling classes reacted to Chartist
demands; the essential ideas outlined in Marx and Engel's
Communist Manifesto and their meaning in the context
of late 19th-century economic, political, and social
conditions).
- Understands sources that illustrate social conditions
and cultural identity in 19th-century Europe (e.g.,
how primary sources such as diaries reflect the life
experiences of middle and working class men and women
in 19th-century Europe; the characteristics of popular,
diverse 19th-century art styles, such as Romanticism,
Realism, and Impressionism; how Europeans shaped their
identity through their view of "other" peoples
and cultures).
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Understands
major global trends from 1750 to 1914. |
- Writes compositions that are focused for different
audiences (e.g., includes explanations and definitions
according to the audience's knowledge of the topic,
adjust formality of style, considers interests of potential
readers).
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