Wednesday, Feb. 11th Take your seat Take out your DBQ prep Follow directions below DBQ: Share your Intro and Thesis with your partner As you are reading your partner’s Intro and Thesis ask yourself these questions Did the use the background information to help set Time and Place? Does the thesis clearly answer the question in the prompt? Do you see at least 3 clearly distinguished groups?
Today’s Agenda Warm-UP/ Class Discussion Notes: “La Belle Epoque” Homework: Read pages 743-749 Precious Time FN: “France During La Belle Epoch” Develop 4 POV statements
La Belle Epoch Characteristics Put Desks into learning groups Discuss the following questions in your grops What stood out to you about these notes What questions do you still have How does this era seem different then the Europe of the Industrial Revolution? How does it seem different then the pre-Enlightenment and Revolutionary Europe?
La Belle Epoque [1871-1914]: “The Beautiful Era”
Characteristics of La Belle Epoch Materialism Higher standard of living Development “zones” Inner Zone Br, Fr, Ger, Belg, No. It,W. Austria Outer Zone Ire., Iberian Pen., most of Italy, Europe east of Ger. Underdeveloped Zone Afro-Asia
Characteristics of La Belle Epoch Increased European Population Growth of Cities & Urban Life Migration from Europe 1850-1940 60 million left Europe Went to US, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Australia/N. Zeal. “Second” Industrial Revolution Steam electricity Internal combustion & diesel engines. Cars, planes, submarines.
Characteristics of La Belle Epoch “Second” Industrial Revolution Britain “The World’s Industrial Workshop” Corporations limited liability of investments. Mass production. Free Trade [esp. in England] World Markets [Global Economy, Part II] Advance of Democracy Extension of the vote to the working class. Creating a “welfare state.”
Monday, Feb. 23rd Discuss the following What is impressionism? Take your seat Take out your Impressionism Art Journal Follow directions below Discuss the following What is impressionism? Which artists and pieces did you choose? Why?
Today’s Agenda Art Journal Share/ Class Discussion AP Test Registration Finish Notes: “La Belle Epoque” La Belle Époque in France Homework: Read pages 760-772
Characteristics of La Belle Epoch The Appeal of Socialism By the 1880s, most socialist parties were Marxist [esp. Ger. & Fr.] Not very successful in England. Faith in Science Alone Science at the core of industrialization. “New Wonders” of daily life. Charles Darwin Origin of Species [1859] “survival of the fittest” “The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm”
Characteristics of La Belle Epoch Faith in Science Alone [con’t.] “Social Darwinism” Herbert Spenser Eugenics Newtonian Science turned on its head Einstein “Theory of Relativity” nature & energy were separate & distinct. Max Planck Quantum Physics
Characteristics of La Belle Epoch Faith in Science Alone [con’t.] Professionalization of “new” sciences [anthropology, archeaology,etc.] Psychology Ivan Pavlov conditioned responses Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis The Interpretation of Dreams [1900] The role of the unconscious [the id, ego, super ego].
Characteristics of La Belle Epoch New Trends in Philosophy Agnosticism Nihilism Friedrich Nietzsche Übermensch “Super Man” Irrationalism Existentialism Sören Kierkegaard existence proceeds essence Internal Religious Struggles modernists vs. fundamentalists
Characteristics of La Belle Epoch Anti-Semitism Dreyfus Affair Theodore Herzl Der Judenstaat [The Jewish State], 1896 “Father of Modern Zionism” Women’s Movement Emmeline Pankhurst The “New” Imperialism Militarism glorification of war