1. 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?

2. Today’s Agenda Warm-UP/ Class Discussion Notes: “La Belle Epoque”
Homework:
Read pages
Precious Time FN: “France During La Belle Epoch”
Develop 4 POV statements

3. 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?

4. La Belle Epoque [1871-1914]: “The Beautiful Era”

5. 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

6. Characteristics of La Belle Epoch
Increased European Population
Growth of Cities & Urban Life
Migration from Europe
 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.

7. 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.”

8. 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?

9. Today’s Agenda Art Journal Share/ Class Discussion
AP Test Registration
Finish Notes: “La Belle Epoque”
La Belle Époque in France
Homework:
Read pages

10. 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”

11. 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

12. 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].

13. 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

14. 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