Strayer 23

6/10/2012

It's getting old scrolling all the way down 40 or so entries, so I've started this post .
I Particularly like Strayer's reflection at the end of this chapter. It's a really good thing for us to think about, this notion that unlike the earlier parts of history we'll study later in the year, in this part of history, we don't know the end of the story. How long will America's dominance last? Will democracy survive in the places in which it is new; Africa, the Middle East? Will we poison our planet to the point of drastically changing the way our species survives? Will global terrorism shift the balance of power? What about fundamentalist religions, will they rise to dominance, or will more moderate forms prevail?
All these question may not be answered in your lifetime, certainly not in mine.
And that is the way it was for the people who lived in the societies we will look at later. They must have asked the same questions about their own times - how does the story end? And in this very real way, we can relate to people in the past and gain insight,
Ways of of the world, hmmm.

36 Comments

Bingham

6/10/2012 04:37:20

Um, okay, I'll be your study buddy...I'll go first. First big picture question: In what ways did the colonial experience and the struggle for independence shape the agenda of developing countries in the second half of the twentieth century?

So yeah, I've got...
colonization and decolonization created a new national identity, which took shape in opposition to the imperial power. Central to this game plan was the establishment of stable governing institutions and a new civil society, and...
economic development provided the second critical element in the game plan as newly free states sought both to increase production and to distribute the benefits of that growth to raise living standards, a central promise of independence movements.
Your turn.

Bingham

6/10/2012 08:49:51

Are you guys really using the weekend in the ways I suggested to both you and your parents? I really think that if you hope to survive and thrive in the AP environment, you need to wrap your head around the idea that you have to schedule, commit to, and stick to a plan that gets the chapter internalized over the weekend.

I gave you new tools to think about this week. Find a study strategy that accomplishes the mission of good scores on the reading checks and the chapter open ended tests.

So, one more climb into Bingham's head, one more climb into Strayer's head; an obvious thing for me to ask in either format is, based on the way Strayer organized this chapter is this: Compare and contrast the tactics used by the Indian National Congress, the African National Congress, and those South Africans who continued the freedom struggle after the African National Congress was outlawed.

Your outline, table, web, play-do sculpture - whatever, should identify the following, again, based on Strayer:

Both the Indian National Congress (INC) and the African National Congress (ANC) were initially founded and led by educated and professional members of the middle class.

Both organizations encouraged peaceful and moderate protest at first.

Both later broadened their bases of support and pursued nonviolent civil disobedience.

However (difference), after the repression of the ANC in the 1960s, underground nationalist leaders in South Africa took up violence in a way the INC did not.

See? You can do this. Get to work, and if you're already working, focus your work.

Okay, that's it until I see someone take some leadership in this forum and post their thoughts on a possible test question, their response to a margin question, their answer to a big picture question.

Bingham

6/10/2012 18:52:16

What is puzzling to me is all the anguish about this class I hear from students and parents, but when I offer solutions like new study strategies and help like this forum, nobody's paying attention. This validates the depressing idea that all anyone cares about is a grade, not learning, not growing as a human being. It's troubling to me that we are such shallow creatures.

Crowder, Shylah

7/10/2012 04:13:05

Mr. Bingham,
I'd like to say that not everyone is ignoring your help. I have been reading your posts and such, but I have had a busy weekend and have not yet had the time to completely finish the reading. I have set aside time like you said, but I had to block out time between yesterday and today. I feel it would be unfair to you to have us start commenting our thoughts before we even know what our thoughts are of the chapter. I'm pretty sure this is not only me, but as soon as I have a grasp of the reading, I will try to contribute to the study page.

I just wanted you to know that you are not going ignored and unappreciated.

Thank you sooooo much for helping all of us.

Bingham

7/10/2012 04:49:10

Okay Shylah, thank you. You might want to avoid calling me "unfair" when you are saying "thank you."

Crowder, Shylah

7/10/2012 05:05:33

I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to say you are unfair. I was trying to say it would be unfair TO YOU for us to tell you what we're thinking even if we don't know what we are talking about yet. It would be a waste of your time.

Jeremiah Pratt

7/10/2012 04:42:36

Hey Bingham, so here are my thoughts on the margin question "What international circumstances and social changes contribued to the end of colonial empires?" since that seems like something that would appear on a test.

•The values of Christianity and material progress conflicted with colonial racism, exploitation, and poverty.
•WWI and WWII weakened Europe and discredited a sense of European superiority.
•The new global superpowers, the U.S. and the USSR were opposed to colonial empires
•Within the colonies themselves, educated elites who were aware of their exploitation by Europeans and insisted on independence
•Many other groups within the colonies also wanted independence
•The actions of colonial rulers allowed visions of profitable economies without colonial rule (things like political reform, investments in public works projects, public elections, and constitutions)

Your thoughts?

Bingham

7/10/2012 04:53:27

This is excellent Jeremiah. Good responce.
I decided this morning to move in another direction though. Shylah's comment notwithstanding, I had thought we agreed to spread the work out into chunks over the weekend. But since that wasn't happening, I decided to model how I would study this chapter. You can find it on the 20th century page. I'm going to let that be your help this weekend.

Jordan Janis

7/10/2012 04:50:28

I agree with Shyla, you arent being ignored. I've been studying, i just haven't had a chance to complete my thoughts over this chapter. Thanks you sooo much for posting, it means a lot to us that we have a teacher that actually care.

Bingham

7/10/2012 04:55:31

Thanks Jordan, I appreciate that. But if you are chunking up the work, you should be able to comment on the sections as you go.
See my reply to Jeremiah above.

Bingham

8/10/2012 10:49:20

Especially for those of you in 6th period that did not have the conversation about him, make sure you are familiar with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk before the reading check.

Emily Wallace

8/10/2012 16:10:36

I'm guessing we are still allowed to put a question and a answer on here?
Well, here it is, "In what ways did cultural revolution in Turkey and Iran reflect different understandings of the role of Islam in modern societies?"

Turkey:
1. Modernization and Western Turkish societies
2. Education was in Turkish rather than Arabic
3. people abandoned the traditional headdress
4. Women ad equal rights. Ex: divorce, child custody, inheritance, education, right to vote
5. Led by military and civilian officials.

Iran
1. If you had problems in your life, turn to Islam
2. It was shpwn that modernizing was bad, you would be threatend in the country
3. Purpose of gov. was the law of Allah, or law of the land
4. Arabic language was used in education.'
5. Men and women were separated in school.
6. Women were required to wear a veil and loose fitted clothing
7. Alcoholic drinks and clubs were not permitted.

If there is any information that is not correct, or if I missed something, please tell me Bingham or someone else.

Bingham

8/10/2012 22:10:20

Great work Emily! Looks good to me.

Bingham

9/10/2012 09:14:22

I just want to make it SUPER CLEAR to you guys that just studying my notes from chapter 23 alone won't prepare you to succeed on the test. YOU still have to do the work. There is stuff you need to know that you will find as you dig through the chapter answering the margin review questions. I was demonstrating how to go about answering those questions for you to compare. I warned you!

Margaret Fisher

9/10/2012 10:00:50

Hey Bingham and other folk,
Well, and I'm not trying to be defensive, just explaining, I've been working all weekend, but have found it helps me to read through, study on my own, dig, dig, dig and dig, answer the questions, ATTEMPT to answer my own questions, THEN check the site and see where I am and ask any questions I couldn't figure out or am unsure about. That's what I've been doing and since my grades are going up, I'm hoping it's working! :D So here's my question: What obstacles impeded the economic development of third-world countries? So far my answer is: These countries were divided by class, religion, ethnic group, and gender and were in a huge population growth. Also, they had weak governments after liberation from colonial powers along with low literacy rates, few people with managerial experience, a weak private economy, and transportation systems made for exporting. Finally, they were up against major western powers like the U.S. Am I missing anything???? Thanks bunches!

Margaret Fisher

9/10/2012 14:13:40

PEOPLE! Bingham wants us to step up and take charge here. I figured it out on my own, i mean I pretty much had it figured out, but someone should have responded by now. This is for us to help each other, not for Bingham to give us the answers, so let's utilize this tool.

Margaret Fisher

9/10/2012 14:32:08

I mostly meant that I figured my own question out, but I mean it's common sense that we should help each other, plus Bingham says it about 50 times all over this forum, well that and he with every post he makes on his own, without any student motivation, he gets more and more irritated.

Bingham

9/10/2012 14:22:26

Right on track Margaret. And when it comes to African independent states, think about how things
often turned out, military coups, much like Latin America.

Bingham

10/10/2012 01:53:53

That looks pretty thorough Margret. The only thing I would add is the push and pull effect on these countries by the Western capitalist world and the communist world.
Also, often, these countries had to search for a new and unique identity to which the population could identify.

Bingham

9/10/2012 14:25:16

Consider this: how did British rule shape independence in India? Help each other out, Margaret got the point, have you?

Margaret Fisher

9/10/2012 14:43:47

Ok, so did Britain's rule over India sort of leave a framework for government in India after they gained their independence? Like transportation, schools, etc.? Also, sorry if I've seemed snotty, I realize I've been kind of harsh and…well a smart ass. Sorry people, I just wanted help and I don't want us to lose this tool or Bingham's help.

Margaret Fisher

9/10/2012 14:45:11

I feel like what I just said was very wrong. I'm very fuzzy on that.

Emily Sherman

9/10/2012 14:31:48

So I unfortunately came down with a small fever today and decided to use my time wisely by reading Strayer rather than lying on the couch. I read and outline this whole chapter and then went back and completed the margin questions. Then I get on here and see that all anybody seems to have done is completed the margin questions in great detail. What I am wondering is should I have spent all that time reading/outlining the whole chapter or should I just have gone right into answering the margin questions in great detail? It seems to me kind of pointless to just scavenge for answers rather than getting an understanding and then answering, but I might be totally wrong.

Margaret Fisher

9/10/2012 14:35:19

Well, we need to know the margin questions and the big picture questions at the end, but we also have to dig into the text and find some hidden gems there. For example, I don't remember the socialism question on the Ch. 22 test being a margin or big picture question, and since I focused all my energy on those questions, I got it wrong. In conclusion, no I don't think it's a waste of time. We should really understand the text and the questions, but be able to sort through all the garbage in the text.

Bingham link

9/10/2012 14:38:41

No Emily you did the right thing. It's not all about the margin questions, but they are the most important! I'm guessing you will do well on the test again.

Emily Sherman

9/10/2012 14:42:35

Thank you so much! And I thought it was a reading check we're taking tomorrow, not the test.

Bingham

9/10/2012 14:44:24

True, but it's all the same stuff.

Bingham

9/10/2012 14:52:29

Don't worry about snotty, I think it's appropriate! And yes, you nailed my question. All that and the British gave them the very idea of a nation of India. Independent parts before British rule.
Too bad they didn't realize that the two cultures could have merged into something amazing.

Margaret Fisher

9/10/2012 14:54:34

Yay! And yes, that certainly would have made for a much more peaceful future if they hadn't split. Now if we can just learn from history….

Bingham

9/10/2012 15:00:36

Ah, that's the trick! But first we have to LEARN the history.
Merging with other cultures has been and is the genius of India, in the past and today. That and non violence. So much to learn!

Margaret

9/10/2012 15:05:20

And THAT folks is why we take WHAP!

Bingham

10/10/2012 10:09:25

The huge improvements is scores continues guys! 90 of you are making breakthroughs to higher scores. This week's reading checks were the best yet!
Someone who has been getting 20 to 40 on reading checks got a 100 today. She said, "I finally listened to you Bingham, and did the reading over the weekend and just reviewed during the week." I've said it a million times, if what you're doing doesn't work, do something else!
I'm super proud of you guys!

Patrick Song

10/10/2012 22:07:51

Hey Mr. Bingham!

I was looking back on the question you mentioned about comparing/contrasting the ANC and INC and was wondering if there's a certain amount of similarities and differences you want. Like for differences I only have INC saught peaceful protests and ended up dividing land between religion while ANC ended up resorting to violence and assassination, only to divide the land they won by race, ethnicity and ideology.

Bingham

10/10/2012 22:18:37

Patrick, a few things. It's not what I want, it's what Strayer says. Focus on that. I think you missed the fact that the ANC never really thought they were going to be a part of the white government. And I don't think I understand what you're saying about the ANC seeing a split along race in a new government. I think you should refer to my chapter 23 notes.

Bingham

11/10/2012 07:22:31

Hey dudes,

Due to Pajama Game, I'm forced to cancel the chapter 23 test. I'm not very happy because I have the feeling that you guys are more prepared for this test than any other so far. I will do this for those of you who have done the work. If you come it at lunch by next Wednesday and take the test and score 80 to a 89, I'll give you a point on your six week average for extra credit; 90 to 100, 2 points.

ALSO, because we will have a short period on Wednesday due to SAT/PSAT, I'm re-arranging the reading check schedule. We'll do that on Monday/Tuesday, play with documents on Wednesday and do the chapter 24 test on Thursday/Friday.

Harris Cobb

11/10/2012 12:57:51

In regards to the extra credit test, is that going to be just the 1 or 2 extra average points or the bonus points PLUS a an added test grade?

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