Vocabulary: None

Textbook Reading:

Topic 7.6 (453-459)

Topic 7.7 (462-470)

Write as a Historian: 486-87

Answer questions 1-6 (write out the answer)

Imperialism Project

Group Project:

Each individual will be assigned a specific task/job, however it is recommended that everyone work together.

Countries: China, Vietnam, Egypt, Congo, Zanzibar, South Africa, India, Algeria, German East Africa

Tasks:

Pro Imperialist – the student will make a pro imperialist commercial highlighting all of the great things that imperialism has done for both countries. This will be in the format of a video that must be 3-5 minutes long. It must contain 5 specific facts/historical events that benefit either country.

Anti-Imperialist – the student will create an anti-imperialistic pamphlet/poster highlighting the “evils” that have befallen their country due to imperialism. It must contain 5 facts/historical events and a call to action to throw off “the yoke of imperialism” using the rhetorical strategy of pathos.

Historian: The student will present to the class the causes and effect of imperialism of their chosen country in a 0bjective manner. They must also highlight the other two students work and explain the bias of each, as well as explain which major cause was the result of imperialism (4 major causes given in class). The presentation must be 3-8 mminutes and be on power point so that the class can take notes.

Scribe: The student will turn in a written report on the country, incorporating the information that the historian presented. The report will be in standard format and a minimum of 5 paragraphs.

Assigned Reading

Human Rights, Natural Rights,and Europe’s Imperial Legacy

Assigned Novel: Heart of Darkness

The Wilderness:

1. Why does Marlowe equate the wilderness with “evil or truth”?
2. Why does Marlowe say that if one were “man enough,” one could admit to a kinship with the primitive Africans?
3. Why does Marlowe speak of travel up the river as travel “towards Kurtz”?
4. Why does Marlowe say of England that “this also… has been one of the dark places of the earth”?

Historical Context:

1. How does Conrad portray Imperialism towards the natives?
2. How does Conrad portray Imperialism towards the imperialists?
3. Choose any passage you feel has historical merit and explain why.
4. Why does Marlowe come to accept the belief that what “redeems” conquest by brute force is the “idea” behind it?

Psychological:

1. Why does Marlow conclude that “we live, as we dream – alone”?
2. What does Marlowe mean by saying that when he is concentrating on “mere incidents of the surface,… the reality…fades. The inner truth is hidden – luckily…”?
3. What does Marlowe mean by saying, “I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself – your own reality”?

Groups A Block: Left side of room and Right side of the room (what I had assigned in class previously)

Groups C Block: (1) Mitch, Di, Kianna, Yanfu (2) Jo, AJ, Robby, Richard, Clayton

Assigned Videos