CPWC Day 63 - Historiography & Perspective

Objectives:  Analyze the impact of imperialism and nationalism on South Asia. Evaluate the interpretation of historical events.

Task: After you've recorded the daily objective, please turn in your homework to the back of the room and pick up "The White Man's Burden."  Read this document and answer the following questions:

1. Who wrote this poem?
2. When & where was this poem written?
3. What is this poem about?  Select one excerpt that best illustrates the main idea of this poem.
4. What does this poem tell us about the British?  
5. What does this poem tell us about India?

We'll spend some time discussing your answers to the questions above.  Then, we'll finish our notes on the history of South Asia.  Finally, we'll spend the remainder of class comparing British and Indian historical accounts of British rule in India.

Homework:

• Thursday, December 13 - Complete Venn diagram comparing British and Indian interpretation
• Thursday, December 13 - Chapter 26 Reading Quiz (notes may be used on the quiz)
• Tuesday, December 18 - Unit 6 Test  (study guide posted to Moodle)
• Wednesday, January 2 - Kundun & Gandhi extra credit due

Resources:

• Newsreel interview with Mahatma Gandhi

• Gandhi on resistance and non-violence (from 1982 film, Gandhi)

• Dramatization of Salt Works resistance (from 1982 film, Gandhi)