HWC Day 85 - Revolution, Independence, & Neo-Liberalism

Objective:  Identify the regional and global significance of the Haitian Revolution.

Task:  As you arrive class, please get out your research essay and rubric.  Before you hand in your essay, you'll highlight your thesis and underline the topic sentences in each paragraph.  After I collect your essay, we'll finish our examination of the Haitian Revolution.  Then, we'll discuss the course of select independence movements in Latin America.

Homework:

• TODAY - Essay final draft due by 3:00 pm
• Friday, June 6 - Reading quiz re-take due
• Friday, June 6 - Kundun extra credit due
• Monday, June 9 - Cumulative Map Quiz
• Monday, June 9 - Research presentations due in class
• Friday, June 13 - Final Exam

"Latin American Independence: The Rodney Dangerfield of World Historical Events?" (John Chasteen, History News Network)

"South American Independence: 1813-1826" (Heritage History) 

"Simon Bolivar and the Spanish Revolutions" (History Today, 1983)

Latin American Independence Movements from Rene Knowles