Important announcement!

Folks, I can't be in class tomorrow because I have to be in the hospital with my dad, who is undergoing minor surgery in Portland. He had brain surgery a week ago, and is making progress, but needs one more minor procedure before he can come back here to the eastside and continue his recovery in a rehab facility. You can send me questions by email(brigitf2001@yahoo.com), because it'll be a long day of just sitting, and then you will have your exam on Wednesday. My dad and I both apologize for the disruption...he taught history himself for 35 years.

Here we go again with question #2 for next week's exam: Directions part II: Mystery question. You will answer a general question on Peter Englund’s book The Beauty and the Sorrow, based on the years l9l4 and l9l5. HINT: think about how the individuals profiled in the book help you understand the nature of this conflict. You will not be asked to describe in detail what happened on page 102 or anything like that…

October 17 exam question #2(50%)

October 17 exam question 1(50%)

Another term for the Great War is the “World War,” so called before l939 partly because no one could envision a second, partly because of its reach. Although it started in Sarajevo, Bosnia, southeast Europe, it went global virtually from its first moments. Write an essay in which you explain how this was a world war even in its first two years. You can either narrate how it became global, in other words go chronological, or go thematically and give evidence of its global nature—you could write a book on either.