Attached is the table I will be using to mark the Saving Francesca essay responses my English class will be writing later this week. Read through it so that you understand where to put your effort to get the best mark.
Year Ten English
Finish reading Saving Francesca if you have not already. Make sure your class notes are in order for the timed essay on Thursday.
Year Ten History.
Make sure your notes are complete and in order.
You would do well to pick the topic of your 1920s assignment this week.
Year Nine History
Make sure your notes are complete and in order.
Here are the notes from year 10 History class on Monday.
Famous composers and musicians included;
Louis Armstrong
Irving Berlin
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Jelly Roll Morton
Al Jolson
New dances
The Charleston
Popular in jazz clubs.
Vigorous and sexual
Believed to have originated with African Americans who lived near Charlestown in North Carolina.
Flappers
Flapper behaviour. The archetypal flapper;
Was a young women
Went out to clubs dancing at night.
Smoked cigarettes.
Rode bicycles and drove cars.
Drank alcohol openly.
Cut her hair “boyishly†and dyed it black.
The “bob†haircut was popular.
Didn’t wear corsets or pantaloons.
Dresses were straight and loose.
Arms were bare.
Waistline dropped to the hips.
Rayon stockings were held up with garter belts.
Skirt lines were sometimes almost up to the knee.
A round hat called a cloche.
Wore make up, previously worn only by actresses and prostitutes.
Famous actors included
Rudolph Valentino
Fatty Arbuckle
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Lon Chaney
“Big Five†sporting icons of the Roaring Twenties
Babe Ruth (baseball)
Jack Dempsey (boxing)
Red Grange (college football)
Bill Tilden (tennis)
Bobby Jones (golf)
Jack Dempsey
Heavyweight boxer
Held the title from 1919 – 1926
His record
83 Fights
62 Wins
50 KOs
6 Losses
9 Draws
Notes from History on Friday
Jazz
Americans bought more than 100 millions record in 1927.
More than 100 “territory†bands toured the country playing at dances.
The Deluxe Melody Boys
Jesse Stone’s Blue Serenaders
Walter Page and his Blue Devils.
Andy Kirk’s Clouds of Joy
In small town America jazz was an annoyance and made morals loose.
Professor Henry Van Dyck of Princeton University.
“it is not music at all. It is merely an irritation of the nerves of hearingâ€
“”jazz” is an unmitigated cacophony, a combination of disagreeable sounds in complicated discords, a wilful ugliness and a deliberate vulgarity.â€
Fears of jazz often racially based;
Some said Jazz originated in “the Negro brothels of the South.â€
Critic Carl Engel worried about the effects on American youth of “Semitic purveyors of Broadway melodiesâ€.
ACTIVITY
What music is considered dangerous to morals today?
Give example of genres and artists.
What are behaviour do critics claim this music encourages?
How much does this have in common with the reaction to jazz?
Famous composers and musicians included;
Louis Armstrong
Irving Berlin
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Jelly Roll Morton
Al Jolson
We are making pretty good time learning about the 1920s but I am having to cut some information out so that we are finished in time to start on the assignment in the next two weeks.
I am included the whole slidepack here, 68 slides in total. This should make a good resource for general revision especially as you work on your assignment.
Prohibition of alcohol
The Volstead Act. 1919. National Prohibition Act.
This banned the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” in the United States.
32,000 speakeasies in New York in the 1920s.
Drinking cocktails popular in upper classes.
Prohibition repealed in December 1933.
Increase in organised Crime
Bootlegging
Gangs
Al Capone
Famous gangster
Known as “Scarfaceâ€.
Convicted 1931 of tax eviction.
Jazz
Americans bought more than 100 millions record in 1927.
More than 100 “territory†bands toured the country playing at dances.
The Deluxe Melody Boys
Jesse Stone’s Blue Serenaders
Walter Page and his Blue Devils.
Andy Kirk’s Clouds of Joy
In small town America jazz was an annoyance and made morals loose.
Professor Henry Van Dyck of Princeton University.
“it is not music at all. It is merely an irritation of the nerves of hearingâ€
“”jazz” is an unmitigated cacophony, a combination of disagreeable sounds in complicated discords, a wilful ugliness and a deliberate vulgarity.â€
Cultural Expression: The Roaring Twenties
Due: Monday 21st May 2007.
Describe the work of an artist or cultural group from the 1920s.
Describe the response to this artist or group at the time.
Effects of this artist or cultural group on the times and on modern culture.
Between 600 and 800 words
See the whole description for the marking scheme and more information.
My sister pointed me to this interesting article about the First World War and what the casualty numbers might mean today. The article is not especially long but it is interesting.
A different matter nine decades ago | The Australian Mark Day Blog
I am sorry this information is so late this week. I have been flat out like a lizard drinking.
Year Nine History
You have a test on Friday. You can use the notes in your books as you complete this. I would recommend you read over your notes before class to give you the best chance of a great result. If you have missed class please check the category for Year Nine History to make sure you have no missed any notes about Sqautters.
Year Ten History
Some people still need to complete either their WWI or WWII assignments. In some cases people have not handed in either. If you have either outstanding you absolutely need to get them done by this Monday coming.
Year Ten English
Next week you will be writing a timed essay about Saving Francesca. You MUST have read it before then. If you have not finished it then your chances of passing this task are not good. If you have finished it then look over your chapter summaries or even re-read it.
I have added quite a few of your chapter summaries to the collection this week. Use them to complete any notes you may have missed.
Please note that it is not entirely correct. There are some factual errors here and there and you always need to check back to the book or your own notes when quoting in essays especially those which count towards your report.
I saw a drama last night on the ABC about Curtin who was the Australian Prime Minster for a key period of the Second World War. Before watching this I really had not appreciated just how much danger Australian was in from the Japanese or quite how perilous the world was generally.
The show was a little slow moving and a bit talky but it should be great for anyone interested Australia in the Second World War.
Not cheap to setup.
Your father might lend you money.
Banks and moneylenders.
Some took 1/3 of your profits.
Needed to buy sheep and supplies.
Supplies
Horses and dray (2 wheeled cart).
Bullocks and wagons.
Tools
Clothes
Building materials
You needed to take food
Tea
Flower
Sugar
Tobacco
Useful for trade.
3 or 4 shepherds for 2,000 sheep.
Hutkeepers
An overseer.
Money to pay
Shearers
Bullock drivers
For a couple of years until you made a profit.
Quick Quiz
True or False?
Squatters were all experienced farmers.
Squatters used maps to find unused land.
Land was expensive.
Setting up your run was dirt cheap.
Notes from Monday’s history classes.
Cultural and Economic Changes
Massive increase in urbanisation.
Mass transit and housing, such as skyscrapers, emerged.
The service sector and white collar jobs increased considerably.
Women worked in many of these jobs.
Cars
Cars became affordable and popular.
By 1927, Henry Ford had sold 15 million Model Ts Fords.
Automotive industry boomed.
Associated businesses such as petrol stations, motels and making oil all boomed too.
Government built infrastructure increased.
Electricity.
Telephone lines.
Highways.
This left many local governments in debt which became a problem in the Depression.
Prohibition of alcohol
The Volstead Act. 1919. National Prohibition Act.
This banned the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” in the United States.
32,000 speakeasies in New York in the 1920s.
Drinking cocktails popular in upper classes.
Prohibition repealed in December 1933.
Notes from Friday’s Year Nine History class.
Finding a Run
You had to find land for yourself
No maps for unexplored areas.
No internet sites.
No newspaper ads for land.
Go out along a track past existing squatters and head into the bush.
Ask existing squatters if they know of good land.
Choosing a Run
The land would not be cleared so it could be hard to tell if it was any good.
Probably took what you could find and hoped for the best.
Burned some trees to show your claim.
Went back to Melbourne or Sydney to register your claim.
After 1836 land cost £10 a year to use.
Questions
What makes good land for squatting? (five factors)?
Who owned the land squatters were using?
Why did you probably take your chances with the first land you found?
Setting Up
Not cheap to setup.
Your father might lend you money.
Banks and moneylenders.
Some took 1/3 of your profits.
Needed to buy sheep and supplies.
