Social Sciences
Today in Social Sciences at the beginning of the lesson we have started withthe Russian Revolutions. We have seen two images with soldiers and a phrase. The first point was the Russia under the tsars. At the beginning of the 20th century Russia was an autocracy (absolut monarchy) the tsar ruled as an absolute monarch : he concentrated a elot of powers, there was not Parliament and there were no elections.Tsar Nicolas II concentrated a lot of power, political parties were forbbiden and peasants were the majority of the population. Russia was an inmense empire, but politically, economically and socially backwards with respect to Western Europe. The parties that had appeared were_ Constitutional Democrat Party, the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, a Marxist party divided into two factions. Then, the teacher had speak about the legend of Anastasia. She said that it wasn't true, because after the end of the revolution they found the bones and they were translated to a cathedral. we continued speakean about the 1905 revolution. The Russian defeated against Japan in the Russo-Japanese war, showed Russia backwardness and encouraged protests.
-January 1905: a demostration of workers asking for better working conditions was brutally repressed by the army: 200 people was killed.
-The revolt extended to other parts of the country.
-Soviets appeared and triend to coordinate the protests. -The Tsar promissed to make some reforms, but he didn't keep his promises. The we have speak about Russia during the World War 1.
Was a total disaster for the Russian army: they suffered continous defeats against the Germans, who conquered a large amount oh Russian territories. The Tsar took personal command of the army and he was considerated to be the responsible of the disaster. At least, two million Russians soldiers and two million of civillian were killed during the war. The mobilization of of millions of peasants reduced the harvests and provoke a shortage of food, an increase of prices and hunger. Increasing desertions in the army and strikes in the cities. Soviets reappeared and organized protests. To do a summaty of this, Paqui has written five questions.
1.Write the main features of Russia under the tsars.
2.Which where the main political parties?
3. Explain what happened during the 1905 revolution and itrs consequences.
4. What is a Soviet?
5. What was Russian's participation in WW1 like?
Paqui let us starting in class the questions, but I can't star because I hadn't got a book. We have larnt a lot of vocabulary like:
-To resart: recurrir.
-Upto now: hasta ahora.
-Tsarist Russia: Rusia Zarista.
-Backwareds: retrasado, hacia atrás.
-Serfdom: servidumbre.
-Undisputed: indiscutible.
-Spork: chispa
-Demostration: manifestación.
-Demostrate: manifestar.
-Pope: pope (Orthodox Religion)
-Spontaneosly: espontáneamente.
-Battle ship: acorazado.
-Crew: tripulación.
-Crown: multitud.
-Silent movie: película muda.
-Disertation: deserción.
We also have seen a part of a silent movie called Battleship Potemkin, about the Russian war. Finally, I includ photo of of the Tsar Nicolas II.
Bye!
- Tuesday, 12th Of May 2015
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- Monday,11th Of May,2015
Hi! I'm Javi, and this is my Social Science class. When the class started, Paqui has told me that I have to do the journals to pass the second term and then,We have asked for a change of date for the exam, that she has delayed it until...
- 08 May 2015 (friday)
Hello everybody! It?s Amalia.I?m going to tell you what I have done today in social sciences lesson.At first some students have asked to Paqui if we could watch a video that they have made in French lesson and she accepted. Then we have corrected some...
- Tuesday, 14th Of April, 2015
Hello everybody! I'm Azahara and today it's my turn to write the journal. Today has been a different day, because Paqui hasn't come to the high school, she has gone on a trip to Toledo. Today I couldn't go to class, but my classmates have...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015
Hi classmates! Today in the class of Social Sciences we have started a new unit, unit 7: THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS. To start the unit, Paqui has written the index of the unit on the blackboard and then, we have copied it. The index...
Social Sciences
Thursday, 7th of May, 2015
Today in Social Sciences at the beginning of the lesson we have started withthe Russian Revolutions. We have seen two images with soldiers and a phrase. The first point was the Russia under the tsars. At the beginning of the 20th century Russia was an autocracy (absolut monarchy) the tsar ruled as an absolute monarch : he concentrated a elot of powers, there was not Parliament and there were no elections.Tsar Nicolas II concentrated a lot of power, political parties were forbbiden and peasants were the majority of the population. Russia was an inmense empire, but politically, economically and socially backwards with respect to Western Europe. The parties that had appeared were_ Constitutional Democrat Party, the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, a Marxist party divided into two factions. Then, the teacher had speak about the legend of Anastasia. She said that it wasn't true, because after the end of the revolution they found the bones and they were translated to a cathedral. we continued speakean about the 1905 revolution. The Russian defeated against Japan in the Russo-Japanese war, showed Russia backwardness and encouraged protests.
-January 1905: a demostration of workers asking for better working conditions was brutally repressed by the army: 200 people was killed.
-The revolt extended to other parts of the country.
-Soviets appeared and triend to coordinate the protests. -The Tsar promissed to make some reforms, but he didn't keep his promises. The we have speak about Russia during the World War 1.
Was a total disaster for the Russian army: they suffered continous defeats against the Germans, who conquered a large amount oh Russian territories. The Tsar took personal command of the army and he was considerated to be the responsible of the disaster. At least, two million Russians soldiers and two million of civillian were killed during the war. The mobilization of of millions of peasants reduced the harvests and provoke a shortage of food, an increase of prices and hunger. Increasing desertions in the army and strikes in the cities. Soviets reappeared and organized protests. To do a summaty of this, Paqui has written five questions.
1.Write the main features of Russia under the tsars.
2.Which where the main political parties?
3. Explain what happened during the 1905 revolution and itrs consequences.
4. What is a Soviet?
5. What was Russian's participation in WW1 like?
Paqui let us starting in class the questions, but I can't star because I hadn't got a book. We have larnt a lot of vocabulary like:
-To resart: recurrir.
-Upto now: hasta ahora.
-Tsarist Russia: Rusia Zarista.
-Backwareds: retrasado, hacia atrás.
-Serfdom: servidumbre.
-Undisputed: indiscutible.
-Spork: chispa
-Demostration: manifestación.
-Demostrate: manifestar.
-Pope: pope (Orthodox Religion)
-Spontaneosly: espontáneamente.
-Battle ship: acorazado.
-Crew: tripulación.
-Crown: multitud.
-Silent movie: película muda.
-Disertation: deserción.
We also have seen a part of a silent movie called Battleship Potemkin, about the Russian war. Finally, I includ photo of of the Tsar Nicolas II.
Bye!
- Tuesday, 12th Of May 2015
Hi I'm Gustavo! Today we have started the class asking Paqui if she can remove some theory of the exam or if she can say to us the questions of the exam, but Paqui has said to us no. Then we have asked her about the projects of the Diary Travel journal,...
- Monday,11th Of May,2015
Hi! I'm Javi, and this is my Social Science class. When the class started, Paqui has told me that I have to do the journals to pass the second term and then,We have asked for a change of date for the exam, that she has delayed it until...
- 08 May 2015 (friday)
Hello everybody! It?s Amalia.I?m going to tell you what I have done today in social sciences lesson.At first some students have asked to Paqui if we could watch a video that they have made in French lesson and she accepted. Then we have corrected some...
- Tuesday, 14th Of April, 2015
Hello everybody! I'm Azahara and today it's my turn to write the journal. Today has been a different day, because Paqui hasn't come to the high school, she has gone on a trip to Toledo. Today I couldn't go to class, but my classmates have...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015
Hi classmates! Today in the class of Social Sciences we have started a new unit, unit 7: THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS. To start the unit, Paqui has written the index of the unit on the blackboard and then, we have copied it. The index...