English Literature and HG Assignments for Summer 2021

Posted on June 14, 2021 by kcarpenzano

Part One

**English Literature Summer Assignments for all students:**

TERM OIB Summer 2021

Baldwin-Stranger-in-the-Village

PREMIERE OIB Summer 2021

2nde OIB Summer 2021

3ieme OIB Summer 2021 Assignments

Summer Reading 4°

5° OIB Summer Reading: Buy the book ‘Wonder’ by RJ Palacio and complete the questions on this document:

5ème OIB Summer 2021 reading questions Wonder by RJ Palacio

6EME OIB Summer OIB

Part Two

HG Summer Assignments for students entering 1°OIB and T°OIB:

(Scroll down for 1°OIB and T°OIB assignments)

1°OIB Summer Work

History Theme 1

HG Summer Assignment for 1°OIB 2021

1°OIB Summer assignment 2021 chps

Summer 2021 Homework Support Resources:

Crash course episode on Westward US Expansion:

Link to short video deconstructing the myth of the Alamo (3m):

https://www.britannica.com/video/167039/overview-siege-Alamo

Books T°OIB students need to purchase (for Summer Assignment and Prior Reading Assignments throughout the forthcoming year):

This is the History book for obligatory background reading assignments in each chapter:

This is the corresponding Geography book for each chapter:

T°OIB Summer Assignment

History Chapter One:

Causes and Impacts of the 1929 Crisis, Great Depression and Responses

HG Summer Assignment for T°OIB 2021

Additional Resources to support Summer Work on the Great Depression :

1) Article explaining the different economic viewpoints of KEYNES and HAYEK:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-‐14366054

2) Crash Course: Great Depression Episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQfMWAikyU

3) Crash Course: New Deal Episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMq9Ek6jnA

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OPTIONAL HOLIDAY WORK

3EME History Homework

3EME History Theme 3 holiday work booklet

4EME History Homework

4EME History Theme 3 holiday work booklet

Overview of HG Syllabus and Summer Assignment

Posted on June 4, 2021 by OIB HG

HISTORY

Nations, Empires, Nationalities (from 1789 to the end of the First World War)

Theme 1: Revolutionary Europe and the US Experience

1: The French Revolution and Empire: a New Conception of the Nation

2: Europe between Restoration and Revolution (1814-48)

3: Meanwhile in America…

Theme 2: France and the US – Politics and Societies

4: The Second Republic and the Second Empire

5: Crisis of the Republic – American Civil War

6: Industrialization: Economic and Social Transformation in France and the USA

Theme 3: France and the US – Politics and Society to 1914

7: Consolidating the Republican Regime

8: Continuity and Change in French and US Society, 1870-1914

9: American and French Imperialism

Theme 4: WW1 – The Suicide of Europe

10: Overview of WW1

11: The Home Front and Total War

12: The End of WW1 and Transition to Peace

GEOGRAPHY

The Dynamics of a Changing World

Theme 1: Urbanisation: a Global Differentiated Process

1: Cities at a Global Scale: the Growing Importance of Cities

2: Unequal and Changing Cities

3: Urbanisation in France

Theme 2: Diversification of Spaces, Actors and Production Spaces

4: Production Spaces

5: Urbanisation and Coastal Productive Zones

6: France: Productive Systems – Local, European and Global

Theme 3: US Rural Spaces

7: Fragmentation, Diversification and Conflict in Rural Spaces

8: Texas Case Study

Theme 4: China: Spatial Changes

10: Development and Inequalities

11: Resources and Environments under Pressure

12: Spatial Reconfiguration: Cities, Coasts and Rural Change

Summer Assignment 2021:

Preparation for History Theme 1

HG Summer Assignment for 1°OIB 2021

1°OIB Summer assignment 2021 chps

Summer 2021 Homework Support Resources:

Crash course episode on Westward US Expansion:

Link to short video deconstructing the myth of the Alamo (3m):

https://www.britannica.com/video/167039/overview-siege-Alamo

Overview of T°OIB and Summer 2021 Assignment

Posted on June 4, 2021 by OIB HG

This is the History book for obligatory background reading assignments in each chapter:

This is the corresponding Geography book for each chapter:

T°OIB Syllabus

History

Theme 1: Challenges to Democracy, Rise of Totalitarianism and World War II: 1929-1945

Chp1: Causes and impacts of the 1929 Crisis + Great Depression

Chp2: Totalitarian Regimes (Nazi Germany and Stalin’s USSR)

Chp3: World War Two (Survey of the war, Violence, French Experience)

Theme 2: The Post War Bi-Polar World and Challenges

Chp1: End of WW2 and Emergence of the Cold War

Chp2: A New Geopolitical Order and Emergence of the Developing World

a) Creation of Israel and the Arab Response *

b) Emergence of Mao’s China *

c) Vietnam War, 1955-63

d) French Republic and Nationalist Movements in Africa, 1954-62

e) Castro’s Cuba, 1959-62 *

Theme 3: Economic, Political and Social Changes: 1950s-91

Chp1: International Economic and Political Changes

a) Oil and Political Islam

b) Deng and Reagan

c) The Rise of the EU and Fall of the USSR

Chp2: Domestic Challenges within the USA and France from the 1950s to 2001

Pillar One: The USA

Impact of Vietnam War

Civil Rights Movement

Rise and Evolution of Conservatism

Pillar Two: Protest and Government Responses in the USA and France

1968 and Counterculture

Feminism and Women’s Rights

LGBTQ+ Rights

Geography

Theme 1: Seas and Oceans at the Core of Globalization

-Importance of Maritime Space in globalization

-Unequal integration of territories into globalization

-Tensions between States over the control and use of maritime space (e.g. South China Sea)

–Question spécifique: France and the USA – a comparison of maritime powers

Theme 2: Territorial Dynamics, Cooperation and Tensions in Globalization

-Unequal integration of territories into globalization

-The place of the USA in Globalization

-Examples of Globalization at different scales:

Local, Regional, Global

Question spécifique: France – differentiated international influence and unequal attractiveness in globalization

Theme 3: Complex Dynamics: The European Union and Globalization

– The European Union and Globalization

Question Spécifique – The differential dynamics of cross- border territories of the United States and of France in the EU.

Summer work preparation for History Chapter One: