For the Week of April 19

1. Think about and be ready to write your short story based on a historical event: Egg Wars of the Gold Rush on the Farallan Islands (The Teeth of the Devil).

2. Read Bark of the Bog Owl, chapters 17-22. Answer the following questions:

Ch. 17 How do feechie travel? What is the old feechie lore prophecy that Dobro shares with Aidan? Why did the battle camp feel strange?

Ch. 18 Why is everyone in the battle camp so discouraged? How does Aidan feel about Greidawl?

Ch. 19 What does Herschel feel Aidan over his morning campfire? Who does Aidan find with King Darrow? What does Aidan do in response to Herschel’s news? What does Aidan say when the king doubts he can stand to Greidawl? Lord Selwyn on p155 says, “If the boy ___________ to ______ for ________________, why ______ let_______?”

Ch. 20 Why does Aidan not accept armor or weapon from the King? What does Aidan tell the King is the only way to fight Greidawl or the Pyrthens?  What question does Bayard tell Aidan he should ask?  Bayard says on p164, “Darrow has _________ the _______. That is why I am _______. Tomorrow he will ______ the _____. That is why ______ are here.”

Ch. 21 What does Greidawl think of Aidan as Corenwald’s champion? What does Aidan say? How did Aidan know how to wield the battle ax?  What is Aidan’s short victory speech?

Ch. 22 What does Aidan do during the battle? Who finds Aidan? Where do they take Aidan? What astonishing thing does Brennan say to Aidan while they are running? After the Corenwalders fall back, what do the Pyrthns start doing? What information does Harlan Ebbetson bring to the King? Who will scout the cave?

3. Read chapters 7 and 8 of Story of the World, answering these questions:

Chapter Seven

Two Empires and Three Republics

1. What three forms of government had France had by the year 1871?
2. What form of government did the French get rid of during the French Revolution?
3. What were two things Charles Xdid to anger his people?
4. What was the name of the revolution that forced Charles X to flee?
5. The Marquis de Lafayette wanted France to become what kind of country after Charles Had fled?
6. What did France become instead?
7. Why was Louis-Philippe called the “Citizen King?”
8. Why did Louis-Philippe’s enemies plan a huge gathering in Paris?
9. What happened when Louis-Philippe cancelled the gathering?
10. What did France become after Louis-Philippe fled?
11. Who won the first election for the new French president?
12. What did Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte declare himself to be?
13. On what country did the new Emperor, Napoleon III, declare war?
14. What happened when Napoleon III met the Prussians in battle?
15. With Napoleon III off the throne, what did France then become?
16. Did Napoleon III manage to get his throne back?

The Second Reich

1. In 1870, was there a country called “Germany?”
2. What was the loose group of thirty-eight German-speaking states called?
3. In a confederation, what do the states do together?
4. What about the states remains independent?
5. What did Otto von Bismark want to make Prussia into?
6. Bismarck wanted to turn the German confederation into something else. What was it?
7. When Wilhelm became first king of Prussia, what did Bismarck become?
8. After his speech announcing that Prussia would become strong “by blood and iron,” what did Bismarck become known as?
9. Why was Bismarck’s leadership known as the chancellor dictatorship? 
10. What country did Prussia attack in 1864?
11. What former ally did Prussia then attack?
12. What was the name of the confederations that Prussia then formed?
13. Which country did Prussia turn to confront?
14. Why did the states in the Confederations want to call Wilhelm of Prussia the “German Emperor” rather than the “Emperor of Germany?”
15. Why did Germans call their confederation the “Second Reich,” or “Second Kingdom?”
16. Why was Wilhelm’s son Friedrich worried about the Prussian influence on the other German states?
17. Did Friedrich become emperor after his father Wilhem?
18. What was Wilhelm II(the son of Friedrich, who inherited his throne) like?
19. Did he and Bismarck get along well?

Chapter Eight

Rails, Zones, and Bulbs

1. Where did Jupiter and Engine 119 meet?
2. Why was the railroad tie laid at Promontory Summit special?
3. How long did a railroad journey across the whole United States take?
4. Before railroads, how did people set their clocks?
5. Why did noon come sooner for an East Coast city than for a city a little further to the west?
6. Why did this cause trouble for train passengers?
7. What did Sir Sandford Fleming suggest as a solution?
8. How much difference in time was there between zones that were next to each other?
9. Besides railroads and time zones, what invention made the world more modern?
10. What scientist invented a light powered by electricity?
11. What part of the bulb did Edison have trouble with?
12. After the bulb, what did Edison hand his helpers need to develop?

Japan’s Meiji Restoration

1. Why were many Japanese unhappy with the treaty between American and Japan?
2. When Tokugawa Yoshinobu became shogun, what two things did he try to do?
3. When Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigned, who took the throne of Japan?
4. What two groups of Japanese fought a civil war?
5. Who won?
6. What was the new name of the city of Edo?
7. Who was really in control of the country?
8. List three things that the daimyo did in order to help Japan become more “Western.”
9. What is a feudal society?
10. What did the samurai get in return for fighting to protect the daimyo?
11. What did giving up their swords mean to the samurai?
12. What kind of army was going to replace the samurai?
13. How did the samurai react when they were told to give up their swords
14. What was this revolt called? Who led it?
15. How did it end?
16. When did Japan get its new constitution?
17. What country’s constitution was a model for the Japanese constitution?
18. What three parts did the Japanese government have?