Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee

Journey back in time to the end of the nineteenth century when London welcomed the world’s greatest leaders in every field. From the United States, Russia, Germany, India China, South America and Japan, they all came to London for one reason, to celebrate the sixty year reign of Queen Victoria. For most of the nineteenth century Queen Victoria presided over the most powerful empire in the world. During her lifetime remarkable inventions and events had created a society poised on the precipice of a new century. In 1897, a great celebration was planned to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and you are invited. People called the 1890’s La Belle Epoch and to many it was a time of great hope and a strong belief in progress. To others, it was a miserable existence of back breaking labor and limited rights. With hindsight, we realize that at the end of the nineteenth century there were great social and political problems that would culminate in stupendous societal change and a devastating world war. But in 1897 those things were still ahead. Suppose that a cross section of society had met at the British Museum in London, an unlikely mix of political leaders, dissidents, inventors, imperialists and anti-imperialists to begin a dialogue. What would they have learned? Would it have changed future events?

The Task
The Process
The Guest List
Online Resources

The Task

You will be a historical person or invited to a remarkable reception to commemorate Queen Victoria’s reign and debate the social and political problems of the day. A diverse group of social activists, political leaders, authors, artists, scientists, inventors and common people from all over the world have been invited by the British Museum to meet and discuss the important issues of the day.

At the reception you will be seated with a carefully selected and diverse group of people. But since many of the guests are not yet famous and some were invited because of the groups and opinions that that they represent, you will have to prepare and give an introduction for yourself. Your introduction should tell the other guests at the table who you are, where you are from, what you do, and what your concerns are now and for the future. You will explain what direction you think the British Empire should take for the approaching new century.

Prior to the reception, you will research your character  and a social or political issue that would concern your character.  You will prepare an autobiography, a welcoming speech, and an essay.  See the assignment sheet.

You will be assigned a table and a topic for discussion at the meeting. You will each introduce yourselves by giving a short introductory speech and exchange cards. In your table group, you will be able to ask questions, debate and influence some of the people who were important at the time and some who would become powerful leaders in the twentieth century. Discussion topics will include the following subjects: the impact of technology on society, the movement to extend the suffrage to women and men, imperialism, and the changes in the arts. You will be expected to discuss all of these topics.

Following the reception, you will turn in a scrapbook with the items indicated on the assignment sheet.

Your teacher will assign you to a person based on your interests. If you are interested in literature, you will be assigned a writer. If you are interested in a particular country, you will be assigned a person from that country, etc. Before you portray that person, you will have to research what was happening in that person’s life, accomplishments, and beliefs. You may not be able to find detailed information about that person’s life. But you will be able to find out about what they did and what events they were involved in. You will find a brief biography of your person from Americana (http://ea.grolier.com/ea-online/static/search.htm)

You will then research your person’s ideas and the events that person participated in on the Internet and in books.

Once you have researched your historical character and the ideas that your character represents, you will prepare a scrapbook documenting your person and his or her experiences. Use primary sources and you may quote your character’s words whenever appropriate.

Here is a listing of the table groups along with some of the sites that will help you in gathering information:

Imperialists and anti-imperialists

India:

Vallabhbhari Patel 1875-1850 Indian Statesman

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 Poet, philosopher, Nobel Laureate, Indian Leader
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/freedom/tagore.htm

George Nathanial Curzon 1859-1925 Indian Viceroy the next year, Imperialist

Annie Besant 1847-1933 Fabian Society member, theosopist, Indian nationalist leader
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/authors/besant/besantov.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/b5.htm
http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/qotations/authors/quotes_besant_annie.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/0105.html
Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1866-1915 Indian nationalist, influenced Gandhi

Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) author, Imperialist

Anna Leonowens (Anna and the King of Siam)

Mohandas K. Gandhi 1869-1948
http://www.wittenberg.edu/academics/cmln/gandhi_chronology.shtml
http://www.kamat.commgandhi/gandhi.htm

South Africa-Boar War

Cecil Rhodes 1853-1902 Imperialist

Ireland-Irish Independence Movement

Arthur Griffith founder of Sinn Fein, also see Charles Stewart Parnell and Home Rule Bill, Crimes Act, Cohersion Act of 1881

William Butler Yeats, started Irish Rennaisance, author, 1865-1939

Maude Gonne, Yeats’ wife and Irish Patriot

Society for the study of 19^th Century Ireland
http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/ssnci.html

China

Tz’u Hsi Dowager Empress of China 1835-1908
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/socl/customsetiquettefolklore/CourtLifeinChina/toc.html
http://history1800s.about.com/homework/history1800s/library/weekly/aa051400.htm
Emperor Kang Hsu

Boxer-society of Harmonious Fists
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHING/BOXER.HTM
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900Fei-boxers.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900yao-boxers.html

Soong Yao-ju or Charles Jones Soong 1866-1918 Chinese industrialist and leader

Sun Yat-sen 1866-1925 Chinese Nationalist
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/sunyat.html

Japan

Emperor Meiji 1852-1912
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/3953/showa.html

Empress Shoken
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/3953/showa.html

Lafcadio Hearn 1850-1904 Yokumo Koisuma made culture of Meiji Japan known to the west
http://www.trussel.com/
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/lh/hearn.html
 
 

Other people interested in Imperialism

Sanford Ballard Dole first senator from Hawaii, 1844-1926

Queen Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii

Hawaii’s Last Queen
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hawaii/

Emperor of Korea

Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919 American statesman
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/indexjs.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tr/
 
 

Arts-authors, artists, composers,

Writers
Jules Verne 1828-1905 Author
http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/JulesVerne/biblio/
http://ww.people.Virginia.EDU/~mtp0f/flips/jules.html

Edith Wharton 1862-1937 American author
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/
http://www.kutztown.edu/faculty/reagan/wharton.html
http://www.greatwomen.org/whrtn.htm

H.G. Wells 1866-1941 Author and Fabian Society Member
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8169/index.htm

Jack London 187-1916 American Author
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
http://www.parks.sonoma.net/JLStory.html

Willa Cather 1873-1947 American Author
http://www.greatwomen.org/cather.htm

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 author

Beatrix Potter 1866-1943 Author, Humanitarian

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1835-1910
http://marktwain.about.com/arts/marktwain/
http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/Exhibits/MTP/
http://www.boondocksnet.com/twain/contested.html (Anti-imperialist writings)

Henry James 1943-1916
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/james/jamint.htm
http://www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/

Composers

Guiseppe Verdi 1813-1901 Italian operetic composer, nationalist themes
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/Romantic/Verdi__Giuseppe__1813_1901_/

Gustav Mahler 1860-1911 Composer
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/Romantic/Mahler__Gustav__1860_1911_/

Jean Sibelius 1865-1957-Finnish composer
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/3228/Sibelius/index.html

Arthur Seymour Sullivan
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/Romantic/Sullivan__Sir_Arthur_Seymour__1842_1900_/

Giuseppe Verde
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/Romantic/Verdi__Giuseppe__1813_1901_/

John Philip Souza
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/20th_Century_and_Contemporary/Sousa__John_Philip__1854_1932_/

Johannes Brahms 1833-1897 Composer

Claude Debussy 1855-1918 composer
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/Romantic/Debussy__Claude__1862_1918_/

Antonin Dvorak
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/Romantic/Dvorak__Antonin__1841_1904_/

Sergei Rachmanioff
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/Romantic/Rachmaninoff__Sergei__1873_1943_/

Joseph Maurice Ravel
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/Romantic/Ravel__Joseph_Maurice__1875_1937_/

Artists

Kathe Kollwitz 1867-1945 German realist artist
http://www.pasqualeart.com/kollwitz.html

Henri Matisse 1869-1954 Artist

Gustav Klimt 1862-1918 Austrian artist

Mary Cassatt 1844-1926 American Impressionist Painter
http://metalab.unc.edu/louvre/paint/auth/cassatt/
http://www.greatwomen.org/casstt.htm

Paul Cezanne 1839-1906 impressionist painter

James McNeill Whisler, American born president of the Society of British Artists

Claude Monet

Edouard Manet

Edouard Degas

Peter Carl Faberge 1846-1920 jeweler to the Russian Imperial Court

Women Artists of the 19^th Century
http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html#19

Performers

Anna Pavlova 1882-1831 Dance

Isadora Duncan 1877-1927 dancer
http://www.sfmuseum.org:80/bio/isadora.html

Sarah Bernhardt 1844-1923 Actress

Enrico Caruso 1873-1921 Opera singer

Humanitarians

Jacob Riis 1849-1914-humanitarian

Florence Nightengale 1820-1910

Julia Ward Howe 1819-1900-humanitarian
http://www.greatwomen.org/jones.htm

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 author, Fabian Society member (promoted social change)

Jane Addams 1860-1935 Humanitarian
http://www.galegroup.com/schools/resrcs/womenhst/addamsj.htm
http://www.greatwomen.org/addams.htm
"Why Woman Should Vote" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1915janeadams-vote.html

Clara Barton 1821-1912 founder of the American Red Cross, Humanitarian
http://www.greatwomen.org/barton.htm

Mary McLoad Bethune 1875-1985? Black educator
http://www.greatwomen.org/bethune.htm

Suffrage Movement
 
 

Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928-Suffragist
http://ukdb.web.aol.com/hutchinson/encyclopedia/49/M0012149.htm
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/pankhurst01.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914Pankhurst.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1913pankhurst.html

Elizabeth Blackwell 1821-1910 First woman doctor

http://www.greatwomen.org/blkwele.htm

Nellie Bly 1867-1922 American women journalist
Around the World in 72 Days-The Story of Nellie Bly
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/world/
http://www.greatwomen.org/bly.htm
http://www.dnai.com/~ljtaflin/FEMJOUR/bly.html
http://www.greatwomen.org/bly.htm

Annie Oakley 1860-1926
http://www.greatwomen.org/oakley.htm
http://ormiston.com/annieoakley/

Carrie Chapman Catt 1859-1947 American Suffragist
http://web.missouri.edu/~c722079/cattlinks.html
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~wsthune/catt/
http://www.greatwomen.org/catt.htm

Nancy Astor 1879-1964, Suffragist
http://www.cp-tel.net/miller/BilLee/quotes/Astor.html
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/astor.html

Victoria Woodhull 1838-1947 American feminist leader
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/woodhull.html

Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906 Suffragist leader
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/first.htm
http://www.greatwomen.org/anthony.htm
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1873anthony.html

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
http://www.greatwomen.org/stanton.htm

Labor Leaders

Eugene Debs 1855-1926 labor organizer-president of the Amer. RR Union

Emma Goldman 1869-1940 American unionist
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Exhibition/
http://www.graveyards.com/foresthome/goldman.html
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Guide/

Mother Jones-Mary Harris
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/majones.html
 
 

Inventors and Scientists

George Washington Carver 1864-1943 American inventor

Gottlieb Daimler 1834-1900 inventor of the Daimler engine

Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922

Marie Curie 1867-1903
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/CURIE.html
http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/rci/ss4/ss4_11.html

Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931

Gugliermo Marconi 1874-1937 Italian inventor of the radio and Nobel Laureate—In 1987, he formed the Marconi’s Wireless Company, Inc.

Andrew Carnegie
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/

Albert Einstein
http://www.westegg.com/einstein/
Einstein Revealed-Nova http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 Father of Psycho-Therapy
http://plaza.interport.net/nypsan/freudarc.html
http://plaza.interport.net/nypsan/

Political Leaders and Rulers

Nicolas II 1868-1918 Czar of Russia
Alexander Palace Time Machine
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/

Nicholas II
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/7398/

Eternal Flame for the Romanovs
http://members.aol.com/SweetAliky/romanov.html

Empress Alexandra, Czarina of Russia and grand daughter of Queen Victoria
Alexander Palace Time Machine
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/

Victoria (Vicky), 1840-1901, Princess Royal, mother of William II.

William II or Wilhelm II Kaiser of Germany, grandson of Queen Victoria, 1859-1941

William Gladstone 1809-1898 former Prime Minister

Otto Von Bismarck 1815-1898 chancellor of Germany, Responsible for social security and unification

William McKinley 1843-1901 President of the U.S. 1897-1901

Albert Edward, Prince of Wales later King Edward VII 1841-1910

Princess Alexandra of Wales 1844-1925

Miscellaneous

William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925
The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bryan.htm
http://mission.lib.tx.us/exhibits/bryan/bryan.htm
http://www.bryan.edu/scopes/inherit.htm

Clarence Darrow 1857-1938 American lawyer
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/delao/darrow.htm
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/darrow.htm
 
 

William Randolph Hearst 1863-1951 American Publisher
http://www.spanam.simplenet.com/Hearst.htm
http://www.hearstcorp.com/ah8.html

archeologists and explorers

Hiram Bingham 1875-1956 archaeologist

Roald Amundsen 1872-1928 Norwegian explorer

Sir Arthur Evans 1851-1941 archaeologist, Crete and Troy

Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904 Explorer and journalist

Pogroms, Anti-Semitism and Zionists

Theodore Herzl 1816-1904 Founder of modern Zionism

Alfred Dryfus, French Officer and center of anti-semitic scandal

Revolutionaries

Porfirio Diaz 1830-1915 Mexican Revolutionary

Emiliano Zapata 1877-1919 Mexican Revolutionary
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bill/316/paper2/donahue/zapata.html

Vladimir Lenin 1870-1924

Online Resources
Social Problems
Sufferage
Imperialism
Technology
The Arts
General Information on the Time

Social Problems
Child Labor
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316kunit2/studentprojectsspring/group1/sadtext.html

Women in the Industrial Revolution
http://home.earthlink.net/~womenwhist/lesson7.html#documents

Descriptive Map of London’s Poverty
http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/

The Culture of Victorian London
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mhc/

British History 1700-1920
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/resource.htm

Victorian Research Web
http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/

Voice of the Shuttle-Victorian Resources
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html

Introduction to a Victorian Women’s World
http://www.spiritone.com/~zsk/

Sufferage
The Emancipation of Women
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/resource.htm

Link for information about important women
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/alphabet.html

Votes for Women
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

One Woman, One Vote
http://www.pbs.org/onewoman/one_woman.html

Great Women
http://www.greatwomen.org/grtwmn.htm

Suffragist Oral History Project
http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html

Distinguished Women Past and Present
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/index.html
 

Imperialism
The Age of Imperialism
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html

Irish Home Rule
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/nireland/timeline/

Irish History on the Web
http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/irehist.html

Harappa
http://www.harappa.com/

India and Pakistan
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/India97/index.html

India Turns 50-A Look Back
http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/india/
 

Technology

The Arts
The Dickens Project
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/index.html

Victorian Women’s Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

British Poetry
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

William Morris Home Page
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/wmorris/morris.html

Pre-Raphaelite Critic
http://www.engl.duq.edu/servus/PR_Critic/

The Poet’s Corner
http://geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/index.html

Victorian and Edwardian Artists
http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/listart.htm
 

General Information on the Time
The Victorian Web
http://dynaweb.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html

La Belle Epoque
http://www.blarg.com/~lgreene/history.htm

Victorian Family
http://www.dstylus.com/victorianlady/Default.html

Victorian Web Sites
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html

Victorian Research Web
http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/vwcont.html

Museum of London
http://www.museum-london.org.uk/

Pictures of Victorian London
http://www.ultranet.com/~rogerc/lbg-pics.html

Money and Coinage in Victorian Britain
http://www.deadline.demon.co.uk/wilkie/coins.htm

Anglican Timeline-The Victorian Era
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/timeline/12victoria.html

Links to People
http://fmc.utm.edu/nvsa/nvsaweb.htm

Biography
http://www.biography.com/

Victoriana
http://www.victoriana.com/

19^th Century Web Sites
http://www.victoriana.com/library/website.html

Greenwood’s map of London, 1827
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/home.html

Victorian Etiquette
http://www.lahacal.org/exerpt.html

1900 House
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/1900house/
 

Each student will prepare a scrapbook:

Before the reception

1. Short autobiography of your character from your character’s point of view. Write in the first person. Include pictures (for scrapbook only.) Make two copies, one to be handed in, one to go in your scrapbook. Due Jan. 11
2. Essay on a social problem that concerns your character: Imperialism, Irish Home-Rule, poverty, suffrage, nationalism, the place of art in society, the changes occurring in art or music, the impact of science or technology on society, literary comment on society and its problems, equality vs. Class privileges, human rights, rigid societal roles, esp. involving women’s roles, etc. In your essay, identify and define the problem. Then explain what your character believes should be done to solve it. Make two copies, one to be handed in, one to go in your scrapbook. Include bibliographic information. Due Jan. 28
3. Analysis of a short story or play written at the time. Make two copies, one to be handed in, one to go in your scrapbook. Due Jan 19
4. Social dos and don’ts for 1897.
5. Drawing and written description of an appropriate costume that your character would wear and props you might have.
6. Character map of your person. Due Jan 14
7. Preparation for issues-Take notes on what your character would think about certain issues: the impact of technology on society, the movement to extend the suffrage to working men and women, imperialism, and the advancement of human rights, or any issues listed in #2. Each group of characters will be assigned individual topics to prepare. Include bibliographic information.
8. Speech to introduce yourself. Use information in # 9. Make two copies, one to hand in and one to put into your scrapbook. Make sure that you cover the following topics in writing your speech. Put a copy of your speech into your scrapbook. Due Jan. 26

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

My name is

I was invited because

My main concerns are

Some people think I am

I am working for a day when

I am certain

I want

I say

I believe that all people

9. Ten name cards to exchange and introduce yourself and a name tag to wear. Put a copy of each into your scrapbook. Due on day of performance.
10. Souvenir from the Diamond Jubilee (anything post cards, banner, buttons, news article, commemorative stamp, etc.)

11. name cards of people you met

12. your invitation

13. an account of any special events that happened during the reception-entertainment, demonstrations, party crashers, etc.

14. Your photograph in costume.

15. Bibliography

16. End notes
 

Name each person at your table summarize each person’s views on three issues

Name: Issue #1:
 
 
 
 
 
 

Issue #2:
 
 
 
 

Issue #3:
 
 

Name: Issue #1:
 
 
 
 

Issue #2:
 
 

Issue #3:

Name: Issue #1:
 
 
 
 

Issue #2:
 
 
 
 

Issue #3:

Jan. 5 Mon. Introduce project. Begin selecting roles. Video? Madeline is on her own here

Jan. 6 Tues. Source card and note taking lesson. Grammar book pp. 415- 421

Assign roles. Begin research for autobiography.

Jan 7. Wed. Library. Half class in library, half class on computers.

Jan8.. Thurs. Library. Half class in library, etc.

Jan 9. Fri. Autobiography due in class - one page.

Video?

Grammar?

Jan 12. Mon. video or reading on Victorian Times?

Grammar?

Jan. 13 Tues. Reasearch in class

Short Story Shooting an Elephant?

Jan 14. Wed. Research in class

Continue short story

Jan 15. Thurs. Research in class

Finish short story analysis

Jan 16. Fri. Due: Analysis of short story

Character map

Video?

Grammar

Jan 20. Tues Due: Notes for # 7 - with bibliography

continue research - work on essay, speech, and name cards

Jan 21. Wed. Continue research - work on essay, speech and name cards

Jan 22. Thurs. continues research - work on essay, sppech and name cards

Jan. 23 Fri. Due Essay on social problems

Speech

10 names cards

Name tag

Final Writing

1.. Write a letter to your Aunt Maizie telling her about Queen Victoria’s diamond Jubilee. Aunt Maizie has always been interested in political and cultural issues, so be sure to tell her about the ideas discussed at the meeting. Include at least two people that you met and what they had to say about at least two issues.

2. Write a brief summary of your character. What other character at the Diamond Jubilee would your character most like?

1. Topic: The Growth of Democracy

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Discuss the developed of democracy since the Enlightenment. How have governments changed in Europe? Who has the power to rule in 1897? Who has little or no power in 1897? What more must happen for there to be true democracy (ie. Everyone is equal)? Does your character want true democracy, why or why not? Discuss these specific groups: women, colonial peoples, Jews, workers, and non-whites in America and Europe, etc.

2. Topic: Nationalism/Imperialism

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Discuss how these intertwined forces can be good and evil. What is nationalism? When is nationalism a good force? How is nationalism related to Imperialism? What are examples of extreme Nationalism in the world of 1897? What might this lead to in the future? How does nationalism hinder the development of democracy?

3. Topic: Technology and Science

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

How are science and technology transforming society in 1897 and in the future? What are the dangers of technology and scientific developments? What are the benefits? How can technology help or hinder the growth of democracy?

4. Topic: The Arts as a Reflection of Society

Your Real Name

Your Character’s Name

1. Autobiography of your character from your character’s point of view. Page # _____ Include pictures for the scrapbook. Why do you think your character was invited?

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2. Essay and bibliographic information. Page #_____. What was the topic of your essay and why did you choose it?

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3. Analysis of a short story or play written at the time. Page #_______. Which was you favorite and why-"The Necklace," The Importance of Being Earnest, or the Age of Innocence?

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

4. Social dos and don’ts for 1897. Page #______. Write a generalization about societal rules at the end of the 19^th Century.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

5. Drawing and written description of an appropriate costume that your character would wear and props you might have. Page # ______.
6. Character map of your person. Page # ________.
7. Preparation for issues and note cards. Notes from the Jubilee part could be included here or in number 12. Page #________.
8. Speech to introduce yourself. Page #______. What is the most interesting thing that you want people to know about your person?

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

9. Ten name cards that you received at the Jubilee and a sample of yours. Page #_____.
10. Souvenir from the Diamond Jubilee. Page #_______.
11. Your invitation. Page #_______.
12. An account of any special events that happened during the reception-entertainment, demonstrations, party crashers, etc. (you may include the notes you took at the Jubilee on the graphic organizers. Page #_______.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

13. Your photograph in costume. Page # _________.
14. Bibliography. Page #________.
15. End notes (optional if you used in text citation, you don’t need these)