To help you understand what we are discussing in our 10th World History classes this week, and to help you organize and write your paper, I've compiled a list of resources here that you can use. Please look through them if you are having trouble understanding what is going on, as you really do need to "get it" to write about it.

Don't worry, you're perfectly capable of understanding! Just stick to it, use more resources, talk with others, and ask me if you have clarification questions that I can help with.

If you find more things that help you understand, share them with me and I will post them here!

Plato: Allegory of the Cave

• Video - YouTube: School of Life, PLATO ON: The Allegory of the Cave
• Professor's Explanation: Allegory of the Cave, Washington.edu

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book I

• Article - SparkNotes: Nicomachean Ethics
• Video - YouTube: School of Life, Aristotle (for background and explanation of his philosophy and history in general)
• Video - YouTube: Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 Summary
• Notes - Notes on Book One from Mason.edu
• Summary - Aristotle's Ethics, NovelGuide.com
• Summary - The-Philosophy.com
• Notes - 10 Things You Need to Know About Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• Summary - Nicomachean Ethics Summary
• Mr. E - Aristotle's Ethics Audio Walkthrough

Footnotes

Here are the footnotes that I gave to you in class (replace the # sign with the page number that your first citation is referring to.

Plato, “Book VII,” The Republic, trans. Benjamin Jowett (London: Oxford University Press, 1888), in-class reading packet, #.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. W.D. Ross, Book I, 6-8, in-class reading packet, #.

After you introduce each text, your footnotes should use the short form:

Plato, #.

Aristotle, #.

While doing some additional research for this week's APUSH lesson, I came across this interesting article about how people tried to defend against witches in Europe. Have a read.

The 17th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.

While preparing the History Handbook, I came across this example of how to use punctuation in surrounding text in the Chicago Manual of Style:

There are two primary audiences for the Chicago Manual of Style: perfectionists and humorists.1

 

• 1. The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2017), 364.

As I've been working on the Code of Hammurabi, I came across an amazing collection of tablets archived by the University of California. Have a look. 

Expect to see disclaimers of work in progress and pages that look like they should have more on them for the forseeable future. This project is just getting started, and as I add to it, I'm finding that I have a tremendous amount left to do before this site is where I want it. First for the school year, but also as a project in general.

That said, if you find something that is broken, please do let me know.

This applies to everyone, man or not.