Paris: Biography of a City

ASSIGNMENTS

PART 1:

Welcome, Origins and Roman Paris, Medieval Paris

COURSE STREAM " Welcome" and #1 [15 +34 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream " Welcome" and Course Stream #1 "Origins and Roman Paris, Medieval Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #1 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #1 available via ilearn [2 files]

QUIZZES #1

- QUIZ #1: Course Stream #1
- QUIZ #1: Reading/Video #1

FORUM #1

- Look at the website: Paris at the Time of Philippe Auguste:

http://www.philippe-auguste.com/en/index.html . Then go on ilearn: https://ilearn.sfsu.edu and post a comment on your reading (something you learn, or an interesting fact, etc.) to the Forum #1 "Paris: Medieval City"

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #1

1- Look at the website: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/paris/en/, and click on "the City". Browse the page, read a bit of information about Paris as a roman City

2- Watch the video (about Medieval Louvre): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=folnGDNjNxE

3- Watch the video (about Notre Dame): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVhzdaxvF4A

4- Read from paragraph 1 to 43: Victor Hugo, "A Bird's Eye View of Paris," from A Hunchback of Notre Dame http://www.bartleby.com/312/0302.html ; some guiding questions:

a- Find a few basic biographical information about Victor Hugo
b- Comment on Hugo's writing style
c- In this chapter, what do we learn about the "walls"?
d- Find a metaphor/image of the City, explain why the author compare the city to this item?
e- Where do women wash laundry and what does it tell you about Paris at the time?
f- From the chapter, tell a few things about the University
g- After reading those 43 paragraphs, give 5 or 6 words that describe Paris in the 15th century.

PART 2:

Royal Paris - Renaissance/16th century

COURSE STREAM #2 and #3 [33 mins and 44 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #2: "Royal Paris-Renaissance/16th century" AND Listen to Course Stream #3: "Royal Paris-Renaissance/17th century, and pre-Revolution"
- Outline of Course Stream #2 and #3 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #2 and #3 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #2

- QUIZ #2: Course Stream #2 and #3
- QUIZ #2: reading/video #2

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #2

1- Go online, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8166/8166-h/8166-h.htm , scroll down to chapter 1. XVII "How Gargantua paid his welcome to the Parisians, and how he took away the great bells of Our Lady's Church" from Rabelais' Gargantua (file also available on word doc on ilearn). Some guiding questions:

a- Find a few biographical information about François Rabelais
b- How does Rabelais describe the Parisians?
c- What does Rabelais say about the name of the city, Paris?
d- Think about Rabelais' writing style

2- Watch the video (the trailer of the film " Queen Margot): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjFZ7gErZ1o

3- Watch the video (about Treasures of the Louvre): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixv9J6Agdo

ASSIGNMENTS

PART 1:

Royal Paris - 17th century, and pre-Revolution

FORUM #2

- View the painting by Rigaud: http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/76/Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg and post a comment to the Forum "Louis XIV" regarding this painting.

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #3

1- Watch the video about the movie: "The King is Dancing": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdeqbpfXaK8&index=17&list=RDBMvpvDjFvHA

2- Watch the video about the movie: " Vatel" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZvabtcoM5c

3- Reading: Louis-Sebastian Mercier (ed. Jeremy Popkin), Panorama of Paris, selections (available on ilearn "Panorama of Paris")

PART 2:

Revolutionary Paris - 18th century

COURSE STREAM #4 [37 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #4: "Revolutionary Paris-18th century"
- Outline of Course Stream #4 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #4 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #4

- QUIZ #4: Course Stream #4
- QUIZ #4: reading/video #4

FORUM #3

- View the painting by J.L. David: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Death_of_Marat_by_David.jpg, and post a comment on the Forum "Marat"

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #4

1- Watch the video: "The French Revolution in a nutshell" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZqarUnVpo
2- Watch the video: " the French Revolution in two minutes" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH2GuzV_6_U
3- J.L. David's paintings (slideshow) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdbbe4eLXuY&feature=player_embedded
4- Reading: Restif de la Bretonne, My Revolution, selections (available on ilearn Forum, "My revolution"), some guiding questions:

a- When you read this piece, what came to your mind?
b- How do you imagine Paris at that time?
c- What are some contrasts/oppositions you've noticed?
d- During this troubling time, what has Paris become?

PART 3:

Romantic Paris

COURSE STREAM #5 [36 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #5: "Romantic Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #5 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #5 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #5

- QUIZ #5: Course Stream #5
- QUIZ #5: reading/video #5

FORUM #4

- Go online and listen to Fantaisie-- Impromptu op. 66 by Frederic Chopin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBA-38mzabs, and post a comment on ilearn via the Forum "Chopin" about what you like/dislike about this piece or how this piece makes you feel.

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #5

1- Read the article: http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/napoleon/c_Napoloen&Paris.html and write down a few things that Napoleon did for Paris.

2- Watch the video: "Père Lachaise Cemetery": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbGv_fpIC78
3- Watch the video, "Paris Catacombs Exploration 2009" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9hKqOOD1cM&feature=fvsr

ASSIGNMENTS

PART 1:

Rebuilding Paris

COURSE STREAM #6 [35 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #6: "Rebuilding"
- Outline of Course Stream #6 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #6 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #6

- QUIZ #6: Course Stream #6
- QUIZ #6: reading/video #6

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #6

1- Read the passage from Zola's "Belly of Paris" (available on ilearn under "Belly of Paris"); some guiding questions:

a- What is the belly?
b- How is this place described?
c- What is so particular about the charcuterie? How is it described?

2- Read the passage from Zola's "Ladies' Paradise" (available on ilearn, "Ladies' Paradise"); some guiding questions:

a- How does Zola describe the department store?
b- How are the women portrayed?
c- What is the overall impact of the department store on the city of Paris?

3- Overall, comment on Zola's writing style

PART 2:

Impressionist Paris

COURSE STREAM #7 [22 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #7: "Impressionist Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #7 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #7 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #7

- QUIZ #7: Course Stream #7
- NO QUIZ Reading/video #7 due to Tour of Paris due

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #7

1-TOUR OF PARIS due [see details on ilearn/syllabus] to submit via "Tour of Paris: Research Project" And don't forget to also submit your 50-70 word summary-- and 1 image-- via Forum "Tour of Paris : paper summaries"

2-Optional reading: Poems by Charles Baudelaire (available on ilearn, "Baudelaire")

PART 3:

Belle Epoque Paris

COURSE STREAM #8 [42 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #8: "Belle Epoque Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #8 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #8 available via ilearn [parts 1 and 2]

QUIZZES #8

- QUIZ #8: Course Stream #8
- QUIZ #8: reading/video #8

FORUM #5

- Go online and watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74 , post a comment on the Forum "Paris, 1900": what did you think when you watched this clip? How did you feel? Share any comments, etc.

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #8

1- Read John Leighton, "One Day under the Paris Commune"

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871leighton-commune.html;

guiding question: how does the author describe Paris under the Commune?

2- Browse the website about The Siege and Commune of Paris http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/siege/ , in particular under "landscape/architecture" and also "Political caricatures"

3- Browse through your classmates' summary paper in the Forum "Tour of Paris"; and comment on at least one entry (other than yours!)

ASSIGNMENTS

PART 1:

Avant-Garde Paris

COURSE STREAM #9 [33 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #9: "Avant Garde Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #9 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #9 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #9

- QUIZ #9: Course Stream #9
- QUIZ #9: reading/video #9

FORUM #6

- Watch the video clip on "Paris was a Woman": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FasbBkzbnNE and post a comment on the Forum "Paris was a Woman" (about this clip).

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #9

1- Read Gertrude Stein: "Paris France", selections, (available on ilearn via "Stein")

2- Listen to Gertrude Stein reads If I Had Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEIAGULmPQ

3- Watch the first 5 minutes of "The Afternoon of a Faun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7b1FkZYarU

4- Watch the video: "the Rite of Spring" (forward to 3 minutes and watch from 3 minutes till 5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1OQkHybEQ

5- Watch the trailer of the movie Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N6Nmf-tVDo

PART 2:

Expatriate Paris

COURSE STREAM #10 [14 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #10: "Expatriate Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #10 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #10 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #10

- QUIZ #10: Course Stream #10
- QUIZ #10: reading/video #10

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #10

1- Read the passages from Ernest Hemingway's Moveable Feast, available on ilearn via "Hemingway"; some guiding questions:

a- In chapter 2, how does Hemingway describe Gertrude Stein?
b- In chapter 5, what do we learn about Hemingway's life during this period? Comment the last sentence of the chapter
c- In chapter 7, what do we learn about Stein as a critic?
d- In chapter 17, how does Hemingway describe Scott Fitzgerald?
e- In chapter 18, what do we learn about Zelda?

2- Listen to Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoI9OgVxDNE

3- Watch the interview of Sylvia Beach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnJYK5t--Xo

4- Optional: Listen to Patrick and Sean Hemingway discussing the original manuscripts to create the restored edition of A Moveable Feast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2YUYIeBDyI

PART 3:

Black Paris

COURSE STREAM #11 [16 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #11: "Black Paris, Poor Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #11 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #11 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #11

- QUIZ #11: Course Stream #11
- QUIZ #11: reading/video #11

FORUM #7

Watch/listen to the following clips, and write a general comment of the artists/music, etc at the time via Forum " Music in the 1920s/1930s":

- James Reese Europe (Harlem Hellfighters): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC9m3Xie3uk
- Listen to the music of Noble Sissle and his orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lII34xh4zKw
- Listen to the music of Alberta Hunter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cta6VMmKyc&feature=related
- Listen to the music of Florence Mills: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3YIwCXeW14
- Listen to Josephine Baker, "I Have Two Loves": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHrOV8YorHI
- Listen to Sidney Bechet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7u9x50GGGs

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #11

1- Optional: Read about Joe Zelli:

http://www.jazzageclub.com/personalities/the-incomparable-joe-zelli/

ASSIGNMENTS

PART 1:

Poor Paris and Occupied Paris

COURSE STREAM #12 [33 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #12: "Poor Paris and Occupied Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #12 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #12 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #12

- QUIZ #12: Course Stream #12
- QUIZ #12: reading/video #12

FORUM #8

- Watch the video: Paris occupied by Germans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVoBVeQOuQc and the clip "Hitler in Paris": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=003iC7VZmYc and write a comment about these clips, via the Forum on ilearn "Occupied Paris"

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #12

1- Read the passage from George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London available on ilearn via "Orwell"; some guiding questions:

a- Find a few bibliographical information about the author
b- In chapter 1, what does Orwell say about the goal/purpose of this book?
c- In chapter 4, where does Orwell go/ and what is his experience there? Who is Boris? And what do we learn about him?
d- In chapter 10, describe Hotel X.
e- In chapter 11, describe Orwell's job
f- In chapter 14--Will you ever eat in a Paris restaurant again? (i.e. What do we learn about the restaurant and hotel trade in Paris?)

2- Listen to the music clips:

a- Edith Piaf's "Sous le ciel de Paris": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlaVOvK8rYs
b- Chevalier's Paris je T'aime : (English version) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17z1K3yzNHs

3- Look at the website : http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=29YL53592929, and browse these photos about the liberation of Paris, 1944

PART 2:

Left Bank Paris and Immigrant Paris

COURSE STREAM #13 [29 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #13: "Left Bank Paris and Immigrant Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #13 available via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #13 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #13

- QUIZ #13: Course Stream #13
- QUIZ #13: reading/video #13

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #13

1- Watch the clip: 1950s fashion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyqg2XcoeJw
2- Listen to the song Le Déserteur (English lyrics provided) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WukbQ9ldsdc
3- Yves Montand's Les Feuilles Mortes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWfsp8kwJto
4- Francis Lemarque's A Paris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH6Jowp1-qg
5- Watch the video Paris, 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UP3RLGmciM

PART 3:

Contemporary Paris

COURSE STREAM #14 [15 mins]

- Listen to Course Stream #14: "Contemporary Paris"
- Outline of Course Stream #14vailable via ilearn
- Power point of Course Stream #14 available via ilearn

QUIZZES #14

- QUIZ #14: Course Stream #14
- NO Quiz Reading/video #14 due to Film Paper

READINGS/VIDEOS/ASSIGNMENTS #14

*** PAPER FILM due [i.e. details on ilearn/syllabus]