The document summarizes the topics covered in a class on British institutions: 1) The class included a review game, mind mapping activity, and discussion of major British institutions. 2) Students created mind maps about the chapter on British institutions, with the top 3 maps earning bonus points. 3) The class took a break in the middle of covering attendance, review, mind mapping, and learning about British institutions.

1. Week 7 –
British Institutions
Reading British & American Culture
Professor Hayashi

2. Today’s Class
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attendance
review game!
mind mapping
British institutions
BREAK
• Midterm review

3. Review

4. Review
• What did the Romans leave behind in
Britain after their 200 year rule?
- roads, sites of important cities, seeds
of Christianity
• What is the Black Death?
- a plague in 1348 that killed 1/3 of the
population
• Who was the queen during the
Golden Age of English history?
- Queen Elizabeth I (restored national
unity, enabled prosperous trading to
develop)

5. Review
• The civil war of 1642 was between which 2
powers?
- King Charles I & Parliament
• What is the Enlightenment?
- an era when people began to use reason to
dominate both nature & society
• How did Queen Victoria change life in Britain
during her reign?
- Established the Crown in the Constitution
(politically neutral), Revived support for the
monarchy, affirmed Victorian values
(paternalistic integrity, family, puritanism)

6. Review
• The Industrial Revolution sparked S__________
R_________ such as the creation of the police force, free
education, and the extension of the vote
- social reforms
• What was a positive outcome of WWI?
- The women were granted the right to vote
• What significant event happened in the 1930’s?
- The great Depression
• Germany lost WWII after ___________.
- it unsuccessfully invaded Russia and Britain & US
intervened

7. Review
• Describe life in Britain in the 1950’s.
- massive growth, increase in wages,
affluent society
• How was life for young people in the
early 1960’s?
- exciting, liberating, ‘swinging sixties’

8. Mind Mapping
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=MlabrWv25qQ
• What is a mindmap?
• How do you do it?

9. Mind Mapping
• WHAT: a thinking tool that reflects
what goes on inside your head
• HOW: start in center, connect
branches to central image, then
other levels. add one word to each
branch. use color & image.

10. Good Links!
• http://www.informationtamers.com/WikIT/ind
ex.php?
title=How_to_make_a_mind_map#How_to_ma
ke_a_map_while_note_taking
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mind_map
ping_software

11. Your Turn!
• Get artsy!
• Let’s mind map the chapter on “British
Institutions”
• The top 3 students will get bonus
professionalism points