Day 10 -- What You Need to Do For Today's Presentation

In todays presentation please include the following:

  1. The questions that you posed to develop an interpretation
  2. The interpretation that you are defending
  3. The evidence that you would use to defend this interpretation in the hypothetical paper
  4. A discussion of the patterns of foregrounding, values, and assumptions that are dominant in the group that you considered
  5. The first paragraph of the hypothetical paper

Question 1

How did the supporters of science, rationality, and the 3rd Republic view the society around them? What did they fear and what did they hope for?

Question 2

How did those who honored the Catholic Church and tradition view the society around them? What did they fear and what did they hope for?

Question 3

What had happened in French history that predisposed some Parisians to support Dreyfus?

Question 4

What had happened in French history that predisposed some Parisians to oppose Dreyfus?