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Homework Term 1 week 3

Charlie Chaplin

born on 1889 16 April in London,England

age 9-10 became a tap dancer for “The 8 Lancashire Lads”

1901- his dad died when he was 12 and his mother got sick so he had to start looking after himself with help from his brother  Sydney

1901- played Billy in Sherlock Holmes stage show

1910 – sail to U.S. with the Fred Kano Repertoire company

1912 – got offered his first motion picture contract

1913 – joined Mack Sennett and the Keystone COmpany

1915 – Joined the Essanay Company

1916 – Joined Mutual film Corporation. Made 12 2 reel comedies.

1917 – Started his own production company

1928 – First Academy Award (before it was called the Oscars) for his movie The Circus

1936 – Made a movie called Modern Times – it was his first political movie about how machines are taking away jobs

1996 – Last movie he produced was A countess from Hong Kong

1977 – Died Christmas day

I have made a short movie clip but I can not work out how to put it on here, it won’t let me

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Term 1 Week 1

TASK 1

Christmas truce 1914

On Christmas Eve a British solider named Private Frank Sumpter heard the German soldiers singing Christmas carols. At first they thought it was a trick, so the British popped up and waved quickly, then went back down again. But there was no gun fire so they joined in singing and then they met in the middle of the 2 trenches.

The German and the British had a game of soccer they were giving each other gifts like cigarettes, food, buttons and hats. They also let each other bury the dead soldiers that have been shot in the grounds between the trenches.
Some other places also had a truce as well, but some places didn’t and kept on fighting.

The truce ended on different days, some that night, others on New Years Eve. They didn’t want to start fighting again but they would get punished (badly) if they didn’t.

 

 

Follow the link for a 2 minute video of the event

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/christmas-truce-of-1914