Sunday, March 10, 2013

Week of March 11, 2013

Current event week 3 due by Friday

Due Tuesday

30(5) The end of the Cold War (1000-1006)

Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read A Democratic transformation (1000) Why were so many people afraid to speak out?
Look at the picture on 1001, where did the Soviets send in tanks in 1956? Why?
Look at the picture on 1002, what fairy tale character is Gorbachev portrayed as? Why?
Look at the picture on 1003, who is the Lithuanian woman defying? Why do you think this is significant?
Look at the picture on 1004. What Polish person and labor union is pictured? How do you think Pope John Paul II (the first ever Polish Pope) inspired the Polish people? Why do you think the Soviet secret police wanted the Pope assassinated?
Look at the picture on page 1005, what is the person shopping for in China? Why is this significant?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.
Due Thursday
34(5) advances in Science and Technology (p.1120-1125)
Identify the terms, people, and places (1120).
Who was the first man on the man and what were his first words (picture 1120).
 Read Thinking Critically (1121) answer question #1.
Read the infographic (1122-23) What was the name of the US project to make a nuclear bomb?
What did Jonas Salk develop in 1954?
What structure did Watson and Crick explain in 1953?
Read A Global Food Evolves (1124) What did Native Americans in Mexico domesticate from teosinte kernels?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.
34(2) Globalization (1100-1104)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Read Witness History (1100) and look at the picture on 1104. Why do you think globalization is so controversial?
Read World Oil Resource (map 1101). Identify three countries with major oil reserves. Which country consumes the most oil?
Read the infographic (1102-03). Where did coffee originate? What is the only commodity more traded than coffee? What is the fair trade movement?
Read People and the Environment (1105) answer Thinking Critically #1.
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Be ready Friday for a quiz on material covered this week.

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