Week of June 2, 2014

This week we will be broken into groups to recreate the 1932 Weimar election that allowed the Nazis to come to power in Germany.  They would not release their hold on Germany until they were defeated in WWII.

Due Wednesday
29(1) From Appeasement to War (924-929)
Identify the terms, people and places
Look at the picture on page 925. What did Neville Chamberlain think he had brought Britian in September 1938 with his agreement with Hitler?
Look at the picture on 925, what treaty did Germany break by rearmament?
Look at the picture on page 926. List the four fascist leaders and their countries.
Why is the woman crying on page 927?
Look at the map on page 928. Answer questions #1+2.
Look at the chart on page 929. Identify what you think are the top two reasons to appease (give into) Hitler.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences

Homework due Friday

29(2) The Axis Advances (930-938)

Identify the terms, people, and places.
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 933.
Answer Thinking Critically #1 on page 935. 
Read the picture caption on 936, how did the Japanese treat the Chinese?
Read the caption to the picture on 938, answer the question. 
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences: be sure to restate the question in your own words.

Homework due next Tuesday
29(3) The Allies Turn the Tide (939-945) 
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
Read Witness history (939) why did WWII become a total war for the US?  
Read the infographic (941) identify three new WWII technologies and explain how they were used to win the war. 
Read the three biographies on page 944, identify each of the 3 Allied leaders, their country and two facts about the leaders from each reading.
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences: be sure to restate the question in your own words. 

Separate homework grade: 
Read D-Day 946-7, answer the three thinking critically questions on page 94

Week of May 27, 2014

Due Wednesday28(2) The Western Democracies Stumble (891-897) 
Identify the terms, people, and places
Look at the picture on 891. What is a soup kitchen?
Look at the picture on page 892. What were the Irish Republican Army trying to resist?
Look at the political cartoon on 893. What point is the cartoonist trying to make?
Read the infographic (894-5). In which country did the Great Depression begin?
What country had the highest unemployment (line graph on 895)
Describe the woman pictured on page 896.
Look at the Economic Theory bloc on page 897. What does John Maynard Keynes think the government should do during depressions?
Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Separate HW grade
Read Pablo Picasso (p.890) . How do you think cubism got its name?

Due Thursday
28(3) Fascism in Italy
Identify the terms, people, and places
How is Mussolini pictured on page 898 and 899?
Look at the infographic (900-901) What is a cult of personality?
What happened to Osip Mandelstam (900)?
Look at the picture on 902, what were children required to carry?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Friday
28(5) Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany (912-917)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Look at the picture on 912, how did Hitler give hope to the Germans? Who did he blame?
Look at the picture on 913, what is inflation and how did it impact prices?
Read the biography of Hitler on 914. List three adjectives to describe his personality.
Look at the picture on 915. What happened on Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?
Look at the picture on page 916. Why were books like All Quiet on the Western Front burned?
Look at the chart on page 917. Why were Jewish books also burned? What Jewish scientist exiled from Germany came to the US to teach at Princeton University?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences

Week of May 19, 2014

Due Tuesday:
26(5) Revolution and Civil War in Russia (839-845)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Who is speaking in the letter, voices of the front, on page 839? Who do they write to, and what do they want?
Draw a quick illustration of Rasputin (840). Who was Rasputin an advisor to?
What type of egg is pictured on page 840?
Answer the biography question on V.I. Lenin on page 841.
Answer thinking critically question #1 on page 843.
What caused the mass starvation pictured on page 845?
Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Separate Homework Grade: Answer Chapter Assessment questions #1-6, and  # 11 and #17 on page 848

Due Wednesday
28(1) Postwar Social Changes. (884-889)
Identify the terms people and places.
Who is pictured on age 884? What type of music did he play?
Look at the picture on 885, what is a speakeasy?
Read about the Jazz Age (886-7) How did flappers shock their elders?
Illustrate three changes in technology pictured.
Read Marie Curie (888) what was she best known for?
Read abstract art, why is Kadinsky's art (889) and Picasso's art (890) called Cubist?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.
Read the Infographic on page 900-901 Complete the 6 features of a Totalitarian State (900) shared by Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Communist USSR.

Single party ________________ with _________ obedience to a single leader.
 _________________ control of the economy.

Use of ____________ spies and ____________ to enforce the will of the state.
Government control of the ______________ to indoctrinate and mobilize citizens
through_______________________
Use of ____________________ and youth organizations to spread __________________ to children
Strict ____________________ of the artists and ______________________ with dissenting opinions.

 Due Thursday:
Read 28(4) The Soviet Union under Stalin (904-911)
Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read Witness History (904) How is Stalin portrayed in the picture? Look at the picture (905). What did Stalin see as the key to success of the USSR?
Why are the people pictured on page 906 starving? What happened to their crops?
Look at the map on 907? How did Stalin use Gulags?
What tools are being raised by the factory worker and the farmer on page 908?
Look at the picture (909) What happened to the Russian Orthodox Church?
Look at the picture (910) Why were Soviet cities so crowded?
Complete the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Week of May 12, 2014

Be ready Friday for a quiz on WWI

Don't forget Current Events sheet is due by the end of the week.

Due  Tuesday

26(3) Winning the War(829-833)

Identify the terms, people, and places.

Read And American War Song (829) When did the US declare war on Germany?

How is the war poster on 830 connected to the picture on 830?

Who was Edith Cavell (biography 831) Why was she shot by the Germans? What do you think the Germans should have done with her?

Who is pictured on the recruitment poster on page 832?

Why are the French cheering on page 833?

Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Wednesday

2 Separate hw grades:  Draw two propaganda posters using emotional appeal.

One poster supporting the Allies

One poster supporting the Central Powers

Due Thursday :

26(4) Making the Peace (834-838)

Identify the terms, people and places.

Who is pictured on page 834? Are they the leaders of the Allies or the Central Powers?

Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 835.

Answer question #3 on page 837.

Answer questions #1+2 on Analyzing Political Cartoons on page 838.

Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due next Tuesday:

26(5) Revolution and Civil War in Russia (839-845)

Identify the terms, people and places.

Who is speaking in the letter, voices of the front, on page 839? Who do they write to, and what do they want?

Draw a quick illustration of Rasputin (840). Who was Rasputin an advisor to? What type of egg is pictured on page 840?

Answer the biography question on V.I. Lenin on page 841.

Answer thinking critically question #1 on page 843.

What caused the mass starvation pictured on page 845?

Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Separate Homework Grade: Answer Chapter Assessment questions #1-6, and

# 11 and #17 on page 848

Week of May 5, 2014

Interview projects due Thursday  (May 8th)

Current Events due by Friday

Due Wednesday

26(1) The Great War Begins (816-821). (double homework credit)
Identify the terms, people and places. 
Draw the three images on page 815 and explain their significance. 
What was the spark of WWI (picture 816).  
Answer question 2+3 on map skills page 817.  
Why are the people picture on 818 so happy? 
Read the biography of Kaisar Wilhelm II (819) who were his two cousins and his grandmother 
Read the reasons of entering the war (820), what two powers were most responsible for starting the war? Explain your answer. 
How did people show their war enthusiasm (picture 821)? 
Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Homework due Friday
26(2)A New Kind of War (822-827) 
Identify the terms, people and places. 
Read a soldier on the Western Front (822) what does the soldier hear that makes him happy? Read Map Skills on page 823, answer questions 2+3. 
Read the infographic (824-5), illustrate three of the changes to warfare in the Great War. Read Map Skills on page 826, who fought against the Ottoman Empire in Egypt and on the Saudi peninsula? 
Who is pictured on page 827? 
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences

Separate hw grade.
Read Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (828)
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2

Due next Tuesday

26(3) Winning the War(829-833) 
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
Read And American War Song (829) When did the US declare war on Germany? 
How is the war poster on 830 connected to the picture on 830?
Who was Edith Cavell (biography 831) Why was she shot by the Germans? What do you think the Germans should have done with her?
Who is pictured on the recruitment poster on page 832?
Why are the French cheering on page 833? 
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

2 Separate hw grades:  Draw two propaganda posters using emotional appeal. 
One poster supporting the Allies
One poster supporting the Central Powers