Sunday, September 25, 2016

Week of September 25, 2016

100 million Americans are expected to watch tonight's debate between Donald Trump  and Hillary Clinton.  If you have a chance watch 15-20 minutes and summarize what your view of the debate. Identify at least three separate points in your analysis.
I will take this as one current events story.  Current event sheets will be passed out this week and be due by the end of the week.  5 sets of stories will be due each term.

I have changed how homework is assigned this
Homework due NEXT Monday 

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 OR 3 bullet facts for each checkpoint section

28(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 four of the five checkpoint questions in complete sentence, or 3 bullets/section.
Separate HW grade
Read Pablo Picasso (p.890) . How do you think cubism got its name?
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 or 3 bullets/section.

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