Saturday, September 30, 2017

Week of October 2, 2017, Honors

Bring in your permission slip and the $10  for the field trip to MMA  on October 11th
Lunch will be provided at Mass Maritime,

Sargent York reading is due Thursday
 -annotate the reading,  underline the facts,  react in the margin to  the reading.
 -list 10 facts and identify the page numbers  make sure to list the facts of York's heroism
 -React to the reading.  Is Sargent York a true hero or was he made one for propaganda purposes?  
     Explain your answer.  Do you think he is more legend than hero?  Why were Nazis skeptics
     of this story?

If you did not complete the last reading on the causes of WWI than the Christmas truce reading is also due.

Homework due next Tuesday:

  30(2) A Culture in Conflict (752-756)
Identify: psychoanalysis, abstract,  surrealism, stream of consciousness,
Read the biography of Marie Curie(752)  How many Nobel Prizes did she win?  How can her death be attributed to these prizes?
Look at Dali's Persistence of Memory (753)  How would traditionalists view this surrealist work?
Read connections to today (754) When was the first science fiction film?  Why do people care about the Oscars?
What two musicans are pictured on page 755?  What type of music did they perform?
Look at the picture on 756?  What is a flapper?
Answer questions 3-6 on page 756.

  28(2)  From Lenin to Stalin  (707-710)
Identify command economy, collective, kulak
Draw a hammer and sickle (707)  What does it symbolize? Why was it placed above the world?
Read the biography of Stalin (708)   List 3 adjectives to describe his personality.
Look at the map of the USSR (709)  What was the biggest Soviet state?
Look at the fact finder (710) What two resources did the 5 year plans focus on producing?
Read Collectivization on page (711)  Answer questions 1+2.
Answer questions 1-6 on page 71. (Number 2 is already done)

 28(3) Life in a Totalitarian State  (713-717)
 Identify totalitarian state, atheism, socialist realism
Read Forced Labor Camp (713)  How long was the trial of Getman?  Why was he sent to a labor camp?
Read the Russian Orthodox Church (714) Why is it the most respected institution in Russia today?
Look at the picture on page 718.  What did socialist realism represent?
Read a revolution in film making (716)  Identify one way Eisenstein changed directing?  Why did Eisenstein's last film not get shown in the USSR until after Stalin's death?
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page 712.

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