Friday, September 15, 2017

Week of Sept. 18, 2017 Honors World History

WW1 causes reading is due next Monday (9/25) ( Europe 1914, Sir Michael Howard):
-Annotate the reading  (underline facts,  respond to reading)
-list 10 words you are not sure of and define them
-list  7 facts with page numbers
-Identify  reasons for going to war for  UK,  France, Russia, Serbia    Germany, Austria-Hungary,
Respond to reading.  What do you think of it? Don't just say you like or hate it,  explain why you like it or not.  What do you like or dislike about the writing style of  Howard?

Book work due Friday
27(3) A New Kind of Conflict (685-689)
Identify or illustrate:  stalemate, no man's land, zeppelin, U-boat, convoy
Read about the Christmas truce on page 685.  What happened?  Why would officers on both sides    
     oppose this Christmas 1914 truce?
Read Caring for the wounded (686). Why are the French soldiers hanging?  Why are they proud?
Look at the map on 687.  Answer question #3.
Look at WWI technology (688).  List the three new weapons of WWI.  Which of these weapons had
    the greatest impact on stalemate in the Western Front. Explain why.
Read about the Battle of Gallipoli (689)  Where and when was it fought?  Why do you think it was
     significant?
Answer questions 3-7 on page 689 in complete sentences

27(4) Winning the War  (690-693)
Identify  Total war, conscription, propaganda, atrocity, self determination, armistice
Look at the propaganda poster on page 690.  How do you know it is a German soldier?  Where is he
     looking to? Why do you think it is so bloody?
Read the biography of Edith Cavell (691)  Why did she become an Allied martyr?
Who is pictured on page 692?  Describe the environment they are fighting in.
Read Getting Over There (693)  What is a convoy and why were they used?
Answer questions 3,4,5, 7 on page 693



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