Sunday, September 24, 2017

Week of Sept. 25, 2017 Honors

For classroom discussion:
Does the First Amendment to the Constitution protect the right of freedom of speech?   Is the right to kneel down during the National Anthem to protest perceived civil rights disparities in America protected by the first amendment?  Are your rights to protest the same at school and work the same as the right to protest as a citizen on the street?  
Why is there controversy between President Trump and some players in the NFL and NBA?  What do you think?  

The WWI reading is past due.  You will be receiving a second reading on Sargent York this week.

27(5)  Making the Peace (p.694-697)
Identify:  Pandemic, reparations, collective security, mandate
Answer the two questions on the fact finder on page 694.
Read the primary source on p.695.  Describe how German delegates were treated at Versailles.
Look at the maps on p. 696  List 10 countries that had their borders changed in eastern Europe. 
Look at the chart 697.  List the  effect of WWI.  Explain why you chose this.
Answer questions 3,4,5,7 on page 697.

28(1) Two Revolutions in Russia (703-707)
Identify proletariat, soviet, commissar
Read Geography and History (702)  Why are the Russians a minority in their own land?
Read did you know (703)  In what three ways did assassins try to kill Rasputin?  Why is it amazing that the cause of death was drowning?
Read the biography of Lenin (704)  What two deaths had an impact on Lenin's life? How do you think his brother's death impacted his view of the Russian Czar?
Read the primary source on page 706.  Who were the Whites and the Reds?  Who would a property owner be more afraid of?  Why?
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page 706.




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