Monday, October 9, 2017

Week of Oct 10, 2017 Honors

Don't forget your permission slips for the field trip to MMA

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?

  30(1)  The Western Democracies  (756-751)
Identify: disarmament, overproduction, margin buying, and general strike
Who is pictured crying in Kathy Kolwitz's wood cutting on page 746?  Why?
Look at the picture on page 747.  What did the Kellog-Briand Pact try to ban?  What insurance policy does the picture suggest?
Read the primary source on page 748.  How did the man lose his legs?  Why risk the loss?  
What is pictured on page 748?  
What is pictured on page 749?
Read Geography and history(750)  What was the Maginot Line?  Who built it?  Did it work in WWII?
Answer questions 4 + 5 on page 751

30(3) Fascism in Italy (757-760)
 Identify: Black Shirts,  Il Duce
 Read Setting the scene (757)  Why were Italian nationalists upset after WW1?
Read  Did you know (758)  Why do you think Mussolini had a 300's scale model of Rome built?
Read Totalitarianism (759)  Answer skills assessment questions #1+2.
Read Global Connections (760)  Why reason did FDR give for Eastern European nations turning to authoritarian rulers /dictators?
Answer questions 2,3,4 on page 760.

30(4) Hitler and the rise of Nazi Germany (761-765)
Identify Chancellor, repudiate, concentration camp
Look at the picture on page 761.  What is the German woman using for fuel in 1923?  Why?
Read the biography of Hitler (762)  List 3 facts about Hitler.
What is  pictured on page 763?  How would these rallies fuel nationalism?
What is being burned in the picture on page 764?  Why?
Read the primary source Kristallnacht (765) What happened on the night of November 9-10, 1938?  What happened November 11, 1918?
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page 765

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