Honors homework week of September 17, 2018

For Classroom discussion this week;
September 17th is Constitution Day.  What is the most important feature of the document that was signed September 17, 1787?   How many branches of government did it establish?  Why?
What is the Bill of Rights and why was it amended to the Constitution two years later?

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? What do you think of President Trump's criticism of NFL and NBA players?

We will look at Otto von Bismarck and his impact on Germany this week.  Unification of Germany homework is past due after this Monday:  22-1 and 21-2 
Homework due  Friday or next Monday  

Two propaganday posters are due  by next Monday:  One pro war and one anti war,  OR  one pro Allies and one pro Central Powers.   Include a slogan, image, and use color where appropriate.  Also, identify the type of propaganda you are utilizing:  name calling, cause and effect,  bandwagon, compare and contrast,...

Book work due next week 26(3) Winning the War(829-833) 
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
Read And American War Song (829) When did the US declare war on Germany? 
How is the war poster on 830 connected to the picture on 830?
Who was Edith Cavell (biography 831) Why was she shot by the Germans? What do you think the Germans should have done with her?
Who is pictured on the recruitment poster on page 832?
Why are the French cheering on page 833? 
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR  3 bullet facts for each checkpoint section.  

26(4) Making the Peace (834-838)
Identify:  Pandemic, reparations, collective security, mandate
Who is pictured on page 834? Are they the leaders of the Allies or the Central Powers?
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 835.
Answer question #3 on page 837.
Answer questions #1+2 on Analyzing Political Cartoons on page 838.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR  3 bullet facts for each checkpoint section.

26(5) Revolution and Civil War and the postwar period in Russia (839-845)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Who is speaking in the letter, voices of the front, on page 839? Who do they write to, and what do they want?
Draw a quick illustration of Rasputin (840). Who was Rasputin an advisor to? What type of egg is pictured on page 840?
Answer the biography question on V.I. Lenin on page 841.
Answer thinking critically question #1 on page 843.
What caused the mass starvation pictured on page 845?
Answer four of the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR  3 bullet facts for each checkpoint section.