Monday, May 30, 2011

May 31, 2011

We are in the home stretch please keep working. In order to understand WWII and Japan's involvement please complete these assignments by Friday. Quiz grade for each.

25(1) Japan Modernizes (784-790)Identify the terms, people, and places. Answer Travelers's Tales 786-7 Thinking Critically (787) questions 1+2. Also, answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

27(5) Conflicting Forces in Japan (874-877) Identify the terms, people, and places. Answer Map Skillsqustion #3 on page 876 and the biography question on Hirohito on page 877. Also, answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

29(1) From Appeasement ot War (924-929) Identifythe terms, people and places. Answer map skills questions #2+2 on page 928. Also answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

29(2)The Axis Advances (930-938) Identify the terms,people, and places. Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 933. Answer Thinking Critically #1 on page 935. Read the picture caption on 936, how did the Japanese treat the Chinese? Read the caption to the picture on 938, answer the question. Finally, answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Week of May 16, 2011

The Interview Projects are now past due. This is a major quarter grade.

Be ready for a short quiz Tuesday on the causes of WWI

Due Wednasday:
Read Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (828)
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2

Due Thursday: 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 id the war poster on 830 connnected 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.

26(4) (Double Homework grade) Making the Peace (834-838)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 Cartoon on page 838. Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Be ready Friday for a WWI quiz

Due Monday (May 23) :(Double homework grade) Revolution and Civil War in Russia (839-845) Who is speaking in the letter , voices tot he 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 pge 845?
Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Answer Chapter Assessment questions #1-6, 11 and 17 on page 848.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Week of May 9,2011

Interview sheets due this Friday.

Due Wednesday: 27(3) India Seeks Self Rule (865-867) What is pictured on page 865? Who led the Great Salt March (picture 866)? Identify the terms, people, and places. Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Read Primary Source: Mohandas Gandhi, page 868. Answer question 1+2 on page 868 in complete sentences.

Due Thursday:
26(1) The Great War Begins (816-821). (double homework credit) Identify the terms, people and places. Draw the three images on page 815 and explain their significance. What was the spark of WWI (picture 816). Answer question 2+3 on map skills page 817. Why are the people picture on 818 so happy? Read the biography of Kaisar Wilhelm II (819) who were his two cousins and his grandmother? Read the reasons of entering the war (820), what two powers were most responsible for starting the war? Explain your answer. How did people show their war enthusiasm (picture 821)? Answer the five checkpoint questions.

26(2)A New Kind of War (822-827)Identify the terms, people and places. Read a soldier on the Western Front (822) what does the soldier hear that makes him happy? Read Map Skillon on page 823, answere questions 2+3. Read the infographic (824-5), illustrate three of the changes to warfare in the Great War. Read Map Skills on page 826, who fought against the Ottoman Empire in Egypt and on the Saudi peninsula? Who is pictured on page 827? Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Week of May 2, 2011

Complete Friday's handout on Italian nationalism, it is worth a 5 point quiz

Remember the interview project due May 13, 2011

Chapter 24 material assigned last week is due this week

Due by Friday

24(3) European Claims in Muslim Regions (762-766)
Identify the terms, people and places. Look at the picture of Napoleon on 762, why did he invade Egypt in 1798? Read the infographic on page 765, how many miles were cut on a trip from London to Bombay (Mumbai), India? What two bodies of water does the Suez Canal connect? What is pictured on 766? Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Answer questions #1-8 on the Chapter Assessment on page 780, also questions #9 and 19.