Week of October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween on Monday.  Where did the Halloween tradition originate?

29(1) assigned last week will be due on Tuesday.
This is a good week to catch up with missing homework as the term ends Friday.
As we watch Swing Kids try to focus on how the Nazi's used propaganda to indoctrinate the you of the HJ.

This week we will recreate the 1932 Weimar election which led to the Nazi take over of Germany.
A quiz grade will be given based upon your participation in the simulation.  We will also have an in class essay and a quiz based upon the simulation.
You will have to understand the basic political positions of the Nazis, Socialists, Communists, and Center Party to complete the quiz.

Homework due next Tuesday (11/8) will be accepted this Friday for credit on both terms.

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.

29(3) The Allies Turn the Tide (939-945)

Identify the terms, people, and places.

Read Witness history (939) why did WWII become a total war for the US?

Read the infographic (941) identify three new WWII technologies and explain how  they were used to win the war.

Read the three biographies on page 944, identify each of the 3 Allied leaders, their country and two facts about the leaders from each reading.

Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Separate homework grade: 
Read D-Day 946-7, answer the three thinking critically questions on page 947.

Week of October 24, 2011

On Monday we quiz on Stalin and Totalitarian life in the USSR

The Rest of the week we will discuss Chapter 28 which includes the conditions and leaders that led to WWII, especially the role of Hitler and Nazi Germany.  We will also recreate the Weimar election of 1932 which was key to Hitler gaining power in Germany.

Homework due on Wednesday: Read
28(5) Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany (912-917)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Look at the picture on 912, how did Hitler give hope to the Germans?  Who did he blame?
Look at the picture on 913, what is inflation and how did it impact prices?
Read the biography of Hitler on 914.  List three adjectives to describe his personality.
Look at the picture on 915. What happened on Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?
Look at the picture on page 916.  Why were books like All Quiet on the Western Front burned?
Look at the chart on page 917. Why were Jewish books also burned? What Jewish scientist exiled from Germany  came to the US to teach at Princeton University?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.



Due Friday:
 29(1) From Appeasement to War (924-929)
Identify the terms, people and places
Look at the picture on page 925.  What did Neville Chamberlain think he had brought Britian in September 1938 with his agreement with Hitler?
Look at the picture on 925, what treaty did Germany break by rearmament?
Look at the picture on page 926. List the four fascist leaders and their countries.
Why is the woman crying on page 927?
Look at the map on page 928.  Answer questions #1+2.
Look at the chart on page 929. Identify what you think are the top two reasons to appease (give into) Hitler.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.
 

Week of October 17, 2011

On Monday we will review Stalin's Russia and you will be assigned a Document Based Question (DBQ) on Stalin's role in Soviet Industrialization.  The essay question associated with the DBQ will be due on Wednesday.

Homework due on Friday

28(3)  Fascism in Italy
Identify the terms, people, and places
How is Mussolini pictured on page 898 and 899?
Look at the infographic (900-901) What is a cult of personality?
What happened to Osip Mandelstam (900)?
Look at the picture on 902, what were children required to carry?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Read Pablo Picasso (p.890) .  How do you think cubism got its name?

28(2) The Western Democracies Stumble (891-897) (Double homework grade)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Look at the picture on 891.  What is a soup kitchen?
Look at the picture on page 892.  What were the Irish Republican Army trying to resist?
Look at the political cartoon on 893.  What point is the cartoonist trying to make?
Read the infographic (894-5). In which country did the Great Depression begin?
What country had the highest unemployment (line graph  on 895)
Describe the woman pictured on page 896.
Look at the Economic Theory bloc on page 897.  What does John Maynard Keynes think the government should do during depressions?
Answer the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Week of October 11, 2011

28(1) Postwar Social Changes. (884-889)

Identify the terms people and places.

Who is pictured on age 884? What type of music did he play?

 Look at the picture on 885, what is a speakeasy?

Read about the Jazz Age (886-7) How did flappers shock their elders?

Illustrate three changes in technology pictured.

Read Marie Curie (888) what was she best known for?

Read abstract art, why is Kadinsky's art (889) and Picasso's art (890) called Cubist?

Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences. 

Read the Infographic on page 900-901 

Complete the 6 features of a Totalitarian State (900) shared by Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Communist USSR.

Single party ________________   with _________ obedience to a single leader.

______________ control of the economy.

Use of ____________  spies and ____________  to enforce the will of the state.
Government control of the ______________  to indoctrinate and mobilize citizens through _______________________

Use of ____________________  and youth organizations to spread __________________ to children

Strict ____________________  of the artists and ______________________  with dissenting opinions.

Read 28(4)  The Soviet Union under Stalin  (904-911)

Identify the terms, people, and places. 

Read Witness History (904)  How is Stalin portrayed in the picture?

Look at the picture (905).  What did Stalin see as the key to success of the USSR?

Why are the people pictured on page 906 starving?  What happened to their crops?

Look  at the map on 907?  How did Stalin use Gulags?

What tools are being raised by the factory worker and the farmer on page 908?

Look at the picture (909)  What happened to the Russian Orthodox Church?

Look at the picture (910)  Why were  Soviet cities so crowded?

Complete the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.  Be sure to kick back the question. 

Honors Influenza Reading

This week's selected reading comes from Andrew Nikiforuk's book, Fourth Horseman (of the Apocalypse.
The first rider represents the world of God, wears a crown and sits on a white horse.  He represents light and hope (think of Gandalf the White in Lord of the Rings)
The second rider represents war and sits on a blood red horse and carries a big sword. He represents the power of government which sends men to war and the destruction they bring.
The third rider sits on a black horse and holds a scale to measure prosperity and famine which was a constant threat.
The fourth horseman looks like the Grim Reaper. He rides a pale and sickly thin horse. He  carries a sythe  and represents disease, pestilence and death.

Due Wednesday.
15 facts on the reading.  Make sure to include the page number with each fact.
5 questions with their answers.  Be sure these are not one word answers.
Reaction to the reading.  What do you think of Nikiforuk's writing style.  What about the topic.

Include at least one "ah hah" moment, this is an insight and connection to today you gained from the reading  or one "IDK" (something you don't understand)

Reading due Wednesday (October 5th)

Week of October 3, 2011

Complete the  Chapter 26 assignments posted the last two weeks.  Make up quiz will be given after school, but you have to complete the homework on the material before you retake the quiz.

Due last Wednesday: 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.

Due last Thursday : 26(4) Making the Peace (834-838)

Identify the terms, people and places.
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.

Due Friday (10/7/11):  26(5) Revolution and Civil War 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 the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Separate Homework Grade: Answer Chapter Assessment questions #1-6, and
# 11 and #17 on page 848

Quiz this week on Thursday, October 6, 2011  on 26(1)-26(4)