20th Century Interview Project

I hope you have an enjoyable and restful Winter break.  While your family gathers for celebration you can start on an interview project due in 3 weeks.
It is important to collect primary sources as we study the rest of the 20th Century.


I will pass out a 6 decade interview sheets.  Both sides of the sheet must be finished by  1/8/12.
The sheet is listed below.   Questions include but are not limited to:
Decade outlined: ___________________________________________________
Subject interviewed:  _____________________________________________
Subject's age during decade:___________________
What is the biggest difference between that time and now?  Explain._________________________________________________________________________
Fashions/Fads/Trends____________________________________________________________
New inventions/technology_______________________________________________________
Status Symbols of the era________________________________________________________
Slang common to time_____________________________________________________
Common pass times (what did they do for fun?) _______________________________________________________________________
Music/Media icons:________________________________________________________
Heroes and villains of the era, explain why________________________________________________________________________
Identify major trends to influence the era as a whole, not necessarily their family
  Family size (extended, nuclear, blended...)____________________________________________
  Religion: Did most families go to service/mass..._______________________________________
  Education: When did MCAS emerge?  Why?__________________________________________
  Government: Did people trust it? Who were the presidents? _____________________________
  Military:  where we at war?  Where?_______________________________________________

Major source of information: _____________________________________________________
News headlines _______________________________________________________________
Strongest memories ____________________________________________________________


Back of Sheet.

-----------To be answered after the interview by the student-------------------------------------------

Does the subject have a positive or a negative view of this decade?  Why?  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What types of factors influence your subject’s memories?  (e.g. too busy raising kids to remember clearly….)  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Do you notice any trends or major changes to American society in SPRITE E in this decade?
Social ___________________________________________________________________
Political __________________________________________________________________
Religious _________________________________________________________________
Intellectual (science...)_______________________________________________________
Technology _______________________________________________________________
Economic ________________________________________________________________
Environmental ____________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

Mr. Stanton’s Decade Project Rules:

1.      Interview at least three people. Subjects must be at least 5 years old at beginning of decade.  (i.e. the  person must be born by 1955 to discuss the 1960’s)

2.      STUDENT MUST FILL IN SHEET.  Do Not  pass this off to Grandma to fill out.

3.      Due Date:  January 8, 2013

1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, 2000’s.  Only one decade is covered 2X. This must be by people in different generations (20 years apart)

Interview your parents and grandparents (if possible) on the decade your parents graduated from high school. 

5.      Other decades (1940’s, 1950’s…) can be completed for extra credit.

Week of November 14, 2011

29(5) assigned last week is due on Tuesday
Be ready for a short quiz on Tuesday on the notes covered on Monday.

Due Wednesday:  WWII DBQ which will be passed out on Monday

Due Thursday:  Chapter Assessment (960)
Answer questions #1-5 in complete sentences.  Also, answer #15, 16, 17

Be ready for a quiz on Friday on WWII

Honors Class:  quiz will be on Thursday, reading on FDR is due on Friday

November 7, 2011

29(2) and 29(3) assigned last week are due on Tuesday.
Friday is Veterans' Day, why is it celebrated on 11/11?

This week we will look at the causes of the Great Depression and what was done in the US.
Also, we will be looking at WWII

Homework due on Thursday:

29(4) Victory in Europe and the Pacific (948-951)

 Identify the terms, people, and places.

Answer map skills question #3 on page 949.

Draw the shape of the nuclear cloud on page 950.

Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences. 

Homework due next Monday:
29(5) The End of WWII (952-956)

Identify the terms, people, and places.

Look at the picture on page 952, what happened on V-J Day?

Look at chart on page 953, which nation suffered over 22 million deaths and 14 million

     wounded?

What does the Soviet poster pictured on page 954 warn against? R

Read the Berlin Airlift (955) how were Germany and Berlin divided?

 What does the Red Menace (956) warn against?

Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

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.