Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Mr. Stanton's Classroom expectations

Mr. Stanton's World History Class grading and extra help


Grading policy:
   Homework:   15%
   Classwork:    25%
  Tests and Quizzes:  60%

Bring a good attitude, a three ring binder, and something to write with to class every day. 

Outside extra credit reading can add up to 5% each quarter to your final average.
Nonfiction and historical fiction will be worth more points. 
The book must be discussed with me and a short writing assignment must be completed before points are added to your grade.   The book and discussion must be completed before the last week of the term to get credit for that term. 

Book Theme:  Power, Conflict/Compromise, Change, and Connection/Relevance to today.

Extra help day:  I will be available for help every day.  Just let me know you are coming.
Thursday's I will be in room  65 for the  homework club.  I encourage all students to make use of the extra help and the Tuesday/Thursday late busses. 

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Week of September 1, 2015

Homework due by next Tuesday/Wednesday (September 8/9,  2015) 
26(1) The Great War Begins (816-821). (double homework credit)
Identify  five of 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 in complete sentences.
Separate homework grade
26(2)A New Kind of War (822-827) 

Identify five of the terms, people and places. 
Read a soldier on the Western Front (822) what does the soldier hear that makes him happy? Read Map Skills on page 823, answer 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
Separate hw grade.
Read Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (828)
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2

World History outline

Freshman World History will cover

Western World Religions  (Judaism, Christianity, Islam,)
Eastern World Religions(Hinduism, Buddism, Daoism)
and World History from the fall of Rome (476 CE) to today. World History topics include:
The Low Middle Ages aka the Dark Ages
Vikings
Feudalism/Manorialism
William the Conqueror
The Crusades
The growth of towns in the High Middle Ages
Romanesque vs Gothic Architecture
The Renaissance
The Scientific Revolution
The  Enlightenment
American and French Revolutions
The Industrial Revolution
New Imperialism
WWI
Interwar period
WWII
The end of colonialism
The Cold War
The World today

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Red team World History Final Exam Review 2015



Renaissance and Reformation 
Renaissance means  ____________________  of the Classical World
Humanist
Patron
Author of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello
Gutenberg and Effects of Printing press
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther’s criticism of the Church that he posted on a Church door
Why did King Henry VIII split from the Catholic Church
6 wives of Henry: divorced, beheaded and______________________ ...
Elizabeth I

Scientific Revolution
Copernicus
Heliocentric vs. Geocentric
Isaac Newton
Galileo

Exploring the Atlantic World
Which of the following made it easy for Europeans to conquer the Americas?
Advantages of Conquistadors over native Americans
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortez
Ferdinand Magellan
Triangle Trade

Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions
anarchy
absolute monarchy
republic
theocracy
monarchy
dictator
John Locke and Natural Rights
Adam Smith’s concept of Laissez Faire (free market) means
The Enlightenment led to which two revolutions?
Republic
Suffrage
Divine Right
Limited vs Absolute Monarchy
Montesquieu’s ideas of separation of powers supported a government that…
French razor/Guillotine
Robespierre
Versailles
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Napoleon
Who made up the three estates
1st
2nd
3rd
Who made up about 90% of all French people before the French Revolution
Chronology: Louis XVI, Napoleon, Robespierre

Industrial Revolution
Where did it first begin?                                            
In what industry?
Enclosure Movement
Entrepreneur
Major uses of iron
What was a danger of working in a factory in the 19th century?
What organized to protect the workers
Urbanization
Enclosure Movement
Immigration
Karl Marx vs. Adam Smith
Communism vs. Capitalism
Slums
Entrepreneurs/Inventors
James Watt
Eli Whitney
Alfred Nobel
Louis Pasteur
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Assembly Line

New Imperialism 
How did the Industrial Revolution contribute to imperialism?
Which 20th century war did Imperialism help start?
Which 2 countries dominated African Imperialism?
Why did the Opium War start?
What methods did Gandhi use to encourage Indian Independence?

World War I  dates
Allies vs. _____________________
MAINS causes of WWI
Nationalism in the Balkans between what two nations
Franz Fedinand, vs.  Gavrilo Princip
Zwifrontenkrieg and von Schlieffan Plan
Who mobilized forces threatening Germany
What nation’s neutrality did England Protect
Eastern Front
Western Front
Stalemate
trench war
new weapons
propaganda

Chronology:
1.      Renaissance,   Fall of Rome,   Middle Ages
2.      American Revolution, Enlightenment, French Revolution
3.      Assassination of Franz Ferdinand,   German Reparations,   Treaty of Versailles
4.      Rise of Hitler,    Great Depression,      Start of WWII
5.      Cold War,      WWI,            WWII


WWII  dates
 Allies vs.  ____________________     identify countries
Identify  the nations they ruled, Who were the Big Three (Allies)
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
Emperor Hirohito/Hedeki Tojo

D-Day/Operation Overlord
Blitzkrieg
Pearl Harbor
Two US theatres in WWII
Blitzkrieg
Targets of the A-Bomb
Kamikaze
Genocide
Aryan Race
Swastika
Holocaust/Final Solution
Auschwitz

Cold War  dates
US vs.  ________________________
Capitalism vs. _______________________
Berlin Airlift
Vietnam War
Cuban Missile Crisis (13 Days in October)
MAD theory of deterrence

What they might say
a.       Holocaust victim
b.       Nazi
c.       Hiroshima resident
d.       Kamikaze
e.       Indian nationalism
f.        WWI soldier
g.       Russian Communist in 1917, supporter of the revolution
h.       Assembly line worker

Map of Europe:  Identify  England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia