Week of September 25, 2016

100 million Americans are expected to watch tonight's debate between Donald Trump  and Hillary Clinton.  If you have a chance watch 15-20 minutes and summarize what your view of the debate. Identify at least three separate points in your analysis.

I will take this as one current events story.  Current event sheets will be passed out this week and be due by the end of the week.  5 sets of stories will be due each term.

I have changed how homework is assigned this
Homework due NEXT Monday 

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 OR 3 bullet facts for each checkpoint section

28(2) The Western Democracies Stumble (891-897)

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 four of the five checkpoint questions in complete sentence, or 3 bullets/section.

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

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 or 3 bullets/section.

Week of September 19, 2016

Sept. 17th was Constitution Day, by Federal law I need to discuss the impact of the Constitution.

Bookwork due by the end of next week  

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 OR 3 bullet facts for each checkpoint section

28(2) The Western Democracies Stumble (891-897)

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 four of the five checkpoint questions in complete sentence, or 3 bullets/section.

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

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 or 3 bullets/section.

Week of September 12, 2016

This week marks the 15th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11/01.  Your take home test grade interviewing 2/3 people about 9/11 is due on Monday/Tuesday. 

Ms. Schriarizzi's classes are reading Animal Farm, an allegory about the Russian Revolution and the transition to Communism.  These two sections deal with the history described in this allegory.

Homework due by the end of NEXT  week:
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 adviser 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.

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 or 3 bullets from each section.

Week of September 6, 2016

Homework due by next Friday:
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 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 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. 

Quiz Grade Due Monday/Tuesday:
Interview 2/3 people about 9/11/01. They have to be at least 20 years old now. 
Interviews will average 5-10 minutes each.
Ask and write their answer to these questions:
Where were they and what do they remember about that day?
Has America changed since 9/11/01?  How? 
Do you think the age or gender of the interview subject has an impact on their memories?  Explain your answer.

Homework Due September 7/8

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 or 3 bullet facts for each question.

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/or 3 bullet facts for each question

Separate hw grade.

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

World History Grading Policy

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

World History Course 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