Week of November 28, 2016

We are almost at the mid point of the 2nd quarter.  Don't forget current events.
Honor's reading on MLK and Hoover is due Friday.
Be ready for a quiz Thurs/Friday on notes taken this week.

Due next week: 
Chapter 7(4) Economic Recovery Sparks Change. (p. 231-236)  
Identify the terms, people, and places.
Answer map skills questions #1+2 on page 232. 
Answer the primary source question on page 233, and the question on Medieval Advertising on the picture on page 235. 
Why should ice hockey players be interested in the primary source on page 236?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR answer questions #3-6 on page 236 or three bullets for each.


8(4) Learning and Culture Flourish p. 262-267 
What causes cultural diffusion? (ask in class if you don't know)  Why do you think European culture and learning flourished after the Crusades? 
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
What is pictured on page 262?  
Answer the biography question about Christine de Pisan on page 263. 
Identify the four types inventions brought to Medieval Europe in the HMA shown on page 264. 
What does the Bayeaux Tapestry (picture 266-267) show? 
Answer the three checkpoint questions OR questions #3-5 on page 267 or 3 bullets for each 

Week of November 21, 2016

Last week was national gratitude week.
This week we celebrate Thanksgiving.  Think of three people you are grateful for and let them know how you feel.   Why is it important to celebrate gratitude and give thanks?  

Wrapping up our 20th century review define: 

Kamikaze

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Cold War: What
 2 major countries involved?

Which country was a Communist dictatorship?
Which country is Capitalist democracy?

Containment/Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Chapter 7: The Rise of Europe 500 AD-1300 AD

Read 7(1) The Early Middle Ages (214-218), 
· Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 214. 
· Answer the Focus Question on page 214, 
· Map Skills question #3 on page 215, 
Map Skills question #2 on page 217. 
· Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR answer #3-5 on page 218 in complete questions or 3 bullets for each section

7(2) Feudalism and the Manor Economy (219-224)
· Identify the terms, people, and places.
· Answer the focus question on page 219.
Answer Thinking Critically questions 1+2 on page 221, 
Answer the biography question on Eleanor of Aquitaine on page 222. 
Answer the question on the picture Back Breaking Labor, page 224.
Also, answer the three checkpoint questions OR questions # 3,4,5 on page 224 in complete sentences or 3 bullets for each section

Due next week:
7(3) The Medieval Church (225-230)
Identify the terms, people, and places.
Answer the Thinking Critically questions on page 227, 
Answer the biography question on St. Francis of Assisi on page 229, 
Answer preserving Jewish Culture on page 230. 
· Answer the three checkpoint questions OR questions 3,4,5 on page 230 in complete sentences or 3 bullets for each section

Week of November 14, 2016

Be ready for a WWII quiz either Wednesday or Thursday.
Home work due this week:  27(3)

Homework due by next Wednesday  (the day before Thanksgiving )

We begin our study of the Middle Ages next week;
 Chapter 7: The Rise of Europe 500 AD-1300 AD

Read 7(1) The Early Middle Ages (214-218), 
· Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 214. 
· Answer the Focus Question on page 214, 
· Map Skills question #3 on page 215, 
Map Skills question #2 on page 217. 
· Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR answer #3-5 on page 218 in complete questions or 3 bullets for each section

7(2) Feudalism and the Manor Economy (219-224)
· Identify the terms, people, and places.
· Answer the focus question on page 219.
Answer Thinking Critically questions 1+2 on page 221, 
Answer the biography question on Eleanor of Aquitaine on page 222. 
Answer the question on the picture Back Breaking Labor, page 224.
Also, answer the three checkpoint questions OR questions # 3,4,5 on page 224 in complete sentences or 3 bullets for each section

Week of November 7, 2016

Tuesday is election day, and's it reminds me of Gerald Ford's  reference to the end of Watergate:  "our long national nightmare is finally over."   I am looking to the end of this election season, and no matter who  wins, hoping that the new US President can unify the country after this divisive election.

I want you to be able to follow the election coverage and be able to analyze the election looking at the following electoral map.   Circle the key swing states on the back of this sheet and predict who will be our next President. 

Homework for next week: Mahatma Gandhi cited 7 Social Sins afflicting western culture.  Choose three of the following and explain why you agree or disagree with Gandhi's observation.  Explain how Gandhi lived his words.  Would Gandhi be happy or unhappy with western life today?

Use the  Answer,  Evidence, Explain method

Wealth without Work  
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice

  

27(3) India Seeks Self-Rule (865-867)

Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read Witness History (865)  Why were many Indians frustrated?  With whom?
Read The Salt March (866) How do you think Americans would have viewed the British if they 
       violently reacted to the Salt March?
Answer the 3 checkpoint questions in complete sentences or 3 bullets for each section

Week of October 31, 2016

Honors class has FDR reading due Wednesday

We will wrap up Swing Kids this week as well as discuss the Weimar election simulation that   led to Hitler eventually being  chosen as Chancellor of Germany.



Book work due next week.
 30(1) The Cold War Unfolds (966-974) (Double homework grade)

Identify 5 of  the terms, people and places.
Read Witness History (966) what metaphor did Churchill use to describe the area sealed off by Soviet domination?
*Look at the picture on 967, when is the major Soviet holiday? Why did they show their nuclear might?
*Look at the chart on 968, what type of weapon was limited by arms control agreements?
*Look at the Cold War World , 1977, on page 969. Where is the Soviet soldier pictured?

 Identify 4 Cold War conflicts. Why do you think the US and USSR did not want to fight each other directly in a hot war? 
* Read the Infographic on page 971. Answer Thinking Critical questions #1+#2.
*Look at the picture of the supermarkets on page 972. How do the two types of stores differ?
* What are children practicing for in the picture on page 973?
* What is pictured on page 974?
*Answer four of the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences or list 3 bullets from each section.

30(2) The Industrialized Democracies (976-984)
Identify the terms, people, and places.
*Read the Marshall Plan (976) Why do you think the US built up Western Europe after WWII? Who were we afraid of taking over the region?
*What is pictured on page 977? What is a suburb and why did people move there?
*Look at the picture on 978. Why did long gas lines appear in the 1970's?
*Read biography on MLK (979) What issue is MLK most associated with?
*What is picture on page 981? Why rebuild Germany after WWII?
*What is pictured on page 981?
*Why are doves, small farmersand workers pictured on 983+984? What nation was rebuilding?
Answer the 4 checkpoint questions in complete sentences. 

Week of October 24, 2016

There are two weeks left in the term.  Catch up on missing homework and don't forget current events.

Due next week
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?

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

What threat to America does the Red Menace (956) warn against?

Answer three of the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR list 3 bullets for each term. 

Explain these WWII terms or answer the WWII questions:

Anschluss

Appeasement

Totalitarian vs. Democracy

The (London) Blitz/Operation Sea lion   

Operation Barbarossa

Blitzkrieg

Pearl Harbor 

Date of Infamy  December 7,1941

In what 2 parts of the world (theaters )did the US fight World War II?

Arsenal of Democracy

Battle of Midway

Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of El Alamein

Battle of Midway

Allies vs. Axis Countries

D-Day

The Battle of the Bulge

Island Hopping

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Big Three at Allied Conferences-

Winston Churchill

FDR

Harry Truman

Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Tojo Hideki and Emperor Hirohito

Final Solution  /Genocide

Holocaust

Kristallnacht

Auschwitz

Week of October 17, 2016

Field Trip to the Museum of Science Wednesday.

Have your permission slips and $10 in ASAP.  Talk to Mr. Loranger privately if money is a concern.

Work will be left for those students who choose not to go.

Homework due next week:

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 or 3 bullets for each section.

Separate homework grade: 

Read D-Day 946-7, answer the three thinking critically questions on page 947

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 or three bullet facts per section.