Read p. 730-735
As you read answer the main ideas.
Describe: Ho Chi Minh
Domino Theory,
Ho chi Minh trail
Complete the Geography Skill builder
Explain why the Monk on p. 734 set himself on fire. What is your reaction? Do you think
this was effective protest?
ASSESSMENT: Answer q. 3, and 5
Monday, June 7, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Atomic Bomb Decision: Doomsday for Japan
lEssay: To what extent was the United States “inhumanity to man” as seen in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, justified? In what ways was it inhumane, in what ways was it “humane” to the soldiers and citizens of the USA? Cite evidence from you readings
l#1 The problem
l#2 the Solutions, choices
l#3 Reasons for the final decision---justification; our dead or their dead..
l#4 Results---did it justify dripping the bomb;
l#5 conclusion—aftermath of suffering, ‘never again’, the beginning of the cold war; 20k bombs US v. 20k bombs USSR
INHUMANE or Humane Justification
l#1 The problem
l#2 the Solutions, choices
l#3 Reasons for the final decision---justification; our dead or their dead..
l#4 Results---did it justify dripping the bomb;
l#5 conclusion—aftermath of suffering, ‘never again’, the beginning of the cold war; 20k bombs US v. 20k bombs USSR
INHUMANE or Humane Justification
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Text reading on Atomic Bomb q. 1-2 HW; will ck Thurs
lReview q. 1,2
lDigging deeper…Dropping the Atomic Bomb….thinking deeper…beyond the book….
lTeam: answer questions
lEssay: To what extent was the United States “inhumanity to man” as seen in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, justified? In what ways was it inhumane, in what ways was it “humane” to the soldiers and citizens of the USA? Cite evidence from you readings.
lDigging deeper…Dropping the Atomic Bomb….thinking deeper…beyond the book….
lTeam: answer questions
lEssay: To what extent was the United States “inhumanity to man” as seen in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, justified? In what ways was it inhumane, in what ways was it “humane” to the soldiers and citizens of the USA? Cite evidence from you readings.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Complete for weekend HW;
lP. 574-575
¡Geography skillbuilders
¡List 5 things that had to be accomplished
¡List the leaders
Write a letter as General Eisenhower describing how this invasion needs to be planned and executed.
HW. 576-577 Describe the Liberation of the Death Camps; As the Robert Johnson (personal voice) write a hournal entry about what you found when you liberated the jews in the camps
Describe Hitler’s Death; what did his last journal entry say;
…extend it for another paragraph.
Answer q. 4 about Roosevelt’s Death
¡Geography skillbuilders
¡List 5 things that had to be accomplished
¡List the leaders
Write a letter as General Eisenhower describing how this invasion needs to be planned and executed.
HW. 576-577 Describe the Liberation of the Death Camps; As the Robert Johnson (personal voice) write a hournal entry about what you found when you liberated the jews in the camps
Describe Hitler’s Death; what did his last journal entry say;
…extend it for another paragraph.
Answer q. 4 about Roosevelt’s Death
Monday, May 3, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Comparing the Holocaust to Genocide, etc. Today
lTODAY: Genocide, refugees, war, earthquakes, Save the Children, Amnesty International
lBrainstorm: Lessons of the Holocaust
1.Apply a lesson to a country or people who are suffering, oppressed, or at war today.
2.Computer/internet search; find a current crisis; describe
3.How does a group or government conduct genocide and war?How was/is this part of the slippery slope of evil?
4.What is one person/group doing to stop this crisis, save others, and seek justice? Who/what group is an example?
5.What good or evil is elicited from humans in this situation?
HW: 1-2 Power point slide with pictures and information about this
Current crisis. Include your question above and your answer.
Print it out.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
ESSAY TOPICS FOR NIGHT
lEssay Topics: Read the choices. Write a possible THESIS statement that you will prove from your reading, notes, quotes, etc.
l1. One of the most tragic themes in Night is Eliezer’s discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can make good people into brutes. What are the atrocities he refers to? Does he himself escape this fate? Cite examples.
l2 Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his championing of human rights around the world. (see internet information) How might his advocacy for human rights have grown out of his Holocaust experiences? What are the positive lessons of the Holocaust that Wiesel hints at in Night? Has the world learned from these lessons or
do we repeat our mistakes? Give examples.
l3 In the midst of the dying men in Gleiwitz, the violinist Juliek plays a fragment of music written by the German composer Beethoven. Before and after the Holocaust, many people wondered how the Germans, cultured Europeans, could commit such barbaric acts. Does Wiesel suggest any rationale or reasons behind the Holocaust in Night? Does he speculate as to the motives of the perpetrators? What, for Wiesel, are those motives? Include notes on “evil” and the ‘slippery slope’ to evil that we studied.
l4 It is possible to look at Night as the story of Eliezer’s loss of innocence. It might be argued, too, that innocence is impossible after the Holocaust. Is this true? Is it tragic, or is innocence an obstacle to survival, as when the Jews are too innocent to believe that Hitler really means to kill them? Give examples.
l5. Select 3 chapters and quotes in Night and comment on how it “paints a dark and angry
lpicture of human nature.” What circumstances in the memoir allow for this darker side of
lhuman nature to emerge? Contrast this with parts of the book that provide hope for the
l‘lighter’ or positive side of human nature.
Use your textbook, your journal entries, and quotes to explain your thesis. In other words,
lWhat parts or passages of the book prove your point?!
l1. One of the most tragic themes in Night is Eliezer’s discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can make good people into brutes. What are the atrocities he refers to? Does he himself escape this fate? Cite examples.
l2 Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his championing of human rights around the world. (see internet information) How might his advocacy for human rights have grown out of his Holocaust experiences? What are the positive lessons of the Holocaust that Wiesel hints at in Night? Has the world learned from these lessons or
do we repeat our mistakes? Give examples.
l3 In the midst of the dying men in Gleiwitz, the violinist Juliek plays a fragment of music written by the German composer Beethoven. Before and after the Holocaust, many people wondered how the Germans, cultured Europeans, could commit such barbaric acts. Does Wiesel suggest any rationale or reasons behind the Holocaust in Night? Does he speculate as to the motives of the perpetrators? What, for Wiesel, are those motives? Include notes on “evil” and the ‘slippery slope’ to evil that we studied.
l4 It is possible to look at Night as the story of Eliezer’s loss of innocence. It might be argued, too, that innocence is impossible after the Holocaust. Is this true? Is it tragic, or is innocence an obstacle to survival, as when the Jews are too innocent to believe that Hitler really means to kill them? Give examples.
l5. Select 3 chapters and quotes in Night and comment on how it “paints a dark and angry
lpicture of human nature.” What circumstances in the memoir allow for this darker side of
lhuman nature to emerge? Contrast this with parts of the book that provide hope for the
l‘lighter’ or positive side of human nature.
Use your textbook, your journal entries, and quotes to explain your thesis. In other words,
lWhat parts or passages of the book prove your point?!
Monday, April 19, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Essay topics for NIGHT
lEssay Topics: Read the choices. For three of them, write a possible THESIS statement that you will prove from your reading, notes, quotes, etc.
l1. One of the most tragic themes in Night is Eliezer’s discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can make good people into brutes. What are the atrocities he refers to? Does he himself escape this fate? Cite examples.
l2 Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his championing of human rights around the world. (see internet information) How might his advocacy for human rights have grown out of his Holocaust experiences? What are the positive lessons of the Holocaust that Wiesel hints at in Night? Has the world learned from these lessons or
do we repeat our mistakes? Give examples
l3 In the midst of the dying men in Gleiwitz, the violinist Juliek plays a fragment of music written by the German composer Beethoven. Before and after the Holocaust, many people wondered how the Germans, cultured Europeans, could commit such barbaric acts. Does Wiesel suggest any rationale or reasons behind the Holocaust in Night? Does he speculate as to the motives of the perpetrators? What, for Wiesel, are those motives? Include notes on “evil” and the ‘slippery slope’ to evil that we studied.
l4 It is possible to look at Night as the story of Eliezer’s loss of innocence. It might be argued, too, that innocence is impossible after the Holocaust. Is this true? Is it tragic, or is innocence an obstacle to survival, as when the Jews are too innocent to believe that Hitler really means to kill them? Give examples.
l5. Select one portion of narration in Night and comment on how it “paints a dark and angry
lpicture of human nature.” What circumstances in the memoir allow for this darker side of
lhuman nature to emerge? Contrast this with parts of the book that provide hope for the
l‘lighter’ or positive side of human nature.
Use your textbook, your journal entries, and quotes to explain your thesis. In other words,
lWhat parts or passages of the book prove your point?!
l1. One of the most tragic themes in Night is Eliezer’s discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can make good people into brutes. What are the atrocities he refers to? Does he himself escape this fate? Cite examples.
l2 Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his championing of human rights around the world. (see internet information) How might his advocacy for human rights have grown out of his Holocaust experiences? What are the positive lessons of the Holocaust that Wiesel hints at in Night? Has the world learned from these lessons or
do we repeat our mistakes? Give examples
l3 In the midst of the dying men in Gleiwitz, the violinist Juliek plays a fragment of music written by the German composer Beethoven. Before and after the Holocaust, many people wondered how the Germans, cultured Europeans, could commit such barbaric acts. Does Wiesel suggest any rationale or reasons behind the Holocaust in Night? Does he speculate as to the motives of the perpetrators? What, for Wiesel, are those motives? Include notes on “evil” and the ‘slippery slope’ to evil that we studied.
l4 It is possible to look at Night as the story of Eliezer’s loss of innocence. It might be argued, too, that innocence is impossible after the Holocaust. Is this true? Is it tragic, or is innocence an obstacle to survival, as when the Jews are too innocent to believe that Hitler really means to kill them? Give examples.
l5. Select one portion of narration in Night and comment on how it “paints a dark and angry
lpicture of human nature.” What circumstances in the memoir allow for this darker side of
lhuman nature to emerge? Contrast this with parts of the book that provide hope for the
l‘lighter’ or positive side of human nature.
Use your textbook, your journal entries, and quotes to explain your thesis. In other words,
lWhat parts or passages of the book prove your point?!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
On Reading NIGHT by Elie Wiesel
lRead Chapter 1: NIGHT
lKeep a journal. Make at least 3 entries in journal when a phrase or passage moves you to write. Describe what you observe, how what the reading affects you, what you think about, what you question.
lWrite about a quotation in each chapter you find particularly effective or memorable. Explain your feelings or thoughts about it.
lHW: Read and write in journals: Ch.1-2
lKeep a journal. Make at least 3 entries in journal when a phrase or passage moves you to write. Describe what you observe, how what the reading affects you, what you think about, what you question.
lWrite about a quotation in each chapter you find particularly effective or memorable. Explain your feelings or thoughts about it.
lHW: Read and write in journals: Ch.1-2
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Catch up...spring break and assessment
Spring Break HW: Wednesday; Read pp. 547-549
1.Answer main idea;
2.What brutalities took place in the camps?
3.Describe what happened from when a Jew came to the camps until he died.
Complete ASSESSMENT 1-5
1.Answer main idea;
2.What brutalities took place in the camps?
3.Describe what happened from when a Jew came to the camps until he died.
Complete ASSESSMENT 1-5
Thursday, March 25, 2010
THE FINAL SOLUTION
lHW: The Holocaust 544-46
lThe Final solution-
lList the groups sent to camps
lComplete skillbuilder
lDefine and give an example of this event:
l genocide, final solution, ghettos, concentration camps
lThe Final solution-
lList the groups sent to camps
lComplete skillbuilder
lDefine and give an example of this event:
l genocide, final solution, ghettos, concentration camps
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Holocaust; The beginning of the terror....
HW: Read 542-544; answer Main ideas as you read.
lWhat did the Germans do to the Jews?
lWhy was it hard to escape?
lWhat did the Germans do to the Jews?
lWhy was it hard to escape?
Monday, March 22, 2010
London Times New Story....Battle of Britain
lRead p. 540.-1
lDraw a map of the British retreat to England from France. Add dates and statistics provided in the reading under the: Fall of France, and, the Battle of Britain
lWrite a Newspaper story for the London Times about the BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
Use info from the text. Quote from Winston churchill
lDraw a map of the British retreat to England from France. Add dates and statistics provided in the reading under the: Fall of France, and, the Battle of Britain
lWrite a Newspaper story for the London Times about the BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
Use info from the text. Quote from Winston churchill
Friday, March 19, 2010
Movie Review; min. 1 page typed; double spaced; 5 paragraphs; due monday ONLY
1.Movie Review: Compare Why We Fight and Triumph of the Will
2.1. Title – catchy, can indicate if review will be positive or negative, you can play with words to make it different .
3.What is propaganda? How does each film persuade to their point of view? What is your thesis about propaganda films or these films in particular?
5.What makes each of these films___ propaganda?
6.Comparisons==this movie______ has been compared to ____ because…
7.Compare the Similarities and Differences
between American and German points of view
positive and negative things you thought about each film, what didn’t you like? Why?
Final comments – general comments that summarize your view of the film, you may want to say something inspiring to get the reader to want to go out and see the film or you might say something that would want them not to go and see it!.
2.1. Title – catchy, can indicate if review will be positive or negative, you can play with words to make it different .
3.What is propaganda? How does each film persuade to their point of view? What is your thesis about propaganda films or these films in particular?
5.What makes each of these films___ propaganda?
6.Comparisons==this movie______ has been compared to ____ because…
7.Compare the Similarities and Differences
between American and German points of view
positive and negative things you thought about each film, what didn’t you like? Why?
Final comments – general comments that summarize your view of the film, you may want to say something inspiring to get the reader to want to go out and see the film or you might say something that would want them not to go and see it!.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thurs, Friday classwk and HW Hitler
REad 534-5 Isolationism: list 3 factors that made USA an isolationism country.
What did Roosevelt do? What didn’t he do?
HW: Read 536-37 Read Austria and Czechoslovakia Fall; Describe the takeover of Austria; Describe the Bargain for part of Czechoslovakia—reason, attack, solution
HITLER pictures (537): What emotions are in his gestures; Would Hitler do well on television today
What did Roosevelt do? What didn’t he do?
HW: Read 536-37 Read Austria and Czechoslovakia Fall; Describe the takeover of Austria; Describe the Bargain for part of Czechoslovakia—reason, attack, solution
HITLER pictures (537): What emotions are in his gestures; Would Hitler do well on television today
Rise of HItler
Read p. 531: How was Hitler Elected?
Make a Flow Map of How the Nazis took control of Germany
P. 532 View map and answer 1-2
P. 534 Analyze the political cartoon 1-3
HW: Finish and answer #4 on 535 assess
Make a Flow Map of How the Nazis took control of Germany
P. 532 View map and answer 1-2
P. 534 Analyze the political cartoon 1-3
HW: Finish and answer #4 on 535 assess
Friday, March 5, 2010
DUE MONDAY: Essay on Great Depression, period 5 only
Essay on Great Depression: How do people survive crises? What is the role of the government to help them? -
It’s 1934 and Roosevelt is President. You are unemployed… (See ‘Scenarios)’ Write a letter to President Roosevelt as an unemployed worker, farmer, family member, youth or artist who got a job in the 1930’s due to the policies of the New Deal.
Tell FDR how the Depression has affected you and your family. See ‘Scenarios’ for ideas.
Explain the New Deal policies you have read about in the news.
Explain the specific program that helped you. Tell the president the work you are now doing in this program.
Give the president advice on what else he can be doing for the unemployed, the poor, the segregated society or segregated army, etc.
It’s 1934 and Roosevelt is President. You are unemployed… (See ‘Scenarios)’ Write a letter to President Roosevelt as an unemployed worker, farmer, family member, youth or artist who got a job in the 1930’s due to the policies of the New Deal.
Tell FDR how the Depression has affected you and your family. See ‘Scenarios’ for ideas.
Explain the New Deal policies you have read about in the news.
Explain the specific program that helped you. Tell the president the work you are now doing in this program.
Give the president advice on what else he can be doing for the unemployed, the poor, the segregated society or segregated army, etc.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Great Depression HW
Per. 5 Continue to work on a page of your website
Per. 6 Make a thesis statement to prove in your power point
ex. FDR, as the president of the US, had no right to have an affair while
in such a high office. or...
ex. FDR althought a great president, was a poor example as a husband.
ex. FDR was not only a great leader to americans in the depression, but he
had great courage to face his own illness and help others as well.
ex. FDR got more accomplished in the first hundred days than any other president.
ex. FDR help many Americans, but the minorities were left out of this new government
program. They were still discriminated against and segregated.
ex. FDR was the poor man's friend.
Per. 6 Make a thesis statement to prove in your power point
ex. FDR, as the president of the US, had no right to have an affair while
in such a high office. or...
ex. FDR althought a great president, was a poor example as a husband.
ex. FDR was not only a great leader to americans in the depression, but he
had great courage to face his own illness and help others as well.
ex. FDR got more accomplished in the first hundred days than any other president.
ex. FDR help many Americans, but the minorities were left out of this new government
program. They were still discriminated against and segregated.
ex. FDR was the poor man's friend.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Do your share for Roosevelt's Website; REsearch 2 programs; write summary for website, etc.
What if instead of President Roosevelt using the radio for his Fireside Chat, he used the Internet? Pretend you are Roosevelt and his cabinet, and create a Web page to communicate ideas and programs that will give people confidence that things will be better.
ROOSEVELT’S DEPRESSION ERA WEBSITE
(2)Describe 6 programs (6 pages); info and pictures 100
Choose/Add Theme music from the time 50
(1-2) Write your own song or make a music video using a song from the Depression 100
(1)Listen to Roosevelt. Then, Write and post your own Webside Chat Room for the President. 50
You will present your website, music, and your own Fireside Chat Room
Total 300 points
ROOSEVELT’S DEPRESSION ERA WEBSITE
(2)Describe 6 programs (6 pages); info and pictures 100
Choose/Add Theme music from the time 50
(1-2) Write your own song or make a music video using a song from the Depression 100
(1)Listen to Roosevelt. Then, Write and post your own Webside Chat Room for the President. 50
You will present your website, music, and your own Fireside Chat Room
Total 300 points
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
THE NEW DEAL; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
HW: Read about the Personal Story, How did the CWA help this man? help workers? Who was Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. What programs did they begin to help unemployed Americans. Define: the NEW DEAL; the First Hundred Days; Fireside Chat
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Complete Scenarios (sheet) ; complete letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to poor mother
More examples of life in the Depression: finish Scenarios
Letter to First Lady Write a letter (as Eleanor Roosevelt) back to this lady. Tell her how you feel, what you will do”? You can’t help everyone, you only have so much money of your own. What will you do with the rings? Send them back? And then…?
Letter to First Lady Write a letter (as Eleanor Roosevelt) back to this lady. Tell her how you feel, what you will do”? You can’t help everyone, you only have so much money of your own. What will you do with the rings? Send them back? And then…?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Stock Market Crash.....details
467-469 The STOCK MARKET CRASH!!! Of 1929.
answer analyzing political cartoons 467;
Write a news paper headline and first paragraph for BLACK TUESDAY. ;
Describe the important statistics for Bank Failures at the start of the Depression.
answer analyzing political cartoons 467;
Write a news paper headline and first paragraph for BLACK TUESDAY. ;
Describe the important statistics for Bank Failures at the start of the Depression.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Intro: THE GREAT DEPRESSION hw
HW
Read 463: Read and answer INTERACT. Read 464-466 What happened to Gordon Parks? Explain each of the heading on these pages that led to the depression?
Read 463: Read and answer INTERACT. Read 464-466 What happened to Gordon Parks? Explain each of the heading on these pages that led to the depression?
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