WORLD HISTORY

COURSE OUTLINE

Third Quarter

 

Date

Bell

Activity

Homework

Tue 1/15

Bell #1: List the causes of WWI. List the outcomes or effects of WWI.

·         Review: WWI

·         Organization: class

·         Reading: “Vladimir Lenin”

·         RSG: Ch 14, S1 and S2

Block

Bell #2: How would you resist oppressive rule – with violent or nonviolent action?

·         Reading: “Bloody Sunday”

·         Lecture: The Russian Rev.

·         Video: V.I. Lenin

·         Worksheet: Ch 14, S1, “The Russian Revolution”

Fri

Bell #3: Read and discuss “The Need for Progress” by Joseph Stalin

·         Lecture: What is totalitarianism?

·         Worksheet: Ch 14, S2, guided reading.

·         Video: Stalin

·         RSG: Ch 14, S3

Mon 1/21

Holiday

Holiday

Holiday

Tue

Bell #4: TT-55

 

·         Read: (in class) “1984” by George Orwell

·         In groups: of two, complete “Activity Options” #1 and #2 from reading

·         Current Event: Article on modern China, due Friday

·         RSG Ch 14, S4

Block

Bell #5: Read propaganda section (pg 446-447), answer “Connect to Today” questions #1 and 2.

·         Lecture/Wksheet: Ch14,S3

·         Readings: Ch 14, S3 history makers  “Jiang Jieshi and primary source “The Peasants of Hunan”

·         Video: Mao

·         Readings: Compare and Contrast

Fri

Bell #6: Complete worksheet Ch 14, S3, “Nationalists Battle Warlords and Communists.”

·         Lecture: Ch 14, S4

·         Group: assign research of “Revolutionary Leaders: 1900-1939” (CT-66)

·         Due: Current Event

Mon 1/28

 

·         Library: research leaders

·         RSG: Ch 15, S1

Tue

 

·         Presentations: Leaders

·         Discussion: “Age of Anxiety” and the “Lost Generation.”

·         Readings

·         Due: oral presentations

·         RSG: Ch 15, S2

Block

Bell #7: Read “Social History” box on pg 468-469. Answer “Connect to Today” on pg 469

·         Lecture: “The Age of Uncertainty”

·         Worksheet: Ch 15, S1 “Postwar Uncertainty”

·         Video: Breadline

·         RSG: Ch 15, S3

·         Questions: answer Breadline interview questions (partner)

Fri

Bell #8: Read primary source, German inflation

·         Lecture: The Great Depression (CT-67)

·         Worksheet: Ch 15, S2 “A Worldwide Depression”

·         RSG: Ch 15, S4

Mon 2/4

Bell #9: “Identifying Problems” worksheet

·         Create: A Political Cartoon

 

Tue

Bell #10: “Absolutism and Fascism” worksheet

·         Lecture: Fascism Rises in Europe

·         Worksheet: Ch 15, S3 Fascism Rises in Euro.

Wed

Restructured day

·         Movie: Swing Kids

 

Block

 

·         Movie: Swing Kids

 

Mon 2/11

Holiday

·         Holiday

·         Holiday

Tues

Bell #11: Reading “Kristallnacht”

·         Lecture: Kristallnacht, Nuremberg Laws, and Nazification of culture

·         Writing assignment

Block

Bell #12: TT-60

·         Read: “Poems”, complete activity options

·         Video: Master Race

·         Writing: response to video

 

Fri.

Bell #13: Why do you think so many people followed Hitler? What do you think it would have been like to be in a German high school in 1937?

·         Discussion: Adolf Hitler

·         Assign: Writing About History “A Visit to Berlin”

·         Write: “A Visit to Berlin”, due Monday 2/25

Mon 2/18

Holiday

·         Holiday

·         Holiday

Tue

Bell #14: Geography activity “Spain During the 1930s”

·         Reading: “Francisco Franco” and  “The Bombing of Guernica”

·         Lecture: Aggressors Invade Nations

·         Worksheet: Ch 15, S4 “Aggressors Invade Nations”

Block

Bell #15: TT-62

·         Group: complete questions

·         Geography: complete location identification on Pacific and European maps

·         Analyze: Winston Churchill’s speech pg 485

Fri.

 

·         Finish maps

·         Review: Ch 14 and 15

·         Review sheets (group divide eight)

Mon 2/25

 

·         Review: answers to re-teaching activities

·         Due: “A Visit to Berlin”

Tue.

 

·         Quiz: Ch 14 and 15

·         Due: notebook

·         RSG: Ch 16, S1

Block

Bell #16: Read “Berlin Diary”

·         Lecture: Hitler’s Lightening War

·         Video: Blitzkrieg

·         RSG: Ch 16, S2

Fri

Bell #17: Define or identify terms on board.

·         Compare and contrast: de Gaulle and Churchill

·         RSG: Ch 16, S3

Mon 3/3

Bell #18: TT-63

·         Lecture: Japan’s Pacific Campaign

·         Map

·         Worksheet: Ch 16, S2 “Japan’s Pacific Campaign”

Tue

Bell #19: Geography activity “The Fall of Singapore”

·         Movie: “Empire of the Sun”

 

Wed

Restructured day

·         Complete: RSG Ch 16, S4 and Ch 16, S5 in class

 

Block

 

·         Movie: finish “Empire of the Sun”

·         Discuss: concept of non combatants during war

·         Read: pgs 522 and 523, answer questions pg 523

Mon 3/10

Bell #20: TT-64

·         Lecture: The Holocaust

·         Worksheet: Ch 16, S3 “The Holocaust”

Tue

 

·         Readings: “Night”, “The Diary of a Young Girl,” and “Denying the Holocaust.”

·         Writing: prove or disprove

·         Complete writing activity

Block

Bell #21: AT-70

·         Discussion: Propaganda

·         Video: Propaganda Wars

·         Compare and contrast

·         Poster: make propaganda poster

Fri.

Bell #22: Ch 16, S4 worksheet “Following Chronological Order”

·         Lecture: Allied Victory

·         Worksheet: Ch 16, S4, The Allied Victory

·         Discussion questions

·         Worksheet: Ch 16, S4 “Hiroshima” and read pg 512; write essay taking a side

Mon 3/17

Bell #23: TT-66

·         Debate and discussion regarding dropping bomb

·         Reading: “Farewell to Manzanar”

Tue

Bell #24: AT-71 “Liberation”

·         Lecture: Europe and Japan in Ruins

·         Worksheet: Ch 16, S5 “Europe and Japan in Ruins”

·         Read pgs 524-25; complete questions on pg 525

Block

Bell #25: In pairs, complete worksheet Ch 16, S5 “Two World Wars”

·         Causes and Effects of WWII (CT-32)

·         Quiz: Ch 16, WWII

·         Due: notebook (in class check)

·         RSG: Ch 17, S1 and S2

Fri

Holiday

·         Holiday

·         Holiday