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    SOCIAL STUDIES 8M

    May 17

    *Roman-Vikings Comparison now due this week

    Share some anachronisms

    The Middle Ages in Western Europe

    • Assignment:  A Day in the Life – Then (There) vs Now (Here)
    • Video:  “The Dark Ages – Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire”

    Homework Readings:

    • Chapter 2 Pathways (see MOODLE PDF) by Wednesday morning
    • Chapter 5 Pathways (see MOODLE PDF) by Friday morning
    • Review & Activity Sheets Optional (MOODLE PDFs)

    HISTORY 12

    May 17 (Off-Week Sessions – Monday/Wednesday/Friday)

    Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit

    • Assignment 2 – “Continuity vs. Change”
      • USA
      • Russia
      • Italy
        • Some key terms:
          • Socialists
          • Treaty of London – offer of Tyrol, Istria, Dalmatia
          • Gabriele D’Annunzio & Fiume
          • March on Rome
          • MSVN
          • Acerbo Law
          • Matteotti murder
          • Ceka
          • “Il Duce”
          • OVRA
          • Mussolini’s “Battles”
          • “Mussolinia”
          • “Corporations” and the corporate state
          • the Balilla
          • the Minculpop
          • Italy’s “super colony” of Italian East Africa – Eritrea, Somaliland, Abyssinia (Ethiopa)
          • Rome-Berlin Axis –> Pact of Steel
          • Mussolini’s “Charter of Race”
          • Lipari Islands concentration camps
          • Blackshirts
      • Germany
    • Homework
    • Readings for Wednesday:
      • Finish Mussolini video (if not finished in class) – finish Monday night
      • Read Global Forces pp. 40-69 – finish Monday night
      • “Weimar Germany” Moodle PDF (Topic 8) – Read TUESDAY morning(A)/afternoon(B)
      • Finish “Weimar Germany” video (if not finished in class Wednesday) – finish Wednesday night
      • “Hitler’s Germany” Moodle PDF (Topic 8) – Read THURSDAY morning (A)/afternoon (B)
      • *other PDF Articles and Videos optional
    • Assignment 2 – Due week of Monday May 24

     

    HISTORY 12

    May 14

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    Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit

    • Assignment 2 – “Continuity vs. Change”
      • USA
      • Russia
        • Video:  “Russian Revolution”
        • Video:  “Life Under Stalin”
        • Some key terms:
          • Tsar
          • Bloody Sunday
          • October Manifesto/Fundamental Laws
          • “Dark Forces”
          • Potemkin Mutiny
          • Duma
          • Social Democratic Party/Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
          • Vladimir Lenin
          • Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels – Communist Manifesto
          • bourgeoisie/proletariat
          • Soviet
          • Okhrana
          • Cossacks
          • Russo-Japanese War
          • Lavr Kornilov/Kornilov Affair
          • Alexander Kerensky and the Provisional government
          • Bolshevik (October) Revolution
          • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
          • Russian Civil War
          • War Communism/NEP (New Economic Plan)
          • Leon Trotsky
          • Josef Stalin
          • Five Year Plans/Heavy Industry/Light Industry
          • Command Economy
          • Stakhonovites
          • Zeks
          • Kulaks
          • Stalin’s Purges
          • The Great Terror
          • Politburo
          • Gulag
      • Italy
      • Germany
    • Homework Readings for Monday:
      • Read Global Forces pp. 35-39 (Mussolini)
      • “Italy & Mussolini” Moodle PDF (Topic 6)
      • *other PDF Articles and Videos optional
    • Assignment 2 – Due week of Monday May 24

    SOCIAL STUDIES 8M

    May 14 (off-week session)

    Studying Civilizations

    • Video: “Who were the Vikings” (ep1)

    Homework

    • Classroom Map Assignment now due
    • Blog Post – Anachronism Post by Friday May 14
      • *Cohort B – reminder to upload before and after images to TEAMS
    • Comparing Civilizations Assignment Due week of May 17

    SOCIAL STUDIES 8M

    May 13 (off-week sessions)

    Studying Civilizations

    • Video: “Living in the Roman Empire”
    • Video: “Who were the Vikings”

    Homework

    • Classroom Map Assignment now due
    • Blog Post – Anachronism Post by Friday May 14
      • *Cohort B – reminder to upload before and after images to TEAMS
    • Comparing Civilizations Assignment Due week of May 17

    HISTORY 12

    May 13

    Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit

    • Assignment 2 – “Continuity vs. Change”
      • USA
      • Russia
        • Video:  “Russian Revolution”
        • Video:  “Life Under Stalin”
        • Some key terms (part 1):
          • Tsar
          • Bloody Sunday
          • October Manifesto/Fundamental Laws
          • “Dark Forces”
          • Potemkin Mutiny
          • Duma
          • Social Democratic Party/Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
          • Vladimir Lenin
          • Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels – Communist Manifesto
          • bourgeoisie/proletariat
          • Soviet
          • Okhrana
          • Cossacks
          • Russo-Japanese War
          • Lavr Kornilov/Kornilov Affair
          • Alexander Kerensky and the Provisional government
          • Bolshevik (October) Revolution
          • Treaty of Brest-Litovk
          • Russian Civil War
          • War Communism/NEP (New Economic Plan)
          • Leon Trotsky
          • Josef Stalin
      • Italy
      • Germany
    • Homework Readings for this week due Friday:
      • Global Forces p.70-86
      • “Russia in War & Revolution” Moodle PDF (Topic 4)
      • “The Rivals – Stalin vs Trotsky” Moodle PDF (Topic 5)
      • “Stalin & the Soviet Union”  Moodle PDF (Topic 5)
      • *other PDF Articles and Videos optional

    SOCIAL STUDIES 8M

    May 12 (off-week sessions)

    Studying Civilizations

    Homework

    • Classroom Map Assignment now due
    • Blog Post – Anachronism Post by Friday May 14
      • *Cohort B – reminder to upload before and after images to TEAMS
    • Comparing Civilizations Assignment Due week of May 17

    HISTORY 12

    May 12

    Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit – wrap up

    • Assignment 2 – “Continuity vs. Change”
      • USA
        • Video:  “The Roaring 20s”
        • Video:  “Boom and Bust”
        • Video: “The New Deal”
        • Some key points:
          • Post WWI Economic Recovery
          • Isolationism vs Internationalism
          • Tariffs & Protectionism
          • Flappers
          • Prohibition
          • Red Scare
          • Labour movement (and government reaction to)
          • Spin-off Industries (ie. from automobile industry)
          • Inflation vs deflation
          • Ohio Gang
          • Standardization
          • Consumerism
          • Credit
          • On-Margin
          • Mass Production/Overproduction
          • Black Tuesday
          • Alphabet Laws – AAA, CCC, etc.
          • New Deal
          • Fireside Chats
          • Harding –> Coolidge –> Hoover –> FD Roosevelt
          • Sharecroppers/Tenant Farmers
          • Nativism
          • Garveyism
      • Russia
        • Video:  Russian Revolution”
        • Video:  Life Under Stalin
      • Italy
      • Germany
    • Homework Readings for this week due Friday:
      • Global Forces p.70-86
      • “Russia in War & Revolution” Moodle PDF (Topic 4)
      • “The Rivals – Stalin vs Trotsky” Moodle PDF (Topic 5)
      • “Stalin & the Soviet Union”  Moodle PDF (Topic 5)
      • *other PDF Articles and Videos optional

    SOCIAL STUDIES 8M

    May 11 (off-week sessions)

    Studying History

    • Time/Years
    • Historical accuracy and Anachronisms
      • “Forrest Gump” Anachronism Assignment (BLOG POST) Due no later Friday May 14
        • Place yourself visually into an historical moment/scene
        • Include a caption for the scene

    Studying Civilizations

    Homework

    • Classroom Map Assignment now due
    • Blog Post – Anachronism Post by Friday May 14
    • Comparing Civilizations Assignment Due week of May 17

    HISTORY 12

    May 11

    Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit – continued

    • Intro to Assignment 2 – focus on Continuity vs. Change
      • USA
        • Video:  “The Roaring 20s”
        • Video:  “Boom and Bust”
        • Some key points:
          • Post WWI Economic Recovery
          • Isolationism vs Internationalism
          • Tariffs & Protectionism
          • Flappers
          • Prohibition
          • Red Scare
          • Labour movement (and government reaction to)
          • Spin-off Industries (ie. from automobile industry)
          • Inflation vs deflation
          • Ohio Gang
          • Standardization
          • Consumerism
          • Credit
          • On-Margin
          • Mass Production/Overproduction
          • Black Tuesday
          • Alphabet Laws – AAA, CCC, etc.
          • New Deal
          • Fireside Chats
          • Harding –> Coolidge –> Hoover –> FD Roosevelt
      • Russia
      • Italy
      • Germany
    • Homework Readings for this week due Wednesday:
      • Global Forces p.45 “The Great Depression”
      • “Age of Excess” Moodle PDF
      • “Great Depression in the USA”  Moodle PDF
      • *other PDF Articles optional