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    HISTORY 12

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    May 21 (Off-Week Sessions – Monday/Wednesday/Friday)

    Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit

    • Assignment 2 – “Continuity vs. Change”
      • USA
      • Russia
      • Italy
      • Germany
        • Video notes:  “Life Under Adolf Hitler”
        • Some key topic terms:
          • Socialists
          • November Criminals
          • Paul Von Hindenburg
          • Reichstag
          • Social Democrats/Independent Socialists/Spartacists/Friekorps (Free Corps)
          • Kapp Putsch
          • Rathenau Murder
          • Invasion of the Ruhr (by France) 1923
          • Passive resistance
          • Brown Shirts vs Red Front Fighters
          • Sturm Abteilung (SA)
          • Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch
          • Mein Kampf
          • Gustav Stresemann
          • Schutzstaffel (SS)
          • Rohm, Goebbels, Himmler, Speer
          • Reichstag Fire
          • The Enabling Act
          • The Night of the Long Knives
          • Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass/Crystal)
          • Lebensraum
          • Rhineland, Polish Corridor
          • Reichswehr, Wermacht, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine
          • Nuremburg Laws
          • Gestapo
          • Aryan Herrenvolk
          • Gleichschaltung
          • Dachau, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, Theresienstadt
          • Berlin Olympics (1936)
          • Treaty of Rapallo (Russia)
          • Rome-Berlin Axis, Pact of Steel (Italy)
          • Anti-Comintern Pact (Japan)
          • Non-Aggression Pact (USSR)
    • Homework:  BLOG POST – analyze the accompanying cartoon (post response by this Friday Tuesday May 25); be sure to identify:
      • who (leaders/countries) is shown?
      • when was this about?
      • what is the event/what is happening?
      • why is this significant?
    • Homework/Readings:
      • Finish “Life Under Adolf Hitler” video (if not finished in class) 
      • Read Global Forces – Chapter 7 for Wednesday, May 26; Chapter 8 for Friday, May 28
      • *other PDF Articles (Moodle) and Videos optional
    • Assignment 2 Continuity vs Change – Due week of Monday May 24
    • A look ahead to next unit/assignment 3

    SOCIAL STUDIES 8M

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    May 21

    *Roman-Vikings Comparison now due 

    *Day in the Life – Then vs Now due week of May 24

    Share anachronisms

    The Middle Ages in Western Europe

    • Comprehension/Reading check

    The Renaissance

    • Assignment:  Innovations
    • BLOG ENTRY:  Describe what you consider to be one of the most important innovations of the Renaissance era, including its impact and longevity; what would you say is the most important innovation in your lifetime so far?  Post by Wednesday, May 26

    Homework Readings:

    • Read Chapter 7 Pathways (see MOODLE PDF) by Wednesday, May 26
    • Read Chapter 8 Pathways (see MOODLE PDF) by Friday, May 28
    • Review & Activity Sheets Optional (MOODLE PDFs)

    SOCIAL STUDIES 8M

    May 20

    *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:  “Medieval Times” (finish viewing)
    • Identifying possible perspectives for assignment
    • Work on assignments

    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 19 (Off-Week Sessions – Monday/Wednesday/Friday)

    Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit

    • Assignment 2 – “Continuity vs. Change”
      • USA
      • Russia
      • Italy
      • Germany
        • Video notes:  “Weimar Germany”
        • Some key topic terms:
          • Socialists
          • November Criminals
          • Paul Von Hindenburg
          • Reichstag
          • Social Democrats/Independent Socialists/Spartacists/Friekorps (Free Corps)
          • Kapp Putsch
          • Rathenau Murder
          • Invasion of the Ruhr (by France) 1923
          • Passive resistance
          • Brown Shirts vs Red Front Fighters
          • Sturm Abteilung (SA)
          • Munich Putsch
          • Mein Kampf
          • Gustav Stresemann
          • Schutzstaffel (SS)
          • Rohm, Goebbels, Himmler, Speer
          • Reichstag Fire
          • The Enabling Act
          • The Night of the Long Knives
          • Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass/Crystal)
          • Lebensraum
          • Rhineland, Polish Corridor
          • Reichswehr, Wermacht, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine
          • Nuremburg Laws
          • Gestapo
          • Aryan Herrenvolk
          • Gleichschaltung
          • Dachau, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, Theresienstadt
          • Berlin Olympics (1936)
          • Treaty of Rapallo (Russia)
          • Rome-Berlin Axis, Pact of Steel (Italy)
          • Anti-Comintern Pact (Japan)
          • Non-Aggression Pact (USSR)
    • Homework:  BLOG POST – analyze the accompanying cartoon (post response by this Friday); be sure to identify:
      • who (leaders/countries) is shown?
      • when was this about?
      • what is the event/what is happening?
      • why is this significant?
    • Readings for Wednesday:
      • 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

    SOCIAL STUDIES 8M

    May 19

    *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:  “Medieval Times”
    • Identifying perspectives
    • Work on assignments

    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)

    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