Monday, December 17, 2012

Monday, December 10, 2012

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Dec 6

Make a T chart- One side of the chart needs to list Goals of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.  On the other side list an obstacle they may have faced for each goal. 

Notes on Malcolm X- https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_gpVfHfuRG2dGx6YWc4MFFjcmM

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Nov 28

Ch 20 Review  Pages 688-689 #1-29

Notebook Check Tomorrow

1. Post-War Notes
2. America 1950's WS
3. Analyzing Multimedia- Halbertstam
4. 20.2 Notes
5.RWSL 20.3
6. Post-War Years WS
7. 20.3 Questions
8. Ch. 20 Review

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Nov 15

If you missed class today, you need to read pages 680-686 and take Cornell Notes.

Friday, November 2, 2012

Nov 2

Notebook Check for Monday

1. Korean War Map
2. Storyboarding
3. McCarthy Notes
4. Political Cartoon
5. Cold War Essay
6. Guilty By Suspicion Notes
7. Ch. 19 Review

Nov 2

Chapter 19 Exam.  See me for makeup if you missed today!

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Nov 1

Ch 19 Test Review Sheet



Key Terms:
NATO                          Marshall Plan              Arms Race                  Iron Curtain
Brinkmanship              Blacklist                       Berlin Airlift                  Containment
Truman Doctrine         HUAC                          Satellite Nation            Warsaw Pact
ICBM                           Sputnik                        38th Parallel                 Deterrence
Korean War (years)               

People:
Harry Truman              Joseph Stalin              Joseph McCarthy        Rosenbergs
Alger Hiss                    Mao Zedong                Douglas MacArthur     Winston Churchill (Yalta)

Questions to think about:
What was the feeling of our country during the Cold War?  Why?
How did the government treat our people?
Why was the Soviet Union a threat in the Arms Race?
What steps did the United States take to protect ourselves against the Communists?

Monday, October 29, 2012

Oct 26

Get your Cold war notes out and go through them all.  Write a short essay (1-1.5 pages) detailing the main events of the Cold War in the order that they took place up to the Arms Race.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Oct 25

Create a political cartoon on one of the following subjects (McCarthy, Arms Race, Korean War)

Answer the following questions after you create your cartoon

1. What is the general subject?
2. Who are the characters, and what do they represent?
3. What symbols are sued and what do they represent?
4. What is your message or viewpoint on the issue?
5. What techniques were used? (symbols, distortions, humor, stereotypes)
6. what is your opinion about the topic?
7. List some facts you know about the subject.

Oct 24

McCarthy Power Point Notes- https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_gpVfHfuRG2Si1ZcllTdzF3Rzg

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Oct 23

Checked Storyboarding work from yesterday

Took Ch 19 Quiz.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Oct 4

Chapter 18 Review




1              1.  How did the government pay for the war effort?              2. Why did Americans support rationing? 
                 3. Describe 3 ways Americans contributed to the war?     4. What was the Office of War Mobilization?
                 5. What was the Atlantic Charter?                                           6. What was the goal of carpet bombing?
                 7.What are the 5 beaches at Normandy named?                8. Who is Erwin Rommel?
                 9. Where did Battle of the Bulge take place?                       10. What is anti-semitism?
                11. What was Hitler’s Final Solution?                                    12. What is the name of the first concentration camp?
                13. What was Kristallnacht?                                                    14. What happened in the Warsaw Ghetto?
                15. What came out of the Wannsee Conference?              16. What is Genocide?
                17. What is Auschwitz?                                                             18. What day was D-Day?
                19. What day was Pearl Harbor?                                            20. What was America’s strategy in the Pacific?  
                21. What is the Manhattan Project?                                        22. What important idea came out of the Nuremburg Trials?
                23. Why did Truman decide to drop the bomb?                   24. What changes took place with women back home
                                                                                                                        during WWII?  What roles did they assume?
                     Key Terms-
                     GI                                    Victory Gardens          U-Boats                  Kamikaze               Atlantic Charter
                     Carpet Bombing           Hiroshima                  Warsaw Ghetto      Island Hopping     Liberty Ships

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Sept 3


  20th Century II Notebook Check #2 DUE FRIDAY!!
   
1 Editorial Cartoon Analysis
2 Holocaust Notes
3 18.2 Questions
4 Descriptive Organizer: Concentration Camps
5 Story boarding/I am a Jew poem
6 Fall of the Third Reich Notes
7 Unit Review
   ___/70     

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Oct 1-3

Fall of the Third Reich Movie Questions in class

Monday, October 1, 2012

Sept 28

Storyboarding

Holocaust
Death Camp
Concentration Camp
Liberation

For each term above do the following:
Create a title with the term in it
Write a 2-3 sentence summary in your own words describing what it means
Draw a picture that represents the word
Ask 1 question you would like answered about the term.


I am a Jew Poem: Write a poem using the template below.  The poem is from the perspective of a Jew during the Holocaust.

I am
I wonder
I hear
I see
I am
I pretend
I feel
I touch
I worry
I cry
I am
I understand
I say
I dream
I try
I hope
I am

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Sept 19

If you missed class you need to read chapter 18 section 2 and take Cornell Notes.  Make sure you have your Topic as Retaking Europe.

Reminder: Notebook check on Friday
Hand in your movie permission slips no later than Friday beginning of class.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Sept 18

Class Notes:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UBAnoQnXRVSiUBMXZD58t-4W0uu9iet2-8Y3RWYCZuw/edit


Visual Vocab: Read the definition of the following terms in the book.  Create your own definition of the term then draw a picture that represents the term so you will easily remember.

Terms: (Chapter 18)
D-Day
GI
Death Camp
Atlantic Charter
Carpet Bombing
Holocaust

Monday, September 17, 2012

Sept 17

Copy the map of Europe on page 601.  You should use your map that you were given last week.

We took a quiz on the Pacific Battles.  Re-takes of the quiz will be tomorrow in class.

Friday, September 14, 2012

ONLINE TEXTBOOK CODE

Below is the Online textbook username and password you need to access the online text.

Username: cash
Password: Olympians1

Monday, September 10, 2012

Sept 10

Pacific Map Activity- See me about getting the map.  Copy the map on page 616 in the book.
Decorate your notebook.