Class Agenda

1.  New Marking Period = New Seats! 
2.  New Unit Introduction:  1920s-Jazz Age

• Graphic organizer with packet pages 5a-5c.  Format is different on Google Docs...just answer the questions in numerical order

3.  Finish writing DBQ essays
HW - Finish graphic organizer

Class Agenda: January 25-28

World War I - DBQ Essay

Tuesday - Directions & CRQ Questions (Documents)
Wednesday - Finish CRQs and Create Thesis Statement (High School Principal Mr. Gasparini will be in to discuss the transition to the high school next year)
Thursday - Finish outline, begin writing essay
Friday - Finish writing essay

Class Agenda

MIDTERM - Good luck!

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  How were African-Americans treated after World War I?  (Watch video clip posted yesterday...and create a list).
2.  Midterm Study Groups
HW - Study / Prepare Review Sheets for Midterm Monday!

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Flu outbreak...pg. 22 - 23 (Q's 6-8)
2.  League of Nations (pg. 28) - discuss.
3.  African-Americans:  Post WWI.  Movie Clip:

HW - WWI Project Due tomorrow.  Midterm MONDAY (use study packet)!

Class Agenda: January 18-19

1.  WWI Project:  In class work days
2.  Criteria for project
HW - Project due FRIDAY

Class Agenda 1/13 - 1/14

1.  WWI Learning Stations (pg. 24-28) - will be finished in class before the end of class on Friday.  If you miss one of these days, you must come to complete the questions in Homebase or after school.
2.  Review your work.
3.  Introduce WWI project.
HW - Keep in mind WHY we have a day off of school on Monday...

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Should freedom of speech ever be limited?  Yes or No, and explain...lead into discussion about Sedition Act (1918).  See p.pt.
2.  Pg. 19 (p.pt notes)
3.  Propaganda assignment 
HW - Propaganda assignment - due Friday 1/14

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  According to the movie clip, how did the United States come to be involved in WWI?

2.  Group Reading Activity:  "Making War for Democracy (pg. 12A-12B; do Q's 1-5)."
3.  Declaration of War (pg. 20)
HW - Finish pg. 20

Class Agenda: 1/7 - 1/10

1.  Bellringer: Review...what were the M.A.I.N. causes of WWI?  Briefly explain the "spark" that caused the war...
2.  WWI Movie Clips:  "Joyeux Noel"
HW -

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What are the pros and cons of staying neutral in a fight/conflict/war?  Create a "T" chart with you brainstorm ideas.
2.  Review/discuss HW (pg. 10-11)
3.  Notes (pg. 12)...use text pages 651-652.  Complete pg. 13.
HW - Pgs 17-18 Zimmermann Telegram

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Complete a document analysis ("The purpose of this document...) of the following letter:

• “In three days, on a front of about 200 yards, we lost 909 men, and the enemy casualties amounted to thousands…. Don’t ask about the fate of the wounded! Anybody who was incapable of walking to the doctor had to die a miserable death; some lingering in agony for hours, for days and even for a week…..There are moments when even the bravest soldier is so utterly sick of the whole thing that he could cry like a child.”  - - - Richard Schmieder (In the trenches): March 13, 1915

2.  Schliffen Plan (p.pt).  Trench Warfare discussion and movie clip.  Movie Clip:  What is the "mood" of the soldiers before the assault? 

• Perception vs. Reality - for WWI soldiers

HW - Packet Pgs. 10-11.

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."  What does this quote mean?  Lead into discussion on perspective/bias...and define assassination. 
2.  "An Assassin's Story" (pg. 8A-B)
3.  Assassination fact sheet (pg. 7-8)
HW - Complete Map Activity (pg. 9...use text pg. 650)

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What is the cartoonist (above) saying about who is to blame for the start of World War I (The Great War)?  Have you ever been blamed for something that you weren't responsible for (or maybe only partially responsible for?  Introduce the long-term causes of WWI.
2.  Pg. 6 (Text pg. 648)
3.  Review with powerpoint...JUST M.A.I.N portion. 

HW - NIE bonus for 20 week marking period due Friday 1/14!  Click here for directions.