Thurs. 3/10 Class Agenda: Cold War Unit

1.  Bellringer:  Read "A Curtain of Iron" and complete 1-4 on pg. 9.  Discuss and complete 5-6 with your table partner.
2.  What does it mean when someone is acting "cold" to you (or someone is giving you the "cold shoulder?"  How does that make you feel?  Link this concept to the "Cold War"...
3.  Refresher on communism (Brain-pop).
4.  Contrast the 2 power "blocs" (pg. 7)

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Wed. 3/9 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Put binder up - materials away.
2.  TEST:  World War II

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Tues. 3/8 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Finally, a feel-good story from World War II.  Complete the reading assignment.  If you finish early, work on your homework (It's been a loooooooong unit).
2.  Source Analysis Feedback (New Deal).  How can I improve as a writer?

HW - Test TOMORROW
       - Pgs. 5, 6, and 47 ("Know Thyself")

Mon. 3/7 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Read 57-58 in Reading Packet...What did Oswego have to do with World War II?  How did "immigrants" get round quotas to become American citizens?
2.  Do pgs. 42-44 - How did the Nuremberg Trials hold leaders accountable for their actions during World War II?
3.  Milgram Experiment

HW - TEST on WEDNESDAY
       - Pgs. 5, 6, and 47 ("Know Thyself")

Thurs. 3/3 - Fri. 3/4 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Analyze the quotes on pg. 16
2.  Holocaust documentary - the people profiled were roughly your age when they rounded up during the Holocaust.  TASK:  use today and tomorrow as an exercise in EMPATHY (one of our 5 Keys at JDMS).
3.  Liberation of the Camps (Viewer discretion advised).

HW - WWII Test WEDNESDAY.  "Know Thyself"...(pgs. 5-6 & 47).

Wed. 3/2 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  In your Classroom Reading Packet, read pg. 51:  LIST text-based evidence to support this claim:  The Atomic Bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had devastating effects.
2.  Clip:  Manhattan Project.
3.  Should America have dropped the Atomic Bomb?  (pg. 45)  See Mr. Law for reading assignment.  Victory in the Pacific (p.pt).

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Tues. 3/1 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Do pg. 39 (Yalta)
2.  D-Day clip:  Women, Segregation in military, D-Day and the end of World War II in Europe
3.  End of War in Europe (p.pt)

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