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WWI

Objectives: 

1) Students will explain the origins of World War I

2) Why was WWI a war like no other before it? 

3) Students will analyze the lasting impact of WWI on the 20th century 

Block 01/03

Objective: Students will explain the causes of WWI

1) Nationalism Background (8.3)

2) WWI Reading

Wednesday 01/05

Objecive: Students will explain the MAIN causes of WWI through partner discussion and whiteboard activity

  1. WWI causes notes

Thursday Block 01/06

Objective: Students will analyze how propaganda impacted wartime opinion

Journal Assignment

1) Propaganda Analysis

2) Hearing Test

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Monday 01/10

Objective: Students will explain the impact of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

  1. WWI Assassination

  2. WWI Technology

  3. Work on Propaganda Poster

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Wednesday 01/12

Objective: Students will examine new technologies and propaganda by watching the Red Baron Video 

  1. Red Baron Video-List 5 interesting facts from the video about new technologies 

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Thursday Block 1/13

Warmup: What does the Red Baron movie tell us about WWI?  

Objective: ​Students will analyze the hardship of trench warfare by comparing battles  â€‹

  1. Europe Plunges into war part 2

  2. Battle of the Somme Documents 

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Monday No School MLK Day 

Tuesday 01/18

Objective: Students will analyze how WWI came to an end and the motives for US involvement

  1. WWI Ends 

  2. US Enters War Documents 

Monday No School MLK Day 

Thursday 01/20

Objective: Students will analyze how WWI came to an end and the motives for US involvement

  1. They Shall Not Grow Old

Monday 1/24

Warm-Up: Get ready for presentations

Objective: Students will analyze how propaganda impacted wartime opinion

1) Finish They Shall Not Grow Old

2) Work on Propaganda Posters

Watch Crash Course "Who Started WWI Part 2"

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Monday No School MLK Day 

Wednesday 01/26

Objective: Students will present propaganda posters

  1. Propaganda Presentations

Thursday Block 01/27

Objective: Students will examine the implications of the Treaty of Versailles on post war Europe

  1. Treaty of Versailles Notes

  2. Russian Rev Video 

 

 

Monday Block 01/31

Objective: Students will examine the stages of the Russian Rev

1) Finish Russian Rev Video 

2) Armenian Genocide-Patterns of Genocide and Witness to Genocide Readings in Packet 

Russian Rev:

Wednesday 02/02

Objective: Students will explain how Russia become a communist government under Lenin 

1) Russian Revolution PPT

Block Thursday 02/03

Objective: Students will create a newscast to explain the Russian Revolution. 

1) Russian Civil War+Key Terms (Read/Annotate) 

2) Introduce Russian Rev Project-Japanese Russo War, 1905 Rev, March Rev, July Days, October Rev, Russian Civil War, Death of Lenin

3) Project Work Time 

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Monday Block 02/07

Objective: Students will examine the impact of Stalin's 5 year plan

1) Intro Stalin 

2) Project Work Time 

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Wednesday 02/09

Objective: Students will examine Stalin's Great Purges 

1) Stalin's Purges 

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Thursday 02/10

Objective: Students will examine what life was like in the Gulag. 

1) Gulag Lesson 

2) WWII in Color The Gathering Storm

(Totalitarianism Packet)

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Monday Block 02/14

Objective: Students will explain the results of Communist Genocides in the 20th century by reading primary sources and completing the graphic organizer. 

1) Communist Genocide Lecture

2) Complete Graphic    

3) Rise of Fascism (Totalitarianism Packet)

Wednesday 02/17

Warm-Up: Get packet together  

Objective: Students will take test 

1) Rise of Fascism (Totalitarianism Packet)

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