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Tues/Weds 2/16-17/10

The rise of Hitler & the NAZI Party

1. Review of the Treaty of Versailles
2. Lecture: the Weimar Republic
1. 9 elections in 14 years...
3. The Beer Hall Putsch
1. Hitler's first try..
4. Video: Hitler's mesmerizing speeches
5. Two Readings (with worksheet):
1. Treaty of Versailles from a German perspective
2. Effect of inflation on the Weimar Republic
6. Quote: The Armenian Genocide

HOMEWORK:

• Complete "Reading 2 - UNDER THE COVER OF WAR" & answer connections 2 & 3
• from FHAO publication The Genocide of the Armenians

Thursday/Friday 2/11-12/10

1. Art: What you know is wrong!
1. Draw a drawing with no rule... no consequences
2. Writing: What you have been told is LIES!
1. Write about a time when you have 
3. Reading: PEACE? What peace!  Bring on the Nazis!
1. Textbook reading on changes in society after WWI
4. Film: Un Chien Andalou
1. Think you understand?  No you don't!

Wednesday 2/10/10

WWI Test today!

Mon/Tues 2/8-9/10

• DO NOW:
• Review propaganda poster and detail what the artists did to inflame the American people and convince them to support the war.
• Discussion of poster
• Review of "Europe Plunges into War" homework reading and worksheet
• What did you not understand from the homework?
• Schlieffen Plan
• Importance of 1st Battle of Marne
• ???
• Discussion: What is a treaty?
• Film: Continue American Experience: The Great War 1918
• Reading and Worksheet: A Flawed Peace
• WS_GR_A_Flawed_Peace.pdf

Homework:

• IF you did not finish A Flawed Peace in class you MUST stay after school and finish it using the textbook - it is not available online.

Thursday/Friday 2/4-5/10

• Do NOW: Map of WWI Battles
• Lecture: Causes of USA involvement in WWI
• FILM: American Experience: The Great War - 1918

• Homework!
• Worksheet: Europe Plunges into War (with textbook reading)
• WS_GR_Europe_Plunges_into_War.pdf
• DUE NEXT CLASS - NO LATE OR PARTIAL WORK ACCEPTED!

Mon-Weds 2/1-3/10

• Special Schedule - 50 minute classes Monday, no classes Tuesday/Wednesday
• ALL: Review M.A.N.I.A. work
• By Grade:
• 9th Grade: Film Guide for Tuesday movie DEFIANCE & prepare for College field trips on Wednesday
• 10th Grade: More MANIA to prepare for 10th grade STAR History exam

Weds-Thurs 1/27-28/10

UNIT THREE: The Universe of Obligation [Lesson 2]

1. DO NOW
1. Get out your WRITER'S NOTEBOOK FROM ENGLISH and turn to the 3 most recent writings from English class re: The Universe of Obligation; the Kitty Genovese story; and Strangers in Need
   
1. Review the questions you answered
2. Make sure you have written TWO questions of your own to ask
2. Activity ONE : The Concentric Circles of Obligation
   
3. Activity TWO: The Fishbowl discussion on the Universe of Obligation
4. Activity THREE (if time): Continue working on MANIA historical information 

HOMEWORK 

1. NONE

Mon-Tues 1/25-26/10

UNIT THREE: The Universe of Obligation

1. DO NOW
1. READ these two articles
1. Oakland teachers reject district offer
2. Cuts needed amid S.F. schools' $113 million gap
2. While reading think about these three questions
1. WHO is this about?
2. WHAT is the issue
3. What do YOU THINK about it?
3. Classroom discussion
1. What are the issues?
2. How does this connect to EA?
3. What are people/we doing about it?
1. March 4th Rally
2. WORKSHEET: Unit 3: Universe of Obligation - World War I – How and Why it began

• DOWNLOAD THE MANIAworksheet.PDF HERE
  

1. Activity ONE - Find the meaning of the acronym M.A.N.I.A
2. Class discussion: WWI was nothing but a gang war - M.A.N.I.A. for a modern age
   
3. Activity TWO - flesh out the historical background for each of the M.A.N.I.A. terms.
   

HOMEWORK

1. NONE