Wednesday, April 28, 2010

April 28


We continued our film study of "Gandhi" today. I also took in your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions as well. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Friday. We will finish off "Gandhi" tomorrow. Your Unit 2 WRA I (3 source analysis) will be moved to Tuesday, May 4th. Your Chapter 7-8 Test has been moved as well to Wednesday, May 5th. Please see the study guide below.


This test is on Wednesday, May 5th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:

Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:


  • 36 Questions About The Holocaust
  • Turning Points in History: The Atomic Bomb (film notes)
  • White Light/Black Rain (film notes)
  • Shake Hands with the Devil (film notes + package)
  • Unit 2 Worksheet (chapter questions for Chapter 7 and 8)
  • make sure that you have read Chapters 7 and 8!
  • read the links about the genocide in Darfur that I will send to you!

1. Please study the following key concepts/key people/key events:
genocide:


  • crimes against humanity
  • war crimes
  • the Holocaust
  • ethnic cleansing
  • lebensraum
  • Weimar Republic
  • Final Solution
  • decolonization
  • successor state
  • self-determination
  • Wansee Conference
  • Nuremberg Trials
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Mohammed Ali Jinnah
  • home rule
  • Hutu
  • Tutsi
  • Romeo Dallaire
  • Manhattan Project
  • Hiroshima
  • Nagasaki
  • Robert Oppenheimer
  • FDR
  • Harry Truman
  • Potsdam Conference
  • Slobodan Milosevic

2. You should be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 2 worksheet from Chapter 7 and 8.



I did a homework check on your "10 Questions About Democracy" work and on the results of your Political Compass survey. I gave you a few handouts today on political terminology that you must master, and another booklet that covered the two main types of representative democratic systems that we'll be examining this semester, namely parliamentary democracies and presidential democracies. I will be picking up where I left off with on the presidential democracy tomorrow. You have your Unit 2 Final Exam tomorrow. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

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