Showing posts with label Eyes on the Prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eyes on the Prize. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

April 10


You wrote your Nazi Germany Quiz today. You'll get the results of this quiz tomorrow. We watched a little bit of "Triumph of the Will" and then you were to use the remainder of class time to read Chapter 7 in your textbook. Make sure that you read this chapter prior to tomorrow's class since we're starting the Cold War tomorrow.

After having another look at some exemplars of the Unit 2 dossier research assignment, we watched a documentary film called "Genocide". Tomorrow we'll continue with the Holocaust by watching excerpts from "Schindler's List" and the prosecution of the Nazi war criminals at the conclusion of WWII.

We watched Episode 6 of the PBS documentary series "Eyes on the Prize" today, it was called "Bridge to Freedom". While you watched the film you were to answer questions from the film study worksheet. Your answers to these questions are due tomorrow. Please remember that you have a Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday, April 15th and a Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, April 18th.

Make sure that you review your IB command terms again! Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:
  • What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
  • What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
  • Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
  • To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
  • How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
  • Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
  • What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
  • Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
  • What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
  • The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
  • Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.


Tuesday, April 9, 2013

April 9


We watched Episode 5 of the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize" today. This episode was called "Mississippi: Is This America?" and centered obviously on the civil rights struggle in the state of Mississippi. Please make sure that you complete your answers to this episode and hand them in tomorrow. I did a homework check on Episode 4 questions to "Eyes on the Prize" today as well as your major U.S. Civil Rights Movement assignment.

I started a PowerPoint lecture today that covered the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials. I finished most of the lecture today. We also drew lots today and you drafted topics of interest from Unit 2. One week from today you will get one period of research in library. If you think that you will need more time to research, start doing research now on the topic that you picked.

Most of today's class was spent writing your Chapter 5 Test. You will get the results of this test tomorrow. Tomorrow you will be writing a matching quiz on Nazi Germany. Please see the study guide below.


This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. This quiz will be written on Wednesday, April 10th. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:
  • anti-Semitism
  • Aryan
  • concentration camp
  • corporate state
  • Dachau
  • decree
  • deportation
  • dissent
  • elite
  • Enabling Act
  • ethnic
  • Führerprinzip
  • Gestapo
  • Hitler
  • Holocaust
  • indoctrination
  • inequality
  • inflation
  • judicial
  • jugend
  • Mein Kampf
  • Kristallnacht
  • nationalism
  • Nazi
  • Niemoller
  • Nuremberg
  • passive
  • plebiscites
  • pogrom
  • Reichstag
  • Ruhr
  • SA
  • SS
  • state
  • swastika
  • War Guilt Clause
  • White Rose

Monday, April 8, 2013

April 8


Most of today's class was spent watching Episode 4 "No Easy Walk (1961-1963)" from the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize". Your answers to this episode's questions are due tomorrow, as is your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment. You will have a Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday, April 15th. You can find the study guide for this test below. Also next week, on Thursday, April 18th you will be writing a Paper 3 on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:
  • What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
  • What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
  • Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
  • To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
  • How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
  • Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
  • What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
  • Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
  • What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
  • The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
  • Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

Most of today's class was spent writing your Unit 2 WRA I. Please don't forget that you have your Chapter 5 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). You also have your Nazi Germany Quiz on Wednesday, please check out the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

The entire class period today was spent writing your Chapter 5-6 Test. We'll begin our examination of the Holocaust tomorrow.

Friday, April 5, 2013

April 5


I did a homework check on your answers to Episode 2 of "Eyes on the Prize". We watched Episode 3 of "Eyes on the Prize", today's episode was called "Ain't Scared of your Jails (1960-1961)". Your answers to the Episode 3 questions are due on Monday. Please remember that your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Tuesday, April 9th.
We covered a lot of ground in class today. We looked at key features of democratic systems, the key features of totalitarianism, a comparison of characteristics of communism and fascism. You have an assignment on core fascist values, the steps that Hitler took to gain power in Germany, and the techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and the USSR. The charts in the booklet are due on Monday. Please check your e-mail for a PowerPoint presentation on the "Techniques of Dictatorship". I also sent you a short reading on the White Rose student group. Please remember that you have your Unit 2 WRA I on Monday, April 8th, your Chapter 5 Test on Tuesday, April 9th, and your Nazi Germany Quiz on Wednesday. Please see the study guides below for these tests.
  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
  • Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
  • Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • Characteristics of Democracy
  • Characteristics of Dictatorship
  • Democratic Systems notes
  • Non-Democratic Systems notes
  • Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
  • A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
  • Totalitarianism notes
  • Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
  • do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums
  • centrally planned economies
  • initiative
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • Reaganomics
  • consumer sovereignty
  • invisible hand
  • Keynesian economics
  • laissez faire economics
  • War Communism
  • Five Year Plans
  • mixed economies
  • indicative planning
  • proportional representation
  • democracy
  • dictatorship
  • political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
  • status quo
  • egalitarianism
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • liberal
  • radical
  • SA
  • Hitler
  • Bolshevik
  • fascism
  • communism
  • indoctrination
  • controlled participation
  • terror and force
  • direction of popular discontent
  • democratic socialists
  • supply-side economics
  • authoritarian
  • tyrant
  • totalitarian
  • totalitarianism
  • ultranationalism
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • propaganda
  • progressive taxation
  • Marx
  • Lenin
  • utopian socialism
  • Gorbachev
  • martial law
  • Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
  • referendum
  • collectivization
  • modernization
  • classical liberal
  • laissez faire free market economy
  • mixed economy
  • planned economy
  • (review your economic political quadrant model)
  • Das Kapital
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Wealth of Nations

  • anti-Semitism
  • Aryan
  • concentration camp
  • corporate state
  • Dachau
  • decree
  • deportation
  • dissent
  • elite
  • Enabling Act
  • ethnic
  • Führerprinzip
  • Gestapo
  • Hitler
  • Holocaust
  • indoctrination
  • inequality
  • inflation
  • judicial
  • jugend
  • Mein Kampf
  • Kristallnacht
  • nationalism
  • Nazi
  • Niemoller
  • Nuremberg
  • passive
  • plebiscites
  • pogrom
  • Reichstag
  • Ruhr
  • SA
  • SS
  • state
  • swastika
  • War Guilt Clause
  • White Rose


Most of today's class was spent watching an excerpt from the film "Saving Private Ryan" which demonstrated how difficult it was for the Allies to establish another front in the European theatre. The Normandy invasions was one of the largest amphibious landings in history. I sent you a handout about Canada's role in World War II, and if you've read these notes you know that Canada also had an assigned beach to attack during the invasion called Juno. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test on Monday. Please see the study guide for this test below.
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Triple Alliance
  • Triple Entente
  • the Black Hand
  • Gavrillo Princip
  • Tsar Nicholas II
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Battle of Tannenberg
  • the Schlieffen Plan
  • Plan 17
  • General von Moltke
  • Battle of the Marne
  • Alsace and Lorraine
  • total war
  • Battle of Verdun
  • Battle of the Somme
  • the Brusilov Offensive
  • sinking of the Lusitania
  • the Zimmermann Telegram
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • General Ludendorff
  • Friedrich Ebert
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • David Lloyd George
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Fourteen Points
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Vittorio Orlando
  • League of Nations
  • plebiscites
  • reparations
  • collective security
  • war debts
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • "war guilt clause"
  • "Manchurian Incident"
  • Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • expansionism
  • Hirohito
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Kristallnacht
  • the Nuremberg Laws
  • any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material
  • MAIN Causes of World War I
  • the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
  • the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
  • the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
  • Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
  • the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years booklet)
  • the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
  • ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
  • failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
  • appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism)

Thursday, April 4, 2013

April 4

I did a homework check on "The Way of Subjects" at the start of class. I also returned your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions. We watched "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" today which gave you the "big picture" of WWII from start to finish. I gave you a booklet with video notes to go along with "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb", so make sure that you read and study these notes. Your Chapter 5-6 Test is on Monday, you can find the study guide for this test below.



1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:


  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Triple Alliance
  • Triple Entente
  • the Black Hand
  • Gavrillo Princip
  • Tsar Nicholas II
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Battle of Tannenberg
  • the Schlieffen Plan
  • Plan 17
  • General von Moltke
  • Battle of the Marne
  • Alsace and Lorraine
  • total war
  • Battle of Verdun
  • Battle of the Somme
  • the Brusilov Offensive
  • sinking of the Lusitania
  • the Zimmermann Telegram
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • General Ludendorff
  • Friedrich Ebert
  • Paris Peace Conference
  • David Lloyd George
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Fourteen Points
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Vittorio Orlando
  • League of Nations
  • plebiscites
  • reparations
  • collective security
  • war debts
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • "war guilt clause"
  • "Manchurian Incident"
  • Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • expansionism
  • Hirohito
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Kristallnacht
  • the Nuremberg Laws
  • any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:


  • MAIN Causes of World War I
  • the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
  • the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
  • the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
  • Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
  • the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years booklet)
  • the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
  • ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
  • failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
  • appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism)

You wrote your Economic Systems Exam today. You'll get the results of this test tomorrow. We have a lot of ground to cover tomorrow, so don't be late! Your Economic Planning in the USSR was due today as well. On Monday, April 8th, you are writing a WRA I (three source analysis assignment). You have a Chapter 5 Test on Tuesday, please see the study guide below. You'll also have a quiz on Nazi Germany on Wednesday, April 10th. You can also find the study guide for this quiz in today's post (scroll down to find it).



The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 9th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

  • "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
  • Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
  • Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
  • Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
  • Soviet Economy notes
  • Soviet Economic System notes
  • Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
  • Gorbachev to Collapse notes
  • Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
  • Characteristics of Democracy
  • Characteristics of Dictatorship
  • Democratic Systems notes
  • Non-Democratic Systems notes
  • Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
  • A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
  • Totalitarianism notes
  • Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
  • do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums
The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

  • centrally planned economies
  • initiative
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • Reaganomics
  • consumer sovereignty
  • invisible hand
  • Keynesian economics
  • laissez faire economics
  • War Communism
  • Five Year Plans
  • mixed economies
  • indicative planning
  • proportional representation
  • democracy
  • dictatorship
  • political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
  • status quo
  • egalitarianism
  • conservative
  • reactionary
  • liberal
  • radical
  • SA
  • Hitler
  • Bolshevik
  • fascism
  • communism
  • indoctrination
  • controlled participation
  • terror and force
  • direction of popular discontent
  • democratic socialists
  • supply-side economics
  • authoritarian
  • tyrant
  • totalitarian
  • totalitarianism
  • ultranationalism
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • propaganda
  • progressive taxation
  • Marx
  • Lenin
  • utopian socialism
  • Gorbachev
  • martial law
  • Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
  • referendum
  • collectivization
  • modernization
  • classical liberal
  • laissez faire free market economy
  • mixed economy
  • planned economy
  • (review your economic political quadrant model)
  • Das Kapital
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Wealth of Nations


This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. This quiz will be written on Wednesday, April 10th. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:
  • anti-Semitism
  • Aryan
  • concentration camp
  • corporate state
  • Dachau
  • decree
  • deportation
  • dissent
  • elite
  • Enabling Act
  • ethnic
  • Führerprinzip
  • Gestapo
  • Hitler
  • Holocaust
  • indoctrination
  • inequality
  • inflation
  • judicial
  • jugend
  • Mein Kampf
  • Kristallnacht
  • nationalism
  • Nazi
  • Niemoller
  • Nuremberg
  • passive
  • plebiscites
  • pogrom
  • Reichstag
  • Ruhr
  • SA
  • SS
  • state
  • swastika
  • War Guilt Clause
  • White Rose

I did a homework check on your "Eyes on the Prize" homework today. We watched Episode 2 of "Eyes on the Prize" today. Today's episode was entitled "Fighting Back (1957-1962)" and it covered attempts at integrating high schools and universities in the South. Most of the episode concentrated on the Little Rock Nine and James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Your answers to the episode questions are due tomorrow.