April 15

IB 30/35

You wrote your Civil Rights Movement Test for part of the period today. I then delivered a PowerPoint lecture on "LBJ and the Great Society". This presentation should already be on the wiki under American Presidents. Hopefully, you'll finish off this lecture tomorrow. Please remember that for April 16th to 18th that I'll be in Toronto for SOMA, so you need to go directly to Room 121 for class. You're writing a Paper 3 on Thursday. I also returned homework to you.

Social 30-1

We watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series today. One was called "The Road to Berlin" and the other "Cold War Confrontations". I also covered the Korean War today as best I could. I gave you the Korean War notes today that went along with the PowerPoint.

Social 20-1

We finished watching "White Light/Black Rain" today. You should have completed the film study sheet that went along with the video. I'm including some links here to the CBC Digital Archive on the Hiroshima Maiden Project. If you have some time, you might want to check out these stories.

• CBC Digital Archive: Hiroshima Maidens
• Hiroshima Bombing was justified says survivor

April 12

I just realized that I forgot to post this on Friday. Sorry for the delay...

IB 30/35

We met in Room 121 to watch an A & E Biography of Malcolm X. Please remember that you have your Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday. You also have your 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.

Social 30-1

I finished off the "Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint presentation today. I will send it to you this weekend. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, April 18th.

Social 20-1

We watched a documentary video from the History's Turning Points series called "The Atomic Bomb" today, and we also started watching "White Light/Black Rain" which covered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We'll finish off the video next week. As you were watching "White Light/Black Rain" you were supposed to be completing a film study sheet.

April 10

Social 30-1

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.

Social 20-1

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.

IB 30/35

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.

April 9

IB 30/35

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.

Social 20-1

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.

Social 30-1

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.

Nazi Germany Quiz Study Guide:

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

April 8

IB 30/35

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.

Social 30-1

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).

Social 20-1

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