THE FINAL POST

Greetings Everyone!

This will be the FINAL post on this blogspot. I am moving everything over to ning.com and back to mrcaro.com. Details will be posted THIS summer.

Tuesday (6/1)
World War II: Propaganda Posters!
HW: Study for exam!

Wednesday (6/2)
WWII: ID Exam
HW: Project Work

Thursday (6/3)
The Holocaust: Readings
HW: Continue Readings

Friday (6/4)
Socratic Seminar Preparation
HW: Projects

Monday (6/7)
Project Presentations
Holocaust Socratic Seminar
HW: Reading/TBA

Tuesday (6/8)
D-Day to Berlin
Lecture/Videos
HW: Reading/TBA

Wednesday (6/9)
The Pacific: 1944-1945: VIDEO
HW: Reading: the Atomic Bomb

Thursday (6/10)
The Pacific: 1944-1945: VIDEO
HW: Reading: the Atomic Bomb

Friday (6/11)
WWII: The End
Current Events

HW: Reading: The Middle East

The Week Ahead

Monday (5/24)

1. Library/Research Time

HW: Continue work on projects

Tuesday (5/25)

1. The Battle of Britain and the Blitz!

--Video

2. Debate: what should the U.S. do?

HW: Continue work on projects

Wednesday (5/26)

1. Operation Barbarossa!

--Notes

--Video clips

HW: Continue work on projects

Thursday (5/27)

1. The Pacific: 1941 - 1942

--Notes

--Videos

HW: Continue work on projects

Friday (5/28)

1. WWII: Exam I

2. Propaganda and the Home Front

3. Current Events

HW: Study for WWII Exam I

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WWII: At the movies

The Great Black Wave: The Road to War

Monday (5/17)

1. Munich Crisis: September, 1938

--Debate

2. Video/Notes: Post Munich

3. Summer, 1939: My Enemies are Little Worms -- Reading

HW: Projects

Tuesday (5/18)

1. 5:30AM: Sept. 1st, 1939: The Beginning of World War II -- Poland is no more.

2. The Fall of France: Notes/Video

HW: Bring ALL research to class

Wednesday (5/19)

Library time to work on projects

HW: Work on projects

Thursday (5/20)

1. The Fall of France -- video/notes

2. The Battle of Britain -- video/audio/notes

HW: Project work

Friday (5/21)

1. The Blitz!

2. Current Events!

HW: Projects!

World War I: The Week Ahead

Monday (5/3)

World War I

1.) Causes of WWI: DBQ & video clip

2.) Trench Warfare

--Notes

--Video

HW: Selection of 3 main point and evidence per point for essay

Tuesday (5/4)

World War I

1.) Stalemate and New Weapons

--Interview a Picture

2.) Russia's Collapse

HW: Work on Essay: Outline

Wednesday (5/5)

1917: The End of the Stalemate

--Debate: Should the U.S. join the war?

--Notes

HW: Work on Essay: DRAFT

Thursday (5/6)

1918: The end of the war

--Notes

--Conclusions

1918 - 1919: Lasting Peace?

HW: Essay Due

Friday (5/7)

Essay II due

Review WWI -- Assessment of the attempt at lasting peace

Current Events!

HW: Study for WWI Exam: MONDAY!

The Week Ahead: 4/26 - 4/30

Monday (4/26)

Imperialism Exams DUE

--Presentations?

A 100 Year History of Mexico

--Presentations

HW: NONE!

Tuesday (4/27)

A 100 Year History of Mexico

--Presentations

WORLD WAR I: An Introduction

--Notes

HW: Reading w/Questions

Wednesday (4/28)

World War I

1) Discuss HW

2) Notes

3) Video clips

HW: NONE!

Thursday (4/29)

World War I

1) Notes

2) Video Clips

3) Interview a Picture

HW: TBA

Friday (4/30)

World War I

1) Notes

Current Events!

HW: TBA: How the war ends

Imperialism NEWS

Assignments Due Tuesday:

1.) Scramble for Africa: pp 339-344 + questions

2.) Imperialism in the Middle East: pp. 352-356 + questions

3.) Imperialism in India: pp. 357-361 + questions

4.) India DBQ + Attachment document -- from class

Monday (4/19)

1.) Conclude Imperialism in India

2.) Japanese Imperialism -- Notes

3.) Introduce Imperialism Assessment -- DUE THURSDAY

HW: Imperialism Assessment

Tuesday (4/20)

1.) Mexico: Independence through 1900

-- NOTES

--Activity

--Video Clip

HW: TBA

Wednesday (4/21)

1.) Conclude Mexico in the 1800s

2.) Introduction to WWI -- Reading

3.) Discussion

HW: Imperialism Assessment DUE

Thursday (4/22)

World War I

-- Notes

-- Video Clip

-- Class Reading

HW: TBA

Friday (4/23)

World War I

-- Activity

-- Current Events

-- GOODBYE MS. HAMILTON -- YOU ROCK STAR!!!!!!!!!!

HW: NONE -- IN HONOR OF THE HAMILTON

The Week Ahead: 4/12-4/16

Monday (4/12)

IMPERIALISM!

1.) European Imperialism in Africa

--Discuss HW

--Notes

2.) Political Cartoon!

HW: Textbook reading - TBA

Tuesday (4/13)

1.) Imperialism in the Middle East

--Discuss HW

2.) Analysis of causes and justifications of imperialism -- workshops

3.) Notes

HW: Textbook reading - TBA

Wednesday (4/14)

1.) Imperialism in India

--Discuss HW

2.) DBQ

3.) CHART: imperialism comparisons

HW: Textbook reading - TBA

Thursday

1.) Imperialism: Japan!

-- Discuss HW

2.) Video: Japan's Empire

3.) Current Events!

HW: NONE!

END OF QUARTER THREE!

The Week Ahead: Mark them with your dead: the race for global empire

Monday (4/5)

1.) Discuss HW: Socialism, communism, and capitalism

2.) Prepare for Socratic Seminar I

--Topics: 1. Child labor and labor reforms

2. Capitalism vs. Communism

3. Technology today: are we too dependent?

3.) Exam Review: I.R. Exam Wednesday!

HW: Read socratic Seminar documents and write discussion questions

Tuesday (4/6)

SOCRATIC SEMINAR I: Industrialization

HW: Study for Exam

Wednesday (4/7)

1. Industrial Revolution Exam - 60 minutes

2. Imperialism: the game!

HW: Reading: introduction to imperialism

Thursday (4/8)

1.) Discuss HW

2.) Video: Guns, Germs, and Steel episode III: Into the Tropics

HW: Textbook TBA

Friday (4/9)

1.) Discuss video

2.) Discuss HW

3.) Current Events!

HW: Handout - DBQ

Industrial Revolution Wrap Up

Thursday (4/1)
1.) Complete I.R. document packet AND law reform
2.) Group share with class of reforms
3.) DQB -- I.R. Reforms
4.) List actual laws that past
5.) Significance of the I.R. -- NOTES

HW: Textbook, TBA

Friday (4/2)
1.) Significance of the I.R. -- NOTES
2.) Socratic Seminar sign up!
3.) Current Events

HW: Textbook, TBA

Monday (4/5)
SOCRATIC SEMINAR I

HW: STUDY for ID Exam II

Welcome Back!

Welcome back everyone! I will post the week's agenda Monday. I am need to work on a few plans prior to posting our work from Tuesday through Thursday. Friday will be a socratic seminar and next week will be the I.R. ID exam!

Cheers!
Caro

REVOLUTIONARY INVENTIONS!

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Brule's Rules!

The Week Ahead!

Monday 3/8
1. Discuss 5 Paragraph Essay
2. Reign of Terror: class reading

HW: Textbook/Handout: pages 229-233

Tuesday 3/9
Essay check in
Napoleon
1. Notes
2. Image Analysis

HW: Reading/Handout: 238-241

Wednesday 3/10
1. Discuss HW
2. Finish Napoleon

Industrial Revolution!
1. Revolutionary Invention!
2. Current Events

HW: ESSAY DUE MONDAY











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Part 3!










The End

Marie Antoinette (trailer)

The WeekS Ahead!

Sorry for the delay peoples!

Wednesday 3/3
The French Revolution
1. J/E: What would it take for you to rebel against the U.S.?
2. Pre-Assessment: what were the three primary causes of the French Revolution?
3. Discuss HW
4. DBQ: Causes of the French Revolution

HW: Declaration of Rights of Man -- Respond to Questions at end of reading

Thursday 3/4
1. ESSAY work: Identification of the causes:
a. document selection
b. quote from document
c. explain quote
d. how is it a cause?
2. Discuss HW
3. Read Declaration of Rights of Woman! - J/E table
4. Discuss Essay / DBQ

HW: Thesis DRAFT

Friday 3/5
1. Reading: Reign of Terror
/ teacher review of thesis
2. Current Events!

HW: Essay Work

Monday 3/8
Napoleon!
1. NOTES/Image Analysis/Reading

HW: Textbook/Handout: pages 229-233

Tuesday 3/9
Essay check in
Napoleon - continued
1. Discussion questions
2. Video

HW: Reading/Handout: 238-241

Wednesday 3/10
Discuss HW
Industrial Revolution!
1. Revolutionary Invention!
2. Current Events

HW: ESSAY DUE MONDAY

The Week Ahead!

Last Week Recap:

1. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
2. Germs Guns and Steel - class notes AND 1 page summary of factors that lead to European dominance in the Americas
3. Scientific Revolution: Descartes reading
4. What is Enlightenment - Kant reading w/questions
5. The Enlightenment - textbook reading and handout

Monday (2/22)
The Enlightenment
1) J/E - Image Analysis - The Sleep of Reason

2) Kant - discuss reading

3) HW on the Enlightenment

4) Enlightenment thinkers project

HW: NONE!

Tuesday (2/23)

1) Enlightenment thinkers project

--Presentations

2) Utopia!

HW: Read pages 202 - 205 in textbook and complete handout

Wednesday (2/24)

UTOPIA - workday

HW: NONE

Thursday (2/25)

1) Work on Utopias

2) Presentations of utopias

HW: Complete Utopias if not done

Friday (2/26)

1) Presentation of utopias

2) Current Events

HW: STUDY

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Monday (3/1)

1) REVIEW FOR EXAM

HW: Study

Tuesday (3/2)

ID EXAM 1: Covering: Columbus, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Scientific Revolution, The Enlightenment

What is IB Psychology?

The Week Ahead: 2/16 - 2/19

Tuesday: 2/16

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

1.) Review HW

2.) Interview a Picture

3.) Finish Notes

HW: NONE

Wednesday: 2/17

Imperialism: Americas

1.) Guns, Germs, and Steel: VIDEO

HW: NONE

Thursday: 2/18

Scientific Revolution

1.) What is Reality - J/E

2.) Video Clip

3.) Introduction to the Scientific Revolution - Notes

HW: Textbook: TBA

Friday: 2/19

1.) Discuss HW

2.) Introduction to the Enlightenment

3.) Current Events!

HW: Textbook: TBA

Welcome to World History

Greetings everyone and welcome aboard! Bookmark this blog and check it often for class updates, news, articles of interest and the occasional random/meaningless video.

Be sure to post comments as you wish to obtain participation value to your grade!

Each Sunday night (as well as throughout the week) I will post the 'Week Ahead' where I will layout the agenda for the week.

The Week Ahead

Monday (2/8)
1) Welcome to World History
2) About you!
3) The syllabus
4) Survival!

HW: Complete the Student Information Card AND have a parent/guardian sign the syllabus and return Tuesday

Tuesday (2/9)
1) Crash Course in Geography!
a.) Mapping
2) What was the world like in 1500?

HW: NONE

Wednesday (2/10)
1492
1) Notes: Why 1492 - J/E
2) Video clip: 1492

HW: Columbus' Journal w/Questions

Thursday (2/11)
Opening: 1492 - video clip

1) Discuss HW

2) Finish Notes on 1492

3) Journal Entry: "America" - J/E

4) Las Casas - Reading - J/E

HW: Equiano's Account

Friday (2/12)
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
1) Notes / Discus HW

2) Current Events Quiz

HW: Read pages 137-141 and respond to questions 2 an 8 on page 141 in your notes -- use COMPLETE SENTENCES!

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