Thursday, May 15, 2014

BIG DAY TOMORROW:  FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2014

DUE FIRST OF THE HOUR:

NOTEBOOKS: WWII: Interactive, organized, colorful: Ch. 34-35-36 = 20 POINTS

WWII TAKEHOME ESSAYS - TITLE PAGE...STAPLED TO ESSAY = 120 POINTS

WE COLLECT IMMEDIATELY... YOU WILL WATCH THE FIRST PART OF A MOVIE ENTITLED "THE ATOMIC CAFE!"...STOP WITH SCENES OF HIROSHIMA AND  NAGASAKI...THEN GIVE YOU A PRIMARY SOURCE PACKET...READ AND ANSWER QUESTIONS: WRITE AN INFORMAL POSITION PAPER ON WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD HAVE DROPPED THE BOMB IN 1945?

CHECK PREVIOUS POSTS FOR INSTRUCTIONS AND DETAIL!

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Take Home Essays will be collected on FRIDAY now!  Look at the earlier post regarding page numbers for your maps. Read the corresponding pages and do a thorough job in notebook with key battles, etc.  Make certain you have a CEAL paragraph for each WWII chapter focus question in your NB's. 

Title Page ... Google images...and quotes...make up your own title for your paper. You will staple it together first thing on Friday.

Tomorrow: Wed. Early Out...3rd Hour...sit in teams...work on maps...and look through Armstrong's stuff!
                           6th Hour Line Anderson will talk/present to us about her country...Denmark and WWII.
Thursday: Browse through room...look at flip cards...

Friday: Collect NB's...Ch. 34-35-36...Interactive/color...title pages...graphic organizers...
            Collect WWII Essays = 120 Points ...NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED.

IF YOU HAVE NOT COMMUNICATED WITH YOUR TEACHER BEFORE YOU LEAVE FOR A SCHOOL-SPONSORED EVENT ON FRIDAY...SO SORRY ...SO SAD!

Friday, May 9, 2014

TO WHAT EXTENT IS WWII AMERICA's         LAST GOOD WAR?

Takehome Essay was assigned today.  Due next Wednesday!  We are watching WWII From Space by the History Channel.  You were given maps for WWII Battle Fronts.  INSTRUCTIONS: Make a title page for Ch. 36...with focus question.  Cut and paste the maps in your notebook.  For each map...color, draw arrows...label the three (3) capitols...Berlin, Rome, Tokyo.  Put Dates, Key Battles, etc. on the map and take notes from the corresponding section of the chapters.

Map 1: Identify U.S.,  Pacific Front, North African Front, and European Front.  Place Key dates from lecture notes in box.  Label the following capitols:  Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo

Map 2: p. 444, p. 468 - Hitler's Western Expansion -1939-40
Map 3: p. 468 - North Africa 1942-43   Italy - 1943-44
Map 4: p. 468 - Eastern Front...1942-45 - Color extent of Axis power...and arrows leading to Berlin
Map 5: p. 468 -Allied Offensive in Europe: D-Day to V-E Day - 1944-45
Map 6: p. 474 - War in Pacific - 1942045 - Draw arrows of the two pronged offensive...ending with
                          2 atomic bombs.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

NOTEBOOKS: Get your CEEEAL Paragraph ...answer to the chapter focus question .... for Ch. 35 written in your notebooks.
CH. 36 Fighting WWII: Focus Question: What military strategies did the U.S. and its allies use to defeat the Axis Powers in WWII. Make a Title-Page with Focus question.
I will give you two maps tomorrow to glue in your notebooks...and explain how you take notes for this chapter.
3rd Hour - You don't know this yet...but tomorrow you are watching WWII From Space (History Channel)
6th Hour started it today (I found it on line 4th period)

TAKEHOME ESSAY: 120 Points        DUE: Wednesday, May 14.

20 Points - Title Page:  10 Images...2 Quotes...An original Title and storyline
100 Points - 5 Paragraph Essay - Typed, size 12 font...one page single-spaced.

I will give you a rubric tomorrow

     "To what extent was WWII America's last "good" war?"

For outside information you must use Ch. 34,35, and 36.
The scope of your paper must cover 1940-1945
You must discuss the American Homefront
You must discuss the Battle Fronts: North Africa, Italy, Europe and The Pacific"

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

WE ARE FOCUSING ON THE AMERICAN HOMEFRONT DURING WWII.  

YOU SHOULD HAVE CH. 35 READ AND YOUR GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS AND NOTES IN YOUR INTERACTIVE NB... WE ARE WATCHING CLIPS FROM "THE WAR"...GET READY FOR CEAL PARAGRAPHS AND A PAPER!

WHERE ARE THE POP-TABS?????

Friday, May 2, 2014

              FIRST THING MONDAY:

       20 POINT ID - PEARL HARBOR 
                 10 MINUTES....MCB!!

              TWO PARAGRAPHS:
              1.) FACTS/COWBELL  
              2.) THE SIGNIFICANCE IS

     GROUP WORK ON CH. 34...BRING      TEXTBOOKS!

Thursday, May 1, 2014

              WWII NOTE (FLIP) CARDS 
                     DUE TOMORROW...

                                    5x8 Card and list were distributed this past Monday

Front:  Google Image(s) covering the entire card...Title...Date...and Quote clearly on front
Back: Typed...two paragraphs...ID...Facts explained in your own words...plenty of Cowbell in the first paragraph...2nd Paragraph...starts "THE SIGNIFICANCE is...and write a thorough analysis of the topics importance in WWII history!

We will tape them to the wall first thing...and then put you into teams to work on Ch. 35...36 Interactive Notebook assignment..

                BRING TEXT BOOKS

ON MONDAY you will write a one-page...2 paragraph ID on Pearl Harbor...this will be timed in 10 minutes and will be worth 20 Points...better study it hard...

WWII SING-A-LONG:  "We Did It Before...And We Will Do It Again!"