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Euro Studies Homework and Daily Agenda

Cold War Film Voting
Cold War Blog
Wednesday 6/20/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Finals Schedule
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Journal Entry:

Tuesday 6/19/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Finals Schedule

Journal Entry:

Monday 6/18/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Finals Schedule

Journal Entry:

Friday 6/15/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Finals Schedule
No class finals for 1 & 2

Journal Entry:

Thursday 6/14/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Finals Schedule
Finals study time

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 6/13/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Finals Schedule
Finals study time

Journal Entry:

Tuesday 6/12/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Finals Schedule
Cold War Films Presentations

Journal Entry:

Monday 6/11/18
Homework:

Daily Activities:

Finals Schedule
Cold War Films Presentations

Journal Entry:

Friday 6/8/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Finals Schedule
Senior Cold War Presentation

Journal Entry:

Thursday 6/7/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
PE 5K
Senior Cold War Presentation

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 6/6/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Workday for Cold War Films Project

Journal Entry:

Tuesday 6/5/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
WCAS Science Test Schedule

Journal Entry:

Monday 6/4/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Senior Cold War Presentation

Journal Entry:

Friday 6/1/18
Homework:

Complete assignment 11
Due Monday 6/4/18
​
Daily Activities:
Cuban Missile Crisis & Detente 

Journal Entry:

Thursday 5/31/18
Homework:

Complete Assignment 10 
Due Friday 6/1/18

Daily Activities:
SBAC Schedule
Finish Motorcycle Diaries

Journal Entry:
None

Wednesday 5/30/18
Homework:

Complete assignment 9
Due Thursday 5/31/18

Daily Activities:
Motorcycle Diaries

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 5/29/18
Homework:

Complete assignment 8
Due Wednesday 5/30/18 

Daily Activities:
SBAC Schedule
Motorcycle Diaries

Journal Entry:
None

Monday 5/28/18
NO SCHOOL MEMORIAL DAY
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Friday 5/25/18
NO SCHOOL MEMORIAL DAY

Thursday 5/24/18
Homework:

None

Daily Activities:
SBAC Schedule

Journal Entry:
None

Wednesday 5/23/18
Homework:

Finish assignment 7
Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 5/22/18
Homework:

Finish assignment 6, start Assignment 7, due Thursday 5/24/18

Daily Activities:
SBAC Schedule
Motorcycle Diaries

Journal Entry:
None

Monday 5/21/18
Homework:

Assignment 6, due Wednesday 5/23/18
​
Daily Activities:
Khrushchev Denounces Stalin

Journal Entry:

Friday 5/18/18
Homework:

Assignment 5, due Monday 5/21/18
​
Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:

Thursday 5/17/18
Homework:

Assignment 4, due Friday 5/18

Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 5/16/18
Homework:

Finish HW from last night
​
Daily Activities:
Truman Doctrine
Containment Theory
​Marshall Plan
Brussels Pact
NATO
Warsaw Pact 

Journal Entry:
  • What does this quote mean?
    • I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by the armed minorities or by outside pressures

Tuesday 5/15/18
Homework:
Assignment 3, due Thursday 5/16

Daily Activities:
Initial E/W relations
Start of the tension
The Telegrams

Journal Entry:
  • Skim through one of the two excerpts from the telegrams
    • Long Telegram by George Kennan
    • Novikov Telegram
  • Summarize the main points
  • This can be bulleted, doesn’t have to be complete sentences
  • What did these telegrams lead to?

Monday 5/14/18
Homework:
None

Daily Activities:
Gallery Walk WWII Battles Maps
Collect Time Between/WWII HW & Journals
Intro to Cold War 

Journal Entry:

•Define the term Cold War 
​
Friday 5/11/18
Homework:
Assignment 2, due Monday 5/14
Prepare all HW for packet and Journals - remember this is the HW for WWII & for the Time Between

Daily Activities:
Finished Nuremberg Trials Video
Catching up LA to the 1940s
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Journal Entry:
​
Thursday 5/10/18
Homework:
Assignment 1, due Friday 5/11

Daily Activities:
Nuremberg Trials 

Journal Entry:
​None
Cold War HW
Cold War Film Project 
​
  1. Keylor 254-258 - Start the chapter, end at Superpower Conflicts on the Periphery 
  2. Keylor 263-268 - Start at The Truman Doctrine, end at Creation of a Liberal Capitalist Economic Order 
  3. Keylor 270-277 - Start at The Struggle for Germany, end at The Rearmament of the West 
  4. Keylor 277-284 - Start at Nuclear Anxieties and NSC-68, end at Truman and Stalin Depart 
  5. Keylor 294-297 (read section titled Consequences of De-Stalinization) & 304-306 (The End of American Invulnerability)
  6. Keylor 306-313 - Start at The Anomaly of Berlin, end at The Formation of an Inter-American Security System
  7. Critically read BIBF - Cuban Revolution & print and sign opt out form for Motorcycle Diaries 
  8. Keylor 317-322 - Start at Moscow's Ally in America's Backyard, finish the chapter 
  9. Keylor 325-332 - Start at The First Restraints on the Nuclear Arms Race, end at France's Challenge to American Leadership
  10. Keylor 389-392 - Start at The Renewal of the Nuclear Arms Race, end at Turmoil in South Asia
  11. Keylor 452-460 - Start at Gorbachev: Glasnost, Perestroika, and Arms Control , end at Ethnic Conflict in the Successor States 

Final Study Guide
Cold War PP
Homework Packet Cover Sheet 



WWII
  • Readings to know for WWII test
Keylor 169-185 end at Allied Plans for Liberated Europe
Spielvogel 840-843 start at The Course of WWII, end at The War in Asia
Spielvogel 844-848 start at The Turning Point of the War, end at The New Order
These need to be completed by the end of next week (4/27/18)

Other upcoming HW
Spielvogel 855-861 start at The Home Front, end at Aftermath of the War, skip Japan 
  • This needs to be completed by Monday 4/30/18
Spielvogel 861-864 start at Aftermath of the war, end at Emergence of the Cold War
Keylor 185-190 start at Allied Plans for Liberated Europe, end at The Destruction of the European Jews
  • These need to be completed by Friday 5/4/18

Wednesday 5/9/18
Homework:
None
​
Daily Activities:
End of unit WWII exam
​Study Guide 
  1. Case White
  2. Phony War & the Winter War  
  3. Operation Weserübung
  4. Case Yellow & Case Red, Operation Dynamo, and the rest of the Battle of France
  5. Battle of the Atlantic
  6. Battle of Britain & Operation Sea Lion
  7. Operation 25 & Operation Marita
  8. Operation Barbarossa, the Siege of Leningrad, and the Battle of Stalingrad
  9. Battle of the Baltics – Baltic Offensive (German) & Baltic Operation (USSR)
  10. Battle of El-Alamein & Operation Torch
  11. Italian campaign
  12. Operation Citadel & the Red Army’s advance West
  13. Operation Overlord
  14. Operation Market Garden
  15. Ardennes Offensive – Battle of the Bulge
  16. Firebombing of Dresden
  17. Fall of Berlin

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 5/8/18
Homework:
Study for tomorrow's exam

Daily Activities:
Documentary on Nuremberg Trials 

Journal Entry:
None

Monday 5/7/18
Homework:
Study for exam on Wednesday 5/9

Daily Activities:
Wrap up WWII

Journal Entry:
Which battle do you think had the greatest impact on WWII in Europe?

Friday 5/4/18
Homework:
WWII Map Assignment 
  • Due Friday 5/11/18

Daily Activities:
Map assignment workday 

​Journal Entry:
None

Thursday 5/3/18
Homework:
See WWII readings

Daily Activities:
Battles Presentations

Journal Entry:
None

Wednesday 5/2/18
Homework:
Spielvogel 861-864 start at Aftermath of the war, end at Emergence of the Cold War
Keylor 185-190 start at Allied Plans for Liberated Europe, end at The Destruction of the European Jews
  • Due Thursday 5/3/18

Daily Activities:
Battles Presentations

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 5/1/18
Homework:
See WWII readings

Daily Activities:
Battles Presentations

Journal Entry:
None

Monday 4/30/18
Homework:
See WWII readings

Daily Activities:
Battles Presentations

Journal Entry:
None


Friday 4/27/18
​Homework:
See WWII readings

Daily activities:
Battles presentations

Journal Entry:
​None

Thursday 4/26/18
Homework:
See WWII readings

Daily activities:
Battles presentations
  • Operation Barbarossa 
  • Battle of the Baltics

Journal Entry:
​None

Wednesday 4/25/18
Homework:
See WWII readings

Daily activities:
Battles presentations
  • ​​Battle of the Atlantic
  • Battle of Britain & Operation Sea Lion
  • Operation 25 & Operation Marita 
Journal Entry:
​None

Tuesday 4/24/18
Homework:
See WWII readings

Daily activities:
Battles presentations
  • Phony War & the Winter War  - Never received this presentation from students 
  • Operation Weserübung
  • Case Yellow & Case Red, Operation Dynamo, and the rest of the Battle of France

Journal Entry:
​None

Monday 4/23/18
Homework:
See WWII readings

Daily activities:
Case White - Blitzkrieg 
​Hitler's Paranoia 

Journal Entry:
Do you think it was obvious that there was going to be a war before the invasion of Poland? ​

Friday 4/20/18
​Homework:

Finish battles project - presentations due on Sunday (4/22) by 10pm via email. 
​
Daily Activities:
Wrapped up the Holocaust

Journal Entry:
•If a person (Jew/Nazi) committed an act of savagery should that person be forgiven?​
​
Thursday 4/19/18
Homework:


Daily Activities:
Work time for battles project - laptop carts

Journal Entry:
None
​
Wednesday 4/18/18
Homework:

Daily Activities:
Time Between Quiz - you can have 1 3X5 inch note card handwritten front and back on it. 

Journal Entry:
None
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Tuesday 4/17/18
Homework:
Battles Project 

Daily Activities:
Work time for battles project - laptop carts

Journal Entry:
None

Monday 4/16/18
Homework:
Study for quiz 

Daily Activities:
Causes of WWII

Journal Entry:
How was break?
The Time Between WWI & WWII (Rise of Fascism, & Stalinism)
Interwar Period Study Guide
Classroom Tenets of Fascism - Basic, Italian, German

Propaganda Techniques
Gleichschaltung

Friday 4/6/18
Homework:
None, enjoy break

Daily Activities:
all LA

Journal Entry:
None

Thursday 4/5/18
Homework:
None

Daily Activities:
Wrapped up Nazi rise to power

Journal Entry:
What is the most interesting/shocking thing that you have learned about the rise of Nazism? 

Wednesday 4/4/18
Homework:
None

Daily Activities:
Research time for WWII Battles Project

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 4/3/18
Homework:
None

Daily Activities:
Research time for WWII Battles Project

Journal Entry:
None

Monday 4/2/18
Homework:
Work on WWII Battles Project 

Daily Activities:
Racial Purity
Nuremberg Laws 

Journal Entry:
None

Friday 3/30/18
Homework:
Read one of the two documents Context on Nuremberg Laws & Context on Kristallnacht 
Due Monday 4/2/18
​
Daily Activities:
Finish Nazi Propaganda
WWII Battles Lottery 

Journal Entry:
None
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Sophomore Project

Thursday 3/29/18
Homework:
Work on essay

Daily Activities:
Nazi Propaganda 

Journal Entry:
Regarding the article from Mein Kampf, summarize in one sentence Hitler’s beliefs on propaganda

Sophomore Project

Wednesday 3/28/18
Homework:
Work on essay

Daily Activities:
Rise of Nazism 

Journal Entry:
Using Hitler’s 25 Points & Mein Kampf’s philosophy/organization define Hitler's version of fascism 

Sophomore Project

Tuesday 3/27/18
Homework:
Critically read Hitler's 25 Points & Mein Kampf - Philosophy & Organization 
  • Due Wednesday 3/28/118

Daily Activities:
Peer edits
Rise of Hitler/Nazi's 
Hitler Speech

Journal Entry:
•Read Hitler’s Speech found on my website under today’s date
•What does this article state?
•Based on what we know about Hitler, is this shocking?

Sophomore Project
Sophomore project submission window starts today, ends on 4/1/18
Cover Page - In class
Peer edits for 2nd rough draft 

Monday 3/26/18
Homework:

Daily Activities:
Writing day - Library

Journal Entry:
None

Sophomore Project
Final writing day for sophomore project

Friday 3/23/18
Homework:

Daily Activities:
Peer edit 1st rough drafts

Journal Entry:

Sophomore Project:
1st rough drafts due in class & online
Final thesis due in class

Thursday 3/22/18
Homework:
Work on 1st rough draft

Daily Activities:
Start rise of Hitler & Germany post WWI

Journal Entry:
•How different is Mussolini’s version of Fascism to the definition we created on Monday?

Sophomore Project:

Wednesday 3/21/18
Homework:
Work on 1st rough draft

Daily Activities:
Writing day - Library

Journal Entry:
None

Sophomore Project:
Library writing day

Tuesday 3/20/18
Homework:
Work on 1st rough draft
Read and answer the following questions regarding Mussolini on Fascism
  • How similar is Mussolini to the definition of Fascism we created in class?
  • How different is Mussolini to the definition of Fascism we created in class?
  • What are his ideas on Fascism?
  • Due Thursday 3/22/18

Daily Activities:
Mussolini & Italian Fascism 

Journal Entry:
See this slide

Sophomore Project:
None

Monday 3/19/18
Homework:
None
​
Daily Activities:
Outline peer edits, Fascism

Journal Entry:
None

Sophomore Project:
Outline due, 1st thesis due

Friday 3/16/18
Homework:
Work on outline for sophomore project 
​
Daily Activities:
Finished Stalinism
Started Fascism Concept 
​
Journal Entry:

Thursday 3/15/18
Homework:

Daily Activities:
CPU Lab - Outline writing day

Journal Entry:
•What would it take for you to commit an act of violence against another person?
–And I don’t mean like fighting with a sibling, I mean legit violence.

Wednesday 3/14/18
Homework:
Work on outline for sophomore project 

Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 3/13/18
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel 806-809, start at Fascist Italy, end at Hitler and Nazi Germany
  • Due Wednesday 3/14/18
​
Daily Activities:
Stalinism & the Holodomor

Journal Entry:
None
​
Monday 3/12/18
Homework:
Two things...
  • Read and take notes from Spielvogel 815-819, start at The Soviet Union, end at Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe
  • Bring your homework from last unit, I am collecting tomorrow.
Due Tuesday 3/13/18

Daily Activities:
Checked off research (note cards)
  • Worked on organizing your note cards
Started talking about Stalinism

Journal Entry:
What is Stalinism?

Sophomore Project
All research due
Research question due

Friday 3/9/18
Homework:
Sophomore project research

Daily Activities:
Soph project research - Laptop carts

Journal Entry:
None

​Sophomore Project
Research Day

Thursday 3/8/18
Homework:

Daily Activities:
Research day - Library
Journal Entry:

Wednesday 3/7/18
Homework:
Soph project research

Daily Activities:
Soph project research - Laptop carts

Journal Entry:
None

Sophomore Project
Research Day

Tuesday 3/6/18
Homework:
Research

Daily Activities:
All LA

Journal Entry:
None

Monday 3/5/18
Homework:
research

Daily Activities:
soph project research day

Journal Entry:
none

Sophomore Project
Research Day

Friday 3/2/18
​Homework:
None

Daily Activities:
Sophomore Project Signature Sheet due today
Time Between & WWII Films Permission Slip due today
  • Please turn both of the permission slips into the sub

Stalinism Concept documents
  • Read through the Stalinism documents and define what Stalinism is, compare him to what Communism is actually supposed to be. This should be thorough, and I have the right to collect your notes for a score or the HW packet depending on our conversation on Monday. 

Journal Entry:
​None

Sophomore Project
  • Signature sheet due 
WWI, Russian Revolution, Mexican Revolution
Thursday 3/1/18
Homework:

Daily Activities:
Unit exam 
WWI, Mexican/Russian Rev. Study Guide

Journal Entry:
None

Wednesday 2/28/18
Homework:
Finish Russian Rev. timeline
  • Due tomorrow
Study for unit exam

Daily Activities:
Mexican Constitution of 1917
Work time for Russian Rev. timeline

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 2/27/18
Homework:
Russian Rev. Timeline
​
Daily Activities:
Research Day Sophomore Project 

Journal Entry:
None

Sophomore Project
Research day

Monday 2/26/18
Homework:
Russian Rev. Timeline
  • Due Thursday 3/1/18

Time Between & WWII Films Permission Slip
  • Due Friday 3/2/18

Daily Activities:
Finish Mexican Rev.
Intro rest of Sophomore Project
Intro Russian Rev. Timeline assignment

Journal Entry:
What did you do for break?

Sophomore Project

Friday 2/16/18
Homework:
None, enjoy break

Daily Activities:
Sophomore project research time

Journal Entry:
None

Thursday 2/15/18
Homework:
None

Daily Activities:
Mexican Civil War

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 2/14/18
Homework:
Critically read - Excerpts from Mexican Constitution of 1917
Read your selected article - 
  • Villa
  • Zapata
  • Carranza

Daily Activities:
Mexican Rev & Mexican Civil War
​
Journal Entry:

Tuesday 2/13/18
Homework:
Critically read Madero & the Failure of Democracy 
Print or have a way to read Daiz's Corruption 
Due Wednesday 2/14/18

Daily Activities:
Finish WWI, start Mexican Revolution & Mexican Civil War

Journal Entry:
​•In your opinion what is the most impactful issue pertaining to WWI?

Monday 2/12/18
Homework:
None

Daily Activities:
WWI social impacts

Journal Entry:
•Answer one of the following questions (or all)
–How was the weekend? Explain.
–What is your favorite –
•Movie
•TV Show
•Song
•Book
–Explain
​
Friday 2/9/18
Homework:
Finish HW from last night

Due Monday 2/12/18

Daily Activities:
LA double period

Journal Entry:
None
​
Thursday 2/8/18
Homework:
In the following order read & answer the questions afterwards - 

Read 
Official Summary of Treaty of Versailles 
Read Keylor 73-82, start at the beginning of the chapter, end at America goes home
Read Keylor 93-95, start at Verdict on Versailles, finish the chapter
  • Compare the Keylor reading to the newspaper article, how similar/different are they
  • What portions of the treaty does Keylor focus on? Does it matter, why or why not?
  • Based on the two readings what do you think the outcomes of all this will be?

Due Monday 2/12/18


Daily Activities:
WWI Battles Presentations & Impact of WWI on society & soldiers 

This is a SS double period

Journal Entry:
Why is war gruesome? (The answer "people die" isn't specific enough)

Wednesday 2/7/18
Homework:
Read and take notes from from Keylor 56-62, start at Stalemate & Slaughter, end at Revolutionary Russia Leaves the War

Due Thursday 2/8/18

​Daily Activities:
Total War

Journal Entry:
•Create your own definition (remember it does you no good to copy someone else's word for word because it is unlikely you will remember it) of
–Total War
–War of Attrition

Tuesday 2/6/18
Homework:
Work on HW from last night, due tomorrow. 
​
Daily Activities:
Workday WWI Battle Presentations - In class, I will have laptop carts (this day is designed as a practice/final prep day for the presentations)

Journal Entry:
None

Monday 2/5/18
Homework:
Read and complete the following questions from The Impact of Total War - Governments  
Answer the following questions for the reading...
  • What is a war of attrition?
  • What is total war?
  • Write one sentence for each of the countries examined in the reading describing the impact of total. 
    • You should have a total of 6 sentences for this 

Due Wednesday 2/7/18

Daily Activities:
Workday - WWI Battles Presentations

Journal Entry:
None

Friday 2/2/18
Homework:
WWI Battles Presentations

Daily Activities:
Workday - WWI Battles Presentations
​
Journal Entry:
None
​
Thursday 2/1/18
Homework:
WWI Battles Presentation Assignment
WWI Battles Presentation Rubric & Participation Rubric

Daily Activities:
1st Marne & Tannenberg Forrest 

Journal Entry:
Read if WWI were a Bar Fight, does this seem realistic?

Wednesday 1/31/18
Homework:
None
​
Daily Activities:
Finish Causes of WWI
  • Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

Journal Entry:
Create an acronym for the causes of WWI.
​
Tuesday 1/30/18
Homework:
Read and take notes from Keylor 47-52, start at Economic & Strategic Anxieties, end at German War Aims
Print or have a way to read If World War I Were a Bar Fight
Due Wednesday 1/31/18

Daily Activities:
Start Causes of WWI

Journal Entry:
Using your notes from Spielvogel 761-762 & Keylor 44-46 create a list of causes of WWI.
None of the information in this unit will be on the semester one final
Friday 1/26/18
No class

Thursday 1/25/18
Homework:

​
Daily Activities:
Semester 1 final

Journal Entry:
none

Wednesday 1/24/18
Homework:
Study for final
​
Daily Activities:
Final study time

Journal Entry:
none

Tuesday 1/23/18
Homework:
Study for final
​
Daily Activities:
Final study time

Journal Entry:
none

Monday 1/22/18
Homework:
Study for final
​
Daily Activities:
Final study time

Journal Entry:
none

Friday 1/19/18

Homework:

Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:

Thursday 1/18/18
Homework:
Read and take notes from Keylor 44-47, Start the chapter, end at Economic and Strategic Anxieties
Read and take notes from Spielvogel 761-762, start at The Road to WWI, end at The Outbreak of War: Summer of 1914

​Due Friday 1/19/18

If you interested in a more detailed reading for the causes of WWI check out - European Era Causes of WWI

Daily Activities:
Finish Russia Land of the Tsars, start causes of WWI

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 1/17/18
Homework:
Work on the HW assigned Friday 1/12/18

Daily Activities:
Russia Land of the Tsars

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 1/16/18
Homework:
Work on the HW assigned Friday 1/12/18

Daily Activities:
Collect unit 4 HW packets & journals
Start Russian History, start Russia Land of the Tsars
​
Journal Entry:

​Monday 1/15/18
​No class
Isms: Industrialism, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, & Nationalization
ISMS Study Guide

Friday 1/12/18
Homework:
*NOTE* I will collect HW packets and journals for the current unit on Tuesday 1/16/18

Print the viewing guide for Russia Land of the Tsars - Due Tuesday 1/16/18

Readings that will help set the stage for WWI, they are due on Thursday 1/18/18 - 
Spielvogel 716-720, start at The National State, finish the chapter
Spielvogel 739-742, start at The Transformation of Liberalism, end at Industrialism and Revolution in Imperial Russia
Spielvogel 755-757, start at International Rivalry and the Coming of War, finish the chapter
  • Overarching question for these readings - What was the political climate of Europe at the onset of WWI?
ALL OF THIS HOMEWORK IS FOR THE NEW UNIT, IT DOES NOT APPLY TO THE Isms: Industrialism, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, & Nationalization unit


Daily Activities:
Work time German unification assignment, remember it's due at the end of the period

Journal Entry:
None

Thursday 1/11/18
Homework:

Work on Unification of Germany Assignment
Due Friday at the end of the period

Daily Activities:
CPU lab, German unification assignment

Journal Entry:
None

Wednesday 1/10/18
Homework:

Work on Unification of Germany Assignment
Due Friday at the end of the period
​
Daily Activities:
Library work time on German unification assignment

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 1/9/18
Homework:

Start working on Unification of Germany Assignment
Due Friday at the end of the period

Daily Activities:
Unification of Italy
Intro Unification of Germany Assignment

Journal Entry:
Based on our research thus far, is there enough political/social belief differences to constitute a world war?

Monday 1/8/18
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel pages 658-665, start at The France of Napoleon III, end at The Unification of Germany
  • Skip opposing viewpoints on 659
  • Research Realpolitik and figure out what it means
  • Due Tuesday 1/9/18

Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:

Friday 1/5/18
​Homework:

Complete the following...
Read and take notes from Spielvogel 678-680, start at Karl Marx, end at Science and Culture in an Age of Reason
Critically read Communist Manifesto!
  • Due Monday 1/8/18

Daily Work:
Isms

Journal Entry:

Thursday 1/4/18
Homework:

Complete the following...​ 
  • Read and take notes from Spielvogel 635-638, start at Early Socialism, end at Revolution and Reform
    • Skip The Voice of Liberalism
  • Skim through 641-645 (no notes needed), start at The Revolutions of 1848, end at Maturing of the United States
​Due Friday 1/5/18

Daily Work:
Finished Industrialism, started Conservatism

Journal Entry:
What was your argument to change your working conditions?

Wednesday 1/3/18
Homework:
Complete the following...
  • Critically read David Ricardo - The Dismal Science
  • Read and take notes from Spielvogel 634-635, start at The Ideologies of Change, end at Early Socialism
    • If you want to skip Nationalism because you know what it is that's fine, but it's pretty short 
  • Due Thursday 1/4/18

Daily Work:
Industrial Revolution

Journal Entry:

Tuesday 1/2/18
Homework:
None

Daily Work:
Industrial Revolution

Journal Entry:
How was break?
Argue the importance of breaks. 

12/2117-1/2/18

First Winter Break
​
Wednesday 12/20/17
Homework:
​None

Daily Activities:
Watched film

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 12/19/17
Homework:
•Write a letter (two paragraphs or more) as a factory worker to your boss
•Your letter should be asking for better working conditions so you can live better, take care of your family, etc…
  • Potentially include what you are willing to do if your requests aren’t met
•Include evidence of poor conditions
•This letter does not have to be in passive voice, but because it is from an employee to an employer it should be respectful
Due Wednesday 12/20/17
​
Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:

Monday 12/18/17
Homework:
Get into groups of 4 - you pick and split up the following articles, be prepared to discuss with your group tomorrow in class
  • Everyone reads Rules of the Factory
  • Spielvogel 616 - 619 read the section Working Conditions for the Industrial Working Class
  • Documents of Unsanitary Conditions
  • Evidence of Chimney Sweep Child Labor Abuses
  • Exceprts of Evidence of Abuse in the Mines
  • Due Tuesday 12/19/17

Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:
Enlightenment & Transatlantic Revolutions
Enlightenment & Transatlantic Revolutions Study Guide
Friday 12/15/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel 
  • 613 - 616 Start at New Social Classes: The Industrial Middle Class, end at Working Conditions for the Industrial Working Class
    • Skip Opposing Viewpoints and Child Labor: Discipline in the Textile Mills
  • 619 - 621 Start at Efforts at Change: The Workers, finish the chapter
  • Have a way to read Philosphy of Manufacturers 
  • Due Monday 12/18/17
​
Daily Activities:
End of unit assessment 

Journal Entry:
None

Thursday 12/14/17
Homework:
Study for end of unit assessment 

Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 12/13/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel...
  • 604 - 606 Start at The Spread of the Industrial Revolution end at The Industrial Revolution in the United States
  • 609 - 613 Start at The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution, end at New Social Classes: The Industrial Middle Class
  • Due Thursday 12/14/17 -
  • This is part of the Unit 4 HW Packet, do not turn this in with the packet on Monday

Daily Activities:
LA American Revolutions jigsaw
Wrap up unit 

Journal Entry:

Tuesday 12/12/17
Homework:
Read your two articles regarding your selected LA Revolution
Mexico - Before & After
Brazil - Before & After
Bolivia - Before & After

​Your research should include the following information -
  • Background on your revolution, this should include any major events or people that were invovled in the revolution
  • Causes for the revolution
  • What was the structure of your nation before the revolution
  • What was the structure of your nation after the revolution
  • Did the revolution you researched cause positive change or not

This is all in preparation for a jigsaw tomorrow FYI... 

Daily Activities:
Finish Napoleon & The Haitian Revolution

Journal Entry:

Monday 12/11/17
Homework:
Create a timeline of Napoleons life include...
  • Rise
  • Rule
  • Fall
  • Any major events that occurred during his life
  • Due Tuesday 12/12/17

Daily Activities:
LA Revolution - Haiti

Journal Entry:
How does the fact that LA nations/colonies were based on a patriarchal society connect to hegemony and Catholicism?

Friday 12/8/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel 586-593
  • Start at The Age of Napoleon, and finish the chapter
  • Due Monday 12/9/17

Daily Activities:
​
Journal Entry:

Thursday 12/7/17
Homework:
Critically read Revolution in Saint Domingue and answer the following questions...
  • What is the geography of Haiti in comparison to the rest of the world? 
    • In other words does it fall on the appropriate east/west axis for a successful civilization?
  • Does Jared Diamond's theory on geography hold true here?
  • What impact does the Enlightenment have on new world colonies?
Due Friday 12/8/17

Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 12/6/17
Homework:


Daily Activities:
French Rev. Project work time
​
Journal Entry:

Tuesday 12/5/17
Homework:


Daily Activities:
French Rev. Video
Research work time

Journal Entry:

Monday 12/4/17
Homework:
Finish French Rev. Research
Start French Rev. Project
French Rev. Project with storyboard examples

Daily Activities:
French Rev. Video
Research work time

Journal Entry:

​Friday 12/1/17
Homework:
French Rev. Research

Daily Activities:
French Rev. Video
Research work time

Journal Entry:

Thursday 11/30/17
Homework:
French Rev. research

Daily Activities:
Wrap up Enlightenment, intro French Revolution

Journal Entry:
​
Wednesday 11/29/17
Homework:
Start French Revolution research
  • Research Guide
  • Spielvogel 564-593
    • The readings on Napoleon will be required in the future, but they might help you with the project I am going to assign
  • Peoples History - The French Revolution
  • Why Nations Fail - The French Revolution
  • Grievances of the 3rd Estate
  • Bastille Primary Source Account
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man
​
Daily Activities:
Enlightenment Salon

Journal Entry:

Tuesday 11/28/17
Homework:
Finish research started in class for the Enlightenment Salon

Daily Activities:
​Work time for Enlightenment Salon 

Journal Entry:
None
​
Monday 11/27/17
Homework:
Read and summarize each of the arguments in the following articles 
  • You don't have to take "notes" but I might collect your summaries at the end of the unit
  • Montesquieu - Balance of Power
  • Voltaire - Equality
  • Rousseau - Popular Sovereignty & the General Will

Daily Activities:
Introduction and context on Enlightenment period

Journal Entry:
What do you think the impacts of the Scientific Revolution were?

Thursday/Friday 11/23-11/24
No school Thanksgiving Break

Wednesday 11/22/17
Homework:
Read and summarize each of the arguments in the following articles 
  • You don't have to take "notes" but I might collect your summaries at the end of the unit
  • Wollstonecraft  - Vindication of Rights
  • Montaigne - Of Cannibals 
  • Paine - Age of Reason
  • Due Monday 11/27/17

Daily Activities:
Pop Quiz
Finish Scientific Revolution

Journal Entry:
Argue the best part of Thanksgiving

Tuesday 11/21/17
Homework:
WH - Connecting the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment
Due Wednesday 11/22/17

Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:

Monday 11/20/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from - 
  • WH-The Revolution in Cosmology
  • What is Scientific Authority
Due Tuesday 11/21/17

Daily Activities:
HW Packets & Journals
Intro Unit

Journal Entry:
Unit 2 - English Civil War (ECW) & Absolutism
Friday 11/17/17
Homework:
Two parts:
  • Critically read and annotate WH-Scientific Revolution
  • Prepare homework to turn in on Monday (just get it organized by date, it will make it go much smoother than last time)
    • Bring binder clips or paper clips if you need them
  • Remember reading above does not go in the HW packet
  • Due Monday 11/20/17

Daily Activities:
Unit Exam
Study Guide 

Journal Entry:
None

Thursday 11/16/17
Homework:
Study for Unit Exam

Daily Activities:
LA Absolutism

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 11/15/17
Homework:
None
​
Daily Activities:
LA Absolutism
​
Journal Entry:

Tuesday 11/14/17
Homework:
Critically read BIBF - Intro to absolutism in America
  • Due Wednesday 11/15/17

Daily Activities:
Intro Latin America
Why Nations Fail Extractive/Inclusive Economics/Politics Short
Why Nations Fail Extractive/Inclusive Economics/Politics Long


Journal Entry:
None

Monday 11/13/17
Skim through chapter 14 in your text book (don't spend more than 45 minutes on this, at the most) 
  • You don't have to take notes or write anything down, but we will be talking about this a little tomorrow and next week . This should be mostly a review from last year (age of expansion & conquistadors etc...) important stuff to cover is the following...
    • Motives
    • Means
    • Refresh yourself on what/who conquistadors were
    • Aztec/Inca/Maya
    • Slave trade
    • Missionaries
    • Columbian exchange
    • Encomienda System
    • Skip anything outside of the Americas
  • ​Due Tuesday 11/14/17
​
Daily Activities:
Absolutism Facebook page work time due Tuesday 11/14/17 @ 10pm via email
Absolutism wrap up

Journal Entry:
None

Friday 11/10/17
No School Veterans Day
Homework:
​
Thursday 11/9/17
Homework:
Work on Absolutism Facebook Page
Due Tuesday 11/14/17
​
Daily Activities:
Work on Absolutism Facebook Page
Personality List

Personality List with names
Template 
Assignment
Due Tuesday via email by 10pm
Bring a laptop if you have one
​
Journal Entry:
None

Wednesday 11/8/17
Work on Absolutism Facebook Page


Daily Activities:
French Absolutism

Journal Entry:

Tuesday 11/7/17
Homework:
Read & take note s from Spielvogel 444-450, start at The Practice of Absolutism, end at The Decline of Spain

Due Wednesday 11/8/17

Daily Activities:
30 Years War Gallery Walk, intro Absolutism

Journal Entry:
What was the greatest impact of the 30 Years War on European society?
​
Monday 11/6/17
Homework:
Work on final draft for essay (remember you have homework due tomorrow as well, see Friday 10/27/17)

Daily Activities:
Finial writing day in library for fall essay

Journal Entry:
None

Fall Essay:
Stamp Sheet Due
Submission window for final fall essay 11/6-11/10


Friday 11/3/17
Homework:
Work on Final draft 

Daily Activities:
Peer edit rough drafts 

Journal Entry


Fall Essay:
Rough Draft Due - Due online for 5 points (turnitin.com)
Final Thesis due
OPVL due
Works Cited due - Due online for 5 points (turnitin.com)


Thursday 11/2/17
Homework:
Work on rough draft 

Daily Activities:
Library Writing Day for rough draft

Journal:
None

Wednesday 11/1/17
Homework:
30 Years War Poster
Tuesday 11/7/17

Daily Activities:
Analyze essay & skills practice

Journal Entry:

Tuesday 10/31/17
Homework:
Read and answer questions for the skills practice we will do tomorrow
Essay Example #1
Due Wednesday 11/1/17

Work on 30 Years War Poster

Due Tuesday 11/7/17

Daily Activities:
30 Years War Poster work day
Bring a laptop if you have on for today

Journal Entry:

Monday 10/30/17
Homework:
30 Years War Poster 
Due Tuesday 11/7/17

Daily Activities:
Latin America Map Quiz
Practice Map
Country/City List for Latin America map quiz
Peer Edit Outlines

Journal Entry:

Fall Essay:
Outline due - Due online for 5 points (turnitin.com)
2nd Thesis due
Final Research Question/Prompt due


Friday 10/27/17
Homework:
Read your article, work on 30 Years War Poster
  • Civilian Life
  • Military Life
  • Money and Economics
  • Priests and Politics
  • Religion
Due Tuesday 11/7/17

Daily Activities:
Context on 30 Years War
Start 30 Years War Poster

Journal Entry:

Fall Essay:
All Research Due
First Thesis Due
First Prompt Due


Thursday 10/26/17
Homework:
Finish Motivational Posters 

Daily Activities:
Hobbes/Locke
Start Hobbes/Locke Motivational Posters

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 10/25/17
Homework:
Finish Hobbes/Lock Poster
Read and take notes from Spielvogel 439-444, start at The Thirty Years War, end at The Practice of Absolutism
Due Thursday 10/26/17


Daily Activities:
Library Research Day for SS Fall Essay
​
Journal Entry:

Tuesday 10/24/17
Homework:
Critically read Leviathan & Second Treatise of Government
Due Thursday 10/26/17

Daily Activities:
Glorious Revolution 
English Civil War 

Journal Entry:

Monday 10/23/17
No School - teacher in service day

Friday 10/20/17
​Homework:
Spielvogel - 466-467 Start at Glorious Revolution, finish the page, skip The Bill of Rights
WH - ​Glorious Revolution
Why Nations Fail - Glorious Revolution
​Due Tuesday 10/24/17 (No School Monday)

Daily Activities:
Library Research Day for SS Fall Essay

Journal Entry:

Thursday 10/19/17
Homework:
Critically read Why Nations Fail - English Civil War
  • Compare this article to both Spielvogel and WH from Monday's HW. 

Daily Activities:
Start English Civil War 
Defense of Tyrannicide 

Journal Entry:
Argue the cause of the English Civil War 

Wednesday 10/18/17
Homework:
Read Spielvogel on the ECW pages 462-466 (end at A Glorious Revolution), & read Wiesner-Hanks on the ECW
  • You don't have to take normal notes, take notes on the following information 
  • Make sure you get basic contextual information on the English Civil War
    • Causes, sides, what happened, etc. 
  • Compare to each other, what is different/similar, what is the perspective of the authors?
  • Due Thursday 10/19/17

Daily Activities:
Unit 1 HW packets
Intro Unit 2
Intro Fall Essay - See Resources Tab for details
​
Journal Entry:
Unit 1 - Renaissance and Reformation
Tuesday 10/17/17
Homework:
Finish essay (due by 10pm on turnitin.com)
Bring Unit 1 journals & all homework, we will put together HW packet and turn in tomorrow
​
Daily Activities:
Essay work

Journal Entry:
None

Monday 10/16/17
Homework:
Work on writing assignment - Due Tuesday 10/17/17 night by 10 pm
Make sure you have all your journals and HW assignments compiled for Tuesday, I am collecting both at the beginning of the period
Read  Divine Right/Petition of Rights & Power of Parliament
  • Explain the perspective James/Charles have on power
  • Explain the issues parliament had with kings


Daily Activities:
Renaissance and Reformation Mini Essay
Sophomore Writing Rubric
Example of Mini Essay Format

Journal Entry:
None

Friday 10/13/17
Homework:
Work on writing assignment

Daily Activities:
End of unit quiz 
Study Guide 

Journal Entry:
None

Thursday 10/12/17
Homework:
Study for end of unit quiz 
​
Daily Activities:
Intro writing assignment, and work day.
Make sure you bring all of your notes to class from this unit, it will help you develop your essay

Journal Entry:
None

Wednesday 10/11/17
No Class PSAT day

Tuesday 10/10/17
Homework:
Study for end of Unit Quiz 

Daily Activities:
Finish Counter Reformation 

Journal Entry:
How much did the Catholic Church change?

Monday 10/9/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel, 395-400, start at Philip II and Militant Catholicism, finish the chapter
  • Skip all the extra Elizabeth stuff
Due Tuesday 10/10/17

Daily Activities:
Start Counter Reformation, introduce writing assignment for this unit

Journal Entry:


Friday 10/6/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel, 389-395 (not as long as it sounds), start at The Catholic Reformation, end at Philip II and Militant Catholicism
  • Skip Loyola Obedience on page 391
Due Monday 10/9/17

Daily Activities:
Spread of Reformation, social impacts of Reformation 
​
Journal Entry:
What impact did the Reformation have on families and daily life?

Thursday  10/5/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel, 383-389,  start at The Reformation in England, end at The Catholic Reformation 
  • Skip The Role of Discipline in the "Most Perfect School of Christ on Earth," and A Protestant Woman
Due Friday 10/6/17

Daily Activities:
Finish Luther Video 
Discuss the impact of the Luther on the Reformation

Journal Entry:

Wednesday 10/4/17
Homework:
Work on Luther reading packet
Due Friday 10/6/17

Daily Activities:
Luther Video 

Journal Entry:
None

Tuesday 10/3/17
Homework:
Work on Luther reading packet
Read it, you have until Friday to complete it. It is very long, you do not have to "critically read" it. However, you need to know what each of these articles are about. 

Daily Activities:
Discuss prelude to Catholic Reformation
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly
Start Luther Video

Journal Entry:
Did the Catholic Church need to be reformed? Explain with specific evidence to defend your point. 

Monday 10/2/17
Homework:
Print a copy of Luther Viewing Guide
Due Tuesday 10/2/17

Daily Activities:
Renaissance Art

Journal Entry:
TBD
​
Friday 9/29/17
Homework:
Read Luther reading packet
Due Thursday 10/5/17
Take notes on the following items...
  • Basic context of the Reformation and Luther's impact 
  • What did Luther accomplish that was positive?
  • What did Luther accomplish that was negative?

Daily Activities:
Humanism jigsaw

Journal Entry:
Define Humanism (based on you article). 

Thursday 9/28/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel...
  • 361-364, start at The Church in the Renaissance, finish the chapter
  • 368-371, start at Prelude to Reformation, end at Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany
  • Consider the overarching question - Did the Catholic Church need to be reformed? 
Due Monday 10/2/17 (Yes I know this says Monday)

Daily Activities:
Machiavelli and politics of the Renaissance
​Spielvogel 333-340

Journal Entry:
Is it better to be loved than feared? Explain. 

Wednesday 9/27/17
Homework:
Critically read your assigned article on Humanism, you will split them among your table group members...
1 - Humanism Concept Formation - Don't answer the questions at the end, analyze each article for meaning
2 - An Introduction on Humanism
3 - Petrarch Father of Humanism - Skip the review questions at the end of the article
4 - Petrarch and Humanism by Paul Johnson
Note* Be prepared to discuss the importance of your article in class on Friday, we are going to jigsaw Humanism

Due Thursday 9/28/17

Daily Activities:
Context on the Renaissance. 

Journal Entry:
How much have things changed in Europe as a result of the Plagues? 

Tuesday 9/26/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel...
  • 340-344, start at The Italian States in the Renaissance, end at The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy
  • Read opposing Viewpoints on page 345. Who do you agree with Machiavelli or Erasmus?
    • Due Wednesday 9/27/17

Daily Activities:
Decline of the Catholic Church, the Great Schism, Unam Sanctam

Journal Entry:
Argue the importance of trust. 

Monday 9/25/17
Read and answer the following questions from Spielvogel pages 333-340, start at The Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance, end at The Italian States in the Renaissance
  • Skip A Renaissance Banquet, Family and Marriage in Renaissance Italy, and Marriage Negotiations
Answer the following questions - 
  1. What was the Renaissance?
  2. What caused the Renaissance?
  3. What  major things changed in Europe as a result of the Renaissance from a governmental/economic standpoint?
  4. What was the social structure during the Renaissance, is this different than before or the same?
  5. What was family life like for people during the Renaissance?
  6. Overall how was Europe impacted by the Renaissance (based on this reading)?
Due Tuesday 9/26/17

Daily Activities:
Plagues

Journal Entry:
What is one think you can do to avoid plagiarizing in an essay by accident?

Friday 9/22/17
Homework:
Read, take notes, and answer the following questions from Spielvogel pages 318-322, start at The Decline of the Church, end at The Cultural World of the Fourteenth Century
  • Make sure you read Boniface VIII's Defense of Papal Supremacy 
  • Consider where the power struggle between the state and church is in comparison to the last time we discussed the church. 
  • What impact do you think the Papacy in Avignon and the Schism will have on Catholicism in Europe and the Church's power?

Daily Activities:
Mid unit quiz (you will have the entire period to complete the quiz)  

Journal Entry:
None 

Thursday 9/21/17
Homework:
Study for mid unit quiz. - Study Guide 
 
Daily Activities:
Writing work. 

Journal Entry:
What do you like about writing, what do you hate about writing (be honest, I won't get mad)? 

Wednesday 9/20/17
Homework:
Answer the following questions (be detailed in your responses, we are going to talk about this tomorrow) - 
  1. What is a thesis?
  2. What makes up a thesis (explain each part in detail)?
  3. How important is a thesis when it comes to writing? 
  4. What is a good versus bad thesis?
  5. Explain plagiarism. 
  6. What are the most important aspects of writing? 
Due Thursday 9/21/17

Daily Activities:
Discuss the importance of the plagues and the potential long short/long term impacts

Journal Entry:
What causes the Bubonic plague? How is it treated? Is it still an issue in 2017?

Exit Ticket 9/20/17

Tuesday 9/19/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from the Spielvogel 300-308, start at A Time of Troubles..., end at War and Political Instability
  • Make sure you read Causes of the Black Death: Contemporary Views on 302, we are definitely talking about this 
  • Skip The Cremation of the Strasbourg Jews, and A Revolt of French Peasants
  • Have a way to read Why Nations Fail - The Plague 
Due Wednesday 9/20/17

Daily Activities:
Mini reformation of the Catholic Church, impacts of that reformation, 30 second talk on Crusades. 

Journal Entry:
  1. Why did the peoples of Europe feel the need to "reform" the Catholic Church? 
  2. To what extent did the Catholic Church go through a reformation?

Exit Ticket 9/19/17

Monday 9/18/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from Spielvogel 279-289 Start at The Recovery and Reform of the Catholic Church, end at The Crusades
  • Skip The Gregorian  Revolution, Miracles of Saint Bernard, Film and History, Monastic Life in the Middle Ages,
  • As you read consider the overarching question - What grievances do you think the peoples of Europe would have with the Catholic Church?
  • What does the question "to what extent..." mean? 
Due Tuesday 9/19/17
​
Daily Activities:
Talk about Petrine Supremacy, and the impacts of the growth of the Catholic Church on Europe. 

Journal Entry:
  1. Explain, based on your reading, the power struggle that is starting to develop between the church and state. 
  2. After your first full week what are you struggling with, what questions do you have, what can McGoorty and I do to help you adjust to class? 

Exit Ticket 9/18/17

Friday 9/15/17
Homework:
  • Read and take notes from Spielvogel 187-192, start at Development of the Christian Church, end at The Conversion of England
    • Skip - The Confessions of Augustine, The Life of Saint Antony, Irish Monasticism & the Penitential
  • Answer the following questions (you don't have to take notes)
    1. Who was Augustine, and what was his impact on the spread of Christianity in early modern Europe?
    2. What is Petrine Supremacy?
    3. According to Spielvogel, why was Pope Gregory great?
    4. What is a monk, what impact did Benedictine have on the Christian Church?
    5. How different were Irish Monks in comparison to Benedictine Monks, what impact did Irish Monks have on the spread of Christianity?
  • Have a way to read Petrine Supremacy
Due Monday 9/18/17

Daily Activities:
  • European Map Quiz 
    • Study Guide, Practice Map
      • You will have a 20 minute time limit on this quiz. 
  • ​Review on the growth and spread of Christianity in Europe

Journal Entry:
What do you remember about the growth and spread of Christianity?

Thursday 9/14/17
Homework:
  • Study for Map Quiz 
Daily Activities:
Norman life, and conquests. 

Journal Entry:
How ready for the map quiz do you feel? 

Exit Slip 9/14/17

​Wednesday 9/13/17
Homework:
  • Read Context on the Normans 
  • Read Spielvogel 268-272, start at England in the High Middle Ages, end at The Growth of the French Kingdom
  • How different is the perspective between the two articles? 
  • Skip Film & History (270) & Magna Carta (271)
Due Thursday 9/14/17

Daily Activities:
Jigsaw last nights reading with your groups

Journal Entry:
How do you feel about jigsawing information? What are the positives/negatives about this format, what do you like more/less and why?

Exit Ticket 9/13/17

Tuesday 9/12/17
Homework:
Split up readings among table group members -
1. Land and people in the middle ages: 240-243, start at Land and People in the Middle Ages, end at The Aristocracy of the High Middle
Ages
2. The Aristocracy of the High Middle Ages: 243-247, Start at The Aristocracy of the High Middle Ages, end at The New World of Trade and Cities
3. The New World of Trade and Cities: 247-255 (not as long as it seems, there are a lot of sections to skip, and a ton of pictures) Start at The New World of Trade and Cities, end at ​The Intellectual and Artistic World of the High Middle Ages
4. The Intellectual and Artistic World of the High Middle Ages: 255-259, Start at The Intellectual and Artistic World of the High Middle Ages, end at The Development of Scholasticism
  • You will be giving context to your group members tomorrow, take whatever notes you need in order to accomplish this. Furthermore, consider the impact of all the context we have read up to this point on the peoples of Europe and how that would have shaped their lives (link the other readings to this) 
Due Wednesday 9/13/17
 
Daily Activities:
Impact of Vikings, review of Feudalism, political structure in Europe in the 10th Century. 

Journal Entry:
What mattered and what didn't matter from the Context on the Vikings reading?

Exit Ticket 9/12/17

Monday 9/11/17
Homework:
  • Read Context on the Vikings, take notes 
    • Consider what the contextual information in this article is, and how the Vikings impacted Europe
    • Read Context on Feudalism (this should be somewhat of a review), take notes 
    • Define feudalism
Due Tuesday 9/12/17

​Daily Activities:
Charlemagne & the Carolingian Empire. 

Journal Entry:
  1. Define the word Perspective in your journal

Read the article The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard
  • Explain the perspective of Einhard, include his tone
  • Based on your understanding do you agree or disagree with Einhard?
  • Why do you think he wrote about Charlemagne this way?

Exit Ticket 9/11/17

Friday 9/8/17
Homework:
Read and take notes from...
  • Spielvogel 210-215, Start at Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire, end at Life in the Carolingian World (Skip Achievements of Charlemagne on 211) & read
  • Spielvogel 219-220 (Read the section titled Disintegration of the Carolingian Empire)
  • Spielvogel - The Carolingians
    • What caused the downfall of the Carolingian Empire?
    • Figure out what the impact of Charlemagne was on Europe, and religion
    • Give me context on Charlemagne?
    • Print or have a way to read The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard
Due Monday 9/11/17

Daily Activities:
Today is Project Spartan Day, periods are only 1/2 an hour long, we will explain more in class. 

Journal Entry:
Define the word context. 

Thursday 9/7/17
Homework:
None 

Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:
 Explain your process for reading/critical reading/reading notes for longer homework assignments. 

Wednesday 9/6/17
Homework:
  • Critically read and annotate the syllabus
    • Due Tomorrow 9/7/17
  • Read and take notes from Spielvogel 179-187, Start at The Germans, end at Development of the Christian Church (Skip Opposing Viewpoints on 180)
    • This is a contextual reading, summarize the movement and growth of Europe by the Germanic Tribes 
    • Define the word context, we will use it frequently this year
Due Friday 9/8/17

***NOTE*** THE SIGNED SYLLABUS IS DUE NO LATER THAN MONDAY 9/11/17
Daily Activities:

Journal Entry:

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