Objective: Pass the Final Exam

 

1) Finals: Per 1 & 4 Tuesday

                Per 3 & 5 Wednesday

                Per 2 & 6 Thursday

Today in History: The transistor is invented. - (1947)

 

Quote: "Syllables govern the world." - George Bernard Shaw 

 

Objective: Prepare for Final

 

1) Review and prepare presentations for final exam.

Today in History Lech Walesa elected president of Poland. - (1990)

 

Quote: "I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments." - Lech Walesa (Union Leader/President of Poland) 

 

Objective: Explain the political, social and economic causes of imperialism.

 

1) Review current work for final.

2) Complete presentations.

3) Finals:

     a) Period 4 - Tuesday December 13th

     b) Period 5 - Wednesday December 14th

     c) Period 2 & 6 - Thursday December 15th 

    

Today in History: U.S. declares war on Japan. - (1941)

 

Quote: "We have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a dread resolve." - Admiral Yamamoto (Japanese CinC)

 

Objective: Explain the political, social and economic causes of imperialism.

 

1) Continue work on projects.

2) Read Topic 4.7 and 4.8.

3) Last day for late work.

Today in History: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. - (1941)

 

Quote: "Air Raid, Pearl Harbor.  This is no drill!" - Admiral Kimmel (Commander Naval Force, Hawaii)

 

Objective: Explain the political, social and economic causes of imperialism.

 

1) Continue work on project.

2) Read Topic 4.7 and 4.8

3) Late work due tomorrow.

Today in History: Flight 19 disappears in the Bermuda Triangle. - (1945)

 

Quote: "There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship." - Clive Cussler (author)

 

Objective: Explain the political, social and economic causes of imperialism.

 

1) Continue work on finals project.

2) Read Topic 4.6

3) Make-up test on Schoology, period by period.  

Today in History: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France. - (1804)

 

Quote: "I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne." -  Napoleon Bonaparte 

 

Objective: Explain the political, social and economic causes of imperialism.

 

1) Continue work on Projects.

2) Read Topic 4.5

3) Monday - Make up day for Test.  

Today in History: The Civil Air Patrol is established. - (1941)

 

Quote: "Never underestimate the determination of a granite cloud." - Cosey's Commentary 

 

Objective: Explain the political, social and economic causes of imperialism

 

1) Work on Projects in class.

2) Read Text - Topic 4.4 (India)

Today in History: The Soviet Union invades Finland. - (1939)

 

Quote: "History shows that there are no invincible armies." - Joseph Stalin 

 

Objective: Explain the political, social and economic causes of imperialism.

 

1) Video - Battle of Rourke's Drift

          Discuss similarities and differences between the two groups of soldiers.

          What clues do you see to show why one group won and the other lost.

2) Work on Group presentations.

3) Read Topic 4.3 of text

4) Bring Textbook and Chrome Book every day. 

Today in History: FDR attends Tehran Conference  - (1943)

 

Quote: "Diplomacy is the art of finding a win-win solution to international problems." - Anon. 

 

Objective: Explain the political, social and economic causes of imperialism.

 

1) Nationalism

2) Introduction to the New Imperialism (1800-1920)

3) Read Text: Topic 8.1 p. 292-298.

4) Key Terms p. 292

5) Imperialism Project

Today in History: Jonestown Suicide. - (1978)

 

Quote: "To me death is not a fearful thing.  It's living that's cursed." - Jim Jones (cult leader)

 

Objective: Discuss the social impact of the industrial revolution.

 

1) Take Home Test - Chapter 2 (Topic 2.1-2.4 of text)

          a) open book and notes

          b) one try, but can pause test.

2) Take COVID test on weekend before return to school on 28 November.

Today in History: The Suez Canal opens. - (1869)

 

Quote: "Better a Suez Canal than a Root Canal." - The Unknown Comic 

 

Objective: Discuss the social impact of the industrial revolution.

 

1) Kahoots

2) Review Key Terms

3) Read Text Topic 2.1-2.4

4) Take home test Chapter 2 - Test opens Sunday

Today in History: Operation Paperclip brings German rocket scientists to the U.S.. - (1945)

 

Quote: "I have learned to use the work impossible with the greatest caution." - Werner von Braun (German rocket scientist)

 

Objective: Discuss the social impact of the industrial revolution.

 

1) Video: Crash Course: Railroads and TedEd: Unintended Effects

2) Review Key Terms

3) Take Home Test - Chapter 2

Today in History: Craig Breedlove sets a new land speed record. - (1965)

 

Quote: "Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk." - Herodotus (Greek Philosopher)

 

Objective: Discuss the main features of the 2nd Industrial Revolution

 

1) Kahoots - Extra Credit (10/20/30)

2) Finish reading p. 208-212.

3) Read text p. 212-216 (Finish Topic 2.4)

4) Test on Friday ?????

Today in History: Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick. - (1851)

 

Quote: "Call me, Ishmael." - Herman Melville (author)

 

Objective:  Outline the growth of industrial cities and the emergence of new social classes.

 

1) Finish work on Factory Life handouts - Reading Like a Historian.

2) 2nd Industrial Revolution.

3) Read text p. 208-212 (Topic 2.4)

Today in History: U. S. Marine Corps is created. - (1775) (Happy Birthday - Semper Fi)

 

Quote: "Pain is weakness leaving the body." - Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller, USMC

 

Objective: Outline the growth of industrial cities and the emergence of new social classes.  

 

1) Continue work on Factory Life Handouts

2) Finish Key Terms in Schoology

3) Read p. 199-205 (Topic 2.3)

Today in History: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall. - (1989)

 

Quote: "Ich bin ein Berliner." - John F. Kennedy (35th U.S. President)

 

Objective: Outline the growth of industrial cities and the emergence of new social classes.

 

1) Finish reading p. 194-198 of text. (Topic 2.2)

2) Key Terms due Thursday.

3) Handout - Reading like a Historian

4) Work on Elements within the handout

5) Read p. 199-205. (Topic 2.3)

Today in History: Adolf Hitler launches his Beer Hall Putsch. - (1923)

 

Quote: " Great liars are also great magicians." - Adolf Hitler (Nazi dictator of Germany)

 

Objective: Outline the growth of industrial cities and the emergence of new social classes.

 

1) Review reading p. 190-194 (Have books)

2) Economic Systems Packet

3) Continue work on Key Terms in Schoology - Due Thursday.

4) Read text p. 194-198

Today in History: The Tacoma Narrows bridge collapses. - (1940)

 

Quote: "Science is about knowing.  Engineering is about doing." - Henry Petroski - American Engineer 

 

Objective: Analyze why the industrial revolution began in Britain.

 

1) Box Displays

2) Finish reading p. 185-189 in Text (Topic 2.1)

3) In Schoology - Write definitions and example sentences for the key terms on p. 182 and 190 (Due Thursday)

4) Read text p. 190-194 (Topic 2.2)

Today in History: Soviet Union sends a dog into space. - (1957)

 

Quote: "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." - Mark Twain (author)

 

Objective: Explain the impact of Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars.

 

1) Kahoots

2) Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe.

3) Shoebox Project - Due Tomorrow.

4) Read p. 182-185 in class.

Today in History: I.S.S. Freedom receives its first crew. - (2000)

 

Quote: "The wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions." - Zhuangzi (Chinese philosopher)

 

Objective: Explain the impact of Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars. 

 

1) Finish Essential Question in Schoology. (10 minutes)

2) Reading p. 164 - 171 Review

3) Key Terms p. 164

4) Shoebox Project due Friday (French Revolution)

5) Video - Napoleon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aq_gRfmjgY)

Today in History: U.S. tests its first hydrogen bomb (thermonuclear weapon) - (1952)

 

Quote: "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (physicist) 

 

Objective: Reflect on the power a Government has.

 

1) Answer the essential questions in Schoology

2) HW - Work on Shoebox display (French Revolution) - Due Friday (50 pts)

3) Finish reading p. 164-167 and 167- 171 of text.

4) Make-up tests.

Today in History: German navy mutinies' - (1918)

 

Quote: "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before and election." - Otto Von Bismarck (German Prime Minister)

 

Objective: Explain why the revolution entered a more radical phase.

 

1) Review reading p. 157-163.

2) Finish and collect handouts.

3) Test Monday Topic 1.6 and 1.7

4) Homework: Read Text p. 164-167 (Topic 1.8)

Today in History: The Cuban Missile Crisis eases. - (1962)

 

Quote: "Men must know their limitations." - Clint Eastwood (actor) 

 

Objective: Identify the causes of the French Revolution.

 

1) Review reading p. 151-154.

2) Handout - Work on in class.

     a) Rubric

     b) Response

3) Collect Work

4) Homework: Reading p. 157-163

Today in History: King George III issues the Proclamation of Rebellion. - (1775)

 

Quote: "A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me." - King George III of England

 

Objective: Describe the social divisions of France's old order.

 

1) Review and discuss p. 146-151

2) Finish Assessment p. 143 in schoology 

3) Read text p. 151-154

4) Handout - The Tennis Court Oath

Today in History: Battle of Leyte Gulf (Largest naval battle in history) - (1944)

 

Quote: "Where is Task Force 34?  The world wonders." - Admiral C. W. Nimitz (CINCPACFLT)

 

Objective: Understand the causes of the American Revolution.

 

1) Finish presentations on ISMs.

2) Review Key Terms p. 143.

3) Answer the Assessment questions p. 143 of text.

4) Read p. 146 - 151 of text as Homework.

Today in History: Battle of Trafalgar - (1805)

 

Quote: "England expects that every man will do his duty." - Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson

 

Objective: Understand the causes of the American Revolution

 

1) Presentation of ISMs

2) Finish reading p. 138-143 (Topic 1.5)

Today in History: President Kennedy plans a blockade of Cuba. - (1962)

 

Quote: "The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow." - H. G. Welles (Author)

 

Objective: Understand the causes of the American Revolution.

 

1) Video - Causes of the American Revolution 

2) Work on ISMs (Due tonight)

3) Finish reading p. 138-143 of text

 

Today in History: "Americans defeat British at Yorktown - (1781)

 

Quote: "Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France)

 

Objective: Explain the causes of the American Revolution

 

1) Define and discuss Revolution

2) What are ISMs?

3) Exercise - Create your own ism.

Today in History: U.S. takes possession of Alaska (1867) and Puerto Rico (1898)

 

Quote: "Territory is but the body of a nation.  The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life." - James A. Garfield (20th U.S. President)

 

Objective: Explain the political philosophies of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau.

 

1) Quick Quiz - Reading p. 128-135

2) Adam Smith and Economics

3) Homework: Read p. 138-143 (Topic 1.5) The American Revolution

4) Finish Key Terms work

Today in History: Americans win at the Battle of Saratoga - (1777)

 

Quote: "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light." - George Washington 

 

Objective: Explain the political philosophies of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau.

 

1) Philosophes - Key political and economic ideas.

2) Review Key Terms on p. 128 (Topic 1.4)

3) Homework - Define Key Terms and identify important people of the Enlightenment. (Topic 1.4)

Today in History: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier. - (1947)

 

Quote: "If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off." - Chuck Yeager 

 

Objective: Understand how the English Civil War led to Constitutional monarchy.

 

1) Continue work on Reading Check Questions and Assessment Questions. - Due Monday

2) Introduction to the Enlightenment

3) Read text p. 132-135

Today in History: Congress creates the Continental Navy. - (1775)

 

Quote: "Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin (philosophe)

 

Objective: Understand how the English Civil War led to Constitutional monarchy.

 

1) Answer the reading check questions on p. 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125 and the Assessment questions on p. 125. (Topic 1.3)

2) Write complete sentences.  for all 11 questions.

3) Homework: Read p. 128-132 of Text (Topic 1.4)

Today in History: Apollo 7 is launched. - (1968)

 

Quote: "To err is human, to forgive, divine." - Alexander Pope (poet)

 

Objective: Same Objective as Monday

 

1) Continue Reading p. 121-125

2) English Glorious Revolution

Today in History: Vice President Agnew resigns. - (1973)

 

Quote: "I apologize for lying to you.  I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort." - Spiro T. Agnew (Vice President)

 

Objective: Understand how the English Civil War led to the English Bill of Rights.

 

1) KAHOOTS Review p. 118-121

2) Civil War, Commonwealth, Restoration and Glorious Revolution

3) Text - Read p. 121-125 tonight

Today in History: Kennedy and Nixon debate - (1960)

 

Quote: "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy imperils the security of all." - John F. Kennedy (35th U.S. President)

 

Objective: Same

 

1) KAHOOTS review 

2) Review p. 118-121 - Read in Class

Today in History: Egyptian president is assassinated. - (1981)

 

Quote: "The only way to look thin is to hang out with fat people." - Rodney Dangerfield (Comedian)

 

Objective: Same

 

1) Finish reading p. 100-108

2) Reading Quiz - Open Book

3) Define the difference between Constitutional and Absolute Monarchy

4) Read p. 118-121 (Topic 1.3)

Today in History: Sputnik is launched - (1957)

 

Quote: "I love mankind; it's people I can't stand." - Charles M. Schultz (cartoonist)

 

Objective: Complete Historical Assessment

 

1) Absolutism in Europe

2) Read text p. 100-108 and p. 117

3) Key terms p. 100 and 109

Today in History: First nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, is commissioned. - (1954).

 

Quote: "Good ideas are not adopted automatically.  They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." - Admiral Hyman Rickover (Father of the nuclear navy)

 

Objective: Complete the Historical Assessment on the Roman Republic

 

1) Continue Reading Like a Historian - Assessment.

2) Collect work. (Final essay)

 

Today in History: The Battle of Yorktown begins. - (1781)

 

Quote: "To be prepared is half the victory." - Miguel de Cervantes (author: Don Quixote) 

 

Objective: Complete the Historical Assessment.

 

1) Read Like a Historian - Assessment review.

          a) Handout Documents for evaluation.

          b) Worksheet with final assessment paragraph.

2) Work on assignment in class.

Today in History: Tripartite Pact signed by Italy, Germany and Japan. - (1940)

 

Quote: "Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless." - Adolf Hitler 

 

Objective: Examine Feudalism and the Magna Carta.

 

1) Finish Democratic Ideals worksheet.

2) Cloze Paragraph worksheet.

3) Write finished paragraph in Schoology. 

Today in History: Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation - (1862)

 

Quote: "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President) 

 

Objective: Examine Feudalism and the Magna Carta

 

1) Period 4 - Video and Key Terms.

2) Finish and collect key terms p. 40, 42, 43, & 47.

3) Democratic Ideals handout.

4) Review and Discuss Handout in class.

Today in History: Magellan sets sail from Spain. - (1519)

 

Quote: "I am not a member of any organized political party.  I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers (Humorist)

 

Objective: Same as Monday

 

1) Work on maps of fiefdom. - Collect work.

2) Students read p. 47 (Development of English Government)

Today in History: President Garfield dies two months after being shot. - (1881)

 

Quote: "The president is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think." - James A. Garfield (20th U.S. President)

 

Objective: Examine the Fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Feudalism

 

1) Round Robin Reading - p. 40, p.42-43 & p. 47

2) Design a Medieval Village - You are an English baron.

Today in History: President McKinley dies from assassin's bullet. - (1901)

 

Quote: "Now look!  That damned cowboy is President of the United States." - Senator Mark Hanna 

 

Objective: Examine the Roman contributions to western culture.

 

1) Review p. 36-39 (Topic 0.6 work)

2) Answer the Reading Check questions in schoology.  Write complete sentences.

3) Review key Terms from Julius Caesar to Augustine

Today in History: Lascaux cave paintings discovered in France - (1940)

 

Quote: "Keep your face towards sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman (poet)

 

Objective: Examine the Roman contributions to western culture.

 

1) Examine key terms p. 33

2) Round Robin reading p. 33-36.

3) Period 1 - Bring books tomorrow.

 

Today in History: President Ford pardons former President Nixon. - (1974)

 

Quote: "I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." - Gerald R. Ford (38th president)

 

Objective: Explain how democracy and other forms of government developed in Ancient Greece.

 

Today in History: First submarine attack in history. - (1776)

 

Quote: "I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear icebreaker." - Buzz Aldrin (astronaut)

 

Objective: Examine the key concepts within the topic.

 

1) Finish Temple design and turn in work.

2) Study the Key Terms p. 28 (Topic 05) - Write the definition for each and write a sentence that uses the term.

3) Read text p. 28-32 (Topic 0.5)

Today in History: Los Angeles Unified School District is hit with a cyber attack. - (2022)

 

Quote: "Open the pod-bay doors HAL."  "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." - Arthur C. Clark (2001: A Space Odyssey)

 

Objective: Understand key concepts within the topic.

 

1) Design a Temple

     a) What deity is it dedicated to?

     b) What is the symbol you use?

     c) How will this deity help your polis (city-state)?

2) Collect tomorrow.

Today in History: Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast. - (2005)

 

Quote: "Hurricanes are a disaster, not a media event or political football." - Anon.

 

Objective: Examine the rise of civilization.

 

1) Fifteen minute catch-up.

     A) Snapshot Perspective (Booklet)

     B) Orwellian commentary

     C) Lunchroom Fight II

2) Feedback - Discussion Rise of Civilizations (p. 6-9 or Topic 0.1 in Chromebook)

3) Homework - Read p. 11-12 (Topic 0.2) Empires of Mesopotamia 

Today in History: Mount Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii. - (79 A.D.)

 

Quote: "If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?" - Anon. 

 

Objective: Examine the rise of civilizations.

 

1) Complete Snapshot Paragraph - Another Perspective.

2) Discuss stories and perspectives.

3) Collect Booklet and 2nd Perspective work.

4) Evaluating Sources - Handout