Homework/In Class Assignments for Mr. Davey's

World History Class

World War II and Its Aftermath

Extra Credit movie format
Unit Powerpoints: WW2 in the European Theater (EuropeanWar.pdf)
WW2 in the Pacific Theater (WW2PacificTheater.pdf)

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Date

In Class Activity

Homework

Due Next Class

Thu

3/1
  • Lecture: WW2 in Europe, Fall of Poland & War in the North
  • Some Prep time for class teaching WW2 Projects:
  • Read the textbook 484-485, 491-493.
  • Extra Credit Movie Options Include: Sophie Scholl, Das Boot(The Boat), A Bridge Too Far, the Great Escape, The Desert Rats, Patton

  • Class group project work day has been moved to Tuesday. Be prepared to work on your group WW2 teaching project and radio assignment tomorrow. Remember to have your one paragraph progress report on what your group has completed so far daily.
  • Read and do London Blitz Worksheet. Highlight it interactively and answer the question on the back.
  • You should have your powerpoint outlined, your in class activities planned and your objectives complete by the end of class next Tuesday. MAP Class Only On 3/12&3/14 you will get time to work on your radio show in Palma's class.

    • Mon

    3/4
  • Lecture continued: May 10, 1940
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  • Prepare for Case Study Presentations. You must have your objectives complete, your radio show script complete, and a basic outline of your presentation and activity complete before you leave class Tuesday.

    • Tues

    3/6
  • Lecture: WW2 Continued Fall of France
  • Final Prep time for class teaching WW2 Projects: Check off of final objectives, radio show ideas, activity idea
  • Continue Preparing for WW2 Project
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  • Read the packets on WW2 to help you understand the first two years of WW2
  • Group Presentations start next 3/19.
  • Extra Credit movie on the French Resistance we saw today Army of Crime
  • To cite teacher lectures in your paper please check this link.

    • Thu

    3/8
  • WW2 Continued: Battle of Britain, the Balkans Campaign, and Operation Barbarossa
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  • Prepare for Case Study Presentations
  • Final Papers moved to 3/15 (MAP), 3/14 (Period 4)
  • Read, highlight, and put notes or question answers in the margins for the first 7 pages of your white packet.
  • Extra credit from today's lecture is to watch Defiance

    • Mon

    3/12
  • Conclude Operation Barbarossa and discuss the WW2 : Turning Points--> Stalingrad & El Alamein
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  • Read pages 506-511
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  • Come ready to finish your presentations. I need to check off your activity and see your powerpoint
  • Final Papers for Period 4 extended to Friday 3/16: Paper should not exceed 6 pages.
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    Tues

    3/13
  • NCAA Naviance Selection and homework description
    Time to work on Presentations (final checkoffs)
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  • The first page of your paper SHOULD NOT have the title on it. Instead you should have a title page which will come before your paper. Please make it exactly like the sample (but with your name and the title of your paper)
  • Requirements for NCAA Naviance AssignmentThis is due Monday and worth 5 points (you will get a minimum of 8 if you turn it in complete and on time).
  • Make sure to wish Mr. Davey happy birthday a day early Thursday. :)
  • Do peer review of your group for the project.
  • Read about Operation Market Garden
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    Thu

    3/15


  • D-Day and the recapture of France
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  • Continue reading WW2 packet and preparing for monster WW2 test.
  • Complete if you haven't the NCAA Naviance Assignment

    • Mon

    3/19
  • Group Presentations Mini-Project Presentations
    		•  For extra credit you may watch the Lord of the Rings and do worksheet
  • Were you interested in the War at Sea today? If so, remember you can watch Das Boot for extra credit.
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  • Your European War Packet (white one) is due on Thursday. You will receive a ZERO unless it is all interactively highlighted -NOTES in the margins & Questioned answered.
    For your WW2 Presentations...a key points sheet (basic outlines with your objective) are required. Each student should receive one. Several groups who presented today did not have them. I would encourage you to give one out tomorrow.
  • Extra Credit Movie Options Include the following. Click on them for the trailer: Sophie Scholl, Das Boot (The Boat), A Bridge Too Far, the Great Escape, Stalingrad, Patton, Defiance, Downfall, Band of Brothers: Any two episodes (2hrs),Enemy at the Gates

    • Tues

    3/20
  • Group Presentations Mini-Project Presentations
  • Continue WW2 in Europe (Bulge--->Crossing the Rhine)
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  • Make sure to look at review sheet again (it is updated)
  • Also read this Quick Review
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  • Finish your European War Packet (white one). You will receive a ZERO unless it is all interactively highlighted -NOTES in the margins & Questioned answered.
  • Do a peer evaluation for your WW2 Case Study Project.
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    Thu

    3/22
  • Conclude WW2 in Europe (Dresden--->VE Day)
  • Start Japan leading up to WW2 (Pacific Theater): Invasion of Manchuria

  • Listen to Mr. Davey's first (weak) attempt at a podcast to review Horrors of WW2 Dresden, Unit 731 & Nanking. New material is from 5:18-6:52. The rest is review.
  • Study for the WW2 monster test.
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    Mon

    3/26

    		 Mr. Davey Gone Sub:
  • Hearing Tests
  • Continue the War in the Pacific (Video clip from Rape of Nanking) and WW2 in the Pacific, video clips fromWhy We Fight: Japan) and the War in the Pacific
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  • Print out and bring to class Japan's Textbooks and the Nanjing Massacre
  • Extra Credit movies for this part of the unit include Empire of the Sun, or John Rabe.
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    Tues

    3/27

    		 Mr. Davey Gone Sub: Watch Letters From Iwo Jima
  • continue working on your Genocide presentation.
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  • Continue Studying for WW2 Test. See this studyguide. It is not all inclusive yet it will be helpful. This fill in guide might be helpful too.
  • Complete your blue pacific war packet by Thursday. INTERACTIVELY HIGHLIGHTED!
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    Thu

    3/28

    		 Mr. Davey Gone Sub: Watch Letters From Iwo Jima
    		• 2nd and 3rd period did not turn in the blue packet. Bring it Monday.

    Mon

    4/2
  • WW2 in the Pacific cont. Pearl Harbor and the Japanese Advances
  • Come to class with one page of preparation for the Atomic Bomb debate from your packet on Thursday. We will debate the material before the test.
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    Tues

    4/3

    		 Conclude WW2 in the Pacific: Bombing campaigns and proportionality, Analysis of Rules in War,
  • Come to class with one page of preparation for the Atomic Bomb debate from your packet. We will debate the material before the test on Thursday
  • Finish Studying for WW2 Test. See this studyguide. It is not all inclusive yet it will be helpful. This fill in guide might be helpful too.
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    Thurs

    4/5
  • Mini-Debate on the Atomic Bomb
  • WW2 Test. Remember this HUGE test has a map, multiple choice
  • Print out and do this quick worksheet for Monday
  • Go to new website, the Cold War
    • Updated 3/3/15