The Second Great War - World War 2

Extra Credit Format Guide

Date

In Class Activity

Homework

Due Next Class

Fri

1/31
  • Lecture: Sept 1, 1939 to Invasion of Denmark & Norway
  • Work on Projects
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  • Extra Credit Movie Options for this unit: Das Boot (The Boat), A Bridge Too Far, the Great Escape, The Desert Rats, The Imitation Game, Defiance, Blitz
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  • Work on your Teach the Teacher activity. You should have 3-5 TSWBAT completed before next class.
  • Print out and bring to class (but don't do anything with it yet), These Battle of Britain Notes
  • Print out and bring to class the Operation Barbarossa Lecture Notes/Political Cartoon Analysis.
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    Tues

    2/4
  • Continue WW2 Lecture: Cartoons and lecture Dunkirk & the Battle of Britain.

  • A little time to work on your project
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  • Extra Credit Movie Options from today's lecture include : Dunkirk, and the Darkest Hour or
  • Interactively read the Churchill and Coventry, London BlitzWorksheet. After reading both, answer the question in one paragraph. If Churchill knew about the Coventry raid in advance was it the correct decision not to warn the city?
  • If you haven't already, print out and bring to class the Operation Barbarossa Lecture Notes/Political Cartoon Analysis.

    • Thur

    2/6
  • Lecture/cartoons: Battle of Britain and the War in the Balkans

  • Time to work on your projects
  • Interactively Read and summarize only the first two pages of 8 key points of the Eastern Front.
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    Mon

    2/10
  • Lecture:Operation Barbarossa
  • WW2 Turning Points (Stalingrad)
  • Time to work on your team teaching project
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  • Extra credit from today's lecture is to watch The Liberator, or Defiance
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  • Your powerpoint should be done by Wednesday and your key points sheet turned in. The key points sheet should have your group's title and the names of the members on it (along with the material).

    • Wed

    2/12
  • Lecture: El Alamein (Turning point #2) and Operation Torch
  • Lecture: 'The Soft Underbelly: Italy'
  • Lecture/Video: D-DaySaving Private Ryan)

  • Lecture: Bulge and Superweapons
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  • For WW2 extra credit you may watch the Lord of the Rings and do worksheet.
  • Other Extra Credit Movie Options Include the following. Remember, only one per unit. 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
  • Study for quiz on Totalitarianism and the European War. Again, your notes are the best resource for studying.
  • Interactively read your Dresden packet but do not do a summary of the questions.
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    Fri

    2/14


  • Dresden DBQ
  • Finish WW2 (Discussion Dresden, Crossing the Rhine----> Remagen, end of Hitler and the 3rd Reich).

  • Time to work on your project
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  • Extra Credit movies for this part of the unit include Empire of the Sun, or John Rabe
    Don't forget that the book, Unbroken is for extra credit     .
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  • Make sure you bring your War in the Pacific Notes to class.
  • Have a nice break. Make sure you're ready to present your 'teach the teacher' presentation when you return.
  • Don't forget to do your debrief if necessary
  • Final Preparation for your Teach the Teacher Presentations
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    Tues

    2/25
  • Presentations: Teach the Teacher
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  • Consider watching Hacksaw Ridge or John Rabe for extra credit.
  • Study for the test. Remember there will be a map of Europe on the test. Know where the key battles happened.
  • Fill out the Peer Evaluation for your 'Teach the Teacher' Activity.
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    Thur

    2/27
  • Quiz: Totalitarianism and War
  • Start the War in the Pacific: (Rape of Nanking)
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  • Consider watching Hacksaw Ridge or John Rabe for extra credit.
  • Print out, interactively read, and do the questions for the Japan's Textbooks and the Nanjing Massacre
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    Mon

    3/5
  • Start the War in the Pacific: (Rape of Nanking)
    li type="square">Discuss Japan's Textbooks and the Nanjing Massacre
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  • Consider watching Hacksaw Ridge or John Rabe for extra credit.

  • Wed

    3/7
  • Japan invades China
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  • Consider watching Hacksaw Ridge or John Rabe for extra credit.

  • Fri

    3/9
  • War in the Pacific Thru Midway
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  • Consider watching Hacksaw Ridge or John Rabe for extra credit.

  • Wed

    3/12
  • Finish the War in the Pacific
  • 3 Hotseats on WW2:
    A: Should firebombing be considered a war crime?
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  • Extra Credit movies for this part of the unit include Empire of the Sun, or John Rabe.
    and Letters from Iwo Jima
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  • Finish interactively reading the packet from class
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    Fri

    3/14
  • Start Lecture: Anti-Semitism including the planning for final solution up to the Wannsee Conference, and the film Night & Fog,
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  • Continue Interactively Reading your packet. Read at least pages 1-8
  • Print out & bring to class NCAA Naviance. Do not do it yet.
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    Tues

    3/18
  • Discuss NCAA Naviance Selection and homework description.
  • Write your letter to Queen's College
  • Read pages 17-21 in your genocide packet.
  • Continue marking your observations at Saratoga High School.
  • Do the NCAA Naviance
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    Thurs

    3/20
  • Lecture/Packet on Jews, Allies, Neutrals, Occupied: Film Clips, Liberation, Milgram Experiment
  • Start Film Schindler's List
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  • Continue work on the packet.
  • Make sure you read intro to the Schindler's List and do the pre-watch questions and numbers 1-3.
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    Mon

    3/24
  • Continue Film Schindler's List
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  • Continue work on the packet
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    Wed

    3/26
  • Continue Film Schindler's List
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  • Continue work on the packet
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    Fri

    3/28
  • Finish Schindlers List Lecture/Video: Holocaust Deniers, Holocaust Legacy, Holocaust Perpetuation in Modern America, Charlottesville
  • The entire Genocide packet should be complete by next Thursday
  • Print out and bring to class your War in the Pacific Notes
  • Read the wiki entry on my grandfather and have a great break.
  • Study for test. Here is the studyguide for Totalitarianism/Holocaust

    • Tues

    4/1
  • Finish up Holocaust: How to talk to people about hate.
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  • Finish working on your genocide packet. It should be complete by Wednesday

    • Thur

    4/3
  • Test: Pacific War thru Holocaust
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  • Read the wiki entry on my grandfather and have a great break.
  • Here is the skeleton Cold War Lecture Notes if you want to use them for the coming lecture. Please make sure to have your packet nearby during class

    • Fri

    4/14
  • Start unit Cold War: Lecture & Yalta/Potsdam Doctrine
  • Read page 1 in your Cold War packet. Do the questions and annotate (we did page 11 in class).
  • Print out and do this quick worksheet
  • Continue preparing for Genocide Convention and the Trial of the Average German. final list will be up today.
  • Go to the new website, the Cold War.
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    Tues

    4/16
  • Finish the war in the Pacific: 3 Hotseats on WW2: B: Was use of the A-Bomb moral?
    C: Should there be rules in war?
  • Start unit Cold War: Lecture & Yalta/Potsdam Doctrine
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  • Read pages 2-7) in your Cold War packet. Do the questions and annotate
  • Continue preparing for Genocide Convention and the Trial of the Average German.
  • Go to the new website, the Cold War.
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