"Red Tails"

Today, students will be watching "Red Tails" to learn about air combat during World War II.  Students will focus on the segregation and discrimination toward African-American pilots during WWII.  

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.

Red Tails Trailer 

Timeline Peer Evaluations

Today, students presented there timelines for other students to evaluate. Each student needed to create a timeline with 5 events for WWII.  After the peer eval. students will create Memes with a partner about WWII. 

Atomic Bomb

Today, students will discuss the use of the atomic bomb on Aug. 6 and 9 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  It's use has impact on future events. Students will also finish going over a study guide.  Thursday students will present their timelines and view each other's. 

Last timeline workday

Today, students will finish their timeline project.  Some students will have their timelines graded during class.  All timelines will be graded on Thursday in class.  If students finish early they will be exploring a WWII website.

http://www.history.com/interactives/inside-wwii-interactive

All missing work must be turned in by Friday

Field Trip

Fun day at Usher's Ferry

WWII Timeline Day 2

Today, students will continue adding events to their timeline.  Each event should contain a 3-4 sentence summary, a picture, video or website.  The timeline should include at least 5 different events from WWII.  Students will have one more day to work on the timeline, it will be due on Thursday, May 21st. 


 Timeline Example

Timeline

Today, some classes will finish their dictator comparison.  Students will start working on their timeline project.  Students will research five events of WWII and provide a picture, video, or website.  This assignment will be due on Thursday, May 28th.

Timeline website

Rise of the Dictator

Today, students will work with their table team to compare and contrast Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.  Students will create four column notes to discover the characters that dictators share in WWII.  This will take the entire class period.  Students will finish their Study Guide on Wednesday.  Tomorrow students will work on their last project of the year.  Students are expected to create a timeline with 5 important events.

Russian Revolution 1917

Today, students will beginning learning about WWII.  One of the major causes is the Russian Revolution in 1917.  Table teams will watch a video about the revolution and try to create a flow chart explaining how it happened.  

Students will also complete a worksheet on the Russian Revolution, due Tuesday.  

WWI Kahoot and Memes

On Friday, students participated in a WWI kahoot quiz.  This quiz was not graded, however it did show students understanding of the unit.  I will be putting a pass/fail grade into the grade book for students that participated in the quiz.  If any students don't take the quiz will receive a failing grade.  After the quiz, table teams worked together to create memes for WWI.  Each team had to create at least two memes.

Treaty of Versailles and WWI Study Guide

Today, students will work as a table team to answer the following questions about the Treaty of Versailles: What countries attended the conference and what were the results?  Each team was expected to make sure everyone had the correct information.  The Treaty of Versailles represents the end of the war and mistakes that will lead to World War II.  Next, students worked as a team to complete a study guide for WWI.  

Tomorrow we will finish WWI with an online quiz (not graded).  Students will begin looking at WWII on Monday.  

Treaty of Versailles

Christmas Truce 1914 and Vocabulary Quiz

Today, students will watch a short video on the Christmas Truce and discuss what they would say if they were face to face with the enemy.  What questions would they ask?  After the discussion, students successfully completed their vocabulary quiz for WWI.  The postcard assignments are due tomorrow at the end of the day.  Students will take an Kahoot quiz over WWI on Friday.

Truce Video

Table Teams, Postcards and Vocabulary Skits

Today, students were put into their table teams for our behavior competition.  Tables will be awarded points throughout the year for the behavior in class.  The best table from each class will receive a celebration.  Students worked on their Life in the Trenches postcard, which will be due Thursday.  Table teams were expected to create short skits on the 10 vocabulary words.  

Nationalism

Unification

Revolution

Anarchy

Exile

Armistice

Colonialism

Alliance

Dual-Monarchy

Austria - Hungary

Life in the trenches

Today, students used to resources (video and article) to collect information for a postcard from the trenches.  Students created a postcard to describe life in the trenches of WWI. This assignment will be due next Thursday.

Have a great weekend!

Lusitania and definitions

Today, students created a definition for the Lusitania, a passenger ship sunk by a German U-boat in WWI.  Students also created a list of other WWI definitions. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday.  

Quizlet.com/_1cbm12

Finish Ppt and the Zimmerman Telegram

M - Militarism

A - Alliance

N - Nationalism

I - Imperialism 

A - Assassination

Today, students will finish going over the WWI presentation.  Students will also watch a short video about the Zimmmerman Telegram.

"MANIA" Causes of World War I

Today, students started class by watching a short video looking at the World War I "firsts".  Students will fill in blanks for a PowerPoint presentation examining the causes or WWI. There are still students that need to complete their World Religions test.  

M - Militarism
A - Alliances
N - Nationalism
I - Imperialism
A - Assassination

Finish Tests and Cause/Effect Nepal Earthquake

Today, some students will be taking or finishing their tests.  Everyone else will be reading an article and describing cause/effect relationships within the Nepal earthquake.  Tomorrow all students will begin learning about World War I.  World War I and II will be our final unit this year.  

World Religions Test

Today, students will take their test over the five major world religions.  Students are also expected to turn in their packets after the test. This is one of the last major grades of the year.

Stay Calm, Test on