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Where you can find me
A Block - Learning Skills - Room 12 B Block - Geometry - Room 211
C Block - Geometry - Room 211 D Block - Prep - Room 12
E Block - U.S. History II - Room 12 F Block - Biology - Room 253
G Block - Prep - Room 12 H Block - Biology - Room 253
Geometry:
Week of April 21st:
Homework:Triangle Inequality worksheets due.
Biology:
Week of April 21st:
Homework:
Chapter 11 Test on Thursday.
U.S. History II - Level One
Week of January 28th:
World War One Internet Project
January 30th - Day One:
Log on to www.johndclare.net
Go to Causes of WWI; then Background; then hit the CLOZE button. A window will popup with a worksheet on the Background of WWI. Print out the worksheet and close the pop-up. Use the information on Background to fill in the worksheet.
Go to Four Steps to War: then hit the CLOZE button. Repeat the procedure as above.
Go to www.pbs.org/greatwar. Hit the Maps and Battles button. Make a summary sheet for these sections:
The Outbreak of War,Gallipoli, Battle of Verdun, Battle of Somme, Third Battle of Ypres, Western Front in 1918.
Go to www.firstworldwar.com. Hit the trench warfare button . Do a summary sheet.
February 1st - Day 2
1) Go to www.art-ww1.com/gb/visite.html
Take the Guided Tour. You should visit each of the following sections and put together a portfolio of paintings (print out at least one work for each section):
War Declared The Fighting Men Age of Artillery The Battlefield Total War Suffering Death
2) Go to www.firstworldwar.com
Click on the Songs tabs. Listen to and download the lyrics for:
"Over There" "Keep the Home Fires Burning" "Oh How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning"
3) On the same website, click on the Prose and Poetry Tab. Find the author John McCrae. Download and read the poem "In Flanders Fields". You may check out other poems if you like.
4) On the same website, click on Posters. Download one poster from these countries: United States, Germany, and France.
5) Organize the last two days work in your portfolio. We will be working from it next week.
6) If time permits, go to www.votechooser.com and find the candidate that matches up with your issues.
February 5th:
Assignment: Create a propaganda poster, art drawing, poem, song, or short story based on the Art in WWI website that you viewed during the internet project.
February 7th:
Assignment: Draw graph based on sizes of the armies and navies of the WWI combatants.
February 11th:
Assignment: Graph and table quiz.
February 19th:
Assignment: Flyboys video questions
1) What country did the Lafayette Escadrille fly for?
2) Why didn't they fly for the U.S.?
3) How did the new technology of fighter planes affect civilians during the war?
February 25th:
Homework: Worksheet: Critical Thinking Skills Activity 15: Analyzing Political Speeches
February 27th:
Homework: Read to understand the handout: Six Terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Also, look over Europe map.
****Chapter 15 Synthesis**** DUE BY MARCH 5TH (10% deducted for every day late)
Using your knowledge gained from your World War I portfolio, construct an essay based on the following prompts:
- *How was a climate of war created in Europe prior to 1914?
- *How did changes in technology comine to force the combatants into trench warfare and the ensuing stalemate?
- *What effect did the principles of Woodrow Wilson have in the fighting and outcome of the war?
- *Name one consequence of the war, and explain how it still affects us in the twenty-first century.
- *Develop a plan that would guarantee that wars between nations would never happen.
Requirements: 2 typewritten pages, double-spaced, 1 inch margins, 12 point type.
Remember, this essay reduces the number of essays you will have to do on the Final Exam!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 3rd:
Homework: Worksheet - "Twenties Talk". Review the slang words used during the twenties. Your task is to update as many of the words or phrases with expressions used in present day speech. Example: cool/sweet
March 5th:
Assignment: Twenties Journal - Highlighting the Political, Economic, Social,Technological developments along with the foreign and domestic policies that defined the era.
March 7th:
Chapter 16 Test - The Roaring Twenties
March 18th:
Readings on "The Great Depression" due on Thursday, March 20th. Be ready to answer questions.
March 25th:
Read the article "The Stock Market Crash of 1929" and answer the READING FOR INFORMATION questions on the back.
March 27th:
Graphs of 1929-1941 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Unemployment due. Answer the following questions based on the information found in the graphs:
1) Describe what happens to unemployment as GDP goes down.
Bonus: What is this type of relationship called?
2) Roosevelt became President of the U.S. in 1933. What evidence from the graphs indicated that his economic policies might be working?
3) What happened to the economy in 1937 according to the graphs?
4) What finally brought the Great Depression to an end?
March 31st:
Homework: Finish copying the Following New Deal Agencies into your chart:
HOLC Home Owners Loan Corporation Provided homeowners with low cost loans to prevent foreclosures
WPA Works Progress Administration Put millions to work in constructing schools, libraries, sewers, etc
NYA National Youth Administration Provided young people with part-time jobs to stay in school
NLRB National Labor Relations Board Outlawed unfair labor practices and strengthened labor unions
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority Helped the deep south by building dams
SSA Social Security Act A form of insurance that provided workers with
benefits for unemployment, retirement,and death
April 25th:
New Deal Essays are due
Topic: Explain the 3 best programs and the 3 worst programs of the New Deal; describe FDR's critics, and how the New Deal helped FDR politically.