Reichstag Election, 1932

Students held a simulated election of the Reichstag election in 1932. The "concerned voters" completed their worksheets by listening to the different parties presentations.

Quiz

Students took the quiz, then began started a worksheet on fascism.

HOMEWORK:
Worksheet, "Fascism Rises in Europe" DUE Tomorrow 12/17

Reichstag Election, 1932

Today student began preparing for a simulation of the German Reichstag elections of 1932. Students represented either a political party (Communists, Center Party, Nazis, or Social Democrats) or "concern voters". The simulation will take place on Thursday.

HOMEWORK:
QUIZ Tomorrow 12/16 - WWI, Treaty of Versailles, and Hitler's rise to power. Study your vocabulary and relevant worksheets!

Weimar Republic

Students reviewed an article about the Weimar Republic. They discussed the difficult economic conditions that allowed extreme political parties to gain power. Students also added vocabulary to their lists (Nationalism, Isolationism, Totalitarianism, NSDAP, Mein Kampf, Coup d'etat).

HOMEWORK:
QUIZ - Wed. 12/15 - WWI, Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Republic.

Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

Students were introduced to the concept of hyperinflation. They discussed impacts on the lives of people living in Germany during the 1920s.

Treaty of Versailles

Agenda:

• Students finished Paris Peace conference simulation, taking notes about each of the country's proposals.
• Students took notes on the real outcomes of the war.
• Students began reading an article about the troubles of the post-WWI German government: The Weimar Republic. They shared the section they read with their classmates and took notes summarizing main points.
  

Paris Peace Conference II

Students worked in their groups representing the Big Four. Students worked on redrawing the borders of Europe and the Middle East after WWI. The groups negotiated with one another about their group's goals and desires.

Paris Peace Conference

Today students added vocabulary to their logbooks (Reparations, Chemical Warfare, Trench Warfare, 11/11/18 Armistice, Treaty of Versailles, Colonies/Colonial Empire, Fourteen Points, League of Nations). Students also began preparing for a simulation of the Paris Peace Conference. Each student is in the role of a delegate from one of the "Big Four" countries that made the Treaty of Versailles - Italy, United States, France, and Great Britain.

HOMEWORK:
Checkpoint #4 - Self Check

The Fourteen Points

Students began rewriting Woodrow Wilson's post-WWI Fourteen Points into their own words. The Fourteen points were proposed as a way of keeping peace and preventing future conflicts.

HOMEWORK:
DUE MONDAY 12/7 - Reading questions for the "Paris Peace Conference: Securing the Peace"

Paris Peace Conference

Students finished analyzing and discussing the documents from World War I. Student then began reading about the decision facing the victors of the war as they began writing the Treaty of Versailles during the Paris Peace conference of 1919.

HOMEWORK:
MWH Worksheet Ch.13, The Great War - DUE Friday 12/4

WWI Documents

Today students looked at a series of documents dealing with World War I. They answered a series of follow up questions for each document.

HOMEWORK:
Europe Map Retakes tomorrow during tutorial
MWH Worksheet Ch.13, "The Great War"

Causes of WWI

Today students finished looking at the causes of WWI. They also looked at the reasons for US involvement and watched a film clip, below, reviewing the roots of the war.

Causes of WWI

Students finished taking notes on the causes of WWI from the powerpoint below. Here is the worksheet. Students can use this website to complete the back side of the worksheet.

I also returned the Industrial Revolution essays, Europe map quiz, and Russian Revolution quiz. Students should attend next week's tutorial if they wish to improve their scores.

GRADES: 11/23

Causes Of WWI

Quiz and Animal Farm Posters

Agenda:

1. Quiz - Europe Map, Vocab and Russian Revolution
2. Finish reading Animal Farm - through Chapter 5
3. Begin Animal Farm Posters

HOMEWORK:
Animal Farm Posters DUE Mon. 11/23
HONORS: Animal Farm Extension DUE Mon. 11/23

Animal Farm

Today students began reading Animal Farm, George Orwell's allegory about the Russian Revolution and beginnings of the Soviet Union. Students were assigned an individual from the story to keep notes on and predict the historical figure/organization/idea they represent.

HOMEWORK:
MWH 14.3 (pgs. 440-448) Case Study: Stalinist Russia
Vocabulary and Europe Map quiz MOVED to Wed/Thurs. Study with the link below.

Animal Farm, 1999:

Europe Map

Study for the exam using this website.

Russian Revolution and Vocabulary

Students completed the video on the Russian revolution. After, they organized the major events of the revolution into chronological order. They also added the following vocabulary terms to their lists:

• Provisional Government
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Karl Marx
• Proletariat
• Bourgeoisie
• Vladimir Lenin
• Bolsheviks
• Leon Trotsky
• Joseph Stalin

HOMEWORK:
Europe Map and Vocabulary Quiz next Tuesday 11/17

Russian Revolution

Students watched a parts of a film on the Russian Revolution. Students took notes using this film guide. A clip from the film is shown below.



HOMEWORK:
Modern World History Worksheet Chapter 14.1 DUE Thurs/Fri (11/12-13)

Russian Revolution

Students watched a parts of a film on the Russian Revolution. Students took notes using this film guide. The entire film is show below.

Russian Revolution

Students continued learning about the Russian Revolution. Powerpoint below.

HONORS HOMEWORK:
Communist Manifesto Worksheet DUE Thurs/Fri

Rock, Paper, Russian Revolution

Today students looked at Karl Marx's theory of communism. We discussed conditions faced by workers as a result of the Industrial Revolution. We discussed reasons they might have for wanting to change the distribution of wealth. Students began taking notes on the Russian Revolution from the Powerpoint below:

Rock, Paper, Scissors

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Industrial Revolution Essays

Students worked on the body paragraphs of their essays.

HOMEWORK:
Rough Draft DUE tomorrow, 11/3

Industrial Revolution Essays

Students began working on writing five paragraph essays about the Industrial Revolution. Today students wrote their thesis statements and introductions. The essay is due next Wed/Thurs.

HOMEWORK:
Modern World History Chapter 9, Section 2

Effects of the Industrial Revolution

Today students investigated the effects of the Industrial Revolution. They will use their notes as evidence for a persuasive essay. They will begin work on the essay to be completed next week.

HOMEWORK:
Worksheet covering Chapter 9, section 2 from the Modern World History textbook. DUE Fri. 10/30

Industrial Revolution

Students continued taking notes on the Industrial Revolution. The logbooks and Checkpoint #3 were collected today.

We used this excellent website in class to explore the inventions and innovations of the Industrial Revolution.

Industrial Revolution

Students began their study of the Industrial Revolution by participating in a simulation of the cottage industry and factory system. Students began taking notes on a lecture over the Industrial Revolution.

HOMEWORK:
Checkpoint #3 - Self check DUE tomorrow (10/27)
Westernization Article DUE tomorrow

Quiz

Students took a quiz over their geography unit. Then, they began working on political maps of Europe.

HOMEWORK:
Westernization Article - Tues. 10/27
Political Map Europe - Mon. 10/26

Vocabulary

Students defined and discussed the following vocabulary, adding it to their logbooks. Afterwards, they began reading an article on Westernization, answering the follow-up questions in their logbooks.

• Western
• Hunter-Gatherer
• Domestication
• Fertile Crescent
• Geographic Luck
• Specialist

HOMEWORK:
Study for Geography Quiz tomorrow
Westernization article due Tuesday, with Checkpoint #3.

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Students finished watching Guns, Germs, and Steel. They need to complete the back side of the film guide for tomorrow.

HOMEWORK:
Study for Geography Quiz QUIZ Fri. 10/23

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Students continued watching Guns, Germs, and Steel. We discussed the advantages within Jared Diamond's theory of geographic luck.

HOMEWORK:
QUIZ - Fri. 10/23. Use your logbooks to study your materials from the unit on Geography.

First Day Back

Today was my first day back. This week we'll be finishing the Geography unit.

The Passport Projects are due and need to be turned in if they haven't been already. I've posted some of the recent assignments on the right. Also click here for the latest grades. They are listed by ID numbers, by class.

Weekly Agenda

1. Complete watching Guns, Germs, and Steel.
2. Begin working and researching Passport Project. Several due dates will be given over the course of the project.
   

Mr. Graham will be back from leave on October 19th.

Weekly Agenda

Monday 9/21 to Friday 9/25

1. Checkpoint #1. Self-check DUE Tuesday. Peer-check, in class Tuesday.
2. QUIZ - Media Bias. Makeup - Wednesdays in Tutorial.
   
3. HOMEWORK - Geography Worksheets, DUE Wednesday/Thursday
4. Notes: Introduction to the Five Themes of Geography.
5. Collage: People, Places, Ideas, and Interactions.
6. HOMEWORK - Geography Worksheets, DUE Friday.
7. Geography of Cleveland - Mapping Cleveland and the surrounding area.
8. Where in the World? - Using latitude and longitude to find locations in the atlas.
   

Mr. Leo

I'll will be one paternity leave until October 19th. My trusted sub, Jesse Leo will be taking over for the duration. I'll still update the blog, although with less frequency.

Outfoxed

Students finished watching Outfoxed. They answered questions from the film guide.

HOMEWORK:
Writing Biased History DUE Monday (9/21)
QUIZ - Types of Bias, Vocab, Outfoxed

Fox News and Outfoxed

Today we continued our conversation about bias. Students listened to the Eagles' song Dirty Laundry. They chose passages to discuss and made conclusions about the meaning of the song. We discussed news, information, entertainment and info-tainment in the media. Students watched the the beginning of the film Outfoxed which explores bias in Fox's presentation of the news. Students completed this film guide as they watched. Students are also expected to detect the bias of the filmakers.

Types of Bias

Today students took notes over different types of bias. We discussed examples of each type.

HOMEWORK: DUE MON. (9/21) Writing Biased History

Political Spectrum

Agenda:

1. Students took the name quiz, writing down the names of all the students in the class.
2. Students finished the political spectrum quiz and took notes in their logbooks determining values of the left and right, conservatives and liberals.
   
3. Afterwords, they took notes on the vocabulary: Media, Conservative, Liberal, Subjective, Objective, Bias.
   

Bias

Today students looked at bias by reading two different articles written about the fictitious Sam Hughes. Students also compared the story of the Three Little Pigs with "The Real Story" from the wolf's perspective. Students were introduced to the terms: bias, subjective, objective, and perspective. We talked about where bias can be found today. Primarily in the media.

Remember to bring classroom supplies to 2nd period tomorrow.

Names

Today we finished classmate introductions and did the name game. Next week there will be a quiz over student names, so if you don't know someone, go and introduce yourself.

Remember to bring a composition book and classroom materials with you on Monday. These things will be checked off.

CD Covers

Remember you CD cover assignment is due tomorrow!n Also, be sure to get a composition book and classroom materials (scotch tape, highlighters, color pencils/markers) for Monday.

If you are interested in Honors credit, pick up a contract from me.

Welcome Back

My name is Tim Graham. I teach Modern World History in the Chinook Academy at Cleveland High School. Be sure to check this blog for regular updates, agendas, homework assignments, and general information regarding the class.

I look forward to another great year!