Thursday, April 24, 2008

5 paragraph essay due Thurs---diaries....

nTeen Diaries: Intro/context in WWII,
n1. Identify 3 themes in the diaries; 2. identify 3 key personal or historical events that effected the writers; 3. explain how the writers coped with their crisis---by actions, relationships, or writing. 4.Conclusion In what ways does reading the diaries effect our empathy for people in Darfur/Sudan, Tibet, Zimbabwe, 0r other genocides in the past such as the Armenian genocide or Native Americans

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

What's your museum proposal?

See blog list:
on one page
Write: Topic
Format: photo essay, film, blueprint for memorial to event or person, poster of
remembrance for a film or website, etc. Collection of audio recordings, etc.
Summarize your concept verbally and visually on one page only. Think of
it as a Brainstorm/draft of your idea. I will want you to post it for review
by the class.

We will also post your WWII stories on a memorial wall. If you can make
a sign/banner for this...please do/bring it 20 points extra credit.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

HW: Search for and print out the picture and story of a Holocaust Victim or Survivor. Answer each of these questions. Be prepared to post in class.

DBQ's answer all questions 556-57

Friday, April 18, 2008

Civilian Life during WWII

The more we come to know about the Holocaust, how it came about, how it was carried out, etc., the greater the possibility that we will become sensitized to inhumanity and suffering whenever it may occur.Eva Fleischner

nRead 559-562; Complete ‘reading strategy’; find out what war Executive Order 9066 on the internet; answer picturing history, explain. Complete reading checks?
nHow did the bombing of cities affect people’s lives? US, Germany, Japan, England. Describe the bombing of Dresden Germany.
nHow did women’s roles change during the 1940;s in each country? Compare and contrast.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Museum of Intolerance Topics


nBlacks and Latinos; Japanese and Native Americans in the U.S. Military
nDiaries of Youth
nWarsaw Uprising; rebellions
nNazi scientific experiments
nAuschwitz
nJapanese POW camps during WWII
nRighteous Gentiles –Schindler’s List
nHitler Youth
nGerman Policies, Nuremberg Laws
nSS
nMilgram Experiment; obedience to authority
nFinal Solution, 1942
nNight of Broken Glass
nEuthanasia
nGypsies
nHomosexuals
nMentally Ill, Disabled
nJapanese-American Internment
nEinsatzgrubben --- the killing machine
nHiroshima, Nagasaki
nDefinitions of Race: Eugenics—breeding the German Race—Science of Race
nOlympics of 1936 in Berlin --- Jesse Owens
nRejection of Jews; Cuba, U.S., Middle East; Andrea Dora
nPropaganda about Jews, minorities
nGenerals Himmler, Goebels, etc.
nHitler

Life is Beautiful

Complete your packets by Friday.
Make sure you have your internet story printed w/ questions
See the INTOLERANCE MUSEUM LIST....think, research

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Yes, complete the packet

however, not rosie the riveteer, not dropping atomic bomb, not D Day, not anything we
haven't read/discussed
Be ready to dramatize the dialogues you wrote about the photo

xoxo Dr. Steinberg

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Pearl Harbor

-Result: See your text p. 545; Summarize the cause and
Effect of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Monday, April 7, 2008

At WAR

HW: 542-45 Europe at War. Japan at War. List early victories, describe the Battle of Britain, describe the attack on the Soviet Union---do Reading Checks, geography

QUACKERS BEWARE!!! Jasmine, Alma, Jackie...
"Quack quack quack!"

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Blitzkrieg War!!!!!!!!!!!

HW: Europe at war: 542-545
  • What were the milestone battles and victories of Germany?
  • Why didn’t America get involved?
  • What national commandment did Hitler give to the people?
  • What alternatives were there for people who opposed him?

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Multiflow organizers! propaganda poster!

2. Create 1) a Multiflow Map for Dictatorships: Mussolini, Hitler, Tojo
2) A multiflow map for WWII

Please bring in your propaganda poster/picture to hand in for a display!