Ponder: Who is your favorite president?  

• Why is it Teddy Roosevelt?  

• Why is it not Martin Van Buren?

• Oh, look at you.  You said Taft.  How original.  I know what you did.

• Lincoln?  Can't argue there.

• Grover Cleveland?  Love the name.  It rocks.  Cleveland.  Rocks.

• Franklin Pierce.  What did he even do?

Opener: Great Race | WWI Propaganda Posters

• • Identify the country responsible for each propaganda poster.

• Lesson: Conducting World War I

  • I. Notes: World War I

• Closing: Web Diagram | Who Started World War I?

  • Does Germany really deserve the blame for starting World War I?

  • Consider British naval supremacy  and the arms race.

  • What about Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia?

Opener: Writing Practice | World War I Outcomes (2004 C&C)

• • Compare and contrast how the First World War and its outcomes affected TWO of the following regions in the period from the war through the 1930s.

    • East Asia

    • Middle East   

    • South Asia           

Lesson: The Aftermath of World War I

• • I. Notes: The Aftermath of World War I

Closing: Great Race | The Dada Art Movement

• • Identify the art movement associated with each painting.

Opener: Opener: Vocabulary Quiz | The World at War

• • Take the vocabulary quiz in Schoology.  You will have five minutes once you begin the quiz.  

  • Alternative Opener: Poetry Analysis |Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen  

• • • Contextualization: How are the experiences highlighted by Wilfred Owen related to World War I?

    • Point of View (Sourcing): What message do you think Own Wilfred is trying to communicate?

Lesson: How did World War I affect art?

• • Consider these quotes about DaDa for question 3:

    • "The Dadaist considers it necessary to come out against art, because he has seen through its fraud as a moral safety valve." 
      • Richard Huelsenbeck, DaDa founder (1920)
    • "Art, was the Dadaists' message, had been so fatally compromised that it could not be a matter of purifying, of improving, of renewing it.  The point was to destroy it."
      • Peter Gay, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, p.143

Closing: Review the Essential Question

• • What impact did World War I have on visual art in the first half of the twentieth century?

Opener: Introduction | Student Choice Days

• • Purpose: student choice days are meant to allow students the opportunity to work on relevant class assignments, complete recovery beyond one-hour lunch, and meet with the teacher for a variety of purposes.  

Lesson: Options | Useful Uses of Your Time

• • I. Finish work: complete a classwork assignment from this week

  • II. Begin homework: get an early start on the homework for next week

  • III. Test Recovery - Review: get the answers to your missed questions and complete the "Test Recovery - Review" handout

  • IV. Test Recovery - Retake: retake the test you wish to recover

    • The test will not be the same test so do not memorize any keys and think you are prepared

  • V. Other: you are welcome to work on other meaningful assignments but are not to use this time ineffectively, such as using your electronic devices to play games

Closing: Foreshadowing | The Industrial Revolution

• •  Next week we will be studying the Industrial Revolution