Opener: Review Test | The World at War

• • Review: AP25-AP26 [ Test ] Ch. 19 World War I and World War II 

Lesson: Global Communism Origins

• • I. Notes: Global Communism Origins

Closing: Extras | Mao's Mango Cult

• • (Notes) Mao Zedong's mango cult.  

  • Read More Here: China's Curios Cult of the Mango - BBC News  

Opener: Writing Practice | Challenging the Order (2018 LEQ) 

• • In the period 1900 to 2001, people and states around the world adopted political ideologies such as communism, fascism, or nationalism to challenge the existing political and/or social order. 

    • Develop an argument that evaluates how one or more of these political ideologies challenged the existing political and/or social order.

Lesson: The Cold War

• • I. Notes: The Cold War

• Closing: Random History | Animals in Space

  • What animals do you think have been launched into space?

  • If you could launch one animal into space what would it be?  

    • I will go first, but you cannot take mine.  Mosquitoes. Or mosquitos.  But definitely plural.  Every. last.  one.   

  • Read More Here: Tardigrades: "Water Bears" Stuck on Moon after Crash - BBC News 

Opener: Writing Practice | Early 20th Century Revolutions (2006 C&C)

• • Compare and contrast the goals and outcomes of the revolutionary process in TWO of the following countries, beginning with the dates specified. 

    • Mexico 1910 

    • China 1911 

    • Russia 1917 

Lesson: The Russian Revolution 

• • I. Classwork: Complete "What Do The Sources Tell Us About the Russian Revolution?" worksheet

Closing: Answer the Essential Question

• What Do The Sources Tell Us About the Russian Revolution?

Opener: Vocabulary Quiz 

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

Lesson: Watch Documentary | Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow

• • I. Documentary: Watch Russia's War - Episode 1: Darkness Descends and complete worksheet

Closing: Collect Viewing Guide

• • Collect Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow  worksheet 

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 Cold War

• •  Next week we will be studying the Cold War.