Make sure you know the vocabulary terms on the right, as you may be quizzed on them this week.
On Student Choice Days you decide how best to utilize your time related to the class. Consider:
Finalizing The Previous Unit | submit work from the previous unit by the end of the class.
After today it will only be valued at 1 point.
Beginning to Work on the Current Unit | Get a head start on the work for the current unit.
Recovery a Test | After completing the Recovery Handout, you may recover a previous test from the MP.
See the Student Choice Board (left) if you want more information about today's activity
Today marks the last day in which you can turn in the work from the previous unit for partial credit.
If you turn in an assignment from the last unit after today it will be marked as a "1/x" where "x" is equal to the value of the assignment. In other words, you will earn 1 point to illustrate that you turned in the assignment, albeit after it was directly relevant to the learning taking place.
Compare the views expressed in the song "Over There" by George Cohan vs. the poem "Dulce et Decorum" by Wilfred Owen
I. Notes: World War I: Origins and Strategies
Choose whether or not you think Germany deserves the primary blame for starting World War I. Provide one piece of historical evidence to support your claim
Identify the country responsible for creating the propaganda poster.
I. Notes: World War I: End and Aftermath
"The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies." -Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty-
Do you think the the War Guilt Clause (Article 231) made World War II inevitable? Explain
Complete the vocabulary quiz based on the words from this week's readings. In the event that you did not do well you are welcome to earn the points back by submitting definitions for the vocabulary terms using the Frayer Model (click for example).
I. Worksheet: Complete the "World War I Propaganda Posters" assignment.'
II. Extension: How did the US government get its citizens to buy into World War I?
What were the Four Minute Men? Why is it important that they were volunteers and not paid?
How significant were posters in fostering the US war effort?
What happened to people who did not support the war effort?
How did US propaganda influence other countries?
What is the difference between propaganda in WWI and today?
Consider the following tactics:
linking a person to a negative symbol
Using emotional appeals
Connecting a person to the positive or negative qualities of another
Highlighting the fame and fortune, or lack of such, of a individual
A bandwagon approach that connects individuals to a larger proportion of the population
[YouTube] CCWH 2.09 - How WWI Began
[YouTube] Extra Credits - 1918 Flu Pandemic
MSDE Objective(s) | Students will analyze how regional tensions and interregional competition led to World War One by:
III.A.1 | Evaluating how growing tensions among rival European states and empires, compounded by nationalism, militarism, imperial competition, and alliance systems led to the outbreak of war (CDI, GOV)
III.A.2 | Assessing the effectiveness of the major strategies and turning points of the war (1, 3).
III.A.3 | Analyzing how scientific and technological inventions impacted civilian populations and military personnel (1, 3).
III.A.4 | Analyzing the effect of media to promote ideologies through propaganda on the war (3).
III.A.5 | Evaluating the contributions to, and impact of World War I on, colonial peoples in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (3).
III.A.6 | Evaluating the experience of the Armenian people within the Ottoman Empire (2, 3).
III.A.7 | Assessing the global effects of the influenza pandemic (1).
III.A.8 | Explaining the domestic and international causes of the Russian Revolutions and its impact on World War One (3, 4, and 5).
How did the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 compare to the COVID outbreak of 2020?
I. Worksheet: Using the primary source documents, complete the "Did the people and government provide an effective response to the Influenza Pandemic 1918-1919" worksheet
Students discuss their responses to the essential question of the effectiveness of the response to the Influenza Pandemic.