Opener: Overview | Student Choice Day(s)

• 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.

Lesson: Select an Activity from the Student Choice Board

• See the Student Choice Board (left) if you want more information about today's activity

Closing: Reminder | The Work from Last Unit is Due By The End of Class

• 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.   

Opener: Primary Source Analysis | United States Propaganda

• • Sourcing: What is going on in the image and what is its relationship to the source (below)?  

    • Consider the following information: On May 10, 1933, German university students burned upwards of 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square. Some 40,000 people gathered to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!”

  • Interpret: Do you think the U.S. Office of War Information wanted viewers to be appalled at Nazi treatment of books or this particular book?

Lesson: The Road to World War II

• • I. Notes: The Road to World War II

    • Section 27.1: Democracy in Peril

    • Section 27.2: German Expansion

Closing:  Great Race | Picto-cabulary 

• Match the vocabulary terms to the image that corresponds to it.

  • Word bank

    • appeasement | pacifism | Neutrality Acts | Axis Powers | Nazi-Soviet Pact

    • Blitzkrieg | Lufetwaffe | Dunkirk | Vichy | Atlantic Charter

Opener: Secondary Source Analysis | "Peace for Our Time" by Christopher Klein (2013)

Lesson: Axis Powers Advance

• • I. Notes: Axis Powers Advance

  • II. (Extension) Choosing Sides: Picasso vs. Dali

    • Read passage and decide whether you can compromise ideals for the sake of wealth.

Closing: Image Analsysi | What's Going on in This Picture?

• What is going on in this picture?

• Where do you think this picture took place?

• What details in the picture support your views?

Opener: Vocabulary Quiz | World War II Origins

• 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).

Lesson: German Propaganda During World War II

• • I. Classwork: Complete the "How did the Nazis Use Propaganda To Mobilize Populations for War?" worksheet.

Closing: Personal Response | Most Effective Poster

• • Which piece of propaganda do you think was the most effective in mobilizing the German population toward WWII?

Opener: Primary Source Analysis | Captain America #1

• Contextualization: Why is it relevant that Captain America #1 was published in March 1941?  

  • Consider when the United States entered the war.

• Comparison: Based on the fact that the first thing Captain America ever did was punch Hitler in the face, why is this 2016 panel the worst panel in the history of comic books?

  • Yes, they did a nod to this in Endgame (2019)

Lesson: Captain American: Conscience of a Nation

• • I. Classwork: Complete the "Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation" crossword puzzle based on the corresponding article from Ohio State University.  

Closing: Making Connections | Superheroes 

• • Are there any other examples of superheroes offering a positive role model for audiences?