Enjoy Your Prom! See You Next Week!
It has been a fun four years. I'm sure you will enjoy Senior Week! See you soon!
Friday, May 22, 2015
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Good Luck on the P2 Exam !!
Good Luck! I Know You All Will Do Well!
I'm so glad to hear that most of you felt that your Paper 1 exams went well.
1 Down, 1 to Go!
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
In-Class Work: Designing Study Slide for Hitler's Rise
In-Class Work: Hitler's Rise Study Slides
Create a Google Slide presentation. Title it, "Dictators - LAST." Share it with me.
Topic: Choose a Main Idea / Point that is related to Hitler's Rise that you are not as familiar with as you would like to be prior to the I.B. exam next month. You are going to create a Google Slide based on what you research. Follow the pictured diagram. Don't use more than three supporting pieces of evidence for your main idea.
You'll work on this in class Thursday, Friday and Monday when you return from Break.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Good Work. See You Next Week!
I've Started Grading Your Papers. So far, so good. I Will Hand Them Back Beginning Tuesday!
Monday, April 6, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Mock Exam Review Preparation
Mock Exam Preparation
Seniors: All this week we are going to prepare you for next Tuesday's Mock Exam.
It consists of a full Paper 1 and a full Paper 2, which is two essays. The total time you will be testing is 2:40 minutes.
Please have the following information listed below ready for Tuesday's class.
I highly suggest you create a GDoc folder titled, "Mock Exam Materials." Put it under your history folder.
1. FIND all of the study materials you had gathered for last fall's Mock I.B. Paper 2 exam and this January's Mid-Term Exam.
Please take the time to gather these so we can go over dictatorships the next couple of days.
2. ASK QUESTIONS: Also, as you go through this material, please create a document titled, "Questions," and write questions that you have for me or for your peers.
3. Feel free to SHARE materials with your peers. The more the merrier test takers :)
I'll see you Tuesday.
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Rise of Stalin
For details regarding the rise of Stalin, rely on your SPS - Stalin document. This will help you outline the three major categories of The Leader, the historical context, and the elimination of the opposition.
Rule of Stalin
In addition to his rise, be familiar with Stalin’s economic policies once he gained power in 1928.
- Collectivization
- Five-Year Plans (to 1939)
- Gulag System
- Great Purges
- Great Terror
Rise and Rule of Adolf Hitler
For details regarding the rise and rule of Adolf Hitler, rely on the SPS document I’ve shared with you as well as your notes and documents. This will help you outline the three major categories of The Leader, the historical context, and the elimination of the opposition. These notes will also help you outline your notes for any rule questions.
Specific events / terms you'll need to define:
Rise of Stalin
- War Communism
- New Economic Policy
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Politburo
- Cheka
- Sovnarkom
- "Socialism in one country"
- "Permanent revolution"
- Lenin's "Ban on factions" (1921)
- Nomenklatura system
Rule of Stalin
- Kulaks
- Kolkhoz
- Gosplan
- NKVD
- GULAGS
- Examples of major showpiece projects
- Stakhanoivites
- Effect of the murder of Sergei Kirov
- “Kirov Flood”
- Great Terror
- 17th Congress ("Congress of the Condemned")
- "Old Bolsheviks"
- Trial of the Sixteen, Seventeen, and Twenty-one (Show Trials)
- Trotskyites and/or Rightists
- 1936 Constitution
- Cult of Personality
Rise of Adolf Hitler
- Spartacus League
- Freikorps
- “November Criminals”
- “Stab in the back”
- Treaty of Versailles
- Diktat
- Reparations
- Weimar Republic
- Weimar Constitution Weaknesses
- Proportional Representation
- Article 48
- Hyperinflation Crisis
- Great Depression
- SA ("Brownshirts")
- NSDAP (Nazi Party - far right)
- SPD (Moderate - left of center)
- KPD (Communist - far left)
- Jan. 30, 1933 (Date Hitler's "Rise" ends)
Rule of Adolf Hitler
- Reichstag Fire
- Enabling Act
- "Night of the Long Knives"
- SS
- Methods of Rule
- Volksgemeinschaft
- Gestapo
- Triumph of the Will
- Hitler Youth
- Four-Year Plan
- Mother's Cross
- Strength Through Joy (Workers’ program)
- Volkswagen Beetle
- Reich Entailed Farm Law
- Kristallnacht "Night of Broken Glass"
- Foreign Policy
- Anschluss
- Annexation of Czechoslovakia
- Nazi-Soviet Pact
- Appeasement
Specific people you might need to identify:
Rise of Lenin
- Karl Marx
- V.I. Lenin
- Leon Trotsky
Rise and Rule of Stalin
- Joseph Stalin
- Felix Dzerzhinsky
- Nikolai Bukharin
- Sergo Ordzhonikidze (Commissar of Heavy Industry)
- Alexei Stakhanov
- Sergei Kirov
- Lazar Kaganovich (Commissar of trains and Moscow Metro)
- Genrikh Yagoda (NKVD chief; started Gulags)
- Nikolai Yezov (“The Bloody Drawf”; NKVD official in charge at height of Purges)
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Marshall of Soviet Union; secret military trial; his execution sparked massive purge of Red Army officials prior to WWII.)
Rise and Rule of Adolf Hitler
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Freidrich Ebert
- Walter Rathenau
- Gustav Stresemann
- Paul von Hindenberg
- Kurt von Schleicher
- Franz von Papen
- Adolf Hitler
- Josef Goebbels
- Rudolf Hess
- Heinrich Himmler
- Albert Speer
- Ernst Rohm
- Hermann Goering
- Leni Reifenstahl
Paper 2 Questions
For the Paper 2 essays you will have to answer two questions. You will have to choose one question from each of the two topics shown below. There will be three questions in each topic to choose from. Use the information above to help develop a study guide / outline. (90 minutes)
You will also be required to produce a quality outline prior to writing your essay.
Rise and Rule of Single-Party States
See the notes that I’ve shared with you.
Friday, March 27, 2015
3Q Done; 4Q Arrives: Your Last Quarter!
Your Last Quarter of High School Has Arrived!
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| The last quarter of the moon! |
No Homework. But, review continues next week. Stay tuned.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Watch China (1976-97) Documentary
If you didn't see it, I highly suggest you watch watch the first 50 minutes of the documentary. Born Under the Red Flag
Born Under the Red Flag 1976‐1996 (1997) examines China's transformation to a world economic and military power and its pursuit of two seemingly contradictory goals economic strength and prosperity and absolute Communist Party control as it approaches the 21st century.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Watch China (1976-97) Documentary - Finish Questions
China's Growth from Turmoil
After Mao (1976 - 1997)
1. Make sure ALL of your China questions are done. See yesterday's post for more info.
2. Please watch the first 50 minutes of the documentary. Born Under the Red Flag
Born Under the Red Flag 1976‐1996 (1997) examines China's transformation to a world economic and military power and its pursuit of two seemingly contradictory goals economic strength and prosperity and absolute Communist Party control as it approaches the 21st century.
Monday, March 23, 2015
Complete China Questions by Wednesday
Complete China Question for Paper 1
Please complete the questions on your
China Communism in Crisis Document
They are due by Wednesday, March 25
Friday, March 20, 2015
Background on Mao for Paper 1
Mao's Background to 1976
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Watch Mao Documentary If You Didn't See It In Class Friday
If you weren't in class Friday please take the time to watch this documentary on Mao's rule from 1949 to the 1970s. This will set the stage for the re-emergence of China after 1976.
No other homework. I won't be here Monday but by then I will assign in-class work in order for you to finish the China questions for the Paper 1.
Enjoy your Weekend!
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
Chinese Communism in Crisis, 1976-1989
Begin Reading and Answer Questions for China's Crisis with Communism
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| Not related to China, but Mexico, Cappucci still has the Tabasco sauce I gave him at the beginning of sophomore year as a prize for a top-scoring quiz. When I did, I told him he could redeem it for a gift at Graduation. I didn't think he'd keep it. Obviously I didn't know Cappucci well then. |
Begin reading pages 144 - 169 in China in Crisis - 1976-89 and answer the first 7 questions.
The first seven questions are due Monday, March 16 at 8:20 a.
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| Mao and his famous "Little Red Cellphone" |
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
View Mikhail Gorbachev Biography
Mikhail Gorbachev Biography
DIRECTIONS: Please watch the following videos. It in one program broken into three parts. After (or during) each one, please scroll to the bottom of this post and make a comment about something new or interesting you learning about Gobachev and his rise and rule of the Soviet Union. Comment by logging in to your Google Account. You should have at least three comments of about two to three sentences each.
This is a graded assignment. It is due by the end of the day, Wed., March 11.
Part 1 of 3 (15 min.)
Part 2 of 3 (15 min.)
Part 3 of 3 (15 min.)
Friday, March 6, 2015
In Class Work / Homework Due TODAY!!!
Despite the Snow Day yesterday and today's delayed start half day (does that make it a quarter day?) I still expect the in-class / homework assignment to be completed by 3:10 p. today. I hope you continued to work on it during the snow day with all of that free time you had.
See you Monday! Here are my best pix from yesterday's fun NYC trip to Times Square in a snow storm.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Complete Gorbachev Questions by Friday
In-Class / Homework Assignment
Please read, "USSR in Crisis - Gorbachev Era,” and answer the 20 questions under the Gorbachev section on the shared document, Communism in Crisis.
Your answers are due by Friday, March 6 at 3:10 p.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Finish Brezhnev Questions 9 - 19 by Friday!!
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| Communism wasn't looking good in 1982 |
HOMEWORK
DUE FRIDAY by 3:10 p.: Questions 9-19 on the new Communism and Crisis document.
Read the USSR in Crisis - Brezhnev Era reading in the shared folder.
The Sections Are:
The Brezhnev Era - 1964 to 1982
Dissent Takes Shape Within the Soviet Union
Political Stagnation
Foreign Policy and Problems
Transition from Brezhnev to Gorbachev
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