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DATE: 3/17 TOPIC: Treaty of Versailles Standards 10.6.1-10.6.2 BQ- Turn back to notes from 3/5 and write about what The VERSAILLES TREATY was! Homework: TOTALITARIAN PROJECT DUE April 7th- see me for paper and click link for assignment. ACTIVITIES: *Start of new Self Assessment 1. Review what is already known about Versailles! 2. Begin LENIN film- **Cornell notes from students** 3.. Review film notes 4. Discussion: Connection to totalitarian regimes 5. Play WWI order game. Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, film questions CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit WWI OVERVIEW/ REVIEW DATE: 3/18 TOPIC: WWI Standards10.5 (all)- 10.6.1-2 Big Question- Describe the situation in Germany at the end of the war. Read about the Weimar Republic P.905 Homework: Read about "your dictator's" EARLY LIFE and type out one paragraph about it! ACTIVITIES: 1. Complete Lenin Film and Begin Stalin! 2. Cornell notes 3. WWI bingo! Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, bingo participation, notes on Lenin film and summary. CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit Totalitarian Regimes DATE: 3/19 TOPIC: Russian Revolution Standards 10.7.1-10.7.2 ACTIVITIES: 1. Discuss BQ 2. Q-A Project 3. Review test from Thursday
 * Big Question-** p.896 Read over these two candidates’ platforms and the intro. Discuss who you would vote for and why? What do you agree and disagree about?
 * Homework**: Title page and three sources due tomorrow!

Review Homework Instructions CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?
 * Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, notes from film**

3/20 INTERNATIONAL FAIR!

Unit Totalitarian Regimes DATE: 3/22 TOPIC:Russian Revolution Standards 10.7.1-10.7.2 ACTIVITIES: 1. Review BQ 2. Review format for cornell notes from last class 3.Film: Stalin's childhood. Review Homework Instructions CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?
 * Big Question-** P. 875 Read the top of 875 and look carefully at the totalitarian pinwheel. Describe what totalitarianism means (in your own words) and give detail (pinwheel) and examples (right column). SEExI!!
 * Homework:** PROJECT
 * Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, film notes, project- title page and websites**

Unit Totalitarian Regimes DATE:3/23 TOPIC: Russian Revolution Standards 10.7.1-10.7.2 Big Question- p876 What does it mean when leaders have a "police state"? Homework: No HW Friday ACTIVITIES: 1. Discuss BQ 2. Review Terms 3. Power Point: First 10 slides of Russian Revolution (overview) 4. Listen to key witnesses of Stalin's engineered famine in the Ukraine and See his torture chambers. (Stalin film clips) Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, exemplification wheels CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit Totalitarian Regimes DATE:3/24 TOPIC: Russian Revolution Standards 10.7.1-10.7.2 Big Question- Primary source quote reading on Gulags- Describe what a gulag is. Include what "politicals" were. Absent? Do a google search on "gulags" "politacals" "soviet union" and answer the question above. Homework: Project due upon return from spring break! ACTIVITIES: 1. Discuss BQ 2. Review Terms 3. Power Point: Industrial Revolution + Gulag slides of Russian Revolution (overview) 4. Complete Stalin video (Industrial Revolution through the Gulags)! Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, exemplification wheels CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit Totalitarian Regimes DATE: 3/25 TOPIC: Hitler-Stalin Standards 10.7.3 Big Question- No BQ- film set-up Venn Diagram Homework: Project (intro, web sites, time-line) ACTIVITIES: 1. As students watch the film, they are to take notes on all the similarities and differences between Hitler and Stalin, using their Venn Diagram Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, Completion of Venn Diagram CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit Totalitarian Regimes DATE: TOPIC: Comparing totalitarian regimes Standards 10.7.3 Big Question- In your own words, summarize what all totalitarian regimes have in common Homework: Project: Write out one complete paragraph about how your leader rose to power! (Text box!) ACTIVITIES: 1. Discuss BQ 2. Review The birth of Totario 3. Decide whether it is a left or right wing branch using the chart (students glue this chart into their comp. books) Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, completion of totalitarian wheels CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

3/4/09 Down to the gym for pictures and registration

Unit Totalitarian Regimes DATE: 4/5- 4/6 TOPIC: Review Russian Revolution Standards Big Question- 4/6 Describe what the Holocaust was. Homework: See above- due tomorrow ACTIVITIES: 1. Discuss BQ 2. Complete Hitler-Stalin film Venn Diagram 3. Discuss Non-Aggression Pact and Operation Barbarossa 4. Review Diagrams 5. Review chart of left and right wing totalitarian governments 6. Complete Russian Revolution Study guide! Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, Venn Diagram, study guide CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit Totalitarian Regimes DATE: 4/7-4/8 TOPIC: Use of Terror and Religious persecution Standards 10.7.1-3 NO BQ- Take out Study Guides and be prepared to present answers. Homework: Project and type-written poems due today! Study your study guide for homework- Exam on Russian Revolution and Totalitarian Regimes on Friday. BQ for 4/8 Discuss what is meant by "stereotyping". What does it mean and why can it be dangerous? ACTIVITIES: 1. Discuss and review Study Guide 2. Discuss the Escalation of Hate and Dehumanization 3. Show Images of Hate #1 and Der Strumer pages. 4. Students respond to Questions about #1 propaganda. Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, Propaganda Image responses. CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit Totalitarian Regimes DATE: 4/9 TOPIC: Assessment Russian Revolution Standards 10.7 No BQ- Take out your study guide, fold it back so that you are only seeing the terms and highlight/underline the terms you do not know. 5-10 min. Study time!!! ACTIVITY: Assessment- on Russian Revolution. Evaluation: Assessment