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 * Unit WWII Europe**

DATE: 4/15 (Minimum Day- short classes) TOPIC: Introduction to Major countries Standards 10.8.1- 10.8.2 Big Question- Preview the chapter p.915-919. List all the subtitles (bold black paragraph headings) of these pages. Study the maps and time line carefully! Homework: Who do you feel was responsible for the holocaust? (HUGE question!!!) SEXI paragraph expected. ACTIVITIES: 1. Review of Homework 2. Review and discussion of the major "aggressors" of the chapter. 3. Last 5 minutes of Night and Fog film (followed by discussion: WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE HOLOCAUST?) 4. Begin homework Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, discussion responses, homework assessment CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

DATE: 4/16 TOPIC: Introduction to Major countries Standards 10.8.1- 10.8.2 Big Question- Glue in EurAsia MAP into back of book! ACTIVITIES: 1. Students point to major countries as they are called out. 2. Check their mistakes with teacher projection. 3. Flash player of WWII invasions. Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, map participation. CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

DATE: 4/19 TOPIC: Comp. book Assessment Big Question- Finish coloring Eurasia map of all 17 countries (Uk, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Australia, Russia, Poland, India, China, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium) ACTIVITIES: 1. Students point to major countries as they are called out. 2. Students label their map with #s 3. Flash player of WWII invasions. Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, map participation. CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

DATE:4/20- 4/21 TOPIC: Introduction to Major countries Standards 10.8.1- 10.8.2 Big Question (4/20)- Turn to your map of Europe in the back of your composition book and take out your colored pencils (4/21 Map test!) Homework: Map identification quiz tomorrow on all countries above (4/19 BQ) ACTIVITIES: 1. Summarize your assigned country’s role prior to the outbreak of WWII. 2. Draw the flag of their country below BQ 3. Take notes on assigned country. 4. Group chart creation and presentations of A) Post-WWI conditions B) GOALS Evaluation: Evaluation map identification, Discussion responses, flag illustration and summaries CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit WWII Europe DATE: 4/22- 2/23 TOPIC: Events prior to WWII Standards 10.8.1- 10.8.2 Big Question- 4/22 Study the map on P 923 and read the paragraph at the top of 924. Summarize what was happening in Europe and in Britain, specifically. Answer the two questions at the bottom of the page in your paragraph. Homework: Begin working on Study guide #1-11 for WWII Europe exam next Thursday. ACTIVITIES: 1. Discuss BQ 2. Review roles 3. Hand out packet of events launching WWII- they read about Czech crisis. [|We are currently on this slide show]- we will remain there for the next week! If absent, AT LEAST get the notes of the events in your comp. book and set it all up according to the directions in the slide show. 4. Show slide show of Czech invasion and pose the critical thinking question. 5. Write out response to the Critical Thinking question 6. Review correct responses- change answers as necessary 7. Read second event and show slides corresponding to Munich agreement. 8. Continue with all events Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, chart responses (7 events-all countries) CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit WWII DATE: 4/26 TOPIC: European events Standards 10.8.1-4 Big Question- Summarize why WWII began p. 925 (setting the stage- blizkrieg) Homework: Study guide #12-#21 (see link above or under WWII unit outline) ACTIVITIES: 1. Review homework 2. Review BQ 3. Complete #4-5 reactions. Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, prediction notes CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

Unit WWII DATE: 4/27-28 TOPIC: Europe Standards10.8.1.-4 Big Question- Read about the next event in the TCI prediction packet and take the neotes necessary to make an accurate prediction of what will happen Homework: Study Guide 16-30 TEST ON FRIDAY! ACTIVITIES: 1. Complete the slide sequence of predictions! 2. Review Study Guide! 3. Create the storybooks and title page 4. Students will begin their final summaries based on their notes from the prediction activity last week 5. They will then illustrate each page. Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, Complete story book CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

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Unit WWII DATE: 5/3-5/4 TOPIC: Europe Standards10.8.1.-4 Big Question- Using BQ from 4/26 and Setting the Stage p.925, Write a final draft paragraph about why WWII starts in Europe on the cover sheet of your story book. Make sure you use the following terms: German and Italian expansion and militarization, (and to explain why countries DO NOT react for a long time, use the following:) League of Nations, Non-Aggression Pact, Appeasement, Isolation. ACTIVITIES: 1. Discuss the causes and have different students share their paragraphs with the class. 2. Explanation of how to write the final draft paragraphs for events 1-7 of the prediction activity (last week). All paragraphs should explain 1. What happened and 2) How various countries respond to German aggression. 3. Students will begin their final summaries based on their notes from the prediction activity last week's prediction activity: p.2- Czech. Crisis, p.3 Violation of Munich Pact, p.4 Invasion of Poland, p.5 Invasion of France, p.6 Battle of Britain, p. 7 Invasion of USSR, p. 8 Operation Overlord 4. They will then illustrate each page. 5. Last 20 minutes, watch, Life is Beautiful film. Review Homework Instructions Evaluation: Evaluation of BQ, Discussion responses, Complete story book CLOSURE: Rapid fire Q-A about activities above. What did you learn?

5/5-5/6 Review Test Corrections, Complete Life Science CST, Complete story books (worth 100 points!)

5/10-5/11 WE ARE NOW INTO A NEW CHAPTER OF WWII: THE PACIFIC- Go back to **SPRING SEMESTER** AND SCROLL DOWN TO **WWII-PACIFIC**