Agenda: Week of April 1, 2013

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 6: The Most Recent Century, 1900 - 2010
Chapter 22: The Rise and Fall of World Communism, 1917 - Present
Week at a Glance:
The Week of April 1st is a total train wreck of a schedule. Click here to view it: Week of April 1st Train Wreck of a Schedule.

Targets - Chapter 22 - "World Communism: Rise and Fall"
•  To examine the nature of the Russian and Chinese revolutions and how the differences between those revolutions affected the introduction of communist regimes in those countries
 •  To consider how communist states developed, especially in the USSR and the People’s Republic of China
 •  To consider the benefits of a communist state
 •  To consider the harm caused by the two great communist states of the twentieth century
 •  To introduce students to the cold war and its major issues
 •  To explore the reasons why communism collapsed in the USSR and China
 •  To consider how we might assess the communist experience . . . and to inquire if historians should be asking such questions about moral judgment
Essential Questions to Consider:
BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS
      1.   What was the appeal of communism, in terms of both its promise and its achievements? To what extent did it fulfill that promise?
      2.   Why did the communist experiment, which was committed to equality and a humane socialism, generate such oppressive, brutal, and totalitarian regimes?
      3.   What is distinctive about twentieth-century communist industrialization and modernization compared to the same processes in the West a century earlier?
      4.   What was the global significance of the cold war?
      5.   “The end of communism was as revolutionary as its beginning.” Do you agree with this statement?
      6.   In what different ways did the Soviet Union and China experience communism during the twentieth century?
MARGIN REVIEW QUESTIONS
      1.   When and where did communism exercise influence during the twentieth century?
      2.   Identify the major differences between the Russian and Chinese revolutions.
      3.   Why were the Bolsheviks able to ride the Russian Revolution to power?
      4.   What was the appeal of communism in China before 1949?
      5.   What changes did communist regimes bring to the lives of women?
      6.   How did the collectivization of agriculture differ between the USSR and China?
      7.   What were the achievements of communist efforts at industrialization? What problems did these achievements generate?
      8.   Why did communist regimes generate terror and violence on such a massive scale?
      9.   In what different ways was the cold war expressed?
      10.   In what ways did the United States play a global role after World War II?
      11.   Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the communist world by the 1970s.
      12.   What explains the rapid end of the communist era?
      13.   How did the end of communism in the Soviet Union differ from communism’s demise in China?


VERY STRANGE SCHEDULE THIS WEEK BECAUSE OF TESTING.
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Monday Periods 4 & 6
Tuesday Periods 3, 5, & 7
Wednesday Periods 4 & 2
Thursday Periods 3 & 1
Quote"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."  -William James

This agenda will run throughout the week. Some classes will complete more than others. Please check the website for changes; Mr. Duez will be posting notes specially designed to help those students who were not in class as much as others. The Quiz is next Monday for Chapter 22. The CCOT Essay will be written on Wed/Thu in class. 

Agenda: 
1. Do Now: Students will pick up the handout for video questions over Niall Ferguson's War of the World: Episode 5: Ice Box.
2. Video with Questions: Students will answer questions and discuss the video as it plays. 

Niall Ferguson's LINK TO THE VIDEO: The War of the World, Episode 5: Ice Box:
During the Cold War, the Third World War actually took place. With the US and the Soviet Union unable to engage in battle with each other directly for fear of the nuclear consequences, Third World nations ended up serving as proxies for the superpowers, causing carnage to rival World War One.


3. Notes, Video, Discussion: What is the CCOT - Refresher. Students will write the Continuity and Change Over Time FRQ essay next week on Block Day. 
4. Notes, Discussion, Video: Students will get this handout: Important things to note for Chapter 22 World Communism. We will discuss the answers to these questions in class on Friday. Preparing answers to these questions will help to get ready to write the Change and Continuity Over Time FRQ Essay next week on block day.


5. Video with QuestionsTank Man Documentary. Seventeen years later, veteran filmmaker Antony Thomas goes to China in search of "The Tank Man." Who was he? What was his fate? And what does he mean for a China that today has become a global economic powerhouse? Drawing on interviews with Chinese and Western eyewitnesses, Thomas recounts the amazing events of the spring of 1989, when a student protest that began in Tienanmen Square, the symbolic central space of the nation, spread throughout much of the rest of China. 


6. Notes, Discussion, and Video: 
Compare and contrast the French and Russian Revolutions
CH 22 - The Cold War. Also, the fascinating story of Sidney Rittenberg. The American who became a part of Chinese Revolutionary history. Trailer for the documentary movie: The Revolutionary.
BBC Story about Rittenberg's fascinating life: Sidney Rittenberg True Chinese Insider.
Stalin - Man of Steel, Documentary
How awesome is this?
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Tuesday April 2, 2013
Quote: "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stalin and Mao.
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Wednesday/Thursday April 3 & 4, 2013
Quote: "One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.  Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
This British cartoon of 29 October 1962 shows Kennedy and Khrushchev arm-wrestling for power, sitting on nuclear weapons.   The caption read: 'OK Mr president, let's talk'
Friday is a normal 7 period day, thank goodness!
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Friday April 5, 2013
Quote: "Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine." -William Feather

Agenda:
1. Do Now:  Do Now Question -  Compare and contrast the course of the Russian and Chinese communist revolutions.
2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Important things to note for Chapter 22 World Communism
Ch 22 World Communism - comparing USSR and China
Clips from Ferguson's War of the World - Episode 2 5:34 to 16:20 Russia's "Planned Economy" wasn't exactly what it seemed. Racial persecution was disguised as "class warfare." Stalin regarded certain ethnic groups as 'unreliable' and he had them deported, sent to work camps, or executed. 200,000 Koreans were 'removed' - just a small slice of the vast program of deportation. Early on after WWI it seemed in reality that Germany and Russia were really just two halves of a whole similar in theory on an outward appearance of "socialist theory" and an inward racially charged dictatorship.

Quiz on Monday
CCOT ON WED/THU NEXT WEEK

Monday March 25 - Wednesday March 27, 2013

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez

Unit 6: The Most Recent Century, 1914 - 2010
Chapter 21: Collapse & Recovery of Europe
Week at a Glance:
Mon - Dunkirk & Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad, D-Day, V-Europe
Tue - The War in the Pacific; The Holocaust
Wed - Test Unit 6 - Chapter 21, part II - World War II
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Learning Targets:
 •  To examine the history of Europe between 1914 and the 1970s as an organic whole made up of closely interconnected parts
 •  To consider the repercussions of nationalism and colonialism in Europe and Japan
 •  To increase student awareness of the effects of the two world wars
 •  To help students imagine the appeal of totalitarian movements in the twentieth century 

Essential Questions:
BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS
      1.   What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century?
      2.   In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
      4.   In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?

Margin Review Questions
      1.   What aspects of Europe’s nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War?
      2.   In what ways did World War I mark new departures in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
      4.   In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy?
      5.   What was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis?
      6.   How did Japan’s experience during the 1920s and 1930s resemble that of Germany, and how did it differ?
      7.   In what way were the origins of World War II in Asia and in Europe similar to each other? How were they different?
      8.   How did World War II differ from World War I?
      9.   How was Europe able to recover from the devastation of war?
The Motherland Calls  -  Statue commemorates the Battle of Stalingrad


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Monday, March 25, 2013
Quote: "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: What were the two major strategic  mistakes that Hitler had in World War II?
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Dunkirk/Battle of Britain/Operation Barbarossa Pearl Harbor/Stalingrad/D-Day. Strategy of World War II.
3. Notes, Video, Discussion: The Pacific War.
The D-Day Invasion on June 6, 1944 included paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division—the "Screaming Eagles"
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Quote: "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." - Plato


Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: Do you believe the United States should have dropped the A-Bombs on Japan to end World War I? Why or why not? What was the strategic thinking behind Truman's decision?
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Finish the Pacific War & Aftermath.
3. Notes, Video, Discussion: The Holocaust.

Mother and child, four months after the atomic bomb. Hiroshima, 1945.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Quote: "Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear." - Brian Tracy


Agenda:
1. Do Now: Prepare for the test.
2. TEST WWII

Notes, Video, & Information for Chapter 21 - Part I. World War I, The Great Depression, & Rise of Dictators

1914 recruitment poster depicting Lord Kitchener,
 the British Secretary of State for War.
It has inspired many imitations.
Including Uncle Sam's version. :)
Targets:
Learning Targets for Chapter 21—The Collapse and Recovery of Europe, 1914–1970s

Notes:

  1. Notes: The First World War - Part I The Path to War
  2. Notes: World War One - Part II - Modern Idealized War
  3. Notes: The First World War - Part III - Trench Warfare & The Nature of WWI
  4. Notes: The First World War - Part IV - Battle Tactics, Strategies, and Outcome
  5. Notes: The First World War - Part V - The War to End All Wars (not)
  6. Notes: The Great Depression
  7. Notes: The Rise of Dictators
Video:
Crash Course:
Crash Course World History: WWI - Archduke, Cynicism, and World War One
In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be back at war just a couple of decades later. As an added bonus, World War I changed the way people look at the world, and normalized cynicism and irony.

John will teach you how the assassination of an Austrian Archduke kicked off a new kind of war that involved more nations and more people than any war that came before. New technology like machine guns, airplanes, tanks, and poison gas made the killing more efficient than ever. Trench warfare and modern weapons led to battles in which tens of thousands of soldiers were killed in a day, with no ground gained for either side.


World War I washed away the last vestiges of 19th century Romanticism and paved the way for the 20th century modernism that we all know and find to be cold and off-putting. While there may not be much upside to WWI, at least it inspired George M. Cohan to write the awesome song, "Over There."


Note in slide view below the break:

Extra Credit is due FRIDAY. Great Video from World War II

This post highlights some of the videos that were showed in class, mentioned, or might help you understand World War II better. If the video is not embedded on this site, follow the link to the clip on YouTube.

Band of Brothers HD Trailer
This is the story of "E" Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their initial training starting in 1942 to the end of World War II. They parachuted behind enemy lines in the early hours of D-Day in support of the landings at Utah beach, participated in the liberation of Carentan and again parachuted into action during Operation Market Garden. They also liberated a concentration camp and were the first to enter Hitler's mountain retreat in Berchtesgarten. A fascinating tale of comradeship that is, in the end, a tale of ordinary men who did extraordinary things.



The HD Traler for the 1998 movie "Saving Private Ryan." It is a movie classic that won FIVE Oscar Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Tom Hanks), and Best Director (Steven Spielberg). Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. A midst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother.



Behind the scenes of HBO's World War II miniseries "The Pacific." Making of the Pacific. This is a fascinating look at how Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and others created this very personal account of the fighting in the Pacific theater of World War II. 
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"Enemy at the Gates" Trailer.
During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian, and a German, are locked in a battle of wills and marksmanship, while the Russian is boosted to the status of hero by a political official.


A Bridge Too Far - 1977
A movie classic. An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.  This WWII film follows the perspectives of American, Polish and British soldiers attempting to capture key bridges behind German lines in a complicated parachute and armoured assault. A real star-studded cast with James Caan (The Godfather), Michael Caine (Batman Dark Knight), Sean Connery (James Bond), Gene Hackman (Hoosiers), Robert Redford (The Natural), and last, but not least - Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs)

A great documentary that looks at the main battle in this movie:

Agenda: March 18 - March 22, 2013

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 6: Most Recent Century
Chapter 21: The Collapse and Recovery of Europe, 1914 - 1980's
Week at a Glance:
Mon - Quiz CH 21 - WWI, Great Depression, Rise of Dictators; After quiz discuss recap of WWI and The Great Depression
Tue - The Rise of Dictators & Imperial Japan
Wd/Th - TEST CH 21 - WWI, Great Depression, Rise of Dictators; after test - Article "At Dawn We Slept" (Pearl Harbor); World War II begins - War in Europe
Fri - World War II - War in the Pacific
The men waited in fear to hear the words, "Go over the top." 
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Learning Targets:
 •  To examine the history of Europe between 1914 and the 1970s as an organic whole made up of closely interconnected parts
 •  To consider the repercussions of nationalism and colonialism in Europe and Japan
 •  To increase student awareness of the effects of the two world wars
 •  To help students imagine the appeal of totalitarian movements in the twentieth century 


Essential Questions:
BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS
      1.   What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century?
      2.   In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
      4.   In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?

Margin Review Questions
      1.   What aspects of Europe’s nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War?
      2.   In what ways did World War I mark new departures in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
      4.   In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy?
      5.   What was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis?
      6.   How did Japan’s experience during the 1920s and 1930s resemble that of Germany, and how did it differ?
      7.   In what way were the origins of World War II in Asia and in Europe similar to each other? How were they different?
      8.   How did World War II differ from World War I?
      9.   How was Europe able to recover from the devastation of war?
Dorthea Lange's depression era photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Quote: "The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By 1933 the depression had reached its depth. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address outlined in broad terms how he hoped to govern and reminded Americans that the nation’s “common difficulties” concerned “only material things.”

Agenda:
1. Quiz CH 21 - WWI, Great Depression, Rise of Dictators
2. DO NOW Question for after the quiz:  In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: End of WWI, Roaring 20's, The Great Depression.
The Blitzkrieg: An all-motorized force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Quote"Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland... We shall adhere to it unconditionally... we recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people."  - Adolf Hitler, 21st May 1935

Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTIONWhat was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Rise of Dictators & Imperialist Japan
3. Documents from Chapter 21 - group discussion concerning the comparison of Germany, Italy, and Japan in terms of governing and doctrine.
There are some fantastic films you could watch for extra credit. Due by Friday at 3pm.
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Wednesday, March 20 and Thursday, March 21, 2013
Quote"Never in the field of human conflict, has so much, been owed by so many, to so few!" - Winston Churchill, September 1940

Agenda:
1. TEST Chapter 21 - 1st part. WWI, Great Depression, & Rise of Dictators/Imperialist Japan.
2. After the test the students will pick up the article: "At Dawn We Slept" a review of the book about the Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. It is due in class on Friday. Students will have until all students finish the test to work on it in class. We will discuss the article on Friday before we hand it in for a grade.
3. Notes, Discussion, & Video - World War II begins. The War in Europe.
HBO's fantastic mini-series "The Pacific"
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Quote"You are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you...I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle." - General Eisenhower, before the D-Day invasion began,  summed up the mission of the Allies 

Agenda:
1. Prep the article "At Dawn We Slept" - review of the book. We will also hand in movie/documentary/book extra credit for this nine week period.
2. Notes, Discussion, & Video - Victory in Europe & the War in the Pacific

Test on Chapter 21 - Part II - WWII & The Holocaust is next Wednesday. We have Thursday and Friday of next week off for Easter Weekend. That test will be placed on the last nine week period (I will not be able to have it all graded before the quarter's grades are due).

Agenda: Week of March 4 - March 8, 2013

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 6: Most Recent Century, 1900 - 2013
Chapter 21: Collapse & Recovery of Europe, 1914 - 1979
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - EOC English Training all morning; Then only 4th and 6th period - Ferguson's War of the World, Part I - Clash of Empires, documentary & discussion.
TUE - Intro to Chapter 21 & WWI: Causes, Impact, and Course of the War
WED/THU - Trench Warfare - the nature of WWI; Conclusion, Aftermath, and Consequences.
FRI - The Great Depression; Schama's Power of Art: Guernica
Picasso's Guernica: Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals.
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From Strayer's introduction to Chapter 21, an excellent summary of a very complicated chapter:
THE “GREAT WAR,” WHICH CAME TO BE CALLED THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914–1918), effectively launched the twentieth century, considered as a new phase of world history. That bitter conflict—essentially a European civil war with a global reach—was followed by the economic meltdown of the Great Depression, by the rise of Nazi Germany and the horror of the Holocaust, and by an even bloodier and more destructive World War II. During those three decades, Western Europe, for more than a century the dominant and dominating center of the modern “world system,” largely self-destructed, in a process with profound and long-term implications far beyond Europe itself. By 1945, an outside observer might well have thought that Western civilization, which for several centuries was in the ascendancy on the global stage, had damaged itself beyond repair.

In the second half of the century, however, that civilization proved quite resilient. Its Western European heartland recovered remarkably from the devastation of war, rebuilt its industrial economy, and set aside its war-prone nationalist passions in a loose European Union. But as Europe revived after 1945, it lost both its overseas colonial possessions and its position as the political, economic, and military core of Western civilization. That role now passed across the Atlantic to the United States, marking a major change in the historical development of the West. The offspring now overshadowed its parent.

Learning Targets for Chapter 21—The Collapse and Recovery of Europe, 1914–1970s
 •  To examine the history of Europe between 1914 and the 1970s as an organic whole made up of closely interconnected parts
 •  To consider the repercussions of nationalism and colonialism in Europe and Japan
 •  To increase student awareness of the effects of the two world wars
 •  To help students imagine the appeal of totalitarian movements in the twentieth century 

Questions to Consider:
BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS:
      1.   What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century?
      2.   In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
      4.   In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?

Margin Review Questions:
      1.   What aspects of Europe’s nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War?
      2.   In what ways did World War I mark new departures in the history of the twentieth century?
      3.   In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
      4.   In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy?
      5.   What was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis?
      6.   How did Japan’s experience during the 1920s and 1930s resemble that of Germany, and how did it differ?
      7.   In what way were the origins of World War II in Asia and in Europe similar to each other? How were they different?
      8.   How did World War II differ from World War I?
      9.   How was Europe able to recover from the devastation of war?
Daniel Radcliffe will star as the lead in All Quiet this summer.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Quote of the Day:  "History is a myth that men agree to believe." - Napoleon
Agenda:
1. Video & Discussion: 4th and 6th ONLY: Niall Ferguson's - War of the World, Part I The Clash of Empires
The Clash of Empires. An alternative perspective to the events of the 20th century, offering different explanations for the two world wars and the shifting balance of power as the 1900s progressed. He begins by studying the origins of World War One, arguing that the conflict sparked racial hatred which was exploited by nation states for their own ends.
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The movie Passchendaele
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Quote:  “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work learning from failure.” - General Colin Powell
Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION:  What aspects of Europe’s nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War?
2. Notes, Video & Discussion: Introduction to Chapter 21 "World War I" Causes of WWI, Impact
3. Video Clip from The War of the World by Niall Ferguson
4. Notes, Video & Discussion: Outbreak and course of the War.  
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Wednesday, March 6 & Thursday, March 7, 2013
Quote: "It was a rum job going over the top, without any rum." - Harry Lamin on the Western Front during Trench Warfare 
Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: "What was the nature of trench warfare?" 
2. Notes, Video & Discussion: Nature of WWI - how it was fought & results
3. Video clip from Andrew Marr's Making of Modern Britain: The Great War
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How Depressing.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Quote of the Day:  "The war has ruined us for everything." - Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front 
Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Legacy of WWI, Failure of the Treaty & League of Nations. Global Economic Depression. Foreshadow the Rise of Dictators.
2. Video - Simon Schama's "Power of Art - Picasso's Guernica" - specially edited version by Mr. Duez cut to 38 minutes.
Questions to answer while viewing:
WHAP-SCHAMA-POWER-OF-ART-PICASSO-GUERNICA-QUESTIONS