Classroom Update (4/16/2021)

 

Friday, April 16, 2021

World History (Block)

EQ-

- Why did the arts and literature shift from romanticism to realism in the mid-19th century?

- How was impressionism a reaction to realism?

Topic: Romanticism

• DJ- Why did the Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires face such great challenges to their control lands?
• Current Events - CNN10  
• Complete Achieve Assessment:  "A New Face for British Money"  (Due in Schoology Today)
• Read and Complete the Romanticism in Literature Document
• Assignments: 
• Complete Module 20 Lessons 4 on Revolutions in the Arts (4/19)
• Complete the Romanticism in Literature Document (4/19)
• Historical Article Review #2 Written Assessment (Due in Turnitin.com on 4/30)
• WH Enrichment: 
• Google Arts and Culture:
• Victor Hugo: A Monumental French Writer
• Supplemental Videos: 
• Revolutions of 1848: Crash Course European History #26
• Italian and German Unification: Crash Course European History #27
• Interesting Articles: 
• Pompeii Mania in the Era of Romanticism
• Britain’s Lake District Was Immortalized by Beatrix Potter, But Is Its Future in Peril?

World History (Skinny)

EQ- 

- How did nations with imperialistic desires control the economics and politics of other countries?

- Why were African resistance movements, such as those carried out by the Ashanti, usually unsuccessful?

- How did European colonial rule alter Africans’ lives in negative and positives ways?

Topic: Imperialism in Africa

• DJ- How did colonial rule cause a breakdown in traditional African culture?
• Current Events - CNN10
• Go over Module 23 Lesson 2 Google Reading Document on Imperialism in Africa
• Read Module 23 Lesson 3 Complete the Document Activity on the Light Brigade
• Assignments: 
• Module 23 Lesson 2 Google Reading Document (Due for 4/16)
• Current Events Analysis Semester 2 #2 (Due by 4/27 in turnitin.com)
• WH Enrichment: 
• Google Arts and Culture: Traditional African Weapons
• Supplemental Video: Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35
• Interesting Article: 
• Stanley Meets Livingstone
• Archaeologists Unearth Sprawling Roman Ruins Unlike Any Found in the U.K.

AP Euro

- Explain the consequences of Stalin's economic policies and totalitarian rule in the Soviet Union (8.I)

• After Lenin's death. Stalin undertook a centralized program of rapid economic modernization, often with severe repercussions for the population. (KC-4.2.I.D.ii)
• Stalin's economic modernization came at a high price, including the liquidation of the kulaks (the land-owning peasantry) and other perceived enemies of the state, devasting famine in the Ukraine, purges of political rivals, and, ultimately, the creation of an oppressive political system. (KC-4.2.I.E.)

Topic: Stalin and The Great Terror

• Lenin, Stalin, and Communist Russia, 1921 - 1939
• Joseph Stalin and the Cult of Personality
• Comparing the Reign of Terror and The Great Terror Handout
• Euro News
• 'I want to live not just survive': Kosovo and its chronic brain drain problem
• Northern Ireland: Why are people rioting and who is behind it?
• Handouts
• CB - Unit 9 MCQ Part 1
• Assignments:
• Ch. 22 Reading Guide (4/20)

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