To Tell the Truth: Cold War Edition

Today you'll be joining your To Tell the Truth: Cold War Edition teams. Start by downloading the Cold War people notes. Once your assigned to your team of spies your team should do the following:

1. As a group decide on people's roles.
2. Fill out your notecard with basic notes on your role. Use the "cold war people notes" from my shared folder. (Hannan has 1 notecard for get each person.)
3. Watch a YouTube clips of about your person to get more information or some other online resource.
4. Watch a couple YouTube clips of your person speaking to try and pickup his mannerism. 
5. Do not loose your notecard!

Link for later.
https://docs.google.com/a/wmep.k12.mn.us/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFhnNmpuZFR0WkxmSkgxRVNxU1Jvc3c6MQ#gid=0

How hot was the Cold War?

Good work world history students! I received many missing assignments on Friday; so many in fact that I couldn't get through them all this weekend. I'll be continuing to grade your work and I'll post when I am all caught up. If you are worried I didn't get something feel free to email me. The final day for makeup work is still this Friday, June 1st at 3:10. The only exception is that I have 1 student that need to retake a test next Monday at lunch. Talk to me ASAP to schedule makeup time.

Today in class we'll be going over what the class worked on with the sub. Then I'll show you the game show we are going to play the last day of class (not on the finals day). If we have time we'll start to look at  how close the Cold War took us to nuclear war and total annihilation.

Cold Beginnings

Both cores... Follow the directions below within the Google presentation.

Newsreels & Quiz

Today we'll be watching our finished newsreel projects and taking our quiz on World War II. Start by downloading the note taking guide, "newsreel viewing notes". While we are loading the movies up feel free to fill out your notes based on what you already know, have read, or learned about. Your quiz today will start at around 10:10-10:15.

Newsreel

I got a number of emails asking for more time to finish people's newsreels... So here is the plan.

Originally I cut our the peer-review to give us more time to work. Students who are done are going to be rewarded by getting to complete the peer-review (and get points for it). Students not done will miss out on the peer-review & not get the peer-review points. Download the rubric from my shared folder. I need all newsreels by 8:35 am tomorrow.

Work Day

Same deal as yesterday... the class will see another example from last year and you'll have the rest of the hour to work on your newsreels. The newsreels are due at the start of your first class next week (Monday 8:40 am core 1 and Tuesday 8:40 am core 5).

Schindler's List

Discussion Questions:

1. Itzhak Stern played a critical role in part I of Schindler’s list. How does Stern, the accountant, keep nudging Schindler in the direction of saving Jewish from the holocaust? List examples from the movie and explain how these action are moving Schindler.
2. About halfway through part I Schindler toasts to thank Stern (and Stern refuses to celebrate). Why do you think Stern acts as he does, and why does he never drink with Oskar?
3. Schindler and his mistress witness a massacre in the Krakow ghetto, and Oskar observes a wandering Jewish girl in a red coat.
a. What do you think is the significance of this "girl in red"?
b. What might she represent or symbolize?
c. This is one of the few occasions in the film when color is used. Why is color used? What statement does this make?


Why did Schindler do it?
It is obvious that Schindler risked his life to save the Jews. Did he do it out of empathy, impulse, self-interest, influence? What things did Oskar see that helped him understand the horror of the situation? Give specific examples from the film to support your view. Was Oskar dedicated from the beginning, pushed by Stern, or only when he received the ring was he sure he had done the right thing? Did Oskar ever really realize how much he had done?

Newsreel

Your goal today is to finish finding sources and have the notes done within the next two days.

Newsreel WWII

Today we are starting our WWII newsreels. As a class we're going to watch this newsreel from the same time period as World War II. As you think about the newsreel you are creating, answer the following questions:
1) What are some things that this newsreel did well to create suspense and drama?
2) If you were directing this newsreel what would you change to make it better?
3) What techniques or ideas can you steal from this newsreel to make yours more authentic?

The Rise of the Dictator

Sit in your regular assigned seats but you will need to be in groups of 5 today for class. We are looking at the rise of dictators between WWI & WWII (Hideki Tojo, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco).