Modern World History for the Class of 2010

Citing Sources

Follow this link to download a simple PowerPoint Presentation on citing sources.

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Your Family History

A Family History
How has your family been affected by events and development of the 20th Century?
To explore this question you will study at least three generations of your family.
Instructions:
Step 1
Construct a timeline of the 20th Century noting major world events.
Step 2
Interview your family members. Fill in the pedigree chart. Ask questions about their biographical details and how world and regional events impacted their lives.
Step 3
Collect documents and photos.

Format
Title Page
Contents Page
Section 1
Pedigree Chart
Section 2
A timeline of major world events and their impact on your family. Dates of birth of all your family members and other significant events in your family should be included.
Section 3
A world or regional map that shows where your family members were born.
Section 4
A written account of your family history of between 500 and 750 words. You might establish a theme that explains significant trends in your family history. Make sure you include information about birth dates, places of birth, education, marriages, careers, reasons behind important family decisions, impact of world and regional events and other interesting details.
Section 5
Photocopies of documents and photos.

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Nazi Germany

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Russian Propaganda Poster Weblog Project

This project about Russian propaganda will help you understand how totalitarian regimes use propaganda to convey political messages.
Step 1.
Go to the site Propaganda Posters

Step 2
Browse through the posters about Russia from the period 1917 until Satlin's death and read the captions.

Step 3
Choose any 6 posters that you particularly like and post these on your Modern World History weblog. (Do not forget to show the source.)
Write an introduction that explains what propaganda is and what you can learn by studying propaganda posters in history.
Write a paragraph about each poster. Suggestions:
What is the message of the poster?
What is it trying to get people to do or think?
How does it convey its message? (Hints: Use of color, layout, script etc.)
What is particularly effective about the poster?

Step 4
Coming to conclusions. Write a final paragraph about all of the posters you saw. What did they tell you about Russia, the Russian people and the use of propaganda.

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Unit 2: The Russian Revolution

Benchmarks:
1. Understand the long and short term causes of the Russian Revolution
2. Understand the impact of political and economic theories on society

Topics and Activities

1. Marxism, communism and the Russian Revolution
Lecture: Types of Revolutions
PowerPoint Presentation "Karl Marx: Socialism and Communism"
Reading 1.1 to 1.3
Activities 1-5 pp. 1-12
Russian Revolution PowerPoint Presentation

2. A New Russia

Reading 1.4 and 1.5

3. Propaganda
Weblog Project


4. History and Literature
George Orwell & Animal Farm

PowerPoint Presentation
Assessment: Essay Writing
Write an essay on the causes of the Russian Revolution.

Leading Question.
Why do you think people would support a revolution that might endanger their own lives?

Labels: Semester 1 2006

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Weblog Project: Decades of the 20th Century

You will be assigned a decade of the 20th Century to study in depth.
You will make a blog and your classmates will comment on it.
You must give your decade a title which will be the title of your blog. Be creative and come up with a name that sums up the main ideas of the decade.
Your goal is to produce a weblog that helps your classmates understand the key people, events and developments of your decade.
Your blog must include the following headings:
Topics
1. Important Events (3) of the Decade
2. Important People of the Decade (3)
3. Important Technological Improvements of the Decade (2)

You may include one of the following:
1. A Famous Piece of Art of the Decade
2. A Famous Musician of the Decade (You might be able to include a link to an audio file)
3. A Popular Consumer Product of the Decade
4. A famous book of the Decade
5. An important Scientific Discoveries of the Decade

Remember to include a caption for every picture that you use on your blog. This should be about 2-3 sentences. For example, explain why you think a particular event is important in your decade or why a the musician you selected is so important.
Remember to show the source of every picture on your blog. (Select a small font for your citation)

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Weblog Basics

Setting up your Blog
Go to http://blogger.com
Step One

i. Choose a user name: Use the name you are called by in class followed by ris2006
e.g. peterris2006
ii. Display name: Make this the same as your user name
e.g. peterris2006
This name will appear as the author of postings and comments.

Step Two

i. Blog Title: your name followed by Modern World History Blog
e.g. Peter’s Modern World History Blog

ii. Blog Address (URL): same as your user name
e.g. peterris2006 (write this down)
This becomes your URL so keep it simple e.g. peterris2006@blogspot.com
Step Three

i. Choose your template
ii. Make a posting. This could be a welcome message to your readers.


Fine-tuning your Weblog

Fine-tuning your blog

Log on to Blogger using you user name and password.
Go to the Dashboard.
Go to Edit Profile. To ensure your privacy uncheck “Share my profile” This is an important consideration when students set up their blogs so that their privacy is protected.
Return to the Dashboard
Select Change Setting Icon (It is a blue cog.)
You have a number of tabs most of which are for advanced use only.
Go to the Formatting tab and change to Thailand Time
Go to the Comments tab and select “Show Word Verification for Comments”. (This will stop you being spammed.)

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Unit 1 Nationalism and World War 1

Benchmarks:
1. Understand the causes of World War One
2. Understand international efforts to make peace after World War One





Topics and Activities
1. Classroom Expectations and the Study of History
PP Presentation
What is History? Why do we study it? How do we study it?
Class Discussion
Your Modern World History Weblog

2. The Legacy of the 19th Century
Ideas and major events of the 19th Century.
PP Presentation
3. What have been the key events, people and developments of this century?
Overview of the Century Activity
Internet research and weblog

4. The Great War: The First Total War
Lecture: classic causes of WWI, Reading pp. 10-18.
The Nature of modern warfare
Video: All Quiet of the Western Front

5. The Versailles Treaty: Strengths and Weaknesses
Reading pp. 73-87
Conference simulation

Leading Question

What brought about change in the 20th Century?

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