Unit #12 WWII and the Holocaust

Unit #12 – WWII and The Holocaust

Week #1 – February 27-March 3

- 2/27/2017: UNIT #11 REVIEW

- 2/28/2017: UNIT #11 TEST

- 2/29/2017: Reading Quiz

o ITEMS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE READING QUIZ

. Chapter 26 (Goldfield)

. Chapter 26 Vocabulary

. Chamberlin: Peace for Our Time http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Neville_Chamberlain's_ %22Peace_For_Our_Time%22_speech

. Hitler’s Reichstag Speech (Watch the video as well – it has subtitles) http://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1939- 1941/hitler-speech-to-german-parliament

. Diaries: Rape of Nanking http://www.readex.com/readex- report/nanjing-atrocities-reported-u-s-newspapers-1937-38

. Kristalnacht: The 1938 Pogroms – Read the excerpt and watch at least 3 of the survivor videos http://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online- features/special-focus/kristallnacht

. Art from the Concentration Camps (Choose at least 5 of these) http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/ARTVICTI.HTM

- 3/3/2017: DBQ Fast-Write Packets Due

Week #2 – March 7-11

- 3/6/2017 : Reading Quiz

o ITEMS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE READING QUIZ

. Chapter 24: The End of Isolation (Heffner)

. Chapter 12: FDR The Patrician as Opportunist (Hofstader)

. Chapter 26 Vocabulary (Goldstein) . Interview with Pearl Harbor Eyewitnesses http://teacher.scholastic.com/pearl/transcript.htm

. Battan Death March http://www.bataansurvivor.com/content/the_bataan_death_marc h/1.php

. Holocaust Survivor Testimonies – (Choose and watch/read AT LEAST 10 of these) http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_list.php?MediaType=oh

. Einstein’s Letter to FDR (1939) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary- resources/truman-ein39/

. Nuremburg Trials http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/subsequ enttrials.html

. The Atlantic Charter http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/atlantic.asp

. Rosie the Riveter: Woman at Work during WWII https://www.greenwichschools.org/uploaded/faculty/dan_rosen/C ivics/Women/Rosie_the_Riveter_Reading.pdf

. Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hiroshima1.html

- 3/10/2017: Roundtable Discussion in class (Paper due to Turnitin.com by 7:35 am)

Week #3 – March 13-17

- 3/13/2017: Notebook Check – Make sure that all Vocabulary and Cornell Notes are up to date!

- 3/14/2017: Unit 12 Test – WWII and the Holocaust

- 3/14/2017: APUSH Historical Film Analysis Paper Due to Turnitin.com by 7:35 am

****EVERYTHING THAT YOU READ, EITHER PRIMARY OR SECONDARY SOURCE, NEEDS TO BE DOCUMENTED IN CORNELL NOTES. FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE BELOW. THIS IS PART OF YOUR NOTEBOOK CHECK!!!! - Make sure that you put your NAME at the top of your notes, and the title of the selection that you are taking notes about. - The key to Cornell notes is QUALITY not QUANTITY. I don’t care how much you write as much as I care you understand the MAIN IDEAS and KEY POINTS!