World History Honors (Period 1) Assignments
Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
Due:
Assignment
To prepare for your final:
- Look over the assignments that you have completed this unit. You will be asked to tie in what you have learned from the assignments and SPECIFICALLY state how it ties in with the topics of unit 9.
- Be sure you understand the terms: tolerance, prejudice, civil rights, and new democracies
- Review units 1-8 in your notebook. I HIGHLY suggest you review some of the major key terms from each unit to refresh and familiarize yourself with them.
- You will be asked to connect your knowledge of information from Units 1-8 to Unit 9 and provide examples.
Due:
Assignment
Due:
Assignment
YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK AND 1ST SEMESTER NOTEBOOK TO CLASS TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY)!!!!!
- Tonight’s HW: Download CST Study Guide (2nd Sem) Finish questions 1-30, look over Gov’t/Econ systems chart
- Thursday 4/11: Quiz on Gov’t/Econ Systems Chart (know the terms, I will ask similarities/differences about them and I’ll ask you to provide examples)
- Friday 4/12: 1st Semester CST Review Test. STUDY your study guide. EXACT QUESTIONS. THIS TEST WILL BE FILL IN
- Monday 4/15: 2nd Semester CST Review Test. same.....Also your videos are due on this day.
Due:
Assignment
FACULTY GAME EXTRA CREDIT:
Write a 3/4 page paper SINGLE SPACED on the history of modern sports. YOU ALSO MUST INCLUDE LINK CITATIONS TO ALL THE WEBSITES YOU GET INFORMATION FROM, NO WIKIPEDIA. Questions you MUST include in your write-up: HOW and WHEN were modern sports developed? WHICH COUNTRIES led the way to spread and develop these sports? HOW did European colonialism contribute to modern sports? WHAT were some of the specific sports that were played during the 1800-1900s? HOW did modern sports affect people's lives overall?
THIS WILL BE TURNED IN THE EXACT SAME WAY YOU TURNED IN YOUR LIFE UNDER STALIN ESSAY. WORTH 15 EXTRA CREDIT POINTS. DUE NEXT FRI.
Due:
Assignment
1. Complete questions 1-25 on WH 1st Sem CST Review Study Guide
Due:
Assignment
1. Follow the video instructions BELOW of how to upload your document.
2. Please use font Arial, size 11 or 12 font.
EMAIL ME [email protected] OR MSG ME THRU EDMODO. If you have questions!
Due:
Assignment
1. Read and outline 12-1 on pg9
Due:
Assignment
1. Download and print out the map.
2. Make a legend (key) somewhere on the sheet for 3 categories: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Warsaw Pact, and Iron Curtain)
3. For your first category NATO choose one color for these countries, REMEMBER TO LABEL THEM ON THE MAP: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Iceland, West Germany, Turkey, Greece, (US & Canada, but they aren't on the Europe map)
4. Select another color for your 2nd category: Warsaw Pact for these countries (label!!) Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
5. Draw the Iron Curtain based upon this picture in with a marker/pen. Label it. http://www.allrussias.com/images/legacy3.gif
6. Divide up West and East Germany accordingly and label Berlin as the capital in Eastern Germany.
Due:
Assignment
1. satellite state:
2. containment:
3. arms race:
4. deterrence:
5. domino theory:
6. Truman Doctrine:
7. NATO:
8. Warsaw Pact:
9. De-Stalinization:
10. Glasnost:
11. Marshall Plan:
12. Perestroika:
13. Shock therapy:
14. Iron Curtain:
15. Détente:
16. KGB:
17. Mao Ze-dong:
18. Nikita Khrushchev:
19. Zionism:
20. Commune:
21. Great Leap Forward:
22. Cultural Revolution
23. Mikhail Gorbachev
24. Leonid Brezhnev
25. United Nations
Due:
Assignment
1. Here is the rubric for the Battles Presentation that you will be graded by. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU PRACTICE WITH THE PREZI!!!!
Due:
Assignment
1. Email me your prezi rough drafts! [email protected]
2. Read and Outline 11-2
IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO COME AFTER SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY FOR EXTRA CREDIT PLEASE REVIEW THE FILES BELOW! PLEASE READ "OVERALL COMMANDER" and "MAIN HALF SHEET" FIRST, or else you will be super confused!! Read the others after to see how the whole game works together.
Due:
Assignment
1. Research your battle and read information according to your assigned part. You need 2 sources w/ website links printed out by tomorrow. Read through the information and highlight the facts you will be using.
Person 1: Who- Which specific military units fought in this battle? How many in total? Who are the important leaders? Where- Where did the battle specifically take place (city/country)? What kind of terrain/environment was this fought on? What types of transportation or armored weaponry was used?
Person 2: Why- Why was this battle significant? Why did military leaders choose to fight in this battle? How did this affect the the specific countries? To what effect did the outcome of this battle make an impact in the overall European/Pacific theatre for the Axis or Allied powers?
Person 3: What- What are some important facts about how this battle was planned and executed? What were the objectives for both sides? What was at stake? How many units were mobilized and what about total casualties? What are some facts about this battle that make it famous?
Person 4: When- When did it start? How long did battle go on for? When did it end? Research any significant turning points for each side and provide those dates. Create the Prezi!
Due:
Assignment
1. Quiz tomorrow on pages 2-7 (some key terms not all, but study all!) http://quizlet.com/_bhepy
Due:
Assignment
Define Key Terms
2. Blitzkrieg:
3. Isolationism:
4. Lebensraum:
5. Kamikaze:
6. Genocide:
7. Auschwitz:
8. Nuremberg Trials:
9. D-Day:
10. Holocaust:
11. sanctions:
12. demilitarized:
13. Final Solution:
14. Atrocity:
15. Internment camp:
16. Winston Churchill:
17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
18. Douglas MacArthur:
19. Dwight Eisenhower:
20. Nazi-Sovet Pact:
21. Unconditional surrender:
22. Neville Chamberlain
23. Hirohito
24. Luftwaffe
25. Harry Truman
Due:
Assignment
1. Summarize what we learned in class about the acts of appeasement and how it affected political relations between European nations at the breaking point of WWII. Your response should be 2 paragraphs. minimum 5 sentences per paragraph
Due:
Assignment
1. Read instructions the bottom of the TED video handout we went over in class today.
Due:
Assignment
1. Read and Outline 9-4
Due:
Assignment
1. Download the Instructions for the Diabolical Dictator Dating Game. If you are an actor, make sure you follow the instructions you need to research. If you are a researcher you will need to answer/find information if possible to the following questions. IT WOULD BE BEST IF YOU COULD COORDINATE WITH THE OTHER RESEARCHERS IN YOUR GROUP OF WHICH QUESTIONS TO COVER. sorry we didn't have time in class to do this. Otherwise, it's not that hard.
Due:
Assignment
1. Read and outline Ch9-1 on page 4.
2. Key Terms Quiz is on Friday!
Due:
Assignment
1. Define Key Terms and People on pg2.
1. Totalitarian State
2. Disillusionment
3. Fascism
4. Collectivization
5. Reichstag
6. Ideology
7. Surrealism
8. Inflation
9. Modernism
10. The “Lost Generation”
11. Kristallnacht
12. Anti-Semitism
13. Nuremberg laws
14. Concentration camp
15. Gulag
16. Five-Year Plans
17. Francisco Franco
18. Benito Mussolini
19. Joseph Stalin
20. Adolf Hitler
21. Salvador Dali
22. Ernest Hemingway
23. Dawes Plan
24. New Economic Policy
25. Heinrich Himmler
Due:
Assignment
Time capsules are due on the day of the final along with study guides and notebooks!
Due:
Assignment
1. Download study guide, complete questions 1-26
2. Finish up to 5 items for Time capsule
Due:
Assignment
1. 2. Study the Major Battles Map that we did in class on Thursday. This should be in your notebook on page 6. Here are the things that will be on our map quiz.
1. Great Britain
2. France
3. Belgium
4. Germany
5. Italy
6. Austria-Hungary
7. Serbia
8. Russia
9. Ottoman Empire
10. English Channel
11. Battle of Tannenberg
12. Battle of Verdun
13. Battle of the Marne
14. Battle of the Somme
15. Eastern Front
16. Western Front
17. Mediterranean Sea
18. Black Sea
19. Battle of Gallipoli
20. Albania
21. Montenegro
22. Sarajevo
23. Romania
24. Bulgaria
25. Switzerland
Due:
Assignment
1. Key Terms and People Quiz is on Monday! Here is the quizlet link for you to study. http://quizlet.com/_52s4h
Due:
Assignment
1. Decorate your time capsule. Finish 1 item category with description.
2. Read and Outline 8-2
Due:
Assignment
1. Define Key Terms and People on pg5. Here are the 25 terms.
1. propaganda
2. total war
3. genocide
4. Mobilization
5. Trench warfare
6. Militarism
7. War of attrition
8. Armistice
9. Bolsheviks
10. Treaty of Versailles
11. League of Nations
12. conscription
13. Reparations
14. Fourteen Points
15. Balkans
16. Western Front
17. Alliances
18. Schieffen Plan
19. Archduke Francis Ferdinand
20. Czar Nicholas II
21. Gavrilo Princip
22. V. I. Lenin
23. Leon Trotsky
24. Alexander Kerensky
25. Woodrow Wilson
Due:
Assignment
- New Imperialism
- Direct rule
- Indirect Rule
- Annex
- Indigenous
- Colonialism
- Colony
- Social Darwinism
- Civil Disobedience
- Self-Determination
- Martial Law
- David Livingstone
- Henry Stanley
- exploit
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Indian National Congress
- Partition
- Home rule
- sepoy
- viceroy
- protectorate
- Boers
- Zulu
- British East India Company
- joint-stock company
Due:
Assignment
1. Color the Africa and Asia Map according to the list provided in the Word Doc. Each European country should be a different color so you can see which territories were colonized by which European power.
Due:
Assignment
1. Download both documents and transfer the information into the blank flow chart.
2. Answer in the blank space of the chart:
-After learning about the positive and negative effects of industrialization in Europe, it took many years before long-term changes or effects took place for people to see the positive outweigh the negative.
-Go back to your notebook and look over the positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. Imagine yourself living during that time period.
-Which of these long term effects do you think are most important? Rank the long term effects from 1-4. #1 being most important for change #4 being not as important as the rest. YOU MUST EXPLAIN WHY #1 is THE MOST IMPORTANT #2 2nd and so forth. (2-3 sentences PER LONG TERM EFFECT)
Due:
Assignment
1. Outline Ch5-1 on pg12
Due:
Assignment
1. Give 2 examples of how capitalism could be good and 2 examples of how it could be bad. Do the same thing for socialism. Total of 4 examples for EACH. Must include EXPLANATIONS to your examples of why they could be good or bad!
Due:
Assignment
Define these Key Terms on pg6
- Capitalism
- Developed nation
- Developing nation
- Industrialization
- Industrial Revolution
- Laissez faire
- Socialism
- Utopianism
- Capital
- Entrepreneur
- Natural Resources
- Labor
- Communism
- Strike
- Union
- Urbanization
- Assembly line
- Bessemer Process
- Puddling
- Pasteurization
- Karl Marx
- James Watt
- Eli Whitney
- Romanticism
- Classicism
- Reform
- Tenements
- Social Democracy
- Cottage Industry
- Monopoly
Due:
Assignment
1. Create a newspaper/blog article for your invention as a review of your product in support to give details of your great product. Remember you are just a customer that is buying the product from a store. It is not written as if you invented it. MUST INCLUDE A PICTURE THAT IS COLORED OR DONE ON THE COMPUTER. Each person is doing THEIR OWN ARTICLE, even though they share the same invention. Goes on page 3.
Instructions:
- Create a proposal for an invention that is the newest, hippest, latest and greatest invention that society needs today.
- Give it a name, describe it’s function, who is marketed to and how much it is sold for.
- You must answer how your company (group) will need what things for each of the 4 categories (land (materials/resources to build it), labor (workers and job descriptions), capital (how much $ to start production, how will you use the $), and legislature (laws to protect your idea) to have a successful product and start production).
Due:
Assignment
1. Study for your benchmark!!! Unit 1 and Unit 2. Use your notebook!
Due:
Assignment
1. Download the chart, print it out, fill it out and put it on page 22.
Due:
Assignment
1. Read and Outline Ch3-2 on page 20
Due:
Assignment
1. Read and Outline Ch3-1 on page 18.
Due:
Assignment
1. Make an ad for a revolution that we've studied. (Billboard, internet pop-up or side bar ad, flyer, poster, newspaper/magazine) You are allowed to do this digitally through a computer or create your own with paper and coloring. Make it roughly 8.5"x11" regular sheet of paper size. REMEMBER YOU MUST CHOOSE IT TO BE BASED OFF OF ONE OF THE 3 REVOLUTIONS WE STUDIED.
The point is you want people to join the revolution! Think of how ads try to convince you to buy their product! Make it SIMPLE, but CATCHY!
Due:
Assignment
1. Study for Key Terms and People Quiz. Remember it will be all Unit 2 terms and about 5 from Unit 1.
Due:
Assignment
1. Read & Outline pg 363-365 on page 14.
2. Study for your Unit 2 Key Terms & People quiz on Friday. Here's the quizlet link: http://quizlet.com/_8dpc2
Due:
Assignment
1. Study for your quiz Ch2-1 and 2-2
2. Here are the Key Terms and People you are to define on page 12.
- 1. divine right
- 2. natural rights
- 3. separation of powers
- 4. social contract
- 5. laissez faire
- 6. bourgeoisie
- 7. taille
- 8. coup d’etat
- 9. nationalism
- 10. constitutional monarchy
- 11. despotism
- 12. checks and balances
- 13. Parliament
- 14. Louis XVI
- 15. John Locke
- 16. Montesquieu
- 17. Rousseau
- 18. Simon Bolivar
- 19. Napoleon
- 20. Voltaire
- 21. Enlightenment
- 22. William of Orange
- 23. philosophes
- 24. Reign of Terror
- 25. estates
- 26. Committee of Public Safety
- 27. Maximilien Robespierre
- 28. Mary Wollstonecraft
- 29. Thomas Hobbes
- 30. Estates-General
Due:
Assignment
1. Unit 1 Test corrections are due tomorrow. Make sure you have given a very thorough effort this time. Remember use the key term/person, give the full definition, explain how lead to the development of democracy for Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, or Monotheistic Religions and then also how it affects us today.
2. Read & Outline Ch2-2 on pg9 of your notebooks.
Due:
Assignment
1. Study for your W. Europe Map Quiz! Here's the link to the map quiz games: Level 5 is probably the most similar to the one that you will have except that there are some countries that you won't be tested on. Don't forget the bodies of water!
Due:
Assignment
1. Color and label all 30 items for your W Europe Map on page 5
1. England
2. France
3. Netherlands
4. Austria
5. Spain
6. Portugal
7. Italy
8. Switzerland
9. Belgium
10. Ireland
11. Germany
12. Norway
13. Sweden
14. Czech Republic
15. Hungary
16. Poland
17. Denmark
18. Atlantic Ocean
19. Baltic Sea
20. North Sea
21. Mediterranean Sea
22. Adriatic Sea
23. Luxembourg
24. Slovakia
25. English Channel
26. Vatican City
27. Monaco
28. Liechtenstein
29. Bay of Biscay
30. Celtic Sea
Due:
Assignment
1. Read and Outline Ch2-1 this goes on page 3 of your notebook! REMEMBER: Outlines are about finding the BEST information of the section. Include more info than just vocab words! Also write stuff down that you think that is important that is difficult to remember!!!
Due:
Assignment
1. Download and read the All the World's Governments article and answer the questions on page 9. You must answer in complete sentences!
Due:
Assignment
1. Study for your Unit 1 Key Terms and People Quiz TOMORROW. Here's the link for Quizlet. http://quizlet.com/_7wfvv
Due:
Assignment
1. Read and Outline Ch 1 Section 3 on page 7.
2. Start studying for your Unit 1 Key Terms and People Quiz on Tuesday. Here's the link for Quizlet. http://quizlet.com/_7wfvv
Due:
Assignment
1. Map Quiz is TOMORROW! Begin studying: here's the website: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Middle-east_Geography.htm
-Level 5 is probably the most accurate to how you will be tested. But remember spelling does count!
2. Turn in Syllabus
3. Sign up for Gmail/Edmodo!
Due:
Assignment
Here are the Key terms for Unit 1 that you will need to define. Use your textbook (glossary), dictionary, or Google to find definitions. These go on page 5. Finish the 3 religions pre-test if you didn't get to in class.
1. democracy:
2. direct democracy:
3. tyrant:
4. philosophy:
5. Western World:
6. polis:
7. citizen:
8. republic:
9. Qu’ran (Koran):
10. Ten Commandments:
11. patricians:
12. plebeians:
13. monarchy:
14. aristocracy:
15. senate:
16. Muhammad:
17. Moses:
18. Abraham:
19. Mecca:
20. Socratic method:
21. Aristotle:
22. Plato:
23. Socrates:
24. Tyranny
25. Twelve Tables
26. Despotism
27. Oligarchy:
28. Aristocracy:
29. Monotheistic:
30. Virtue
2. Map Quiz is THIS FRI! Begin studying: here's the website: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Middle-east_Geography.htm
-Level 5 is probably the most accurate to how you will be tested. But remember spelling does count, please spell as correctly as possible! I will give you credit if it's REALLY close.
Due:
Assignment
1. Read and Outline pgs 125 & 126 and Ch1-2. This goes on page 2 of your notebook.
2. Label and color your Middle East Map. This goes on page 3 of your notebook. Listed below are the countries and bodies of water.
- 1. Jordan
- 2. Afghanistan
- 3. United Arab Emirates
- 4. Iran
- 5. Iraq
- 6. Saudi Arabia
- 7. Egypt
- 8. Yemen
- 9. Oman
- 10. Turkey
- 11. Israel
- 12. Kuwait
- 13. Syria
- 14. Qatar
- 15. Pakistan
- 16. Lebanon
- 17. Arabian Sea
- 18. Caspian Sea
- 19. Mediterranean Sea
- 20. Red Sea
- 21. Persian Gulf
- 22. Cyprus
- 23. Suez Canal
- 24. Armenia
- 25. Turkmenistan
- 26. Eritrea
- 27. Djibouti
- 28. Sudan
- 29. Azerbaijan
- 30. Uzbekistan
Due:
Assignment
Please download the "Who are you?" document and fill it out! Please take time to fill it out well as it helps me get to know you better and how I can teach the class better. Bring it to class to turn in!