Revolution! Day 3 - Class Recap

The Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin. Vladimir Lenin took a secretive train ride from Germany to Russia, and took power in Russia with his Bolshevik party upon his return.

Dear class,

We started really looking in depth at the Russian Revolution today in class. It is one of the more important events in Modern World History! You will be using the same sorts of information that you learned in this unit for your historical investigation project on another country. Here's what happened in class:

Learning Targets:
Critical Thinking LT 1: I can explain multiple perspectives and viewpoints.

Knowledge LT 20: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.

Soundtrack: "Mother Russia" by Renaissance. Selected for today because of the connection with Russia, obviously. Lyrics here. 

AGENDA 3/4/15:

News Brief - Kento

WWI Grades
Peace, Land, and Bread
OPVL
Study for Quiz

Homework: Read the blog! Study Russian Revolution vocabulary for quiz. Rui has the next news brief.

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News Brief: The news brief article for today was brought in by Kento, who selected this article to talk about: CNN.com - Over 500 Pakistani parents arrested for children's failure to get polio vaccine. We talked in class about how close the world is to getting rid of polio, and how some Pakistanis might not want to vaccinate their children, for fear of it being some sort of government plot (like what the United States did to try and get DNA from Osama bin Laden's children).

Rui, you are up for next class.

We also watched VICE News today before moving on.

Peace, Land, and Bread: This was the continuation of last class (we stopped two slides in the previous class). Here is the vocabulary list that students were filling out during the presentation (the quiz will be on these terms, next class):

Google Drive: Russian Revolution Vocabulary Terms

Here is the main event - the PowerPoint of the basics of what happened during the Russian Revolution:

Google Drive: "Peace, Land, and Bread: The Russian Revolution" PowerPoint

I know this is a lot of information. If you are in need of extra clarification or support, please ask me! I would love to help!

Also, I showed a video in class that looked every nuclear bomb explosion in the world since 1945. I suspect there are a lot more here than most people would think!

OPVL: I introduced a new way to think about various different documents in history. We used the textbook as an example. OPVL stands for Origin, Purpose, Value, and Limitation. Your assignment was to take the paper I handed out in class and go through two of the four documents on each side of the room to assess them. If you missed class, or needed to complete this outside of class, here are the links to both the OPVL sheet and the documents I posted:

Google Drive: OPVL Worksheet

Google Drive: Russian Revolution Primary Documents for Analysis

Finally, here's another way to understand how to do OPVL analysis using specific types of documents:

Google Drive: OPVL Guide Part II

Let me know if this assignment is at all unclear. You will be turning this in as part of the Russian Revolution packet later, so please keep it with you!

Study For Quiz: There was not a whole lot of time at the end of class, so please treat this as homework. Study your vocabulary sheet (linked to above) to know the key terms from the Russian Revolution!