Friday, February 19, 2016

World War I, Day 7 - Class Recap


One of the conditions put on Germany at the end World War I was to have no navy ships. Here's a sailboat in Hawaii. Photo taken in 2011.

Hi everyone,

I really enjoyed playing Jeopardy to review World War I with everyone today! Hopefully, you had some fun, as well, and learned again about the important aspects at the end of the war. Here's what happened today:

Learning Targets: 
Critical Thinking and Analysis LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems, and concepts.
Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.

Soundtrack: "Be Prepared" from The Lion King. Selected for today because of the World War I final essay next class, and all the work that is due along with it. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 2/19/16:
News Brief – Madeline
Jeopardy Review
Work Time
Prepare for Final Essay

Homework: Read the blog. Make sure all of your World War I work for the Collection of Evidence is completed and in order! See below for links! Next news brief: Rachele.

News Brief: Madeline had the news brief today and selected this story to talk about: CNN.com - How ISIS recruits children, then kills them. We found Syria again on our world maps and talked about this story, and (because Madeline was late to class), I also talked about the United States bombing ISIS affiliated groups inside of Libya last night.

Rachele was selected to do the next news brief.

We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):


Jeopardy Review: This was just to help with the concepts and information we talked about the last few classes, with the end of World War I. I am not going to post the entire slideshow here, but I did have a lot of fun, and I think most students in the class did, too. Congratulations to Team 2 for their come from behind victory (and Team 1 for thoroughly dominating the !

Work Time: I passed out this checklist for students to organize their WWI work:


Here's all the work you need to have ready to turn in next class, when you will be completing your final essay in class (you will have about an hour to write five paragraphs):


2) Franz Ferdinand assassination answers (separate sheet of paper)

3) Rough Draft/Practice Essay on start of WWI, with brainstorm/graphic organizer (see last slide here for the essay prompt). Please also get this peer reviewed, as well. It does NOT need to be finished as a final draft - all I am looking for here is that you have the writing process.

4) Letter from the Trenches assignment

5) US Entry into WWI paragraph (bottom of the second page, in TS/CD/CD/CM/CS format)

6) Treaty of Versailles Worksheet (see example on second page, then follow format for the rest of the points).

Prepare for Final Essay: If you want to prepare, think about possible thesis statements about what happened at the end of World War I and be able to use vocabulary words that you took notes on in class.

Have a great weekend and please be ready to turn your completed work in with your in class essay!

4 comments:

  1. What is the final essay on again?

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    1. The end of World War I. You will have specific words to put in the essay, like you did with the practice essay about the start of the war.

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  2. What's the best thing I could be doing right now to prepare for the test besides have my work completed?

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    1. Practice writing thesis statements about the end of World War I. Practice organizing an essay with key ideas!

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