World War I, Day 8 - Class Recap

Hopefully you feel like you just won a big game after completing your World War I final essay in class today. I took this picture on April 21, 2009, as our Portland Trail Blazers beat the Houston Rockets in a playoff game.

Dear class,

Hooray! If you were in class today, you completed the essay test for our World War I unit! I'm looking forward to reading them all. In the meantime, relax and enjoy some rest before we start the next unit. Here's the short class recap for today:

Learning Targets:

Critical Thinking and Analysis LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems, and concepts.

Communication 1: Communication is effective, organized, focused and compelling. 

Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements. 

Soundtrack: "Over There" by George M. Cohan. Selected for today because it was an actual song used during World War I in the United States. Listen to the song here and read the lyrics here.

AGENDA 2/23/16:

News Brief - Natalia

World War I Test

Turn in Work

Forecasting

Homework: Read the blog! Turn in missing work if you do not have it today. Complete your forecasting online by Thursday! Next news brief: Jessica.

News Brief: As usual, we started with a news brief. Rachele selected an article about this story: TheGuardian.com - US and Russia agree to enforce new Syria ceasefire. We found Syria on our world maps again and noted that we did a news brief about it. Hopefully, this will help bring some peace to the country, which has had so much war and conflict in recent years.

Jessica was selected for the next news brief. 

We talked about the weekend, and I showed some of the polling for what the head to head match up for President of the United States might look like in November, here: RealClearPolitics.com - Trump vs. Clinton.

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):

BBCNews.com - One-minute World News

World War I Test: I was VERY pleased with how this went. Almost every single student worked hard for over an hour, quietly writing and responding. Mostly, I tried to stay out of your way with this, aside from occasional updates on how much time was left in the period. Again, I am really looking forward to seeing how everyone did. Thank you so much for your hard work and focus!

Turn in Work: After the essay test, I had everyone turn in all of their World War I work. Here's the checklist/rubric that should be stapled to the top of your work packet:

Google Drive: World War I Collection of Evidence Rubric/Checklist

Here are links again to all the work you needed:

1) Cornell Notes on MAIN reasons WWI started, US entry, and The End of WWI: A Flawed Peace.

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).

Forecasting: At the end of the class, as students were finishing their essays, I went around and was happy to talk about forecasting, which is due Thursday during 4th period. Please fill out your online forecasting, as well - make sure you are forecasting for 16 credits, with 5 alternates! Come see me if you have any last questions!

Thanks, everyone! Next class, we will start a new unit and I think it will be a fun day. :-)