Today's Assignment

Read p.48-54
*Checkpoint Questions (seen throughout the reading)
* ID's- perspective, humanism, Machiavelli
*Questions 3-6

Have a great day!

Today's Theme: "If you compromise one time, it becomes easy."

Life in the Middle Ages

As you recall, on Friday we introduced the beginnings of the Renaissance Era. In order to fully understand why the Renaissance took place, it was important that we discussed the time period that led up to this, which was the Dark Ages (or Middle Ages).

Today we are going to look at many different facets of the Middle Ages. There will be several topics that deal with how life was during this time period.

Today's Assignment: For the first part of this go to this website. You will be looking at different aspects of life during the Middle Ages. Using the different icons on the right side of the website, (such as religion, homes, clothing, etc.) I would like you to write down 3 facts that stood out to you for each topic (7 total). You can use Microsoft Word to complete this assignment.

PowerPoint About Yourself

Your assignment is to create a PowerPoint detailing things about yourself and your life. The PowerPoint needs to be at least 10 slides and can really be about anything you want.

Here are some things to include:

*Family Life (parents, brothers, sisters, pets, etc) Anything you want to say about your family.
*Hobbies
*Friends, people you like hanging out with
*Favorites (music, TV shows, classes, teachers, sports teams, etc.)
*Places you have lived, places you have traveled
*Goals (for the school year, for the future, where do you see yourself?)
*One or more unique things about yourself.
*Anything I need to know about you to help out
*Anything else you want to talk about

Help me out and let me get to know you!! I appreciate the effort!

Computer Lab Reading for Monday

Today we are going to look at a couple of different websites having to do with The Holocaust, including researching the life of Oscar Schindler:

Part I: Intro Into the Holocaust

        http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/

        http://remember.org/educate/medexp.html

       * This is some background information for you to navigate through some of the basics of the Holocaust.

Part II: Virtual Tour of Auschwitz

        http://www.remember.org/auschwitz/aus.php

       *Tour one of the worst extermination camps during the Holocaust.  A 360 look at the camp today, along with stroies for you to read on the side

Part III: The Life of Oscar Schindler


       http://www.oskarschindler.com/

       http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schindler.html

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIf1WMhgc

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bRNEZVNVSs

Assignment Due Friday

17.3 Assignments
      *Questions 3-5
      *Checkpoint Questions
      *ID's

Finish 17.2 Guided Reading Questions

Have a great day!

-Mr. Cooley

Assignment for Tuesday

p.555
Questions 4-6 & 8

p.567
Questions 3,5 & Last 2 Checkpoint Questions
ID's

Have a great day!

-Mr. Cooley

Things to consider for tomorrow's test

*Why are Hitler and Mussolini able to rise to power, challenge the Treaty of Versailles, and no one stops them?

*Why aren't there any other countries in Europe that are able to stop the aggression of Germany & Italy?  Why is the United States not involved?

*Why are the people of Italy and Germany so willing to let Hitler and Mussolini rise to power?

*When times are tough economically, who do people look to?  What do they want in their leaders?

*Know this stuff:
        -League of Nations
        -War Guilt Clause
        -Fascism & Nazism
        -The importance of what nationalism brings to a country's people

CONFIDENCE COMES FROM PREPARATION AND DEMONSTRATED ABILITY