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 Today

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

http://auschwitzvirtualtour.com/

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

Computer Lab Assignment Website

Here is the website to go to for our computer lab assignment:

 

http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII1.htm

Reminder: Test on Friday over Chapter 16.  Be ready to go!

-Mr. Cooley

Test on Friday

We have our Test over Russia on Friday.  Students should be looking at 10.5, 14.5, & 16.4 for all information relating to the upcoming test.

The questions on the test are below.  In World Civ, students will pick their 2 questions & in Honors I will choose the two questions.

Study up!

Russia Questions for Next Friday

Here are the possible essay questions that will be presented on the Russia Test next Friday:

1.      In what ways did Lenin and Stalin govern the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?  Consider what actions the two men took and what life under their dictatorships was like.

2.      Do you think life for the average Russian citizen was better or worse under the totalitarian Soviet regime of the 1930s than it had been under the czars?  Explain you answer.

3.      Why did the Bolshevik Revolution succeed after earlier revolutions in Russia had failed?  In particular, what factors made it possible to have revolution in 1917 after many years of failed attempts?

4.      How and in what ways did Stalin's Five-Year Plans benefit the Soviet Union?  How and in what ways did they harm it?  Offer detailed information of how these plans impacted Soviet society.
 

Trench Warfare Website

Here is the website for our Trench Warfare notes:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtrench.htm

Research Project on Sweatshops

Research Project on Sweatshops

Today we are going to be researching Sweatshops throughout the world. Companies such as Wal Mart and Nike have come under fire for their treatment of workers over the last 20 years. There are strong arguments for and against having sweatshops across the world. Here is some reading information for you:

AGAINST SWEATSHOPS:
http://www.veganpeace.com/sweatshops/sweatshops_and_child_labor.htm
http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/sweatshops
Claims against Nike: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/poli/nike/nikelabor.htm
FOR SWEATSHOPS:
http://www.veganpeace.com/sweatshops/sweatshops_and_child_labor.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html

Your assignment is to research all their is to know about sweatshops across the world. Using PowerPoint, you will want to answer the following questions (these are to help you get started):

1.) What are sweatshops?
2.) What countries have been criticized for using sweatshops?
3.) What companies/corporations are at fault?
4.) What are the conditions within the sweatshops that have people upset (wages, hours, etc.) ?
5.) Are companies held accountable?
6.) Where have their been violations (if any) in the United States?
7.) What organizations are working to help these workers?

8.) What are the arguments for sweatshops? What are the arguments against them?
9.) What is YOUR opinion?

PowerPoints need to have the following:
* Title Page
*12 slides with facts, research, pictures and information
*Bibliography of websites that you used