• Date Lesson Homework
    Monday, November 3 -watch video on the Great Depression (Crash Course) and take notes
    -discuss Great Depression and Bennet's New Deal (see Great Depression PP slideshow in Class Files)    		  
    Tuesday, November 4 -watch The Great Gatsby
    -work on "Canada's Growing Autonomy" handout    		  
    Wednesday, November 5 -finish watching The Great Gatsby
    -discuss how the movie (or book) portrays the Jazz Age and the corruption of the American Dream (class notes)    		  
    Thursday, November 6 -discuss Canada's growing autonomy and make class notes
    -study for test    		  
    Friday, November 7 *Test on the 1920s and 1930s  
    Monday, November 10 -review test on the 1920s and 1930s  
    Tuesday, November 11 -make class notes for Hitler and Mussolini (see "Strongmen" handout)
    -define key terms (see handout)
    -review student news reports    		  
    Wednesday, November 12 -read excerpt from Mein Kampf
    -practice writing a news report (Literacy Test preparation)
         		  
    Thursday, November 13 -discuss and create notes for the persecution of German Jews in the 1930s
    ​-view clip from Love, Hate and Propaganda about the euthanasia program for the mentally and physically disabled in Germany    		  
    Friday, November 14 -discuss the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s
    ​-discuss the Rape of Nanking
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    Monday, November 17 -discuss and create notes for the policy of appeasement
    -discuss Hitler's violations of the Treaty of Versailles
    -read p.212-218
    -view clip from Love, Hate and Propaganda about the German invasion of Poland
    -complete handout entitled "Selling the War"    		  
    Tuesday, November 18 -discuss the German invasion of Poland
    -list and discuss German terms (e.g., blitzkrieg, Luftwaffe)
    -read p.225-226 (focus on Miracle of Dunkirk)
    -discuss the German invasion of France    		  
    Wednesday, November 19 -complete "Defeat of France" handout
    -discuss the Battle of Britain
    -view clips from The King's Speech
    -read Winston Churchill's speeches to Parliament
    -view "London Attacked" (clip from Love, Hate and Propaganda)    		  
    Thursday, November 20 -discuss the German invasion of the Soviet Union
    -view clip on the siege of Leningrad (from Love, Hate and Propaganda)    		  
    Friday, November 21 -view documentary comparing Chaplin and Hitler
    -complete Venn diagram
    -read excerpt from a memoir of a German soldier writing about the Battle of Stalingrad    		  
    Monday, November 24 -review excerpt from a memoir of a German soldier (see Friday)
    -discuss the Battle of Stalingrad
    -discuss the tensions between Japan and the United States, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong
    -view Roosevelt's declaration of war
    -view clip on the attack on Pearl Harbor (from Love, Hate and Propaganda)    		  
    Tuesday, November 25 -view clip from Pearl Harbor (the movie)
    -discuss the Battle of Dieppe and the Battle of Ortona (see PP slideshow in Files section)    		  
    Wednesday, November 26    
    Thursday, November 27    
    Friday, November 28