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Date Lesson Homework Thursday, December 1 -read p.129-131 of textbook
-view video on the MS St. Louis
-view part of "Meet the Enemy" episode of Love, Hate and Propaganda (description of Battle of Britain)
-read speeches of Winston Churchill
Friday, December 2 -read p.135-136 of textbook
-discuss and make notes on alliance system during WWII
-model how to write an introduction for a comparison essay
-review how to make full citations for webpage with authors and no authors
-demonstrate how to make an in-text citation
Monday, December 5 -distribute notes on using APA and comparing WWI and WWII alliance
-read p.137 of textbook (Operation Barbarossa)
-view video on the Battle of Stalingrad
-view opening scene of Enemy at the Gates (Battle of Stalingrad)
-read a diary of a German officer during the Battle of Stalingrad)
Tuesday, December 6 -write notes on the US entry in the war (Europe and Pacific)
-watch part of Pearl Arbor film
-watch Roosevelt's declaration of war speech to Congress
Wednesday, December 7 -read p.140-141 of textbook (Battle of Dieppe)
-watch part of "Truth and Total War" from the Love, Hate, and Propaganda series (Battle of Dieppe)
-view examples of Hollywood anti-Nazi propaganda
Thursday, December 8 -work on propaganda poster
Friday, December 9 -discuss D-Day (Normandy invasion)
-read p.148 of textbook
-view opening scene from Saving Private Ryan (Omaha Beach invasion during D-Day)
Monday, December 12 SNOW DAY
Tuesday, December 13 -read p.149-150 of textbook
-watch excerpt from Episode 5 of Love, Hate and Propaganda (Normandy invasion and battles in France towns such as Caen)
-complete and take up handout entitled "Propaganda and the Normandy Invasion"
-watch excerpt from Episode 6 of Love, Hate and Propaganda (Allied invasion of Berlin)
Wednesday, December 14 -read p.151 of textbook
-view excerpt from Episode 6 of Love, Hate and Propaganda (dropping of atomic bombs on Japan)
-view short documentary video on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-work on propaganda poster
Thursday, December 15 -view excerpts about the Warsaw ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp from Love, Hate and Propaganda
-view clip from Schindler's List
-read excerpts from Art Spiegelman's Maus II
Friday, December 16 FIELD TRIP TO WAR MUSEUM
Monday, December 19 -discuss the Yalta Conference
-discuss the rise of fake news
-discuss Holocaust deniers and Google searches, and read an article from The Guardian
Tuesday, December 20 -review of WWII unit
Wednesday, December 21 -work period: study for test and work on propaganda poster
Thursday, December 22 TEST ON WORLD WAR II
Friday, December 23 X-MAS TALENT SHOW
