Happy Holidays!

US History:
1. Text assignment "Becoming a World Power" is due at block period when you return (January 9 or 10).
2. If you want to retake the vocab quiz on the Spanish-American War, you can do this at tutorial the week after break (Jan. 10).

World Civ:
1. No HW!

APEH:
1. Your Candide writeup is due on Monday, Jan. 8.
2. Everyone should have his/her own copy of the Scientific Rev. notes. I'll return your timelines on Monday.
3. Please bring your reading notes for Chapter 20 to class on Monday, Jan. 8.
4. Your outline of the short DBQ on absolutism is due at block period, Jan 10.

US History:
1. Writing assignment is due on Thursday...if you're not sure what to write, see me right away.

World Civ:
1. Reading notes are due at block for 8th period; on Thursday for 4th period. Use outline format or "Cornell" format.

APEH:
1. Candide discussion groups at block. Your answers will be due Thursday.
2. More lecture...you'll thank me for this someday.
3. You'll be reading Chapter 20 on your own over the break. I will assign either reading notes or study guide questions. We'll take the test on Chapters 18-20 as soon as you return from the holiday.

US History:
1. Due Thursday, Dec. 21 -- Foreign policy writing paragraph. Your topic sentence should make a strong assertion about what type of foreign policy you think the US should follow. Use one or more of the terms on the "foreign policy spectrum" to describe the type of foreign policy you think is best for the US. (Isolationism, collective security, internationalism, imperialism.) In your paragraph, give at least one example of a current or historical event involving the US and another nation or nations, and explain why you think your choice of foreign policy would be best. Check the definitions of each policy type on the handout you received in class. Example: what type of foreign policy should the US adopt with respect to Darfur? Iraq?
2. What was the term for the idea that the US was fated to occupy the entire North American continent? What was the term for the idea that America is a nation of pioneers, and we must keep expanding in order to stay true to our national character? Hint: you should be able to find these in your notebook, if you have been keeping it in good order.

World Civ:
1. Be sure you've carefully read and highlighed the handout on "Bismarck and the Unification of Germany." We'll discuss it on Monday.
2. Bring your books to block next week!
3. What were Prussian noble landowners called?

APEH:
1. Answers to the Scientific Revolution worksheet are due Monday. No exceptions!
2. Read Candide and be ready to discuss it...the book contains loads of symbolism...
3. More lectures on the way...balance of power wars.
4. Rousseau wanted to return to the state of nature. Marx postulated the "new man." Who is the missing link between these two...the guy who wanted the "republic of virtue?"

US History:
1. No homework! If your notes on Darfur aren't in one of the formats we discussed (outline or Cornell), please rewrite them so you can get credit for them when they are collected.
2. You should have a new divider in your notebook for our unit on "Foreign Policy."

World Civ:
1. Carefully highlight the handout on "Bismarck and the Unification of Germany." Remember that you are highlighting only the most essential terms and concepts.

APEH:
1. Read Candide...try to have it finished by Monday. Remember that Voltaire is making fun of lots of things...see if you can identify what/who he's targeting and why.
2. More lecture coming...kwitcherbelliakin!
3. Worksheets/timelines on the Scientific Revolution will be due on Monday.
4. Read Chapters 18 and 19 in McKay. We'll do Chapter 20 by means of oral presentations.
5. I will be assignment primary source readings in Perry.

I will be absent on Wednesday, December 13, in order to attend a meeting at the district office. You will have both a sub and my student teacher, Mr. Teich, to assist you in class!

US History:
1. You will take the unit test on Industrialization, Immigration and the Progressives as an open-notebook test. Please come with your notebook in good order! When you finish the test, take a copy of the reading on Darfur. Read and highlight the article, and create a set of reading notes (outline format or "Cornell" format) on a separate sheet of paper. These will be due at the end of the block period.
2. We are starting a new unit on US foreign policy in the late 19th and early 20th century. You'll need a new divider in your notebook for this unit.
3. We're closer to the end of the semester than you may realize. After this brief unit, we will cover the 1920s, and then it will be time for the final exam. I'll be handing out a review sheet for the final right after the holiday break.

World Civ:
1. We'll be starting the movie "Gandhi." Be especially watchful for evidence of good and bad aspets of British colonialism in India. In what ways can an empire be helpful? In what ways can it be harmful?

APEH:
1. During the block period, you'll be working on a set of questions and a timeline of the scientific revolution. You may have a partner. Please type you responses, and make a copy for each partner as well as for me.
2. You should be reading Chapter 18 in McKay. We're covering Chapters 18-20 as a single unit. All three chapters deal with the social, political and economic transformations of the 18th century.
3. Read Candide. Please try to have it read by Monday...it's not long, and it's a fun read.

2nd quarter progress report period is closed. I'll post the grades on Monday, and you should check to see if there are any errors or things you don't understand. I entered a class participation score (out of 50), and this did change some of the grades.

US History:
1. Work on the Progressives worksheet; it's due at block next week.
2. We'll read an excerpt from "The Jungle" on Monday, and follow with some additional time to work on the Progressives sheet, or maybe a game of Bingo.
3. The test on our current unit will take place at block. Bring your notebook.
4. You need a new divider in your notebook for US Foreign Policy.
5. Where is Darfur (in what nation is it located)?

World Civ:
1. Finish your map of "India before 1947."
2. What river is considered sacred by the Hindus?

APEH:
1. There really truly will be a test on Monday.
2. Get a copy of Candide by Voltaire and start reading. You can find it online if you don't want to pay for it, but you can probably get a copy at any bookstore for a few bucks. Try used bookstores, too.
3. I'll collect your Chapter 16 Study Guide on Monday.
4. For those whiners who think we've been moving too fast, we are actually behind schedule, and we will need to pick up the pace if we want to finish our material in time for the big exam in May. We'll be covering Chapters 18-20, on the social and intellectual changes of the 18th century, as a single unit.

US History:
1. I'll give you a worksheet on famous Progressives. We may have time to watch a video on the Homestead Steel Strike...if not, we'll watch it on Monday.
2. The test for this unit will take place at block period next week! Bring your notebook.
3. Check yesterday's entry for a question.

World Civ:
1. We will finish a map of India before 1947.
2. We'll have some introductory lecture notes on British colonialism, Indian nationalism, and the movement toward independence.
3. Check yesterday's entry for a question.

APEH:
1. We WILL take the test on Chapters 16 and 17...on Monday. I feel really RESENTFUL about this development. I can't say just how this sense of FRUSTRATION will manifest itself in class. Hub dates happen. Maps are comforting to the soul.
2. Why did Peter the Great seek to Westernize Russia? Did he just like Western stuff?

2nd quarter progress report period ends Friday...see me if you have issues!

US History:
1. We'll review the cartoons on Thursday, and then begin our coverage of the Progressives.
2. What famous Progressive reformer crusaded against lynchings of African Americans in the South??

World Civ:
1. If you didn't finish "Heritage of South Asia" at block, finish it for Thursday.
2. What famous Indian reformer argued that all children, including girls, should attend school, and that widows should no longer throw themselves on the funeral fires of their deceased husbands??

APEH:
1. Absolutism presentations.
2. Test on Chapters 16 & 17 on Friday.
3. Should we do those Frenchie Kings again? How about Hub Dates? Is it time for another map quiz (1715)? A DBQ? Burning questions.....
4. As a consequence of her unique history, Russia did not participate in the European Renaissance of the 14th through 16th centuries. It has been argued that Russia had its Renaissance during the reign of Peter the Great and his immediate successors (through Catherine the Great). In what ways is this true? In what ways is it not true?

Come to tutorial on Wednesday if you need to make up a quiz or discuss your grade!

US History:
1. Writing on "Models of Acculturation" is due at block.
2. If you didn't finish the questions on "New Immigration" in class on Monday, please have it finished for block.

World Civ:
1. If you didn't get your notebook points, you have until Friday to see me with a properly organized notebook.
2. If you didn't finish the map of the British Empire in class on Monday, it's due at block.
3. The questions and chart on "Heritage of South Asia" are due on Thursday.

APEH:
1. PERSIA is due on Thursday.
2. We'll work on absolutism presentations in class at block.
3. How did kings and their supporters, such as Bossuet, view the institution of royal absolutism? How was it viewed by the nobility? By the lower classes?

The grading period for the 2nd quarter progress report ends on Friday! If you need to see any of your teachers or hand in missing work, now is the time to do it! See me right away if you think you need to make up an assignment.

US History:
1. Writing on "Models of Acculturation" is due at block.
2. If you haven't finished the reading/questions on "New Immigration, " please finish for block...I'll stamp it at the beginning of the period.

World Civ:
1. If you didn't finish the map of the British Empire in class, please have it ready for a stamp at the start of block period.

APEH:
1. I'll collect PERSIA at block, and we'll start presentations on absolutism.
2. Work on the Chapter 16 Study Guide.

US History:
1. Writing assignment on "Models of Acculturation" is due at block.
2. Notebook check soon...
3. The secret word is Rudolph.

World Civ:
1. No homework!
2. Get your notebook in order...
3. The secret word is Dreidel.

APEH:
1. Finish PERSIA.
2. Have your outlines with you on Monday.