Modern Civilization (Period P7) Assignments

The complete assignment is posted below as a PDF. Please read the instructions carefully; they contain very important information about the end-of-year procedures for the class.

Read Security in a Dangerous World (pages 651-655). Complete the graphic organizer and section summary; also answer questions 2-5, page 655.

Read Security in a Dangerous World (pages 651-655). Complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Read Social and Environmental Challenges (pages 642-649) and complete the graphic organizer and section summary for the section. Also, answer questions 2-5, page 649.

Read Social and Environmental Challenges (pages 642-649) and complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Read Globalization (pages 636-640) and complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Writing Wednesday: Teen Summer Employment.

Read Industrialized Nations After the Cold War (pages 632-635). Complete the Graphic Organizer and Section Summary for Chapter 19 Section 1, and answer questions 2-5, page 635.

Read Industrialized Nations After the Cold War (pages 632-635). Complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Test, Chapter 18

Review assignment: Page 628 1-15

Writing Wednesday: The Myth of Multitasking

Read Latin America Builds Democracy (pages 618-624) and complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Read China and India: Two Giants of Asia (pages 612-616). Complete the Study Guide and Section Summary handout and answer questions 2-6, page 616.

Read China and India: Two Giants of Asia (pages 612-616) and complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Writing Wednesday for May 2: Attendance and Success

Read Africa Seeks a Better Future (pages 607-611). Complete the Key Terms Chart, and answer questions 2-6, page 611.

Two video excerpts from "Good Fortune" (linked below). Complete the Viewing Guide, as well as the Key Terms Chart for The Challenges of Development (pages 602-606).

 

Video 1: http://www.pbs.org/pov/goodfortune/video/goals-of-dominion-farms/

Video 2: http://www.pbs.org/pov/goodfortune/video/we-will-fight-it-until-the-end/

Read The Challenges of Development (pages 602-606). Complete the chart for the section, and answer questions 2-6, page 606.

Writing Wednesday--College and Careers

Review Chapter 17. Assignment: Standards Assessment 1-14, page 598.

 

There will be a test on Chapter 17 on Thursday, April 26. 

Read Conflicts Divide Nations (pages 580-583). Complete the Key Terms Chart for the section, and answer questions 2-5, page 583.

Conflicts in the Middle East (part 2) Read pages 590-595 and complete the flowchart on Conflicts in the Middle East. Answer questions 2-6, page 595.

Read Conflicts in the Middle East (pages 590-595) and complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Videos: Darfur and South Sudan

 

Complete Graphic Organizer Struggles in Africa, and answer questions 2-6, page 588

 

Darfur Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8__o6mzsX0

South Sudan Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkWldwFdTPo

Read Struggles in Africa (pages 584-588), and complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Claim-Purpose Writing on US Foreign Policy with Syria. This counts as a test, and can only be made up in person (at lunch or before school).

Today, we are watching a series of short videos from multiple perspectives about the Syrian Civil War and the effects on the human population of that country. All details can be found on the Syria Video Guide.

Learning about The Crisis in Syria Day 1 of 2

 

Complete the packet attached, including the BBC interactive journey (Page 3)

Writing Wednesday: The State of Youth Sports

Make-Up Day for Presentations. Respond to in-class paragraph writing prompt to reflect and analyze your research on the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis. This must be completed in class. Absent students should check with the teacher to find out what their task is.

Teacher was out sick today. No assignment was given.

This week, students will be working on a semester project that focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Links for the Pro-Con Website are below (they are the same link), and the assignment description is attached as a file.

 

Links: https://tinyurl.com/https-tinurl-com-israelpales

 

          https://israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000031

 

Writing Wednesday: Women in Medicine

New Nations Emerge crossword puzzle. This is a review/study guide for the test on Chapter 16, which will be given tomorrow.

Page 576 Standards Assessment 1-13

Read The Modern Middle East (pages 568-573) and complete the Middle East Section Summary. Also, answer questions 2-6, page 573.

Read The Modern Middle East (pages 568-573) and complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Writing Wednesday--Threatened Species

Video: Congo and Africa's World War

 

Read pages 560-566 and complete the African Nations Graphic Organizer and Summary, and answer questions 2-6, page 566

 

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uArRzwKHvE&t=213s

Video: The Nigerian Civil War

 

Read Chapter 16, Section 3: African Nations Gain Independence (pages 560-566 and complete the Key Terms Chart.

 

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9cSA1gLizE

Read New Nations of Southeast Asia (pages 556-559). Complete the Key Terms Chart for the section and answer questions 3-6, page 559

Video: The Partition of India. Read pages 550-555. Complete the Graphic Organizer Independent Nations of South Asia, and answer questions 2-6, page 555.

 

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngTO_V-tcew

Read and annotate the Partition of India Documents, and respond to the Guiding Questions on those sources.

Read "Independent Nations of South Asia" (pages 550-555) and complete the Key Terms chart for the section.

Extra Credit Opportunity (optional): Cold War Crossword

Page 546 Standards Assessment 1-14

 

Study Guide for test.

Read pages 536-542. Complete The End of the Cold War graphic organizer and the Standards Check/Political Cartoon handout.

Video: The Beginning of Perestroika (with follow-up questions).

 

Read The End of the Cold War (536-542) and complete the Key Terms chart.

 

Video Link: http://www.pbs.org/pov/myperestroika/video/the-beginning-of-perestroika/

Biography: Mikhail Gorbachev (3 questions)

Read War in Southeast Asia (pages 528-533). Complete the graphic organizer for the section, and answer questions 2-6, page 533.

Read War in Southeast Asia (pages 528-533) and complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Read pages 521-527. Complete guided reading handout on Communism Spreads in East Asia, and answer questions 2-5, page 527.

Read Communism Spreads in East Asia (pages 521-527) and complete the Key Terms chart.

Read The Industrialized Democracies (pages 512-520). Complete the graphic organizer on the section and answer questions 2-5, page 520.

Analyzing documents and forming conclusions: The Cultural Revolution in China

 

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXAOTjNheVg

Read Section 2 of Chapter 15 (pages 512-520) and complete the Key Terms chart.

Finish yesterday's assignment (in class). Complete the analysis of the documents on the Origins of the Cold War.

The Cold War Unfolds (pages 502-510). Complete the graphic organizer for the section, and answer questions 2-5, page 510.

Writing Wednesday: Guns in America

Read The Cold War Unfolds (pages 502-510) and complete the Key Terms chart for the reading.

 

Video: The Berlin Wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9fQPzZ1-hg

Page 496 Standards Assessment 1-13.

 

There will be a test tomorrow on Chapter 14.

 

There is a study guide available for any student who'd like one. Students who fill out the study guide with their own notes may use it during the test.

Read The End of World War II (pages 488-492). Complete the Outline Assignment, and answer questions 2-6, page 492

 

Read The End of World War II (pages 488-492). Complete the chart on Key Terms

 

Read Victory in Europe and the Pacific (pages 484-487) Complete the Timeline/Summary assignment, and answer questions 2-4, page 487.

Read Victory in Europe and the Pacific (pages 484-487). Complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.

Writing Wednesday for January 24, 2018

Read pages 485-481. Complete The Allies Turn the Tide Timeline and answer questions 2-5, page 481

Read The Allies Turn the Tide (pages 475-481) and complete the Key Terms chart for the section.

Read The Axis Advances (pages 466-474). Complete The Axis Advances Study Guide, and answer the Standards Check Questions.

Read The Axis Advances (pages 466-474). Complete the chart on key terms.

Writing Wednesday: Using yesterday's readings on Appeasement, complete the worksheets on forming thesis statements and backing up your claims with evidence.

Read and annotate the four short documents in the packet Appeasement Documents, and respond to all questions at the end.

Complete the graphic organizer From Appeasement to War, and answer questions 2-6, page 465

Read FROM APPEASEMENT TO WAR (pages 460-465). Complete the "Terms to Know" chart.

Writing for Social Sciences: This is something we do every Wednesday. Today's assignment deals with Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar. (Writing assignment is linked below)

 

Video link on the Rohingya crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFhXMapk2zo