Japanese Expansion

Agenda 2/27:

1. Students graded Paper 1 practice exams, familiarizing themselves with the examiner scoring guide.
2. Students participated in a mixer activity featuring key terms and vocabulary from Japanese expansion. They filled in some of the unit vocabulary during the activity.
3. I gave a brief presentation about the motivations for Japanese expansion [below]. Here are my notes.
4. Students watched the first 12 minutes of the film Road to War: Japan.

Japanese Expansion:

Road to War: Japan:

Italian Expansion

Students completed Paper 1 practice exams focusing on Italian Expansion. After, I began discussing Japanese Expansion.

Mussolini

Agenda 2/9-12:

1. Students were given the vocabulary for Italian Expansion.
2. Students started learning about Benito Mussolini and the Fascist party in Italy. They read an article about the Italian Fascists use of violence as a means to gain power. 
3. Students then listened to a podcast (start around 19:30). They took notes from both of these activities using this worksheet.

Mussolini:

Hitler Quiz

There will be a quiz on Hitler on Thursday, February 8th. You will be responsible for answering two of the following prompts at random. There will also be a document analysis section

• To what extent were the lives of ordinary Germans affected by Nazism? Identify at least two groups.
• In what ways did people resist Nazi rule? Provide examples.
• Evaluate the ways in which Hitler was able to consolidate his rule between 1933 and 1938.
• Discuss the reasons for and impacts of German expansion.

Hitler, WWII, and The Holocaust

Agenda 1/31-2/2:

1. Students viewed a series of slides showing events from 1933-1945 [below]. Here are the corresponding captions.
2. Students watched several clips from the film Schindler's List and looked at several animated maps from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.
3. Students read about the Treblinka death camp.
4. Students began watching the film, The Pianist.

1933-1945:

The Holocaust: