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Current Issues Course Guide

Lesson Plans: May 21-25, 2012

LAST FRIDAY:Friday, May 18

Monday, May 21

Tuesday, May 22

Wednesday, May 23

Thursday, May 24 = EXAMS (periods 2, 4, 8; period 5/6/7 = study hall)

Friday, May 25 = EXAMS (periods 1, 3, 5/6/7, 9)

Great War (World War I) Unit

Chapter/section pages

12                                ALL                            + Selected worksheets/handouts

Possible Video: World War I: Causes and Effects

Possible Video: The Great War – 1918

Possible Video segment: “Weaponry & Warfare”

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Tentative schedule

DAY 1 =         Introduction/OUTLINE

Conflicts that helped create tensions in Europe; causes of the Great War (WWI)

Geography of Europe in 1914

Begin Reading Chap. 12 Sect. 1–pages 356-357 only “The Causes of the

War” + blue box labeled “Conflicts in Bosnia”

Begin Defining terms, people, places in notes: nationalism, Otto von Bismarck; Balkans; Ottoman Empire; Austria-Hungary; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Serbia; militarism; alliances.

DAY 2 =          Alliances discussed – Alliances handout/worksheet/map/

Power point presentation: “1914”

The firsts acts of fighting in Europe during the Great War.

Finish Reading Chap. 12 Sect. 1–pages 356-357 only “The Causes of the

War” + blue box labeled “Conflicts in Bosnia”

Define terms, people, places in notes from day 1

DAY 3 =          New weapons; Geography of Europe in 1914

Read chapter 12 section 1 – pages 357-360

Define key terms & people in notebooks: Franz Ferdinand; Sarajevo;

Gavrilo Princip; Allied Powers; Central Powers; Schlieffen Plan; Belgium;

First Battle of the Marne; Wilhelm II; no-man’s land; Trench warfare; Verdun;

Battle of the Somme; Machine guns; tanks;  poison gas; submarines; airplanes;

Baron Manfred von Richthofen;  Edward Rickenbacker.

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DAY 4 =          Trench warfare – handouts/worksheets/activity – Trench Warfare simulation

Geography of Europe in 1914

Homework =    Read & Complete trench warfare worksheets

DAY 5 =          Challenges the U.S. faced trying to stay neutral during the Great War

Begin to Read chap. 12 sec. 2–pp. 361-364 –“U.S. Neutrality”&“The Road to War”

Begin to Define key terms and people in notebooks: Woodrow Wilson;

Neutrality; propaganda; ‘War zone’; U-boat; Lusitania; Sussex pledge; William

Jennings Bryan; Robert Lansing; National Defense Act; Charles Evans Hughes;

Arthur Zimmermann; Zimmerman Note; Jeannette Rankin.

Study Europe 1914 map to prepare for next map quiz

DAY 6 =          QUIZ: Europe 1914 Map/Events that led to U.S. entry into WWI

Finish Reading chap. 12 sec. 2–pp. 361-364 –“U.S. Neutrality”& “The Road to War”

Finish Defining key terms and people in notebooks day 5

DAY 7 =          U.S. preparation of its military and U.S. soldiers’ experiences/Propaganda during the war

Begin Reading Chapter 12, section 2 -- pages 364-367 only – “Mobilizing U.S. Military

Power” & “Over There”

Begin Defining key terms, key people and in notebooks: Selective Service Act;

NAACP; American Expeditionary Force; General John J. Pershing;

Convoy system.

DAY 8 =          Complete – guided reading worksheet 12.2 & main idea activity worksheet 12.2

Finish Reading Chapter 12, section 2 -- pages 364-367 only – “Mobilizing U.S. Military

Power” & “Over There”

Finish Begin Defining key terms, key people and in notebooks from day 7

DAY 9 =          U.S. preparation of the nation (citizens) for the war

Organized labor and volunteer contributions to the war effort

African Americans move to the North

Read Chapter 12, section 3-- pages 368-374

Define: key terms, key people in notebooks: William McAdoo;

Food Administration; Herbert Hoover; Harry Garfield; War Industries Board;

Barnard Baruch; National War Labor Board; American Federation of Labor;

Carrie Chapman Catt; Harriot Stanton Blatch; Juliette Gordon Low;

Great Migration; committee on Public Information; George Creel; pacifism;

Robert La Follette; Jane Addams; Espionage Act; Sedition Act; Eugene V. Debs;

Oliver Wendell Holmes; Schenck v. United States.

Complete worksheets guided reading 12.3 & main idea activity 12.3

DAY 10           Quiz 12.3?

The end of the war

Begin to Read Chapter 12.4 -- pages 375-377 “The End of the War

Begin to Define key terms, people and places in notebooks: Petrograd; Bolsheviks;

Vladimir Lenin; ‘Big Bertha’; Marshal Ferdinand Foch; Chateau-Thierry;

Belleau Wood; Reims; Saint-Mihiel; Sedan; Meuse River;

Battle of the Argonne Forest; 369^th Infantry; Croix de Guerre; armistice;

Compiegne; Alsace-Lorraine.

DAY 11 =        End of the war

Finish Reading Chapter 12.4 -- pages 375-377 “The End of the War

Finish Defining key terms, people and places in notebooks from day 10

DAY 12 =        Events and issues of the Armistice, 14 Points, and Treaty of Versailles

Read Chapter 12, section 4-- pages 377-381

Define key terms, people and places in notebooks:

Fourteen Points; Self-determination; League of Nations; Big Four;

David Lloyd George; Georges Clemenceau; Vittorio Orlando;

Reparations; Treaty of Versailles; Henry Cabot Lodge; Balfour Declaration

DAY 13 = TEST