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High School: Teachers: Mr. Dempster

Lesson Plans

By James Dempster

May 22, 2010

Teacher:

MR. DEMPSTER

jadempster@genoaschools.com

 Link to course guide:

Freshman U.S. & World Studies course guide

Link to 4th quarter project

Causes of WWI oral presentation project requirements

Presentation Grading Rubric

2nd semester topics/Units to be covered:

• Various U.S. Geography activities
• Reconstruction
• Transportation & Industrialization
• Immigration
• Guilded Age/Populism/Progressivism
• Imperialism
• Unification of Germany; Italy; & Russian Revolution
• The Great War (WWI)

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Week Of:

MAY 24 – JUNE 4, 2010 

 

 

Lesson Plans

 

Last Friday – May 21

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

Period 1, 2, 3, 5, 7

The Great War Unit – Day 8

Complete – guided reading worksheet 12.2 & main idea activity worksheet 12.2

 

 

Assignment:

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

 

                                              

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Review activities/quizzes chapter 16

 

Assignment:

Study for chapter 16 TEST

Complete Guided Reading handout to turn in Monday

 

 

Monday – MAY 24

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

Period 1, 2, 3, 5, 7

The Great War Unit – Day 9

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

Organized labor

Volunteer contributions to the war effort

African Americans move to the North

 

 

Assignment:

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?

 

 

                                              

Sociology 

Period 4

Procedures:

TEST – Chapter 16

 

 

Assignment:

Work on project/presentation

 

Tuesday -  MAY 25

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

Period 1, 2, 3, 5, 7

The Great War Unit  - Day 10

Quiz 12.3?

The end of the war

 

 

Assignment:

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; 369th Infantry; Croix de Guerre; armistice; Compiegne; Alsace-Lorraine.

 

  

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Meet in library to work on research project

 

Assignment:

Be prepared to present your project

                              

Wednesday – MAY 26

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

Period 1, 2, 3, 5, 7

The Great War Unit – Day 11

End of the war

 

 

Assignment:

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

 

                               

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Oral presentations of projects

 

Assignment:

Be prepared to present if you haven’t yet

Review chapter terms/definitions for exam

 

Thursday – MAY 27

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

Period 1, 2, 3, 5, 7

The Great War Unit – Day 12

Events and issues of the Armistice, 14 Points, and Treaty of Versailles

 

 

Assignment:

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

 

 

                               

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Oral presentations

 

Assignment:

Be prepared to present if you haven’t yet

Review chapter terms/definitions for exam

 

Friday - MAY 28

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

Period 1, 2, 3, 5, 7

Periods 2, 3, 7 = Great War TEST

Periods 1 & 5:

The Great War Unit – conclude/recap

Video: The Great War - 1918

 

Periods 2, 3, 7 = Study for Exam

 

Periods 1 & 5 Assignment:

Review chapter 12

Study for Great War TEST on Tuesday

Review/study all test/quizzes/worksheets for the semester for Exam

 

                                              

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Oral presentations

 

Assignment:

Be prepared to present if you haven’t yet

Review chapter terms/definitions for exam

 

 

Tuesday – JUNE 1

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

Period 1, 2, 3, 5, 7

Periods 2, 7 = Review for exam/pass back papers/go over test?/possible map quiz Europe 1914

 

Period 3 = Trench Warfare simulation/review for exam

 

Period 1 & 5 The Great War Unit – Day 13

TEST

 

Period 7 = Review for exam/pass back papers

 

Assignment:

Review/study all test/quizzes/worksheets for the semester for Exam

 

                                              

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Oral presentations

 

Assignment:

Be prepared to present if you haven’t yet

Review chapter terms/definitions for exam

 

Wednesday – JUNE 2

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

Period 1, 2, 3, 5, 7

PERIODS 1, 2, 3, 5

Pass back papers/tests

Explain exam

 

Period 7 = FINAL EXAM

 

Assignment:

Review/study all test/quizzes/worksheets for the semester for Exam

 

                                              

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Conclude any Oral presentations not yet done

Review/discuss exam make up & essay topics

 

Assignment:

Study for EXAM

 

 

EXAMS:

Wednesday June 2 = period 7

Thursday, June 3 = periods 1, 3, 5

Friday, June 4 = periods 2, 4

 

 

The Great War (World War I)

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 ReadingChap. 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”

Defineterms, 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 Battleof 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

                                                Complete worksheet 12.1

 

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; Sussexpledge; William

JenningsBryan; 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; MeuseRiver;

Battleof the Argonne Forest; 369th 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

 

 
 

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