Week 18, May17-21, 2021, World History: Module 18 Global Interdependence

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance 

Standards: 10.9.8, 10.11, CST.2, CST.3, CST.4, HI.5, HI.6 

Objectives: SWBAT 

• Identify how the advances in technology after World War II led to the increase of global interaction and improved quality of life. 
• Describe how the economies of the world's nations are so tightly linked that the actions of one nation affect others. 
• Identify the importance of nations' collective security efforts to solve problems. 
• Analyze the impact of terrorism on the world. 
• Describe how industrialization and population growth has led to environmental challenges that affect the whole world. 
• Analyze how technology has connected the world and changed the culture. 

Essential Question: Do the benefits of globalization outweigh the problems it causes?

Session 1 

Warm Up 10 minutes: Discuss the end of the year and any missing assignments or upcoming and important dates. 

Assessment 40 minutes: Module 18 p. 768- Key Terms and People #1-10 and Main Ideas #1-6

1. Internet
2. genetic engineering
3. global economy
4. free trade
5. political dissent
6. refugee
7. terrorism
8. USA PATRIOT Act
9. popular culture
10. consumerism 

Make-Up Work and Final 30 minutes: Students complete any missing work or the final study guide 

Session 2 

Warm Up 10 minutes: Discuss the end of the year and any missing assignments or upcoming and important dates. 

Assessment 40 minutes: Module 18 p. 768-769 Main Ideas #7-12 and Critical Thinking #1-4

Make-Up Work and Final 30 minutes: Students complete any missing work or the final study guide 

Session 3 

Make-Up Work and Final 30 minutes: Students complete any missing work or the final study guide 

Week 17, May 10-14, 2021, World History: Collapse of the Soviet Union

People take turns helping tear down the Berlin Wall

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance
Standards: 10.1.3, 10.9.2, 10.9.4, 10.9.5, 10.9.7, 10.9.8, 10.10.1, 10.10.2, 10.10.3
Essential Question: Have the attempts at democracy in China and nations in Latin America, Africa, and the former Soviet bloc been worthwhile?

Objectives: SWBAT 

• Explain upheavals of the Soviet Union which led to its disintegration.
• Identify weaknesses in the Soviet Economy.
• Describe resistance to Soviet Rule and its role in Soviet Collapse.
• Discuss Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms to the economy and political system. 
• Explain Gorbachev's reforms to the economy and political system. 
• Identify events leading to the breakup of the Soviet Union. 
• Describe Russia under Boris Yeltsin.
• Describe Russia under Vladimir Putin.
• Describe changes in Central and Eastern Europe.

Session 1

Warm Up 10 minutes:p. 614 "Tear Down This Wall."

• Three Facts
• Two Questions
• One Summary 

Video 10 minutes: Reagan Tear Down This Wall Speech

• Why does Reagan say president's visit Berlin?
• How does Reagan say it is to live behind the Iron Curtain under Soviet control?
• What might the Brandenburg Gate Symbolize?

Video 10 minutes:
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fall of the Berlin Wall #2

• What did the Fall of the Berlin Wall Represent?
• How did people feel in Berlin during this time? 
• What does Freedom mean to you?

Pictures: Time Magazine Photos of the Berlin Wall

1. Look
2. Read captions.

Lecture 15 minutes: Ch. 13.1 Decline of the Soviet Union 

 

Session 2

Into 5 minutes: (screencast)

Warm Up 10 minutes: Summarize Song about the collapse of the Soviet Union 

GRWB 20 minutes: Module 17.3 The Collapse of the Soviet Union 

GRWB 20 minutes: Module 17.4 Change in Central and Eastern Europe

Session 3 

Research 25 minutes: The United States/Mexico Border

• Look At Stories 2-5, and 12
• What are similarities between the U.S./Mexico Border and the Berlin Wall?
• What are differences between the U.S./Mexico Border and the Berlin Wall?
• Why do nations put up walls/fences/ or borders?
• How would life be different in the United States if there wasn't a fence?
• What do fences represent other than keeping people in or out of a country?
• Are fences necessary?

Wall Prototypes

Week 16, May 3-7, 2021, World History: Module 17.1 Democracy, 17.2 The Challenges of Democracy in Africa, & 17.5 China Reforms and Reaction

 Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance

Standards: 10.1.3, 10.9.2, 10.9.4, 10.9.5, 10.9.7, 10.9.8, 10.10.1, 10.10.2, 10.10.3

Essential Question: Have the attempts at democracy in China and nations in Latin America, Africa, and the former Soviet bloc been worthwhile?

Objectives: SWBAT

• Discuss how Latin American economic problems and authoritarian rule delayed democracy.

Session 1

Lesson Introduction 6 minutes: (screencast)
Warm Up 15 minutes: 17.1 p. 653 CC17-1

1. How did former colonies respond to the Cold War and liberation? How was the Cold War waged all over the world?
2. How and why did the Cold War end?
3. How have nations organized in the post-Cold War world? How have nations struggled in similar and different ways to achieve economic, political, and social stability?
4. How have developing nations worked together to identify and attempt to solve challenges?

GRWB 25 minutes: 17.1 Democracy

Session 2 

Warm Up 10 minutes: Reflect on what you learned from the last lesson. Think about how the world has been influenced and changed since the Cold War. What do you know, what would you like to know more, what don't you know?

Posters 45 minutes: p. 658-667 (Choose one to make a poster- Summarize, Two Examples of where these things are happening, and a picture) 

• Dictators and Democracy
• State-Sponsored Terror
• One-Party Rule
• Political and Economic Disorder
• Chaos in Central America

Session 3 

GRWB 20 minutes: Module 17.2 The Challenges of Democracy in Africa (Wednesday, May 6, 2020 by 3:30 pm)

GRWB 20 minutes: Module 17.5 China: Reform and Reaction (Friday, May 8, 2020, by 3:30 pm) 

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and assignments. Submit to google classroom.