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P-Ville 2015 Yearbook Questions & Info - Here is the place to find your 14 questions ASAP. Period Leaders should establish a google doc location for period classmates to answer and post their responses to the 14 questions for yearbook.
P-Ville Yearbook Info - One of the last phases of P-Ville is to get Period Yearbooks created and assembled. Here is what the class of 2013 did. This year's class can use it as a guide and expand or alter it.
P-Ville 2015 Seating Charts - Coming Soon!
P-Ville 2015 Job Description Forms - for up to 40 Karma Pts. Type up responses and email to King P. mrpatwest@hotmail.com
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Email Mr P (mrpatwest@hotmail.com) if you would like to request other power point info.
WORLD HISTORY INFO SOURCES
TEXTBOOK ONLINE First log into your etusd account then click on link above
BBQ - Be sure to stay up to date and do your BBQ responses
INDIA PACKET
1) India Independence Packet
2) Independence Methods: Guerrilla Warfare vs Civil Disobedience
A) Algeria - Film: Battle For Algiers
B) India - Film: Gandhi
C) In-Class Debate: What is the best method to use to gain independence?
HW: Packet Due Mon May 18, 2015 (P3, P5) or Tues May 19, 2015 (P2, P4 & P6)
ORDER TO STAPLE PACKET
1) TYPED BBQ 21: What is the best method to use in order to gain independence? (Some periods and/or students are excused and do NOT have to do BBQ 21 based on In-class Debate performance. )
2) India TAN Packet (Do Vocab on separate sheet for extra credit)
3) Independence Movement YELLOW Worksheet
4) Extra Credit: Vocab WRITTEN on separate piece of paper.
For more updates on worksheets, power points, etc. use Technical Thompson's Cold War section of her website. Time willing, expect even more updates to appear here and at Technical Thompson's website as there is always room for updates and improvements.
Below, you will find many links to a Cold War Documentary Series. For a short synopsis of each episode click here. Mr P suggests all humans watch each episode. Lots of interesting history covered here. Not all will and can be covered in class, but if any student would like to talk about the content covered in any of the documentaries or the Cold War in general, set up a P7 chat time with Mr P.
1) Table of Contents
2) CW Vocabulary (Vocab Game Power Point - Thanks Danish) (CW Leader Timeline)
3) CW Overview: (Worksheet) & (Power Point)
4) Contrasting CW Terms (Front) & (Back)
5) CW Terms (8 of Them) (Power Point) (it works now!)
6) 2 Superpowers Face Off (Front = Worksheet) (Back = Europe Reference Map) (Lame Power Pt)
6) CW Map & Timeline (Front = Map) (Back = Timeline) (Event Cards) (1-3) (4-6) (7-9)(10-12)And... Dedicated to immigrants like T. Smith = (Power Point)
8) Iron Curtain Video Notes
9) Arms Race Video Notes & McCarthyism Video (6 minutes) (10 minutes)
10) Communists In China (Power Point) (Front) (Back) (Video)
11) Third World Questions (Videos: 18) Backyard & 17) Good Guys, Bad Guys)
12) Korean War (Worksheet) & (Power Point) (Video)
13) Vietnam Timeline (Video)
14) Quickwrite (Space Race)
15) Latin America Background Notes (Video) & Guatemalan Coup (Video)
16) Cuban Missile Crisis Video Notes (Video)
17) Berlin Wall Video Notes
18) CW Thaws (Worksheet) (Power Point) & Detente 1969 -1975 (Video) & Freeze 1977-1981 (Video) Red Spring (Video) Good Guys & Bad Guys -Angola War 1967-68 (Video) Make Love Not War 1960s (Video)
19) Middle East (Video - 20) Soldiers of God
20) Gorbachev, Reagan & The CW Conclusion - Video Note Packet
20A) Star Wars Video Notes (Part 1) & (Part 2) / Click here to see the entire Star Wars video
20B) Wall Comes Down (Part 1) & (Part 2) / Click here to see the entire Wall Comes Down video
20C) Soviet Union Dissolution (Part 1) (Part 2) & (Part 3) / Click here to see the entire Cold War Conclusion video
Chomsky Explains Cold War in 5 minutes
LOOKING TO STUDY COLD WAR & OTHER TOPICS?
1) Cold War Summaries with practice quizzes
2) Cold War Vocab Game (Thanks Danish)
3) Super Star Trivia Competition & Answers
Go to Technical Thompson's Site if sites above do NOT work
PREPARATION FOR FINAL EXAM
HEY! Want to get ready for the Final Exam? Here is some practice Multiple Choice sites
OK folks! The final stretch is here. Most of you have opted to take the final exam. Below are links to practice multiple choice exams. The questions for the final will cover unit content from 2nd semester. These units include:
a) 20th Century Revolutions and Nationalism - Russian, Chinese, India & Algeria
b) Global Depression / Pre WWII / Between the Wars
c) WWII (Europe & Pacific)
d) Holocaust & Genocide
e) Cold War
f) Modern Issues
Study Guide for 2nd Semester Final Exam
MULTIPLE CHOICE (MC) ONLINE QUESTIONS
Mr P suggests checking out the following units to prepare for the final exam:
20th CENTURY REVOLUTION & NATIONALISM
7b) Russian Revolution
8b) Chinese Communist Revolution
8c) Colonial Independence / Collapse of Imperialism
WWII MC QUESTIONS
7c) Between The Wars
7d)WWII
COLD WAR MC QUESTIONS
8a) Cold War
8f) Collapse of Communism
Please email Mr P if you discover any other quality online MC questions. Thanks!
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES OF WORLD HISTORY
What will be the next chapter of World History? What will happen in the next 30-50 years? What will future students one day study about the year 2000 to 2040? These are the years you will likely live through. Here is a list of topics and video links that may give insight of the significant events and issues happening now. If you have any other topics or videos that go with the topics already listed, please email Mr P so he could add it to this list. Thanks and enjoy.
1) ARAB SPRING?
a) How Facebook Changed the World? - Arab Spring - BBC 1 hour
b) Seth Jones: The Mirage of the Arab Spring - World Affairs Council
c) Robert Fisk: Arab Awakening
2) TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA
1) Neil Postman's 6 Questions to ask of any technology
2) Neil Postmans's Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the past can improve our future
3) Neil Postman's Lecture on Surrender of Culture to Technology
4) Marshall McLuhan's 1977 - The Medium is the Message
5) Plato's Allegory of the Cave
6) Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent
Music to organize a packet
Education & Public School Issues
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